As a singer, songwriter, Steven Michael Pague has travelled the world bringing his uplifting, positive music and songs to venues both large and small. He creates an intimate atmosphere inspiring and inviting dancing, listening, participating in the song, sharing the vision, the dreams of longing, hope, love, light and joy. His style ranges from ballad to reggae, folk to rock and more…

Please join Jenny Bates and share your thoughts. Shaping our futures through conversations that matter!

Six HOURS OF CHANTING!!!

Rail Trail Cafe 

No Rain Date.

WEATHER WILL DECIDE THE DAY - Please check the Rail Trail Cafe Facebook page for cancellation.

CHECK RAIL TRAIL CAFE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS.

Come to the Cathedral Under the Trees!

Come Chant, Dance, Pray!

Come celebrate the beginning of another magical summer of Chanting!

Join the Spirit Brothers, Ned & Lynn, Radharani and other Hudson Valley chant leaders!

Also Featuring Wonderful musicians:

Steve Gorn, Robert Bard, Avinash and many more!

WE CAN'T WAIT!

http://www.railtrailcaferosendale.org

Chanting with Ned & Lynn is for everyone regardless of experience. Chanting brings you to "beginners mind," where everything is in the sacred now. Chants range from deeply meditative to highly ecstatic. Using simple ancient Sanskrit mantras, we share our deep love for the Divine and the sacred - we also have fun!!

Ned & Lynn offer Sacred Chanting from many languages and traditions - Sanskrit, Native American, Sufi, Hebrew and Contemporary.

They welcome the audience to join them in call and response community chanting with simple mantras and beautiful melodies.

They have toured with Wah, sung with Jai Uttal and offered chants at Omega Ecstatic Chant, Bhakti Fest, Kripalu, Integral Yoga, Maverick in Woodstock and in many beautiful home settings. They were honored to sing for Amma with Wah in Boston.

Look for their CD, Bhakti Treasure, on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby and on their website: BhaktiTreasure.com

"Beautiful CD - blessed drops of Bhakti Nectar" - Jai Uttal

"Ned & Lynn create heart-felt kirtan sangha wherever they sing " - Wah

Find Ned & Lynn on Facebook - for bookings: Nedleavitt@aol.com

The B2s are a 10 voice Women’s Voice Ensemble founded and directed by Musician, Songwriter, Arranger and Choral Director Debbie Lan.    With original arrangements by Debbie, The B2s eclectic and uplifting repertoire includes songs by Tom Waits, 4 Non Blondes, Agnes Obel, Ma Muse, Rising Appalachia and Ladysmith Black Mambazo amongst others. 

Past performances include Kingston Earth Fair, Olive Free Library Fundraiser, The Rosendale Street Festival, Unison, New Paltz Earth Day and The Widow Jane Mine, amongst other venues.

With Betty Boomer, Ruth Molloy, Suzanne Stokes, Carol Bialy, Noelle Damon, Kathy Flannery, Rita Prusinski, Vicki Koenig, Donna Greenfield Cullen and Debbie Lan.

Music and poetry inspire us to embrace this precious world, and 

connect us to our true nature.  Seekers and lifelong artists, 

Evan Pritchard (poet, musician, and Algonquin elder)  joins 

world musician Steve Gorn to weave a magical evening of 

music, poetry and more. 

BEGIN AGAIN

with Hudson River Playback Theatre

Spring is in full swing, and all of nature is beginning again. How are themes of beginnings and renewal showing up in your life and communities? Where do you see rebirth in the world? And what stands in its way?

Join us for a spontaneous conversation through theatre based on audience members’ true stories about life in these profoundly troubling times.

All welcome. Donations welcome. Thank you for supporting Hudson River Playback Theatre and the Rail Trail Cafe.

Since Hudson River Playback Theatre’s founding in 1990, the ensemble has served countless audiences in theatres, schools, community centers, migrant labor camps, conferences, and more. They've performed by invitation in major US cities as well as abroad, and carried out projects such as Immigrant Stories (over 100 bilingual shows for our immigrant neighbors)and many performances on the climate emergency. The Rail Trail Cafe is one of HRPT's favorite places to perform!  

(Show canceled if raining. Please check RTC’s Facebook page)

The Wild Swan Band performs a graceful mix of Celtic songs, jigs, reels, and waltzes along with original songs and covers in the Celtic/Folk rock tradition.
:) Jon Garelick- mandolin and bazouki, vocals

Sarah Underhill-vocals

TG Vanini- fiddle, vocals

Ian Worpole- guitar, vocals

Peter Einhorn and Peter Wetzler

"In their first public outing the duo Peter Peter will share their explorations in sound blending guitar and accordion with keyboards and breath controlled sampled and synthesized sounds journeying in and out of tonality.  While the ensemble merges jazz and classical and world music backgrounds their musical storytelling abilities from a life in scoring dance, theater, film and tv yields a unique experience reaching far beyond the boundaries of genre".

