Leland Sundries http://lelandsundries.com/; and Ephemera perform. Ephemera is a four-piece music project centered around original blues, punk, surf, and garage rock compositions written and performed by local musician and artist Aaron Martin with Alex P. Wernquest (Nowadays), Wesley Harper (Patchwork Symphony), and Danny Sher (Horse Torso). Live webstream at wgxc.org (click on "Listen Now" and scroll down) and 90.7-FM WGXC.

Hudson Area Library and The Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood are proud to announce High Five!, our five-week early literacy family program. Our new winter session includes “Weaving Tales and Oral Traditions to Develop Literacy,” “Cooking as a Means of Encouraging Literacy in Your Child,” and “Stuck Indoors? Literacy Ideas for Snowy Days.” Participants will receive books and prizes each week and gift certificates to Rolling Grocer 19 will be awarded to all families with excellent attendance. Lunch is also provided and we will be emphasizing healthy foods kids like to eat. Transportation to the library is available upon request. To register for High Five!, email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org, call 518-828-1792 x101, or stop by the desk at the Hudson Area Library.

Frenchy and The Punk Celebrate the release of their new album "Hooray Beret." Imagine Siouxsie Sioux and Dee Dee Ramone had a duo that was inspired by Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf, Toulouse Lautrec and Deepak Chopra, this is what it might sound like. The Dust Bowl Faeries are a dark-carnival band based in Hudson, NY. Accordion, singing saw, ukulele, lap-steel, guitar and percussion swirl together, creating a melange of circus, post-punk, Gypsy and psyche-folk music.

This story hour, with Pamela Badila, provides families with the opportunity to explore stories that formed the traditions and ethics of specific cultures. Sundays through June 28, 2019.

Winner of the 2018 Frances Walton Competition, this ensemble, based in San Jose, CA, performs contemporary works to transcriptions from the baroque, classical, and romantic eras. Julian Salazar, soprano; Johnny Selmer, alto; Robin Lacey, tenor; and David Cortez, baritone.

Business education for farm women. A series of classes for women who are farm owners or managers or who anticipate moving into a decision-making position on a farm. This workshop focuses on managing your business, employees and planning for transition. Participants will learn about hiring and training employees; conflict management; and transition planning. Registration required by Wed., Jan. 2. Information at cad266@cornell.edu or 845-340-3990, ext. 311.

Make some wintertime pals by folding paper into three-dimensional shapes. Learn how to create origami snowmen and other wintertime pals. Led by Program Coordinator, Laura. Materials provided.

Help Us Bring Free, Adult, English Classes to Catskill in 2019. Literacy Connections of the Hudson Valley is recruiting a team of volunteers to conduct a free, adult, English as Another Language, drop-in class at the Catskill Community Center on Tuesday evenings from 6-8 pm. No previous teaching experience is necessary! New volunteers are required to attend a free orientation session, and complete the online training modules. Trained volunteers are provided ongoing support as they work with students and classes. A new volunteer orientation will be held at the Catskill Community Center, 344 Main Street Catskill, on Tuesday, January 8th from 6 – 8 pm. The follow-up session is scheduled for Tuesday, February 5th, from 6 – 8 pm at the same location. You can sign up by e-mail to colgreene@literacyconnections.org or by calling 518-828-1792 ext 104. Please provide your name, e-mail address, phone number and area where you would like to volunteer when registering.

The Catskill Town Board meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Board Committee meetings usually held on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend.

WGXC is partnering with the town of Catskill to present live audio streams of public meetings. During meetings, the live stream will be accessible by clicking the play arrow below. Additionally, listeners with iPhones or iPads may now use the Wave Farm Radio App to listen to the Catskill Town Board meetings, WGXC 90.7-FM, or other Wave Farm and partner streams. View the Wave Farm Radio App in the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wave-farm-radio/id1284966744?ls=1&mt=8

Audio archives from past meetings will be available following the meeting as possible. More information at http://www.townofcatskillny.gov/.

Local history speaker series with a talk by David Vorhees. Widespread female violence against men is found in the records of the 1689 New York uprising popularly known as “Leisler’s Rebellion.” Indeed, women played a prominent role in the uprising. This talk by the director of the Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History explores this outburst of activism among New York women a generation after the English takeover of New Netherland.

Bobby Previte's Blueprints. Hudson valley composer Bobby Previte leads a conceptual performance, with webcasts at wgxc.org and wavefarm.org. Previte has invited some of his favorite musicians in the Hudson Valley and beyond for these inaugural concerts of his newest project, Blueprints. Starting from 1979 and going forward up to the present moment, Previte has ripped a fragment of nearly every piece of music he has written in the last 39 years and placed them all, divorced from their previous context, into one (very long) document. The ensemble will play, distort, improvise around, and sometimes ignore these fragments. Using hand signals, body movements, and the occasional odd glare, Previte conducts the musicians through the maze, taking a different path every night. Part performance, part open rehearsal, part hang out - where audience members as well as players will see the fragments projected on screen - Blueprints should be a wildly different experience each performance. There should be a live webstream at http://wgxc.org around 8:30 p.m. Click on "Listen Now" at top of the page, and scroll down to find the live webstream.