Welcome to Clearwater’s Events Calendar! For information about upcoming sails visit our Public Sail Schedule.

Oct
5
Sat
2024
Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River @ Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Oct 5 2024 @ 12:00 pm – Jan 12 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry along the Hudson estuary. Focusing on the river’s edges from Albany southward to its flow into the Atlantic Ocean, the exhibition foregrounds the impact of local industry on the natural environment, highlighting the history of the river’s distinctive ecological features such as brackish and salt marshes, mudflats, and beaches, along with the docks, factories, and buildings that crowded them out. Through visual and material evidence, Shifting Shorelines demonstrates the various cycles of exploitation, damage, and reclamation.

Nov
10
Sun
2024
Chopping Wood Clearwater Party @ Howland Cultural Center
Nov 10 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join Clearwater for an evening celebrating the life and legacy of Clearwater’s founder, Pete Seeger on Sunday, November 10 at the Howland Cultural Center. Author David Bernz, Pete’s long-time collaborator, will share reflections and passages from his newest book, “Chopping Wood: Thoughts and Stories of a Legendary Folk Singer.” Signed copies of Chopping Wood will be available for purchase, and the Miller Brothers, an old-time string band, will be performing for the first time since 2020. 

$10 tickets in advance, $15 at the door. $2 off tickets for Clearwater members who use their Member ID at checkout. This is an all-ages event from 5pm-8pm.

Get your ticket and reserve a copy of “Chopping Wood”

Special thanks to our sponsors: Daniel Aubry Realty, Witch Hazel, The Bakery, Last Outpost Store, Beacon Wine & Liquor, and Healthy in Color Superfoods

Nov
13
Wed
2024
November Restoration Adivisory Board Meeting @ Virtual via Webex
Nov 13 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

The Stewart Air National Guard Base was listed as a New York State Superfund site in August 2016, which brings the site under the NYS Superfund Program for identifying, investigating, and cleaning up hazardous waste sites. Under Superfund law, remediation is funded by the responsible parties. Furthermore, a Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) (originally formed as a Restoration Advisory Committee) was formed in early 2020 to provide advice to the New York Air National Guard, regulators, and other government agencies on environmental clean-up activities and community involvement. The RAB also reviews and comments on various technical documents and related site information; holds regular RAB meetings, discusses/exchanges information regarding site cleanup; and its members act as liaisons to the community. Clearwater has had an organizational seat on the RAB since its inception.

The next Restoration Advisory Board Meeting will be held virtually on Wednesday, November 13, 5:30-7:30pm.

Attend via Webex:
Link to join the meeting: https://jeg.webex.com/jeg/j.php?MTID=m18c524d1ee1182a49f66c11db7328448
Meeting number: 2630 184 8034
Password: tJipP2GA3M3

View recordings of the Stewart Air National Guard Restoration Advisory Board Meetings. Learn more about PFAS contamination of the City of Newburgh’s drinking water supply.

Nov
17
Sun
2024
Views on the Hudson: Environmental Perspectives (NYC) @ Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts
Nov 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

 

Learn more about the ongoing efforts to preserve and reclaim the Hudson River through the work of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the NYC Bird Alliance.

Heather Gierloff, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator, NYS DEC
Dorothy Peteet, NASA/GISS and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Biology and Paleo Environment.
Dustin Partridge, Director of Conservation and Science, NYC Bird Alliance

To register for this program please use this link:
https://www.showclix.com/event/11-17-wallach-gallery-public-prg

 

Heather Gierloff, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Heather Gierloff assures the collaboration across four Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) programs, Hudson River Estuary Advisory Committee (HREMAC), and state/federal partners in managing the Hudson River Estuary and its watershed. She values building meaningful relationships with partners and stakeholders to protect, preserve, restore, and enhance the Hudson River Estuary and watershed. When not working on key Hudson River issues, you can find her spending time with family, cheering on the side lines of an athletic field, gardening, crafting, or hiking.

 

Dorothy Peteet, NASA/GISS and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Biology and Paleo Environment.

Dorothy Peteet directs the Paleoecology Division of the New Core Lab at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia and in collaboration with GISS climate modelers and LDEO geochemists is studying the Late Pleistocene and Holocene archives of lakes and wetlands (peatlands, salt marshes, tidal freshwater marshes, bogs, fens). Documenting past vegetational change using pollen and spores, plant and animal macrofossils, loss-on-ignition, carbon, and charcoal in conjunction with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating, her research provides local and regional records of vegetational and climate history and carbon sequestration.