Improvising duo of Peter Einhorn and Peter Wetzler blending acoustic and electronic music seamlessly moving in and out of tonality and genre.

Visit our Duo's home at:  https://peter-peter.bandcamp.com

What you hear is totally improvised and 99% unretouched.

"musical conversation... between two masters."
"A beautiful array of textures and timbres "
-DooBeeDoo
BeeDoo NY Magazine

The Folk Rock, Americana music of Heartbreak Waites will touch your soul with original songs that are riveting, sometimes amusing but always filled with harmony and healing. Respected actor, writer, and director Thomas G. Waites brings his songwriting, singing and guitar playing talents to the music stage along with the powerhouse performers Tony Daniels.

thomasgwaites.com

Improvisations and compositions inspired by the unity of life energy, honoring the spectacular diversity in Nature, and dedicated to the wisdom of Marija Gimbutas.

Named a “harper among harpists” by the Irish press, Haines has developed a unique approach to the lever harp, weaving together traditional, classical, improvisational, experimental and contemporary influences to create a radiant music for the harp. She has recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Tommy Hayes, The Roots, Sue Pilla, Susan Werner, Laura Simms, Alix Dobkin, Kay Gardner and Ubaka Hill.

Devotional Music from around the world with Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Steve Gorn, Avinash and surprises.

As a singer, songwriter, Steven Michael Pague has travelled the world bringing his uplifting, positive music and songs to venues both large and small. He creates an intimate atmosphere inspiring and inviting dancing, listening, participating in the song, sharing the vision, the dreams of longing, hope, love, light and joy. His style ranges from ballad to reggae, folk to rock and more…

With intricate arrangements that move from rousing and joyful to thoughtful and dreamy, Spellbinder Orchestra aims to enchant in an age of disenchantment. Born in the bay area, California, the group blends original folk music with elements of classical, cabaret, eastern European and rock. The group features a variety of instruments such as ukulele, fiddle, cello, percussion, accordion, and harmonica. Their performances are described as lively with a touch of the theatrical. 

Now a bicoastal collective, the band, aka Brother Spellbinder, has appeared in both parts of the world including Woodstock's Bearsville, Pearl Moon and Colony, Beattie-Powers House, The Great Halloween Festival, Burning Man's Decompression, San Francisco's Edwardian Ball, WDST Radio Woodstock, The SF Free Folk Festival and SXSW unofficial showcases. With a background in social work and therapy, bandleader Alzara Getz finds inspiration in how people heal. Lyrics often flow from the uncensored mythical realm of the human psyche, or languish in the modern wasteland with a brush of poetry and whimsy, but a sprinkling of high octane vintage covers may make you reach for fire water and dancing shoes. With room for improvisation, the rotating cast of spellbinders bring spontaneity and surprise making each show a unique experience. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrTyea-tDFv (on Radio Woodstock)

https://youtu.be/dpigwGgutsU?feature=shared (sample of the full band sound from the other coast)

Press: 

"Spellbinder issue a record as aesthetically menacing as it is melodically captivating, and that’s something most any modern listener can get excited about."

Hollywood Digest

“Spellbinder has released their latest EP, When The Earth Was Still Flat, a 7-song indie folk meets acoustic pop fountain that spouts poetic grace in the middle of today’s non-poetic music jungle." The Miews

Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwfbysOwcm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 

We celebrate Celtic music this Memorial Day with Julia and Ira Levin, Barely Lace, Al Havrilla, Sean Crimmins, Jeanne Nametz: Ceol na H’aite David Budd with Andrew Forbes on Bagpipes. Stephen Larsen reading and reciting poetry.Plus stories of Celtic Lands told by Jill Olesker.Bring a poem or song to share and be in a Bardic Circle.

A folk inspired singer songwriter from Woodstock, Malerie Day weaves heartfelt lyrics with tender yet powerful emotionality.  Her velvet vocals take center stage atop skillful finger picking guitar and bittersweet sentiments.  Inspiration by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter and Adrianne Lenker are heard in her first full length record titled “Heaven Knows” now available on all platforms. 

Sound from the ground. Celebrate springing into Spring with the first iteration of SMSC. Improvised and composed music arising from the ground of stone mountain farm. Deep geologic time sounding and echoing to tomorrow. Join Brian Farmer and guests for an evening of  musical exploration and solace as we move from Spring to Summer. Be prepared to venture into never before heard sonic landscapes. Only once, here, together!.,

The Wild Arts Collective is presenting Jam Jam. wearewildarts.org

A smorgasbord of events! Hope you can come!

