• First Friday arts walk @ various locations, Albany (FREE)
• Johnny Rabb’s Christmas Dance @ the Polish American Club, Cohoes
• “Melodies of Christmas” featuring the McKrells, Stefon Harris @ Proctors, Schenectady (also Saturday, Sunday)
• The Boston Celtics, the Hoborchestra, Littlefoot triple CD release party @ Valentine’s Music Hall, Albany
• Driftwood, Whoa Nelly @ the Moon & River Cafe, Schenectady (FREE)
• Symphonic Winds, the Opus Zero Band @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass. (FREE)
• Fiery Furnaces @ Bard College Campus Center, Annandale-On-Hudson
• Jim Breuer @ The Egg, Albany
• The Danny Kalb Trio @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs
• Max Creek, the McLovins @ Revolution Hall, Troy
• 3 @ the Bearsville Theater, Woodstock

• Hudson Winter Walk @ Warren Street, Hudson (FREE)
• The Neighborhoods, John Powhida International Airport, the Charlie Watts Riots @ Valentine’s Music Hall, Albany
• Alta Mira CD release party with Railbird, Matt Durfee, Matthew Loiacono @ Revolution Hall, Troy
• Josh Ritter @ the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy
• “World Music Extravaganza” featuring Ramblin Jug Stompers, more @ Savoica Lounge, Hudson (After the Hudson Winter Walk) (FREE)
• Arlo Guthrie @ Shakespeare & Company’s Founders Theatre, Lenox, Mass.
• Bill Kirchen & John Tichy’s “Honky Tonk Holiday” @ The Linda, Albany
• John Prine, Iris DeMent @ the Calvin Theatre, Northampton, Mass. (SOLD OUT)
• the subdudes @ The Egg, Albany
• Screening of “Captured” with My Survival Kit, Armfee, Black Tie Operation @ Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy UPDATE: Due to a scheduling snafu no bands are playing; just the film
• The Ameros, Nixon’s Spirit, D.E.A.D. Stuff, the Rejects, more @ Bogie’s, Albany
• Rough Francis with Short Dark Strangers, Peace Creeps @ Valentine’s Music Hall, Albany
• All Time Low with We the Kings, Hey Monday, the Friday Night Boys @ Northern Lights, Clifton Park (SOLD OUT)

• The Sippy Cups @ The Egg, Albany (FREE)
• Kim Simmonds @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs
• Over the Rhine, Vienna Teng @ The Egg, Albany
• God’s Trombones, Voices of Unity @ MCLA Church Street Center, North Adams, Mass.

• First Friday arts walk @ various locations, Albany (FREE)
• Guided walk-through with photographer Dona Ann McAdams of her exhibit at The Opalka Gallery at the Sage College of Albany. 7pm (FREE)
• Chunky Move’s “Glow” @ EMPAC at RPI, Troy
• Holiday Gift Fair @ The Albany Institute of History & Art (also Saturday and Sunday)

• Hudson Winter Walk @ Warren Street, Hudson (FREE)
• Holiday Marketplace @ Berkshire Botanical Garden 10-5pm (also Sunday 10-3pm)

• Troy Victorian Stroll @ various locations, Troy (FREE)
• Chocolate Expo & Holiday Gift Market @ New York State Museum, Albany (FREE)

• Dona Ann McAdams photography exhibit “Some Women” @ the Opalka Gallery at the Sage College of Albany (through Wednesday, December 16.) Here’s the Nippertown review.
• Ceramists Thaddeus Powers, Meg Oliver, Kyla Toomey and Stacey Esslinger @ Tom Myott Gallery, Glens Falls (through December 23) Here’s the Nippertown review.
• “Holiday Small Works,” curated by glass artist Isabella Raven @ The Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams
• Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield is featuring “SMALL WORKS: Art + Object,” a small works show of affordable art and “PAPER -or- POTTERY­ -not- PLASTIC,” a group show of 100 paper and ceramic plates. (works are also available online)
• Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition @ Hudson Valley Community College Teaching Gallery in Troy featuring Milt Connors, Tara Fracalossi, Kyra Garrigue, Richard Garrison, William Jaeger, Thomas Lail, Andrew Lynn, Jean O’Malley, Ryan Parr, Gail V. Roberts, Linda Ryder and Ann Wolf. Through December 12.
• G.C. Haymes: Collected Works @ Yates Gallery, Siena College. Through December 11.
• John Foxx: The Quiet Man @ BCB Art, Hudson. Continues through December 19.
• In conjunction with the Hudson River Quadricentennial celebrations, the University Art Museum @ UAlbany is showing Uncharted, a group exhibition that “considers the potentialities and perils of navigating unfamiliar waters” featuring work by Radcliffe Bailey, Olaf Breuning, Anna Conway, Mark Essen, Adam Frelin, Valerie Hegarty, David Herbert, Emre Hüner, Matt Leines, and Cameron Martin. Through December 13.
• Lives of the Hudson, Type A: Barrier, Nicole Eisenman @ The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga. (Here’s the Nippertown review.)

Tags: Shelby

This entry was posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 3:55 pm and is filed under Be Here Now, The Dogs of Nippertown. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.