Alynda Segarra has spent close to two decades pulling folk music somewhere new — somewhere stranger, angrier, and more tender than the genre usually allows. As Hurray For The Riff Raff, they fold punk grit and Puerto Rican identity into Americana that never sits still, and on Wednesday, June 17, that restless catalog lands at Bearsville Theater in Woodstock. For a songwriter this committed to reinvention, a room with Bearsville’s history is exactly the right size.
About Hurray For The Riff Raff
Segarra was born in the Bronx, the child of a Puerto Rican family, and left home at seventeen to ride freight trains and hitchhike across the country before landing in New Orleans, where Hurray For The Riff Raff took shape in 2007. That wandering is baked into the songwriting — folk and country bones wrapped around punk urgency and questions of identity, justice, and belonging. The band’s 2024 album The Past Is Still Alive, released on Nonesuch and produced by Brad Cook, drew some of the strongest reviews of Segarra’s career, and a live document of that record, Live Forever, followed in 2026. The Woodstock date sits early in a summer run that carries the band through the Northeast and beyond.
The Venue
Bearsville Theater sits just outside the village of Woodstock, on grounds that have been tangled up with the area’s recording history for half a century. It’s an intimate, sound-first room — the kind of place where a band built on dynamics and lyrics gets heard rather than swallowed. Woodstock’s audiences have always leaned toward artists willing to take a risk onstage, which makes this an easy fit. The theater is part of the broader Hudson Valley live-music scene, a corner of the state that keeps drawing songwriters who’d rather connect than perform to the back row.
Tickets & Details
Hurray For The Riff Raff plays Bearsville Theater on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with doors and start time set for 8:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now; check current pricing and availability at the link below.
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