The Clear Light Ensemble is an improvisational musical collaboration divinely inspired by Classical Indian Ragas. It's a cosmic tapestry of diverse musical forms including world jazz, rock, classical, folk and avant guard

Organized by Max Fass of course!

The 2025 edition of Balkan Music Afternoon at the Rail Trail Cafe will feature bands from around the Hudson Valley that play Eastern European dance and listening music.

We will celebrate the changing of the seasons as some villagers might in the Balkans. 4 pm til dusk.

Schedule to be announced in early September. Balkan dances will be taught throughout the afternoon.

Balkan Festival at the Rail Trail Cafe
Sunday, September 28, 2025

The Hogfiddle Consort is an octet of mountain dulcimers (the fretted zither string instrument traditionally from Appalachia) that is an offshoot from the New York Dulcimer Orchestra and is committed to bringing this humble American string instrument into greater visibility through an ensemble context and by exploring a variety of different repertoire from genres like folk, classical, early music to material from the American songbook and originals. Members are from the New York Hudson valley & Capitol regions, Connecticut and New Jersey and consist of: Carol Walker (founder and director), Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Mary Evans, Lisa Jensen , Flo Jerdan, Kathie McGill, Joe Rosolen and Blake Tutterow.

http://www.musicladycarol.com/nydo.html

In this multi-faceted event native author/musician Evan Pritchard will

sing traditional and original songs, read poetry, tell stories, and talk about

our relationship with each other and the earth. He will also sign books and CDs

between sets.

Levanta brings together a quartet of extraordinary musicians and unique instrumentation, featuring original and classic tunes performed with ancient instruments… Ev Mann, Thomas Workman, Gabriel Dresdale, Timothy Hill

More info on the way…

Bio: Spaghetti Eastern Music 

Can acid jazz and blues-fired guitar instrumentals co-exist with ambient soundscapes a la Fripp & Eno and intimate DADGAD-tuned vocal ballads straight out of the Nick Drake/John Martyn playbook? They can and do in Spaghetti Eastern Music, the critically-acclaimed solo project of Saugerties & NYC-based guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Sal Cataldi. 

Cataldi’s much-varied sound is the product of an insatiable musical soul and a record collection rivaling the Smithsonian’s. His debut album, “Sketches of Spam,” the 16-track, 69-minute, genre-surfing release from (Bad Egg Records, 30003), was an hour-plus journey through contrasting moods, with instrumentals inspired by 70’s Miles, Krautrock, Ennio Morricone, Bhangra, Fripp & Eno and ECM’s icy guitar great Terje Rypdal giving way to bare-bones acoustic vocal tunes – ones oft anchored on unusual tunings, with narratives that chart the course of difficult loves, in styles that range from Brit Folk to Bossa Nova. In 2020, Cataldi followed this with a trio of acclaimed atmospheric singles that have been heard around the globe, “Her Lemon Peel Raincoat – Because It’s Raining,” “Peace Within” and “And This is Their New Hoax,” a COVID-19 musical editorial featuring samples of President Trump’s most noted denials to Cataldi’s soundpainting guitars and synths. His February 2021 release, “Blues for A Lost Cosmonaut,” is a well-reviewed nine-minute plus maxi single again in the ambient mode while October 2021’s, “Solo Guitar Score for 2x2x4,” is a bold solo electric guitar score to a dance piece recorded live at the Avant-Garde Arama Festival in Woodstock, inspired by his work with the guitar orchestra of Rhys Chatham and his love of Fripp and “White Light, White Heat”-era Velvet Underground.  In June2022, Cataldi released a new single in the acoustic singer-songwriter mode, “I Believe In Love,” one which received great press featuring “NY Slice” song of the day on WFMU. In January 2023, he followed with a duo of instrumental singles, “A Scanner Darkly” and “A Fresh Kill,” which also received significant airplay and press. In October 2023, he released the acoustic ballad, “Sweet Home Anywhere” and a funky instrumental “Jungle Blue.” In December 2023, he released “health,” a solo guitar score for a film by director/American Ballet Theater dance, Hanna Bass.

