Horizon Happy Hour

You're invited to Horizon Happy Hour! Enjoy psychedelic rock, jazz, pop, dance, and experimental music from the past, present, and future in our Market Sheds overlooking the historic festival field. This is a free event. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. 

Curated by Artist In Residence Peter Negroponte of Guerilla Toss.

UPCOMING DATES

2nd Wednesdays: June - September

5 PM | Bethel Woods Market Sheds

Drinks and food will be available for purchase.

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Wednesday, June 11: Bethel Woods Teaching Artist Showcase

• Mike Edison and Rocket Train Deluxe
• Kali Seastrand with Brandon Sparkman
• The Bethel Woods Rock Camp Ambassadors

Wednesday, July 9

• Pleaser
• Pond Wave

Wednesday, August 13

• Juma Sultan Aboriginal Music Society

Wednesday, September 10

• TBA

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mike Edison is a genuine rock’n’roll renaissance man - an internationally known musician who spent much of the 1980s and 90s seeing the world from behind a drum set, opening for bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, Sound Garden, and the Ramones. Edison can frequently be seen with his long-running blues, gospel, and garage-punk experiment The Edison Rocket Train, and he speaks frequently on free speech, sex, drugs, and the American counterculture. He is “proof positive that one can be both edgy and erudite, lowbrow and literate, and take joy in the unbridled pleasures of the id without sacrificing the higher mind. (PopMatters.com)

Listen to Mike Edison on Spotify

The sound and presence of Kali Seastrand can be described as enchanting. Since 2019, she has been intriguing audiences with her use of the mountain dulcimer and her mesmerizing revitalization of folk music. Intimate vulnerability is a theme in her songwriting, sharing themes of her life with poetic transparency. Molded by the mountains of the Sullivan Catskills, her music represents resilience and resourcefulness. She will be performing with multi-instrumentalist and fellow Bethel Woods Teaching Artist Brandon Sparkman.

Listen to Kali Seastrand on Spotify

The Rock Camp Ambassador Program aims to support the growth, creativity, and development of past PLAY Rock Camp students ages 14 and up. Exceptional students are hand-selected by Bethel Woods Teaching Artists to participate based on the talent and commitment they exhibited during their time in PLAY Rock Camp. For tonight's special event, they will be performing 3 songs before their teachers perform.

Pleaser is the music of Carrie Furniss and Travis Hagan, a very loving couple based in New York City. This experimental pop duo draws inspiration from the “true love” tropes of Reality TV and their own marriage while overcoming the limitations and learning curve of their superfluous gear obsession. Their diverse musical backgrounds in jazz, punk, noise, modular synthesis, and free improvisation culminate into a wonky top-40 fantasy.

Listen to Pleaser on Spotify

Pond Wave is an experimental ambient “supergroup” based in the Catskills of New York, featuring Zarah Cabañas (The Roots, Blue Man Group, City and Forest), Matt Werden (Blue Man Group, City and Forest, A Slow Death and Loneliness) Peter Negroponte (Guerilla Toss). The band creates an otherworldly experience, fusing luscious textures and groove-ful moods with melodic vocalizations, synth-drones, effected pedal-steel explorations, and live abstract video art. The improvisational nature of the project means each performance is a unique moment in time, a sonic expression that is both difficult to describe, mysteriously familiar, and uncommonly alluring.

Listen to Pond Wave on Vimeo

Juma Sultan is a musician, composer, archivist, and upstanding citizen of Planet Earth and Beyond. Notable musical collaborations include Sonny Simmons, James “Blood” Ulmer, Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Sam Rivers, and many more. As a percussionist, he shot to international fame when he stepped onto the stage of the 1969 Woodstock Festival as a member of Jimi Hendrix’s Gypsy Sun & Rainbows. In the Market Sheds at Bethel Woods, he will be presenting his nine-piece group, Aboriginal Music Society in an exploration of spirit grounded in sound.

Listen to Juma's Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society on Spotify

In fulfillment of our mission to make music and the arts accessible, admission to this event is free of charge. However, if you'd like to make a donation in support of our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, please do so here: 

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