Wood & Wave: Exploring the World of Music in the Hudson Valley & Catskills
Oct 1, 2026 · 6 min · 6 segments
When musician Aaron Rester moved back home to New York's Hudson Valley after three decades away, he was left wondering: what is the world of music in his old stomping grounds like now?
But finally this past year, it was time to come back to New York to be closer to family.
And I now find myself in a region that looks and feels a lot like it did when I was growing up here, but that has also changed in so many ways, and with virtually no sense of what the music world is like here these days.
So these conversations that you'll hear over the upcoming weeks are really a way for me, and by extension you, dear listener, to explore this musical landscape that is both familiar and strange, and to learn about what makes the musical world of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills unique.
I hope you'll come along for the ride, and bring a tape for that boombox on the emergency break.
But finally this past year, it was time to come back to New York to be closer to family.
And I now find myself in a region that looks and feels a lot like it did when I was growing up here, but that has also changed in so many ways, and with virtually no sense of what the music world is like here these days.
So these conversations that you'll hear over the upcoming weeks are really a way for me, and by extension you, dear listener, to explore this musical landscape that is both familiar and strange, and to learn about what makes the musical world of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills unique.
I hope you'll come along for the ride, and bring a tape for that boombox on the emergency break.
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