Wild Woods Music and Arts Festival Returns for its Fifth Year in Croydon, NH at the Page Farm on Aug. 10 and 11.
Photo courtesy of press release.
The Wild Woods Music and Arts Festival aims to create a positive community centered around music, the arts, safety, and sustainability. This includes all things from the visual arts to the food provided along with the main attraction, the music.
The line up includes Lotus, Emancipator Ensemble, Pink Talking Fish and many others. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the festival’s website.
For more information on the Wild Woods Music and Arts Festival visit their website.
Color Me Badd lead singer Bryan Abrams allegedly pushed longtime bandmate Mark Calderon during a performance at Del Lago Casino on July 22. According to Seneca County Sheriff’s Office, the call came in at 9:15 and responding officers arrested Abrams for attempted assault in the third degree. Footage caught by fans show Calderon on stage with two dancers, singing the ’90s hit “I Wanna Sex You Up.” In the video, Calderon was thanking the crowd when Abrams entered from offstage and made contact with Calderon, who then fell to the floor of the stage. The Sheriff’s Office said that Calderon was transported to the local hospital for neck and back pain, where he was treated and released. Abrams is due to reappear in court on August 28 on this charge.
This weekend, the second annual Cobblestone Live will be taking place in Buffalo. Cobblestone is a fairly small festival, taking place in a single neighborhood and making use of the bars, restaurants, and venues that call it home. The festival’s stages are set up on the famous Illinois and Columbia Streets, as well as inside Lockhouse Distillery Buffalo Iron Works.
The lineup features some big names, such as the soulful Andy Frasco & the U.N., known for Frasco’s wild stage antics and soulful blues music, Brooklyn-based funk band Turkuaz, Broken Social Scene, and Buffalo natives Aqueous, the groove rock quartet that has spent the last two years touring the country relentlessly. Some smaller, more local bands are also featured, namely Space Junk, Cold Lazarus, First Ward, and Grateful Dead tribute band, Workingman’s Dead. Michelangelo Carubba of Turkuaz will be hosting a “Super Jam” on Saturday, July 28, which should be interesting to see, as they’ve yet to mention who will be included in the jam.
Cobblestone offers a wide variety of activities and vendors, including an alpaca farm on Saturday you should be sure to check out. Food vendors include Grateful Grind Coffee, Lloyd, Mazurek’s Bakery, Lugia’s, and Totally Edible. Lockhouse Distillery & Buffalo Iron Works will be providing festival drink menus. There will be several different vendors at the fest, including a tent for the Child Advocacy Center, an organization that provides treatment and support for kids in Erie County that have been physically or sexually abused. A portion of Cobblestone Live’s profits will be donated to the CAC.
Cobblestone Live is looking like a grand time, full of delicious food, drinks, and good music! Take a look at the daily lineup above to better plan out your Cobblestone experience. Check back with NYS Music for photos and coverage of the fest.
Christian Lopez, will once again return to Syracuse for a spectacular outdoor show at the home of Ed and Ellen Griffin Friday July 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Currently touring in support of his second album, Red Arrow, Lopez is quickly making a name for himself with his high energy soulful sound. Red Arrow features rock, pop and country vibes, featuring guest appearances by the legendary Vice Gill and Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids.
Last year over 100 people attended Christian Lopez’s first outdoor house show where he and his band rocked at a fast pace featuring songs from his first album, Onward, a preview of a few songs from Red Arrow, and great covers from Bill Withers and Levon Helm. This young man has been featured as one of Rolling Stone’s “Best Newcomers” and continues to collect fans as he makes his way across the nation.
For only $20, attendees are welcomed into a comfortable and beautiful home setting with food, drinks, and evening of amazing music in this private showing. For more information on how you can attend this year’s must-see performance, visit https://runsignup.com/Race/NY/EastSyracuse/ChristianLopezBandConcert.
Avenged Sevenfold frontman, M Shadows, posted on the band’s social media pages that he has come down with a serious vocal cord injury, forcing him and his band to cancel their upcoming “End of the World” tour featuring Prophets of Rage, Three Days Grace, and HO99O9.
It seems after the band returned from their run in Europe, Shadows suffered from a viral infection that left him voiceless. Swelling in his throat made it difficult for the doctors to see what exactly was wrong with Shadows. After some voice rest and steroids, the swelling went down and doctors discovered a blood blister on Shadows vocal cords making them unable to vibrate properly.