Spaghetti Eastern Music has received consistent critical raves, for live performances and the selective release of early mixes of works now fully realized on this debut disc. The New York Times says “the funk-tinged original instrumentals and acoustic vocal tunes have a beat unmistakably his own” while Time Out New York writes: "Cataldi's largely instrumental, Eastern-influenced jams are infused with some delicate guitar work and hauntingly moody atmosphere." Newsday adds: “Mad scientist-guitarist-keyboardist Cataldi brings da funk and throws it in a mixer with electronica, bebop and blues.” Called “truly excellent” by The Village Voice, “a wild ride, a fun name for some very good music” by Radio Woodstock, “beautiful and unique” by WFUV’s Mixed Bag, “triumphantly funkified” by UPI, “a stimulating soloist” by The New York Press and “a jazz virtuoso without the need to prove it” by Aquarian Weekly. Almanac Weekly’s John Burdick proclaims: “a unique voice, a surprising blend of exploratory fusion, electronica and indie song craft, from the Ennio Morricone overtones anticipated by his handle to currents of Krautrock, techno, modal folk and various world music styles” while Chronogram Magazine labels Spaghetti Eastern “cool, inspired, sophisticated, melodic and transcendent, a wave of sonic warmth and light.” East Coast Rocker/Rolling Stone writer John Swenson, the man who penned the liner notes to Frank Zappa’s “Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar,” may have put it best, “he’s the hippie guitarist playing to another dimension.” Hudson Valley One recently called Cataldi’s music: “Part Sergio Leone fever dream, part Ravi Shankar raga, a whirling dervish of musical creation,” while Psychedelic Baby Magazine labeled it “the perfect sonic tonic for these troubled times.”

The authority on all things Beatles, The Beatles Examiner recently praised the album’s “sharp soaring guitar jams” and called the distinctive cover of “Ticket to Ride,” “incredible, a wonderfully moody re-imagining” of the Lennon classic. Huffington Post dubs it “the perfect soundtrack for New York City life,” while WFMU’s Irene Trudel calls it “charmingly melodic and off-center,” while popular Zappa fan sites Idiot Bastard and United Mutations gave raves to his reinvention of “Sleep Dirt,” a Zappa acoustic instrumental rarity, which appears on the CD as “Nap Dust.” Cataldi’s music has enjoyed airplay on radio including WFUV’s “Mixed Bag,” SiriusXM, WKCR-FM, Radio Woodstock, WFMU, Oakland’s KALX, NYC-area college station including WCWP, WDFU, WVRK and WHPC and many more. The CD’s title is a lighthearted tribute to Miles Davis’ atmospheric classic, “Sketches of Spain,” one ripe for this digital overload and lunchmeat age!

Sal’s other current project, Hari Karaoke Trio of Doom, is a duo co-lead with Kansas City-based drummer D. Hitchcock, which includes guest appearances by legends like Eno/Brand X bassist Percy Jones. HKToD has released two critically acclaimed discs, “Escape Velocity” (1999) and “Geolago” (2002). Collector, Cataldi’s former “heavy metal bebop quartet,” released another genre-leaping critic’s fave, the all-instrumental “Almost Live” in (1999). Both of these bands have performed frequently in New York and beyond, at progressive clubs like the Knitting Factory. Cataldi recently teamed up with Alaskan playwright and poet Mark Muro as the Vapor Vespers for two critically-acclaimed new album of sonics and storytelling called “One Act Sonix” and “Ghosts Before Breakfast.” He is also half of the edge-pushing improvisatory/ambient electric guitar duo, Guitars A Go Go, with Hudson, NY-based guitarist Rick Warren, which released their debut disc, “Travel Advisory” in May 2020. He is also a member of the Hudson Valley space/surf rock quartet, spaceheater.

Cataldi is also remembered for the role he played in one of the most popular, kamikaze bands of the early-to-mid-90s downtown scene, the “clown pop princes of Brooklyn,” Frank’s Museum. This band was a popular attraction at New York-area clubs including CBGB, The Ritz, Tramps, Coney Island High, Lone Star Roadhouse and Maxwell’s in Hoboken. Cataldi’s guitar work and songwriting with the Museum can be found on four Brooklyn Beat compilations and two full-length CDs, “Den of Antiquity” (1992) and “Make Coffee, Not War” (1993). Cataldi was also featured on the 2010 release of Rhys Chatham’s 200 guitar orchestra, “A Crimson Grail” (Nonesuch) Live at Lincoln Center. Cataldi is also a journalist whose writing has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NYStateMusic.com, No Depression, Adweek, Inside+Out Upstate NY, Huff Post and others. He is also host of Reading Is Funktamental, a monthly show about books about music on WGXC 90.7 FM.