 

Dustin Partridge, Director of Conservation and Science, NYC Bird Alliance

Dr. Dustin Partridge is the Director of Conservation and Science at NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon), a nonprofit that protects wild birds and their habitats in New York City. As the organization’s lead scientist, Dr. Partridge oversees all conservation efforts in three major focus areas: making the city’s buildings safer for migratory birds, protecting the city’s robust waterbird colonies, and improving and promoting habitat and green infrastructure. Dr. Partridge is also a founder of the NYC Green Roof Researchers Alliance and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Like his dissertation work, which examined the ecology of green roofs and their role in wildlife conservation, his approach to conservation is based in using science to drive solutions that benefit both wildlife and people.

Dec
14
Sat
2024
Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse – December Concert + Coffeehouse @ Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Dec 14 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Join the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus on Saturday, December 14 for their December Coffeehouse, monthly gatherings featuring performances by folk musicians. Before the featured performance, audience members are invited to join the chorus in song. December’s featured musical act is Vance Gilbert.

About Vance Gilbert
Vance Gilbert is an American folk singer-songwriter. Although he started as a jazz singer in college, he discovered his affinity for the storytelling sensibilities of the acoustic singer-songwriter community. He became a regular on the open mike circuit in Boston and toured with Shawn Colvin. He is noted by his peers and fans as an ever-consummate performer. In addition, he has recorded 13 albums, including 5 for Philo/Rounder Records. Gilbert is known for his improvisational rapport with audiences during his shows. He speaks as he sings, with sincerity and depth. He has a wide range covering Joni Mitchell one moment and doing what sounds like a jazz classic the next. 

 TICKETS:

  • Reserved Tickets: $30Reserve tickets in advance using the ticket form. Reserved tickets will be set aside for you, and paid for at the door by check, cash, or credit card. Reservations may be made until 6:00pm the Friday prior to the performance date.
  • Tickets at the Door: $35Purchase tickets at the door by check, cash, or credit card.

About the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
Carrying on the vision of our founder, Pete Seeger, since 1984

The Walk about Clearwater Chorus is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song and education and is a volunteer-run New York State not-for-profit organization. Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a chartered member club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and our activities support the work of our parent organization.

The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is more than a singing group. Beyond performing at various venues, including our own Coffeehouse, rallies, and marches, Walkabout brings folk music to the younger generations through school programs. First and foremost, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a group of activists – using their voices to address the issues of today, uniting song with purpose.

Jan
18
Sat
2025
Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse – January Concert + Coffeehouse @ Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Jan 18 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Join the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus on Saturday, January 18 for their January Coffeehouse, monthly gatherings featuring performances by folk musicians. Before the featured performance, audience members are invited to join the chorus in song. January’s featured musical act is Jackson Pines.

About Jackson Pines
Jackson Pines is an indie folk band hailing from Jackson, New Jersey. Best friends Joe Makoviecki (guitar, vocals, harmonica) and James Black (upright bass) make up the core of the group. Help to round out their sound is Cranston Dean (drums, mandolin, vocals), Max Carmichael (banjo, flute, octave mandolin, guitar), and James Herdman (fiddle, ukulele).

Joe Makoviecki and James Black grew up playing in local bands in their hometown, writing music together, traveling around the country, and traveling around the U.K. They became known for playing original and traditional folk music.

Critics have called them “a mash-up of James Taylor and Tom Petty — with serious focus on acoustic guitar” Jackson Pines have a collection of music that “presents a unique lyrical take on life, bringing a rustic flair to the world of indie-folk/acoustic music”. They have also been described as “rootsy when they jam. They are poetic, but they rock.”

Known for playing traditional folk music along with their fingerpicking guitar and stand-up bass rhythms, Jackson Pines weaves their songs with threads of stories from people they know, places they’ve been, and pains and joys they’ve experienced.

 TICKETS:

  • Reserved Tickets: $30Reserve tickets in advance using the ticket form. Reserved tickets will be set aside for you, and paid for at the door by check, cash, or credit card. Reservations may be made until 6:00pm the Friday prior to the performance date.
  • Tickets at the Door: $35Purchase tickets at the door by check, cash, or credit card.

About the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
Carrying on the vision of our founder, Pete Seeger, since 1984

The Walk about Clearwater Chorus is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song and education and is a volunteer-run New York State not-for-profit organization. Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a chartered member club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and our activities support the work of our parent organization.

