Maverick Concerts - Behind the scenes of Hudson Valley’s oldest music venue - by HV1
“Founded in 1915, Maverick Concerts off Maverick Road in West Hurley boasts of being the oldest, continuous summer chamber-music festival in America, “celebrating over a century of world-class music in the woods.”
The barn-like, rectangular building with its gambrel roof was built by hand as part of the Maverick colony in 1916 by the utopian writer Hervey White, one of the three founders (with Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and Bolton Brown) of the Byrdcliffe art colony in the hills above the Woodstock hamlet. All three founders are buried in the artists’ cemetery. .
With a roof of wood shingles and a frame of heavy timber, to which the walls — sheaths of wide planks — were nailed directly, the wooden construction and luminous acoustics create an environment perfectly suited to the intimacy of live chamber music.”