Contacts:  Cell: 516.236.3817   Email: spaghettieasternmusic@gmail.com

Web: https://open.spotify.com/artist/73gcZJVIpQIMaQSOtKzA8C?si=yu_qtKbQTuCkkfOlTd8Apg

Spaghettieasternmusic.bandcamp.com 

Live Performance Videos:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLau0iuwO-klW64b-8Zv_R7BqEDnsnBTqw  Updated 3/24

There is a language beyond words—spoken in symbols, shadows, and the silent presence of what came before us. In this immersive workshop, we enter that liminal space through the art of object altars and the healing field of Kaleidoscopic Constellations.

Many of us know the Rail Trail Cafe as a beloved site that welcomes all, providing a meaningful context as we gather community in its landscape. Together in this space we will call in the wisdom of our lineages,  illuminating inherited stories and soul entanglements. Through intentional placement of meaningful objects we create altars that speak the unspeakable, and honor what longs to be seen, released, or embraced.

In this sacred circle, we will:

• Experience the subtle field of Family Constellations in an intimate, symbolic way
  
  

• Learn to create personal object altars as portals of remembrance and resonance
  
  

• Participate in ritual, guided constellations, and deep intuitive listening
  
  

• Reconnect with ancestral gifts, patterns, and inner alignments ready to unfold
  
  

***Bring with you: a personal object (small item of meaning), an open heart, and a willingness to listen to the unseen.

Step into the Field. The ancestors are waiting.

About the presenter:

Kathleen Mandeville is an Episcopal Priest, arts producer, Constellations facilitator, founder of The Outer Edge Coaching and spiritual leader of Gateway House, a multi-faith sacred arts community in Rosendale, NY, where she currently facilitates sacred ceremonies, individual and group counseling.

In her in-person monthly Kaleidoscopic Constellations group, members integrate and cross-pollinate a variety of healing and creative modalities, informed by the practices of the group's participants. Thus we may weave storytelling, writing, somatic experiencing, music and other disciplines together.

Kathleen Mandeville, M.Div
845.417.5430
kathleenmandeville@gmail.com
www.theouteredge.net

In her in-person monthly Kaleidoscopic Constellations group, members integrate and cross-pollinate a variety of healing and creative modalities, informed by the practices of the group's participants. Thus we may weave storytelling, writing, somatic experiencing, music and other disciplines together.

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ART CREDIT for ALTAR Painting:

Ania Aldrich

With intricate arrangements that move from rousing and joyful to thoughtful and dreamy, Spellbinder Orchestra aims to enchant in an age of disenchantment. Born in the bay area, California, the group blends original folk music with elements of classical, cabaret, eastern European and rock. The group features a variety of instruments such as ukulele, fiddle, cello, percussion, accordion, and harmonica. Their performances are described as lively with a touch of the theatrical. 

Now a bicoastal collective, the band, aka Brother Spellbinder, has appeared in both parts of the world including Woodstock's Bearsville, Pearl Moon and Colony, Beattie-Powers House, The Great Halloween Festival, Burning Man's Decompression, San Francisco's Edwardian Ball, WDST Radio Woodstock, The SF Free Folk Festival and SXSW unofficial showcases. With a background in social work and therapy, bandleader Alzara Getz finds inspiration in how people heal. Lyrics often flow from the uncensored mythical realm of the human psyche, or languish in the modern wasteland with a brush of poetry and whimsy, but a sprinkling of high octane vintage covers may make you reach for fire water and dancing shoes. With room for improvisation, the rotating cast of spellbinders bring spontaneity and surprise making each show a unique experience. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrTyea-tDFv (on Radio Woodstock)

https://youtu.be/dpigwGgutsU?feature=shared (sample of the full band sound from the other coast)

Press: 

"Spellbinder issue a record as aesthetically menacing as it is melodically captivating, and that’s something most any modern listener can get excited about."

Hollywood Digest

“Spellbinder has released their latest EP, When The Earth Was Still Flat, a 7-song indie folk meets acoustic pop fountain that spouts poetic grace in the middle of today’s non-poetic music jungle." The Miews

Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwfbysOwcm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 

BIO:

“One road is ending, another road begins, come on let’s do it over again” - A Different Thread

Some things are just meant to be. Alicia Best (US) and Robert Jackson (UK) met while busking on the cobbled streets of Ireland and discovered both a musical and personal harmony that was serendipitous. In the decade since forming A Different Thread, Best and Jackson have taken their act on the road, touring over a dozen countries, supporting artists such as Milk Carton Kids and Jody Stephens (Big Star), and garnering critical praise from the likes of Folk Radio UK, which hailed the duo as “warm, deep songwriters that have drank from the well of 20th century tradition.”

Their new album, Over Again (out May 1st 2026), was written during a period of transition, marked by their arrival stateside and a solar eclipse. Recording began in their tiny home studio, continued in Sylvan Esso's Betty's (The Mountain Goats, Watchhouse), and finished at Alma Vale Studio (Phantom Limb/Yola, Elles Bailey) in the UK. 

