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Kingston’s newest live-music spot, Assembly, which opened in December on the top floor of a former schoolhouse in the historic Uptown district, is already drawing international touring artists. Check the calendar for upcoming shows, which include the folk-pop singer Brett Dennen, the group Fantastic Cat and the Nigerian Afrobeat artist Femi Kuti.
“Severance” fans enjoyed waffles and Lumon Industries cosplay at a watch party hosted by two restaurants that appeared in the series at the venue Assembly, in Kingston, N.Y., as the series closed out its second season.
Be ever merry. Owners of the two locations featured in hit-television series Severance — Phoenicia Diner and Eng’s — are throwing an epic finale screening party later this month that the mysterious and important company Lumon would approve of. Praise Kier. The party is taking place at Kingston venue Assembly on Friday, March 21.
From event promoters Drew Frankel and Peter Himberger, Assembly takes on the former site of St. Joseph’s Catholic School to a newly reimagined live event space, determined to deliver fresh energy into the arts and music culture of the Valley.
On 30 and 31 December 2024, the Felice Brothers played a pair of packed concerts for the grand opening of Assembly in Kingston, New York. Formerly a school (St. Joseph’s Catholic School), the site has been reimagined as a live events space.
Since the 2020 shuttering of the much-loved BSP Kingston, the town’s Stockade district has been a tad sleepy on many nights and weekends. But that is all changing thanks to two music industry veterans who call the Hudson Valley home, Peter Himberger and Drew Frankel of Impact Concerts and Artist Management.
On December 30th and 31st, the Felice Brothers played a pair of packed concerts for the grand opening of Assembly—the former site of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, now reimagined as Kingston, NY’s newest live events space.
Assembly partner and co-founder Drew Frankel speaks with Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST’s morning show host Greg Gattine!
On the third floor of the former St. Joseph’s School now sits Assembly, a new venue seeking to cement its place in the city as a premier space for live music, shows, celebrations, and more.
Uptown Kingston is about to get a new place to assemble, both peaceably and at times perhaps boisterously. Just in time for 2025, new venue Assembly is opening on the top floor of the old St. Joseph’s School on Wall Street.
By December’s end, Uptown Kingston will have a new concert and event venue that caters to the needs of artists and audiences alike.
When it opens on Dec. 30, Assembly, which has a 485-person capacity, will be Kingston’s second-largest music venue, after the Ulster Performing Arts Center in midtown.
Last month brought the wonderful and welcome news about the unveiling of a new live music venue in Kingston’s Stockade district, a place to at last fill the mid-sized-nightclub void left by the closure of the late, lamented BSP.