NYS Music 202​0

Category: Upcoming Shows

  • moe. Announces Additional Drive-In shows in late October

    moe. has announced additional shows to go along with their two nights at Yarmouth Drive-In in Yarmouth, MA later this month. They’ll hit Chesire Fairgrounds in Swanzey, NH on October 22 and South Farms in Morris, CT on October 25, in addition to the Cape Cod shows held in between on October 23 and 24. 

    moe. Drive-In

    moe. is a well known and loved jam band that formed at the University at Buffalo in 1989. Made up of band members Rob Derhak, Al Schnier, Chuck Garvey, Vinnie Amico, and Jim Loughlin, the band has been around for three decades and is known for their “mind-bending” sound that gives them an edge in creating mesmerizing musical synergy, unfettered showmanship, and smart, resonant songcraft that makes them unique to the jam band scene. Some of their most well known songs are “Nebraska,” “Silver Sun,” and “Okayalright.” 

    Tickets for the just announced New Hampshire and Connecticut shows are on sale now. moe. Yarmouth Drive-in exclusive pre-sale tickets went on sale on September 10 via the Yarmouth Drive-In’s website.

    Yarmouth Drive-in near Cape Code will be following safety procedures to keep guests safe. People will be required to park in spots with 10ft between them and other vehicles and there is marked out 6ft distancing in anywhere there will be queue of people. Any time people leave their vehicle they will be required to wear a mask and there will be contactless entry where tickets will be scannable on guests phones at the entrance. Concessions will also be available to order via an app telling purchasers when their food is ready making it so crowds aren’t waiting for food. There will be backstage testing and temperature checks for all of the staff as well. The full list of safety guidelines can be found here.

    After the moe. Miracle Mile Drive-In concert was cancelled by venue management on July 29 due to safety concerns just days before the event was supposed to take place. There were many concerns with out of control shows in NY like the Chainsmokers performance which created this need for extensive safety guidelines. The extensive safety guidelines Yarmouth Drive-in have implemented will hopefully keep the show going. 

    For more information visit moe.’s website.

  • PearlPalooza Music Festival Goes Virtual for Their 2020 Celebration

    PearlPalooza Music Festival will go virtual for their 2020 celebration on September 19. It will feature exclusive performances, interviews, and more. PearlPalooza will be free and available to everyone via live-stream. 

    PearlPalooza

    PearlPalooza generally takes place on Pearl Street in downtown Albany. The festival hosts musical performances, food, and more and organizers calculated that in 2019 over 10,000 people attended the festivities. This year’s Virtual PearlPalooza is presented by 102.7 WEQX – The REAL Alternative, Sugar Productions, Downtown Albany, New York BID, The Hollow Bar + Kitchen, High Peaks Event Production, and media sponsor Albany.com. 

    Although this year is being presented on the virtual cloud it will still bring that community feeling by being live streamed in restaurants throughout downtown Albany. People can enjoy the music and PearlPalooza specials while enjoying a drink or meal at The City Beer Hall which opens at 4:00 PM, Dawn’s Victory Sports Cafe which open at 4:00 PM, The Excelsior Pub, Far Shot Albany, The Hollow Bar + Kitchen, Loch & Quay, Parish Public House, Pearl Street Pub, and The Yard Hatchet House & Bar which opens at 4:00 PM. For those looking to stay home it will also stream it on live on 102.7 WEQX Facebook page.

    This year’s Virtual PearlPalooza will feature performances from some of Albany’s favorite musicians. The performances will start with a performance from MIRK at 1:00 PM. Then Victory Soul Orchestra will take the virtual stage at 2:15PM. The Wild Adriatic will then perform at 3:30PM. Then wrapping up the live performances Eastbound Jesus will take the stage 4:45PM.

    PearlPalooza is teaming up with MVP Health Care to present YogaPalooza 2020 on September 19, 2020 at 11AM. People can join for a free, socially-distanced outdoor yoga class celebrating wellness and community at two Downtown locations. On the lawn at the SUNY System Administration Building at 353 Broadway and at Tricentennial Park at Broadway & Columbia Street.

    For more information on the virtual 2020 PearlPalooza Music Festival visit Downtown Albany’s website.

  • CHQ Assembly Announces Fall Programming

    CHQ Assembly announced their fall programming including lots of musical programming. The programming will start in September and will wrap up in November. The CHQ Assembly programming will be posted on the CHQ Assembly’s website.

