Live entertainment. Opus 40 launches 2021 season with COVID-safe live entertainment
| 27 Apr 2021 | 04:32
Opus 40 is a world-famous sculpture park and museum located in Saugerti4es, N.Y., created by pioneering artist, quarryman and Bard College professor Harvey Fite in 1978. It is now regarded as an international tourist destination known for its 6.5-acre sculpture, quarryman’s museum and educational, cultural, arts, nature and historical programming. Source: opus40.org
All-new events and the return of past popular engagements mark this year’s season at Opus 40.
Located in Saugerties, Opus 40 is a world-famous sculpture park and museum created by pioneering artist, quarryman and Bard College professor Harvey Fite in 1978. It is now regarded as an international tourist destination known for its 6.5-acre sculpture, quarryman’s museum and educational, cultural, arts, nature and historical programming.
This season, Opus 40 will feature live music and theater from Vanaver Cavern, Bindlestiff Cirkus, American Symphony Orchestra, Wind of Anatolia, Hot Jazz Jumpers and Spanglish Fly.
Also on tap are monthly outdoor film screenings with Upstate Films, the popular Sunset Sessions Friday concerts with Radio Woodstock and gallery shows with Saugerties Arts Studio Tour.
Opus 40 will also play host to the Ulster County Arts Collaborative Events.
“We are thrilled to be able to offer a season of live performance once again after this long year of quarantine,” said Opus 40 executive director Caroline Crumpacker. “This summer we have community partners who bring wonderful new experiences to our site, and we all so look forward to welcoming our guests to celebrate and dance and enjoy nature together.”
Considered by many to be the Stonehenge of North America, Opus 40 welcomes more than 20,000 visitors every year. It is now open from Friday through Sunday. Its season of live events will begin on May 15. All events and visits have attendance caps and COVID-19 protocols in place.
For more information, visit Opus40.org.