The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is more than a singing group. Beyond performing at various venues, including our own Coffeehouse, rallies, and marches, Walkabout brings folk music to the younger generations through school programs. First and foremost, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a group of activists – using their voices to address the issues of today, uniting song with purpose.

Feb
15
Sat
2025
Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse – February Concert + Coffeehouse @ Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Feb 15 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Join the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus on Saturday, February 15 for their February Coffeehouse, monthly gatherings featuring performances by folk musicians. Before the featured performance, audience members are invited to join the chorus in song. February’s featured musical acts are Emma’s Revoluion and Lisa Gutkin.

About Emma’s  Revolution
Emma’s Revolution is the dynamic, award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries & Sandy O, whose songs have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger, and covered by Holly Near. With beautiful harmonies and genre-defying eclecticism, Emma’s Revolution delivers the energy and strength of their convictions, in an uprising of truth and hope for these tumultuous times.

Emma’s Revolution has shared the stage with Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Rev Jesse Jackson, Amy Goodman, Indigo Girls, Joan Baez, Rev William Barber and Bill McKibben and has performed at concerts, justice events and mass demonstrations across the country, including the #FamiliesBelongTogether Day of Action in San Francisco, Women’s March Oakland and the Poor People’s Campaign National Demonstration in Washington DC. Their songs cover issues from reproductive justice to refugees and Black Lives Matter to their sustaining power of love. “Sing People Sing” is the duo’s loving and moving tribute to Pete Seeger that captures Pete’s unique ability to empower an audience with harmony and hope. A dear friend and mentor to her, Pat was at Pete’s bedside when he passed, “singing his songs back to him in gratitude for all the times he had left home to sing to us”. The duo’s songs span styles from folk to jazz and funk to rock.

About Lisa Gutkin
Lisa Gutkin is a Grammy Award-winning fiddler, singer, actor, and composer and is best known as a member of the acclaimed Klezmatics. She wrote the musical score, performed in, and was musical director in the two-time Tony award-winner Broadway show, Indecent.

Lisa has had a storied career that reflects the eclectic nature of her life, passion, and creativity. A cameo performance in Sex and the City, a seat in Sting’s Broadway band for The Last Ship, a CD of original songs produced by John Lissauer, and scores for two of Pearl Gluck’s films have taken her a long way from her beginnings as a back-up musician to the Fast Folk songwriters’ collective.

Praised for her “hauntingly emotional” vocals by the L.A. Times, she has co-authored songs with Anne SextonMaggie Dubris, and Woody Guthrie. “Gonna Get Through This World”, co-written with Woody Guthrie, was described by Pete Seeger as “a piece of genius”.

In her ventures as soloist and band leader, Lisa might swing seamlessly from Klezmer to the blues, or between traditional Irish and Appalachian sounds. She might even put the violin down altogether, pick up a tenor guitar, and sing one of her own universally resonant songs. Wherever she goes, Lisa, a MacDowell, and Norton Stevens Fellow, has an uncanny way of taking the audience with her.

TICKETS:

  • Reserved Tickets: $30Reserve tickets in advance using the ticket form. Reserved tickets will be set aside for you, and paid for at the door by check, cash, or credit card. Reservations may be made until 6:00pm the Friday prior to the performance date.
  • Tickets at the Door: $35Purchase tickets at the door by check, cash, or credit card.

About the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
Carrying on the vision of our founder, Pete Seeger, since 1984

The Walk about Clearwater Chorus is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song and education and is a volunteer-run New York State not-for-profit organization. Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a chartered member club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and our activities support the work of our parent organization.

The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is more than a singing group. Beyond performing at various venues, including our own Coffeehouse, rallies, and marches, Walkabout brings folk music to the younger generations through school programs. First and foremost, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a group of activists – using their voices to address the issues of today, uniting song with purpose.

Mar
22
Sat
2025
Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse – March Concert + Coffeehouse @ Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Mar 22 @ 6:30 pm – 6:44 pm

Join the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus on Saturday, March 22 for their March Coffeehouse, monthly gatherings featuring performances by folk musicians. Before the featured performance, audience members are invited to join the chorus in song. March’s featured musical act is Seamus Kennedy.

About Seamus Kennedy
In his thirty years of professional performing, Seamus Kennedy has taken his music from Alaska to Florida, Maryland to California, and a host of stops in between, playing everything from the pubs to the concert halls.  As a result, he is a master showman with exceptional musical skills and an unmatched repartee.