Feeling horrible about having to cancel the tour, M Shadows apologized to fans in the statement he posted on social media:
There is no good way to start out a note containing bad news but here it is.
After Europe I came down with a terrible viral infection that rendered me voiceless.
I tried my best to take care of the situation with voice rest, medication and doctor visits but my voice was only getting worse.
After a week of steroids the swelling went down enough to see the cause of the problem. A blood blister has formed on my vocal folds and is preventing them from vibrating properly. In short, I can’t sing anything at the moment and the more I attempt to the more damage is being done. Luckily, as of now the doctors feel that 3 months of no singing and voice rest should get my chords back on track.
Unfortunately, this means we will have to cancel all tour dates at the moment.
Decisions like this weigh on me very heavily. It’s a tour I was looking forward to very much. I want to apologize to the fans who have spent their time and money booking travel arrangements and accommodations. I also want to apologize to our crew and the other bands who were depending on this tour. None of these things are lost on me.
Just know that I have exhausted every possible solution in trying to get out there and perform for you. It just simply can’t happen at the moment.
We have a few things coming down the pipe soon that should be fun so we hope you look out for those. Again, I am deeply sorry and hope to see you all soon.
Metalocalypse cartoon series director, John Schnepp, passed away at the age of 51 on July 19 after suffering a massive stroke on July 12. Schnepp’s sister Deborah and his longtime partner Holly Payne, made the difficult decision to cease life support after learning that Schnepp’s brain had stopped functioning and he would never be the same.
During Schnepp’s career, the director also produced, wrote, and acted in several TV, web, and music videos. His career also included being an extra in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a writer on Aqua Team Hunger Force, an extra in Metallica’s music video “The Memory Remains,” and writing, directing and producing The Death of “Superman Lives: What Happened?.”
Schnepp’s partner Holly Payne released the following statement on Twitter:
It is with a broken heart that the Schnepp family and I must announce the passing of our beloved Jon Schnepp, who died peacefully on July 19, 2018.
Jon ultimately succumbed to the effects of a massive stroke. He had a blood clot removed from his left carotid artery, but the bleeding could not be stopped. Irreparable and catastrophic damage was caused to both hemispheres and all brain activity ceased. His sister Deborah and I had to make the difficult decision to take him off of life support. There was no possible way for him to recover. Please understand.
I spent the last hour of his life with him holding him, laying my head across his massive chest, kissing him, stroking his hair, playing his favorite songs, and telling him over and over again how much I love him. My life has been forever changed by Jon. I feel endlessly grateful to have shared 16 years of laughter, love and incredible adventures together, including the making a feature film, as well as a television series that I hope to complete and release later this year in his honor.
Jon’s mother Miriam, his father David, his sister Deborah and I are devastated beyond measure. We appreciate your love and support, and most importantly your understanding of our privacy at this time as we grieve.
Thank you, Holly Payne
There is a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for some of the bills that have occurred during this tragic time. The campaign has raised $125,875 towards the goal of $150,000.
Seedstock is back for its tenth annual event. The art and music festival started with a house show featuring a stage on the lawn and acoustic acts on the back porch of the farmhouse. Over the past decade, it has grown into three-day-long music festival in a natural amphitheater nestled between the rolling hills of Cortland. Among the 24 acts slated to play on the weekend of Aug. 3 are Sophistafunk, Root Shock and NYS Music 87/90 artist, Space Carnival.
The Tenth Annual Seedstock X includes two nights of camping, a late-night silent disco, art vendors, children’s activities, and organically grown fresh local food. Single day and weekend passes can be purchased on the festival’s website at www.SeedstockFest.com.
Tenth Annual Seedstock
Friday, Aug. 3
Sophistafunk
Root Shock
Skunk City
Molly and the Badly Bent Bluegrass Boys
Space Carnival
Ridgeline Duo
DJ Shannon M
Saturday, Aug. 4
The Unknown Jones
Digger Jones
The Unknown Woodsmen
The Blind Spots
Gunpoets
Thousands of One
Mike Powell and Black River
Small Town Shade
Gnosis
Charley Orlando
Denton Rex
Vintage Pretty
Von Barnes Band
Drums vs. DJs with Eman
Sunday, Aug. 5
The Neighbors
Dirty Blanket
Kitestring
Zachary Rowland
Colleen Kattau
Bess Greenberg
Phish just began their 2018 Summer Tour with a pair of shows at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Stateline, Nevada. Unlike most tours, if you can’t get tickets it doesn’t mean you can’t see Phish perform because they are live webcasting parts of their tour.
