Tune in for an interview from Lucy Bohnsack of the Friday Afternoon Show, on a Tuesday! Lucy is joined today by Phil Kline to talk about an upcoming performance at PS21's Winter Festival The Dark, happening throughout Columbia Country from February 16–22, 2026.

Phil Kline will perform Force of Nature (February) at the PS21 Pavilion Theater in Chatham, NY in Chatham, NY on Monday, February 16, 2026 at 4:30 pm. This performance will be broadcast live from the grounds of PS21, so tune back in to 90.7-FM on the 16th if you can't make it to Chatham in person! Force of Nature (February) is a mobile, living sound sculpture performed by the audience participants, which roams the contours of PS21 as darkness falls, playing the music on cassette players, portable speakers, and cell phones. Audience participants are encouraged complete this RSVP form ahead of the performance.

From vast boombox symphonies to chamber music and song cycles, Phil Kline‘s work has been hailed for its originality, beauty, and sly subversion. Raised in the suburbs of Akron, Ohio, Phil came to New York City to study poetry with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro at Columbia. Shortly after graduation he moved downtown, cofounding the No Wave band the Del-Byzanteens with Jim Jarmusch, Jamie Nares, and Lucy Sante, collaborating with Nan Goldin on the soundtrack to The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and playing guitar in the notorious Glenn Branca Ensemble.

The Dark is a new annual festival from PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance that celebrates and elevates the depths of winter. Taking place February 16–22, 2026, the festival will unfold at PS21 and across Columbia County—in theatres, restaurants, libraries, saunas, and outdoor public spaces. Featuring more than 60 international artists and over 80 performances, The Dark offers a packed week of world-class contemporary performance, installation, music, dance, and theatre—all exploring winter as a time of community and solitude, fire and ice, darkness and light. A major new attraction for the region, the festival positions Columbia County as a year-round cultural destination—not just a summer one. It is a light in the dark—and The Dark is the light.

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Lucy Bohnsack is an artist and professional photographer, but over the course of her life she’s also been a forklift driver, tour guide, factory bottling line operator, seamstress, fabric designer, writer of technical instructions, tractor parts salesman, lead cashier at Claire’s Etc, and now host of the "Friday Afternoon Show" on the first Friday of every month. She lives in Catskill, NY with her husband and two children.