Community Calendar

Tonight features the Albany Pro Musica Choir and Maestro José Daniel Flores-Caraballo. This is a brand-new three year collaboration with Albany Pro Musica and the Mostly Modern Festival. This concert also features our concerto winner, Ethan Pound, in Tomasi’s Concerto for Trombone, as well as special guest from Mexico City, handpan percussionist Diego Alfonso, featured in Robert Paterson’s KAMA. The program starts with Johanny Navarro, who is a fantastic Puerto Rican composer, and the evening ends with Morten Lauridsen’s breathtaking Lux Aeterna.

Tonight brings brand-new premieres with “hot-off-the-press” pieces, featuring composers of all ages and backgrounds from across the globe, all in the audience. Mostly Modern Ensemble features our world class faculty performing everything up close and personal from the piano to cello to clarinet to harp and much more. New this year — Audience Choice Awards — pick your favorite of the night via QR code!

This afternoon celebrates FAB5’s tracks from their very 1st album, along with brand new premieres. The FAB5 is a string quartet with famed-percussionist Diego Alfonso coming all the way from Mexico City! This matinee is a great choice for families, kids and seniors ~ classical and pop music all come together for a very special afternoon. Explore the FAB5 here – Digital, Vinyl and CDs will be for sale at the show!

Putman Porch Music 2026!
We welcome musicians and listeners to Yankee Hill Lock for this canawler experience!
An Americana Folk and Roots Music style jam session on the porch of the old Putman Canal Store happens each Thursday in June. Come play some fiddle, guitar, banjo, sing, or whatever instrument you may bring, to this lively time along the historic Erie Canal!
Event is cancelled for heavy rain. Moderate rain we may move inside the ol'Canal store. Spectating? Bring along a lawn chair, bug spray, maybe a picnic dinner and beverages to enjoy as you sing along.

Putman Porch Music 2026!
We welcome musicians and listeners to Yankee Hill Lock for this canawler experience!
An Americana Folk and Roots Music style jam session on the porch of the old Putman Canal Store happens each Thursday in June. Come play some fiddle, guitar, banjo, sing, or whatever instrument you may bring, to this lively time along the historic Erie Canal!
Event is cancelled for heavy rain. Moderate rain we may move inside the ol'Canal store. Spectating? Bring along a lawn chair, bug spray, maybe a picnic dinner and beverages to enjoy as you sing along.

Putman Porch Music 2026!
We welcome musicians and listeners to Yankee Hill Lock for this canawler experience!
An Americana Folk and Roots Music style jam session on the porch of the old Putman Canal Store happens each Thursday in June. Come play some fiddle, guitar, banjo, sing, or whatever instrument you may bring, to this lively time along the historic Erie Canal!
Event is cancelled for heavy rain. Moderate rain we may move inside the ol'Canal store. Spectating? Bring along a lawn chair, bug spray, maybe a picnic dinner and beverages to enjoy as you sing along.

Join us for the Iroquois Museum’s lively annual fundraiser featuring headliner zydeco group The Rubber Band, opening band North Slope, dancing, an artisan market, delicious food and beer for purchase, and a silent auction. Admission: $20 includes Museum admission, a commemorative cup, and a beer ticket; $10 includes Museum admission and concert only. All proceeds benefit the Museum’s education programs.

Clarion Concerts and the exciting young Verona Quartet bring string quartets of Mendelssohn, Bacewicz and Beethoven to the Hudson Valley! Among the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today, the award-winning Verona Quartet's adventurous new recording, Shatter, entered the Billboard Classical music chart at #1. Their program combines a much-beloved early quartet by Mendelssohn with a work by the under-appreciated Polish woman composer Grażyna Bacewicz and the first of Beethoven's Razumovsky quartets. Treat yourself to a luscious end-of-summer evening of beautiful chamber music!