Their sound is transcontinental, blending Jackson's British folk rock background with Best's North Carolina-bred alt-country melodies. Informed by their life experiences (navigating visas, vanlife, love across oceans) and liberal commentary on both environmental and social justice topics, the album mixes electric guitars with Appalachian dulcimer, gospel-tinged vocals with honky-tonk fiddle. While inspired by artists like Gillian Welch, The Avett Brothers, and John Prine, A Different Thread maintain a distinct sound that is all their own. 

Alicia and Robert see the creation of Over Again as a testament to the power that music has to heal and transform: “For us, this album marks a new beginning—like a rebirth—as we shed negative cycles to work towards a brighter future.”

Listen to A Different Thread’s records:Bandcamp // Spotify // Apple // Amazon // Soundcloud

Social links:

Website // Instagram // Facebook // Youtube // TikTok // Patreon

"The couple really know how to throw down an amazing musical tapestry, one which beckons like a siren song. They perform with pure sincerity and joy but also an originality that is exciting and inspiring to experience. Their rich, human vocals have an amazingly full and deep sound sure to turn any unfamiliar listener into a head-shaking enthusiast." 

 - Americana UK

A Different Thread

Website // Spotify // Instagram // Tiktok // Facebook // Youtube

 Julia Howl Haines, Lever Harp and Maotoaka Little Eagle, Native vocals and percussion will bring delight and beauty to you with their musical adventures in the beautiful clearing of the Rail Trail Cafe.

 Julia Haines has a unique approach to the lever harp. Called a “harper among harpists” and a ‘hip harper” by the Irish press, she won First Prize for harp and voice at the O’Carolan Festival, Keadue, Ireland. Her radiant music fuses world, folk, rock, classical & improvisational influences.

Matoaka Little Eagle (Tewa, Apache, Chickahominy) is a culture bearer and educator. She celebrates diverse Native American cultures through song, dance, and story, promoting respect and tolerance. She has collaborated with David Amram, Pete Seeger, John Sebastian, John Cage, The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, The Vanaver Caravan and many others, bringing great joy and inspiration to her audiences, here and abroad. Matoaka is proud to play Grandma Jingle Dress in the award winning contemporary Native pop musical, "Distant Thunder"

Sharon Klein is a local fingerstyle guitar player, singer and songwriter.  Both introspective and cutting, her songs reflect her 25 years of living on "The Ridge" as well as her world travels to over 40 countries.  Her influences run from Mary Chapin Carpenter to Lucinda Williams, all infused with  tastefully accomplished acoustic guitar playing.   To hear more, visit her at SharonSongs.com

Levanta brings together a quartet of extraordinary musicians and unique instrumentation, featuring original and classic tunes performed with ancient instruments… Ev Mann, Thomas Workman, Gabriel Dresdale, Timothy Hill

Devotional Music from around the world with Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Steve Gorn, Avinash and surprises.

The avant folk solo project of Sasha Bogdanowitsch, blending world music, folk, ambient and electronica. A selection of works featuring voice, lyre, kamelengoni harp, handpan, mountain dulcimer, fuyara and ney flutes, banjo, electronics and more.

“…winning authenticity …” New York Times

www.timbretree.com

Spend and afternoon with Matoaka Little Eagle, who has spent her life sharing indigenous culture through story, dance, and song.

Matoaka Little Eagle is Native singer, dancer, storyteller, and educator who has introduced Native American culture to thousands of students, teachers, event goers, and professionals in a wide array of venues from schools, colleges, and museums, to prestigious cultural institutions like Symphony Space and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. She is a lifetime member of the acclaimed Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, based in NYC and has collaborated with numerous arts and educational organizations. Her many collaborations with fellow performers and musicians include Pete Seeger, David Amram, and Ulali. Matoaka plays the role of Grandma Jingle Dress in the contemporary Native musical, Distant Thunder, through the Lyric Theater of Oklahoma City, which premiered in March, 2022 at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City. She currently resides in New Paltz, NY. matoaka.e@gmail.com. (845) 977-6146.

Lisa Davidson and Elizabeth Cornell are Odd Shaped Swimmers, an NYC-based singer-songwriter duo, with strong roots in the Poughkeepsie/New Paltz area, who play acoustic guitar, bass & ukulele, and sing about relationships, city living, and past lives. Our album, Bird Watcher, Popcorn Maker, features six original songs, and we've just finished recording a new single, "Bad Boyfriend." You can hear our alt-folk, indie-style music on most streaming services, and follow us on Instagram.

