Body & SOUL Catskills

There's always the guarantee of noise. The past 50‑some years have seen New York's cultural cachet transform from secret in‑group knowledge to being co‑opted by instagram‑scrolling 20‑somethings. New York is so spoiled with life, teeming with people, ideas and kineticism that idioms, genres and whole ways of being are synthesized rapidly and then inevitably forgotten save for the chosen few.

Trends come and go; what was once tectonic can become a stale flavor of the month. Who else wants a bite bigger than they can chew? Who else wants to feel something real and alive? From the start, these three were there. Through storied clubs of New York's de facto dance music Hall Of Fame, to studios, record shops and 5th‑floor walkups, Danny Krivit, Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell and François K. have been there. Very few can say the same.

As this trio have seen the tides of taste change across R&B, Rock, Disco, House, Techno and Hip Hop, they’ve acted as a throughline conveying the sacred and the profane, the personal and the public. Both preservers of dance culture’s history and active participants in its contemporary form, Body & SOUL has been a resolute fixture of authenticity and egoless abandon for decades. After celebrating a proper 30th Anniversary in Brooklyn this July, Body & SOUL will finally take the up north trip to Locust Grove.