FEST: Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival Announces Performers

Photograph by Kirsten Ferguson

After recovering from a financial crisis which forced the festival’s cancellation in 2016, Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival rebounded nicely last year, and the 2018 festival – at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson on Saturday & Sunday, June 16 & 17 – is looking as good as ever.

The festival features seven sustainably powered stages with diverse music, dance, storytelling and family-oriented programming as well as a juried Handcrafters’ Village, the Green Living Expo, the Working Waterfront with small boat exhibits and rides, the Artisanal Food & Farm Market, environmental education exhibits and the Circle of Song, where audience participation is the focus. The festival is wheelchair accessible and stage programming is staffed with American Sign Language interpreters.

Tickets are on sale, currently priced at $70 per day or $120 for an all-weekend pass. Children age 11 and under are free with a paying adult.

Here’s the initial line-up of performers slated to take over one (or more) of the fest’s stages during the weekend festivities:

Jeff Tweedy
The Mavericks
Ani DiFranco
Rhiannon Giddens
Hot Rize
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Tom Paxton & the Don Juans
The Willie Nile Band
Choir Choir Choir!
Margaret Glaspy
Mipso
Making Movies
Jalen N’Gonda
River Whyless
David Amran
Tom Chapin
Josh White Jr.
Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience
Batsayda Machado
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
The Mammals
Joanne Shenandoah
Funkinships
Ramy Essam
The Nields
Karim Nagi “Turbo Tabla”
Yale Deckelbaum & Prayer of the Mother’s Ensemble

ADDITIONAL UPCOMING 2018 FESTIVALS
A TASTE OF COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL @ Hunter Mountain, Hunter, June 8-10
MOUNTAIN JAM @ Hunter Mountain, Hunter, June 15-17
OLD SONGS FESTIVAL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC & DANCE, Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont, June 22-24
FREIHOFER’S SARATOGA JAZZ FESTIVAL @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, June 23 & 24
COUNTRYFEST @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs