Vogue: How to Navigate Upstate Art Weekend
Botton, who has called Kingston home for 11 years, was thrilled when a former Catholic girls’ school was converted into Assembly, a local events and coworking space that hosts concerts and offers Pilates and ecstatic-dance classes. Botton plans to attend the July 18 Upstate Art Weekend party, which doubles as an abortion-rights benefit. “It’s a lovely setting, and the acoustics are primo,” Botton says. “Normally it’s a little sleepy around here, but Assembly has been helping to change that.”
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The Daily Catch: In Post-Pandemic World, Kingston’s Music Scene Comes Roaring Back
When Peter Himberger and Drew Frankel stepped into an old Catholic schoolhouse in Kingston’s historic Uptown for the first time in 2021, the pandemic had devastated the city’s music scene… Three years later, on New Year’s Eve, inside the schoolhouse’s former multipurpose auditorium, they debuted Assembly with two sold-out nights featuring the American folk rock band The Felice Brothers.
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NY Times: 36 Hours in the Hudson Valley, N.Y.
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.
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NY Times: Among the Innies
“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.
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Eater: Turn Up the Defiant Jazz — The ‘Severance’ Catskills Restaurant Stars Are Hosting a Finale Screening Party
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.
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NYS Music: Assembly: The Hudson Valley’s Newest Live Performance Venue
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.
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Auditoria: Live performance hub opens in Kingston, NY
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.
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INSIDE+OUT: Assembly Brings World-Class Entertainment and New Vitality to Uptown Kingston
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.
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AV Network: WSDG Helps Bring 'Inspiring Sound' to Hudson Valley’s Newest Performance Hub
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.
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Radio Woodstock: Assembly's Drew Frankel on Radio Woodstock with Greg Gattine
Assembly partner and co-founder Drew Frankel speaks with Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST’s morning show host Greg Gattine!
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Daily Freeman: Assembly seeks to be Kingston’s next premier event venue
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.
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HV1: Kingston’s new 450-capacity music venue Assembly debuts with two nights of Felice Brothers
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.
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Kingston Wire: For a Revival of Live Music in Uptown, Some Assembly Required
By December’s end, Uptown Kingston will have a new concert and event venue that caters to the needs of artists and audiences alike.
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Times Union: Upstate’s newest music venue opens later this month
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.
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Chronogram: Assembly Set to Open in Kingston Next Month
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.
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