Photo courtesy of Phish’s website.
Phish is a jam band quartet from Vermont whose tours are widely anticipated by its large fan base. Not all of their performances will be live streamed but the ones that are can be viewed via LivePhish.com. The live webcast tour begins with the band’s upcoming run at The Gorge in George, Washington, July 20 – 22. The rest of the live cast performance dates can be found below.
A discounted “I Saw It Again” Summer Webcast Pass bundle is available for pre-order now here. In addition, an option for a The Gorge three-night pass can be purchased via LivePhish.com as well as single night passes for the individual webcasts. For more information visit their website.
Webcast tour dates:
July 20 – 22 – The Gorge – George, WA
July 27 – 28 – The Forum – Inglewood, CA
Aug. 3 – 5 – Verizon Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA
Aug. 11 – 12 – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD
Aug. 17 – 19 – Curveball festival – Watkins Glen, NY
Aug. 31 – Sept. 2 – Labor Day Weekend run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park – Commerce City, CO
Not ones to rest on their laurels, Intrepid Travelers are following up their successful Solstice Festival with the second leg of their summer tour. IT heads out to Ohio and Michigan next week, then double back to New York, hitting Jamestown, Geneva and Buffalo. Summer tour rounds out with performances at Night Lights Music Festival in Sherman on Aug. 23 and Beau Fleuve Music Festival in Buffalo on Aug. 26.
Intrepid Travelers Summer Tour 2018 Leg II:
July 25 – Woodlands Tavern – Columbus, OH **Ween Preparty & Afterparty
July 26 – The Knickerbocker – Grand Rapids, MI
July 28 – George’s – Canton, OH Aug. 3 – Mojo’s – Jamestown, NY
Aug. 4 – FLX – Geneva, NY
Aug. 7 – Larkin Square – Buffalo, NY
Aug. 23 – Night Lights Music Festival – Sherman, NY
Aug. 26 – Beau Fleuve Music Festival – Buffalo, NY
Buffalo native and current New Orleans resident, Ani DiFranco will perform at Syracuse’s Westcott Theater on Sept. 16 on her fall tour, Creative Concerts announced Tuesday.
Ani DiFranco
The folk singer-songwriter, activist, poet and entrepreneur released her 20th album, Binary, last year and is touring with a renewed vigor. DiFranco described a breakthrough moment that hit during the writing of the pro-choice anthem “Play God” from her latest album:
When I wrote the line ‘You don’t get to play God, man/I do,’ I paused and thought, ‘Can I say that?’ It’s not the first time I’ve thought that, but it’s been a while. And in that moment, I thought, ‘I’m back, mothafuckas!
Tickets for the all ages show are $35 in advance and $40 the day of the show. They go on sale Friday, July 20 at 10:00 through the Westcott’s website.
Peter Mulvey is the support act for this show. Mulvey wrote the song “Take Down Your Flag” following the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC in June 2015. After his first performance of the song opening for DiFranco in Northampton, MA, Mulvey put out an invitation to other artists to add verses. Mulvey’s introduction video is below, followed by DiFranco’s version, where she is accompanied by Ivan Neville and Terrance Higgins.
Ani DiFranco Fall Tour:
Sept. 15 – Grand Point North Festival – Burlington, VT Sept. 16 – Westcott Theater – Syracuse, NY
Sept. 28 – Lyric Theatre – Birmingham, AL
Sept. 29 – Center Stage Theater – Atlanta, GA
Sept. 30 – The NorVa – Norfolk, VA
Oct. 1 – The Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA Oct. 3 – Le Poisson Rouge – New York, NY
Oct. 5 – Somerville Theatre – Somerville, MA Oct. 6 – Bardavon 1869 Opera House – Poughkeepsie, NY
Nov. 4 – Delta Hall at Eccles Theater – Salt Lake City, UT
Nov. 6 – Vancouver Playhouse – Vancouver, BC
Nov. 8 – The Neptune – Seattle, WA
Nov. 9 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
Nov. 10 – McDonald Theatre – Eugene, OR
Nov. 12 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
Nov. 14 – Palace Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
Nov. 15 – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
Nov. 17 – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX
Nov. 18 – Emo’s Austin – Austin, TX
Nov. 19 – House of Blues – New Orleans, LA
Check out DiFranco’s Tiny Desk Concert from last year below:
