Greater Mysteries unfold at the Widow Jane Mine
Over a century, the cement that supported the building of landmarks across the country including the Brooklyn Bridge, Erie Canal and Statue of Liberty came from mines right over in Rosendale.
While the cement industry may have left, what remains – the Widow Jane Mine – has become a performance space unique to the Hudson Valley, thanks to the site’s idyllic cavernous acoustics, dappled with an occasional drip from its subterranean condensation (and an always a cool 55-degrees, even in the summer).
On Saturday night, Greater Mysteries, an immersive music project and participatory ritual performance will envelope the Widow Jane Mine and take audiences on “a journey of descent, transformation, and return.”
“These are not traditional concerts,” says artist Kelli Scarr. “but living rites of passage – spaces where the boundary between artist and audience dissolves, and music becomes a vessel for personal and communal transformation.”
According Scarr, Greater Mysteries is a collaborative, intergenerational music performance project rooted in ancient myth and shaped by contemporary ritual and community co-creation. Inspired by timeless journeys to the underworld and the cycle of transformation, it invites audiences into a shared experience through immersive sound, movement, storytelling, and collective ritual.
“In a time of deep cultural change, it offers an opportunity to gather, to listen, and to remember what it means to be human – together.”
Greater Mysteries at Widow Jane Mine
Friday, September 26 and Saturday September 27, 2025 at 6pm
Widow Jane Mine, 668 NY-213, Rosendale
Cost of admission: $44
www.greatermysteries.com
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