SEPTEMBER 4 - 6, 2026
MAIN FESTIVAL:
Friday September 4 - Sunday September 6
DAY #1 - Friday September 4, 2026
The Tavern
3978 Atwood Road (at the corner of Tongore Road) in Stone Ridge, NY
4-7:PM - Open Studio at The Tavern
Supporting Actor (motorhome version) by PuppetWarp art group including Pieter Schoolwerth and Phil Vanderhyden, with sound by Aaron Dilloway.
7:PM - Main Event at The Tavern
Four sets of wild Jazz music
Biotonic
Peyton Pleninger - tenor saxophone
Will McEvoy - bass
Bram Kincheloe - drums
Adam Siegel - alto saxophone
Biotonic performs Peyton Pleninger’s original music in a style he refers to as “animal maximalism.” This is fiery, exuberant, high-energy, way too-much-of-everything music that pushes melody, rhythm, and improvisation totally off the edge. With Adam Siegel now joining the band on saxophone, the quartet brings a sense of joyful excess. The music is energetic, made to be immediate, and fully alive.
Adam Siegel Quartet
Adam Siegel - alto saxophone
Joe Doubleday - vibraphone
Pete Swanson - bass
Aaron Yanda - drums
Adam Siegel’s quartet explores newly written music shaped in part by Arnold Hammerschlag’s interval workshops at The Tavern and Siegel’s investigations into tone-clock systems, unusual interval combinations, and the possibilities contained within the octave. Adam’s music is fresh and cutting edge, existing at the brink of tonal composition, with melodies that are sweet and singing.
Shakoor Hakeem + Peyton Pleninger
Shakoor Hakeem - percussion
Peyton Pleninger - saxophone, electronics
Peyton and Shakoor’s duo moves between the deeply familiar and the nearly intangible. Shakoor draws on simple, song-like melodies that trigger forgotten lullabies or music you heard somewhere but can’t remember where. Peyton brings his own language, adding his impulse to make the saxophone “sound like the wind.” Add in some live electronics and the duo coaxes improvisation into something both grounded and ethereal, reliable yet mysterious. The pair will spend the week before Weirdos recording an album together at The Tavern.
Blacks’ Myths
Luke Stewart - bass
Trae Crudup - drums
Blacks' Myths closes the night with an improvised heap of grooves, ambient sonics, electric bass, percussion, and electronic samples. The two are wild improvisers but also hang tough in the spacious terrain of lofty atmospheric music with its cooler more boundless spacious terrain. This is music built as much from atmosphere and texture as from embodied pulses, suited equally to close listening as well as what you might hear the moment you fall asleep at the end of an excellent day.
DAY #2 - Saturday September 5, 2026
Three Phase Center
3607 Atwood Rd. Stone Ridge, NY
4-10:PM
Performance art and demonstrations
Heather Duke
Ernest Goodmaw
Karen Dazzler
Joseph Latka
Sergey Jivetin
Koby Weston
Ruby Zuckerman
The Rope
Mike Ponte
Adam Zaretsky
DAY #3 - Sunday September 6, 2026
Rosekill Performance Art Farm
4:00-10:PM
Performance art, food, fire, swimming, and DIY camping.
Clara Diamond
Paul McMahon
Nina Isabelle
Jaguar Mary X
Neville Daly
Open Studios
Friday September 4, 4-7pm
The Tavern (3978 Atwood Road, Stone Ridge NY)
John Ackerman (2247 Union Center Road, Ulster Park NY)
Sunday September 6, noon-4pm
Army of Frogs (282 Mohonk Road, High Falls NY)
Darich & Jenna (126 Tongore Road, Stone Ridge NY)