Sound from the ground. Celebrate springing into Spring with the first iteration of SMSC. Improvised and composed music arising from the ground of stone mountain farm. Deep geologic time sounding and echoing to tomorrow. Join Brian Farmer and guests for an evening of  musical exploration and solace as we move from Spring to Summer. Be prepared to venture into never before heard sonic landscapes. Only once, here, together!.,

Many of us know the Rail Trail Cafe as a beloved site that welcomes all, providing a meaningful context as we gather in community on its landscape. The Rail Trail itself is a beloved and well-travelled path from Gardiner to Kingston. It is truly a Way in this region. 

There is a language beyond words—spoken in symbols, shadows, and the silent presence of what came before us. In this immersive workshop, we enter that liminal space through the art of object placement and the healing field of Kaleidoscopic Constellations.

In this workshop, we will create a living, three-dimensional map on the Rail Trail, a timeline of signature events in our lives when our original essence felt most alive, guiding us to our purpose in life. We’ll source items from the local environment, as well as personal object/s (item/s of meaning) from home. 

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:

In preparation for this workshop, remember a time when you were young and your spirit felt alive, when your essence became activated. As you survey your memories, discern if there is an object or objects that want to come with you to be placed on your ‘map.’ 

________________________

About the presenter:

Many of us know the Rail Trail Cafe as a beloved site that welcomes all, providing a meaningful context as we gather in community on its landscape. The Rail Trail itself is a beloved and well-travelled path from Gardiner to Kingston. It is truly a Way in this region. 

There is a language beyond words—spoken in symbols, shadows, and the silent presence of what came before us. In this immersive workshop, we enter that liminal space through the art of object placement and the healing field of Kaleidoscopic Constellations.

In this workshop, we will create a living, three-dimensional map on the Rail Trail, a timeline of signature events in our lives when our original essence felt most alive, guiding us to our purpose in life. We’ll source items from the local environment, as well as personal object/s (item/s of meaning) from home. 

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:

In preparation for this workshop, remember a time when you were young and your spirit felt alive, when your essence became activated. As you survey your memories, discern if there is an object or objects that want to come with you to be placed on your ‘map.’ 

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About the presenter:

Kathleen Mandeville is an Episcopal Priest, arts producer, Constellations facilitator, founder of The Outer Edge Coaching and spiritual leader of Gateway House, a multi-faith sacred arts community in Rosendale, NY, where she currently facilitates sacred ceremonies, individual and group counseling.

In her in-person monthly Kaleidoscopic Constellations group, members integrate and cross-pollinate a variety of healing and creative modalities, informed by the practices of the group's participants. Thus we may weave storytelling, writing, somatic experiencing, music and other disciplines together.

Kathleen Mandeville, M.Div

845.417.5430
kathleenmandeville@gmail.com
www.theouteredge.net

Storyteller Jill Olesker will explore and share stories of many kinds-folktales, Nature experiences and Water memories that we can offer each other. There will be possible surprise guests.

Stories offer a way to be in community, to share truths and to connect to nature . 

Jill has been telling stories in Hudson Valley for many years now. She is currently co-creating a project she started called the Water Stories Project. It is exploring our relationship to Waters, letting the Waters speak and nurturing our reciprocity with Water.

Bill Ylitalo leads this homemade Gamelan with Mark Bernard, Brian Farmer and more!

Life-long disciple of the great folk traditions of the world, singer/songwriter Mario Rincon draws inspiration from Andalusia and Appalachia alike, crafting a bi-lingual blend of flamenco cante, Latin-American folklore, and classic Americana. He’s based in New York’s Hudson Valley where he teaches private lessons and workshops.

Mario Rincon (voice/percussion) is a Hudson Valley-based flamenco musician and folklorist who has studied extensively in Spain and toured the US with numerous flamenco dance companies.

mariorincon.com

Kate Prascher is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her evocative songwriting. She was thrilled to be named a 2021 IBMA Songwriting Showcase finalist. Inspired by her Tennessee roots and influenced by master song crafters like Hazel Dickens and Gillian Welch, Kate is a versatile and engaging performer. Her songs are outspoken and sometimes tender, by turns playful and heart-piercing. Ink 19 described Kate’s "delicate and expressive singing" and “intangible vintage feel". 

Lyraccord is Timothy Hill and Sasha Bogdanowitsch and creates an entry into a unique sonic world.Informed by traditional musics from around the globe, they utilize tunings based on the natural overtone series, giving the music a crystalline clarity. Employing voices, harp, zithers, lyres, n'goni, and guitar, the resulting effect sounds both hauntingly familiar and refreshingly new.

www.lyraccord.com

Chanting with Ned & Lynn is for everyone regardless of experience. Chanting brings you to "beginners mind," where everything is in the sacred now. Chants range from deeply meditative to highly ecstatic. Using simple ancient Sanskrit mantras, we share our deep love for the Divine and the sacred - we also have fun!!

