NEWSLETTER
Craft-kits for kids will be available at 5:30 pm; music starts at 6 pm
Saratoga Springs, NY (July 11, 2023) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is proud to announce that the twenty-second season of Upbeat on the Roof continues Thursday, July 20, with Hot Club of Saratoga. The music begins at 6 pm on the lawn outside the Tang, and kids can pick up a craft-making kit starting at 5:30 pm.
Hot Club of Saratoga, the Capital Region’s premier gypsy swing ensemble, plays a repertoire that reflects the spirit and style originated by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in The Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Most prominently developed in 1930s and ’40s Paris, this genre has been kept alive through a long line of gypsy jazz artists since that time. Most of the tunes Hot Club of Saratoga plays were written or recorded by Django at some time in his musical life, hot swing music of the 1920s, ’30 and ’40s. The group last played at Upbeat in 2016.
New this year: Tang Art Educators will offer craft kits for kids starting at 5:30 pm. This week, the craft is Penny Spinners! Participants are invited to decorate various penny spinner designs! All projects are suitable for children aged 5 and up, with adult supervision recommended. Materials will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Performances take place on the lawn outside the Tang and are free and open to the public. Visitors are invited to bring picnic blankets, camping chairs, and their own food and drink to make it a night. Free parking is available off Perimeter Road, next to the museum. In case of rain, both the art-making activity and concert will move indoors.
Schedule Change
Note: There has been a schedule change. Zan & the Winterfolk, originally scheduled to appear August 3, will now perform August 10; Veena Chandra, originally scheduled to appear August 10, will now perform August 3.
The upcoming Upbeat on the Roof schedule:
- July 13: The Age, neo-soul
- July 20: Hot Club of Saratoga, gypsy jazz
- July 27: Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra
- August 3: Veena Chandra
- August 10: Zan & the Winterfolk
- August 17: Nathan Meltz and the House of Tomorrow
On View
The Museum will be open before and after the concert. Visitors are invited to view:
- Amina Ross—My Breaking In
- Elevator Music 46: Molly Joyce—Perspective
- Face to Face
- Hyde Cabinet #21: Fifty-first
- Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting
- Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, opens July 16
For more information, call the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit http://tang.skidmore.edu.
Image: Hot Club of Saratoga, courtesy the artists
About the Tang Teaching Museum
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of New York’s Capital Region, the Tang’s approach has become a model for university art museums across the country—with exhibition programs that bring together visual and performing arts with interdisciplinary ideas from history, economics, biology, dance, and physics to name just a few. The Tang has one of the most rigorous faculty-engagement initiatives in the nation, and a robust publication and touring exhibition program that extends the museum’s reach far beyond its walls. The Tang Teaching Museum’s award-winning building, designed by architect Antoine Predock, serves as a visual metaphor for the convergence of art and ideas. The Museum is open to the public Tuesdays–Sunday, noon–5 pm, with extended hours on Thursdays until 9 pm. The Tang is a Blue Star Museum, offering free admission to active military and their families this summer through Labor Day.
Media contact
Michael Janairo
Head of Communications
Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
518-580-5542