By DAVID LEE
HUDSON—Standing at the nucleus of the city of Hudson, the First Presbyterian Church located on 4th and Warren Street, endeavors to be at the center of the cultural environment that blooms in Hudson. The church has inaugurated a new event series they are calling the Melting Pot, combining music and state of the art gastronomy on an approximate bimonthly schedule.
Event organizer Danette Gorman says of the series that it will attract people to visit this historic building which was built in 1837 and remodeled in 1877 with assistance from no less than the famous landscape painter Fredric Edwin Church. Gorman also touts the church’s excellent acoustics—as good or better than anywhere in Hudson. But mainly, she says, it provides a chance to bring people together for wholesome, family-friendly fun.
The 6 p.m. concert on April 13 featured the “chamber pop” music of singer songwriter Stephen Bluhm whose performance came after visitors had enjoyed a meal of two different soups and sourdough bread, the creation of Leah Guadagnoli who has a farm in Hillsdale and hosts Fancy Feast Supper Club pop-up vegetarian dinners around the region. Musician Bluhm is releasing his second album “Out of Nowhere Into the Here” on April 19.