Seamus has released eleven CDs of both contemporary and traditional material, including Christmas songs and a children’s album.  The Washington Area Music Association has awarded him a WAMMIE for “Best Irish/Celtic Male Vocalist” every year since 1993.  His versatility makes him a headliner at Celtic festivals such as Hunter Mountain (NY); Celtic Classic (PA); Longs Peak Scottish Irish Festival, (CO), and at Sacramento (CA) Highland Games.  Seamus is often invited to perform for various organizations, including the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Fraternal Order of Police, Firemen, military groups, and the Bar Association.  There is always something for everybody.

Seamus’ trademark is his ongoing interaction with his audiences.  From the moment he steps on stage, he starts talking to them — and encourages them to talk back!  He is quick with a quip and likes nothing better than to discover someone in the audience who is similarly inclined.  Fast-paced humor is very much a part of what Seamus does, whether he’s telling a series of rapid-fire jokes or launching into a lyrical parody. Seamus seems to be having such a grand time and he makes it all look so effortless that it is easy not to notice what a superb musician he truly is.  He will segue seamlessly from an Irish ballad about a dying town to a rollicking reel and then move into American music, equally at home with folk, pop, country, or traditional.

 TICKETS:

  • Reserved Tickets: $30Reserve tickets in advance using the ticket form. Reserved tickets will be set aside for you, and paid for at the door by check, cash, or credit card. Reservations may be made until 6:00pm the Friday prior to the performance date.
  • Tickets at the Door: $35Purchase tickets at the door by check, cash, or credit card.

About the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
Carrying on the vision of our founder, Pete Seeger, since 1984

The Walk about Clearwater Chorus is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song and education and is a volunteer-run New York State not-for-profit organization. Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a chartered member club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and our activities support the work of our parent organization.

The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is more than a singing group. Beyond performing at various venues, including our own Coffeehouse, rallies, and marches, Walkabout brings folk music to the younger generations through school programs. First and foremost, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a group of activists – using their voices to address the issues of today, uniting song with purpose.

Apr
6
Sun
2025
Clearwater Gala
Apr 6 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Apr
19
Sat
2025
Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse -April Concert + Coffeehouse @ Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Apr 19 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Join the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus on Saturday, April 19 for their April Coffeehouse, monthly gatherings featuring performances by folk musicians. Before the featured performance, audience members are invited to join the chorus in song. April’s featured musical act is Betty and the Baby Boomers.

About Betty  and the Baby Boomers
Betty and the Baby Boomers consists of Betty Boomer, Jean Valla McAvoy, Paul Rubeo, Robert Bard, and Steve Stanne. Their fans hail from the mountains of Connemara in Ireland to the Catskills overlooking New York’s Hudson Valley.

The folk magazine Sing Out! described the group as “a refreshing reminder of the halcyon days of American folk music”. In each song, they display the sheer joy of singing and playing music.” Along with performing original songs from Jean, the Boomers draw on traditional tunes, music from classic folkies like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Phil Ochs, Americana roots music, and contemporary artists such as Greg Brown, Bruce Springsteen, and Dougie MacLean. “Whatever the source, each song is “Boomerized” – set in distinctive arrangements with three and four-part harmonies. The singers’ voices differ in range and color; they combine in a unique and resonant blend that is the Boomers’ signature. Their vocals are coupled to impressive instrumental work on guitars, Dobro, bass, bodhran, and kazoo; sometimes they perform a capella selection. Critics agree the music is comprised of “beautiful melodies – meaningful lyrics – charming wit -all blended with engaging personalities!

 TICKETS:

  • Reserved Tickets: $30Reserve tickets in advance using the ticket form. Reserved tickets will be set aside for you, and paid for at the door by check, cash, or credit card. Reservations may be made until 6:00pm the Friday prior to the performance date.
  • Tickets at the Door: $35Purchase tickets at the door by check, cash, or credit card.

About the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus
Carrying on the vision of our founder, Pete Seeger, since 1984

The Walk about Clearwater Chorus is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song and education and is a volunteer-run New York State not-for-profit organization. Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a chartered member club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and our activities support the work of our parent organization.

The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is more than a singing group. Beyond performing at various venues, including our own Coffeehouse, rallies, and marches, Walkabout brings folk music to the younger generations through school programs. First and foremost, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus is a group of activists – using their voices to address the issues of today, uniting song with purpose.