Ned & Lynn offer Sacred Chanting from many languages and traditions - Sanskrit, Native American, Sufi, Hebrew and Contemporary.

They welcome the audience to join them in call and response community chanting with simple mantras and beautiful melodies.

They have toured with Wah, sung with Jai Uttal and offered chants at Omega Ecstatic Chant, Bhakti Fest, Kripalu, Integral Yoga, Maverick in Woodstock and in many beautiful home settings. They were honored to sing for Amma with Wah in Boston.

Look for their CD, Bhakti Treasure, on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby and on their website: BhaktiTreasure.com

"Beautiful CD - blessed drops of Bhakti Nectar" - Jai Uttal

"Ned & Lynn create heart-felt kirtan sangha wherever they sing " - Wah

Find Ned & Lynn on Facebook - for bookings: Nedleavitt@aol.com

Catskill Mountain Gamelan has been performing since 2012 at locations

throughout the Hudson Valley, performing traditional Indonesian music,

original songs and arrangements.  We return this season with new

members featuring, Ashley Enright, Sue Kiel, Alex Letourneau, Amy

Recchia, Alvaro Romao, Annmarie Tedeschi, and Julien Valenstein, led

by Dorcinda Knauth.

At our Sept 20 show, expect to hear some beloved Sundanese classics, a

retelling of a trickster story: Kancil, and even see some

Turkish-gamelan fusion dance.

They’ll be playing on The Rose Blossom Gamelan, a red and gold West

Javanese gamelan built in 2012 by master builder Asep Ahum.  It is

tuned to the pentatonic (Five-tone) scale called degung.  Gamelan

would typically be used in Indonesia for playing ceremonial music,

accompanying elaborate all-night long puppet shows that double as

providing social or political commentary, or accompanying important

life cycle events like weddings. Hope you can come!

More info on the way..

Shokoloko is an electro-acoustic improvising trio that taps into the diverse sounds and influences of America, Africa, Europe, Asia and beyond.

The band is: Joakim Lartey on drums, percussion and voice; Chris Lane on guitar and electric guitar, oud-guitar and banjo; Richard Carr on violin and electric violin.

Shokoloko is about dance, trance and community fun!

Sarah Urech is originally from Switzerland and has called the Mohicanituck Hudson River Valley home for nearly 30 years. She will be singing jazz standards and songs from around the world with musicians Ann Belmont, Todd Anderson, and Fre Atlast, members of Hudson River Playback Theatre, and guest performers.

For over 30 years Amadou Diallo studied the rhythms of Senegal, Mali and Guinea. People thought he was crazy, everyday singing and playing the Sufi drum (Hrim) on the streets of Dakar, Senegal.

But that was where he wrote so many of M’Bollo’s songs, and he knew one day he would bring his music to a wider audience.

Then in 2001 a miracle happened, and he got a contract to come to the U.S. playing djembe with the African Ballet Bugerabou.

Amadou settled in Rosendale, NY and in 2010 formed M’Bollo with local musicians The Schikowitz brothers.

Mbollo means “be together” and the music brings together the rich tapestry of African rhythms with western instruments and styles.

Together they reunite the western instruments with their African roots. The bass singing the “dun dun” (African bass drum ) and the banjo singing like “Ekonting”( ancient African banjo)

A folk inspired singer songwriter from Woodstock, Malerie Day weaves heartfelt lyrics with tender yet powerful emotionality.  Her velvet vocals take center stage atop skillful finger picking guitar and bittersweet sentiments.  Inspiration by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter and Adrianne Lenker are heard in her first full length record titled “Heaven Knows” now available on all platforms. 

From harmony in voice to harmony for humanity, NY husband and wife duo, The Levins, (LeVINNS) have created a hopeful, resonant sound that feels like both a refuge and a call to action. Their song-craft bridges mystical roots and contemporary Indie folk, with seamlessly blended interlaced vocals and a soundscape of acoustic warmth. 

With a history of meaningful recognition—from top Folk and Roots chart placements and festival showcases, to presenting at the Parliament of World Religions and transforming the Sufi poet, Hafiz’s compassionate verses into theatrical musical storytelling—Ira and Julia’s music has never faltered from their original, personal, and artistic intention that they set many years ago; to bridge communities, invite connection, and inspire healing, understanding and uplift. 

Ira and Julia will be joined by Mark Dann on bass! (Mark Dann Recording Studios, located in Woodstock.)