    CHQ Assembly

    The CHQ Assembly is a digital outlet of Chautauqua Institution which is a nonprofit organization that exists to explore the best in human values and the enrichment of life. The Assembly has some free content but also offers a subscription program for $3.99 a month or $45 a year after a 90 day free trial. People interested can subscribe here. Subscribers to the CHQ Assembly Video Platform will have year-round access to nearly all our 2020 broadcasts. People can revisit their favorite programs, or catch up with ones they missed over the course of CHQ Assembly’s jam-packed nine-week summer assembly season. The programs try to focus on exploring critical issues of the day through a range of experiences including lectures, artistic experiences, master and enrichment courses, and conversations.

    The musical programming starts on September 15 at 12PM with a release of 2020 Piano Recitals featuring Gavrylyuk, Kobrin, Paremski, Buechner, Taylor, Zhu and many more. On October 1 there will be a Lecture by Grammy Award-winning Violinist Nicola Benedetti speaking on the impact of music education and to inspire us through music.. On October 6 at 12PM there will be an DEAs in Classical Music series. This four-part series of conversations on inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility will explore issues in the classical music industry. And then in November with a to be determined date and time there will be a premiere of Chautauqua Opera Company’s A Cappella Song Cycle. This is a three-month project featuring 2020 Chautauqua Opera Company Young Artists and created by Composer-in-Residence Frances Pollock and librettist Jerre Dye.

    For more information on the CHQ Assembly programming visit their website. 

  • Disco Biscuits Make it a Long Weekend at the Drive-in

    Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks is famous for the saying “Let’s play two!” Well, The Disco Biscuits have decided to “play four” and have added two more shows to their weekend stay at the Yarmouth Drive-in on Cape Cod. After the first two shows scheduled for October 16 and 17 sold out in under an hour earlier this week, shows for the 18th and 19th are now scheduled as well.

    Tickets are on sale now at yarmouthdrivein.com. Tickets will also be available the night of show at the gate, subject to availability. Each ticket will cover one car with up to four people in it each night. They will range from $165 to $300 depending on the parking spot. Fans with more than four guests in their vehicle can purchase additional tickets. Those are capped at three tickets for $40 each.

    Disco Biscuits Drive-in
    The Disco Biscuits

    Ticket seeekers should join the Cape Club at yarmouthdrivein.com for the latest news about upcoming attractions, and first access to tickets. The Yarmouth Drive-in on Cape Cod is located at 669 Route 28, West Yarmouth, MA. The venue is acting as a haven for live music right now with other upcoming performances scheduled for the likes of Marcus King Band, Pink Talking Fish and Goose.

    These performances at the Yarmouth Drive-in will be the Disco Biscuits’ only shows for the remainder of 2020. Aside from a one-set performance in June at an empty Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia , they have not taken the stage since beginning the year with three shows at the Riviera Theater in Chicago.

  • Indie Groove Band Goose Announce Two Social Distancing Shows at South Farms

    Groovy, Connecticut based jam-band, Goose, is excited to announce two socially distant concerts at South Farms in Morris, CT on Sept 16 and 17.

    Goose South Farms
    Cover art poster for Goose concerts at South Farms.

    Unlike many shows being held during the pandemic, these shows will not be drive-in, rather have designated grids for the audience.

    The group started their winter of 2020 tour at Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan and then at the Williamsburg Hall of Fame, selling out both shows. They, unfortunately, could not play their spring concerts due to COVID.

    Goose hails from Norwalk, CT. In the band is, Rick Mitarotonda (vocals, guitar), Peter Anspach (vocals, keyboards/guitar), Trevor Bass (bass), and Ben Atkind (drums). Their eclectic tunes come from growing up together and sharing their love of music and story telling.

    Tickets are on presale now. General tickets go up Sept. 4 at 10 a.m.

  • Marco Benevento Announces Socially Distanced Concert at MASS MoCa

    Marco Benevento, known for being a experimental rock musician, is set to take the stage September 12 for a social distancing concert at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCa).

    American pianist, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer Marco Benevento.

    Benevento has been a well known pianist in the New York experimental jazz scene since 1999. His career lead him to collaborate with other musicians such as, Matt Chamberlain and John McEntire. He was nominated for the Jazz Album of the Year at the Independent Music Awards in 2008. His most recent en devour was creating his own record label called, “The Royal Potato Family,” along with manager Kevin Calabro. His latest studio album was created using his label, Let it Slide.

    MASS MoCa is museum & performing arts center that highlights the work of contemporary artists in particular and has been open since 1999. It resides in an old factory in North Adams, MA and is considered one of the leading contemporary art museums. They host visual arts, performances, and educational programs year round.

    Although he normally plays with band mates, Karina Rykman and Dave Butler, this performance is a solo act. The show goes on at 7:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.

    For more information on Marco Benevento and his upcoming performance at MASS MoCa visit their website.

  • Hamilton Leithauser Announced Virtual Record Release Party

    Hamilton Leithauser announced his record release party will be held on a virtual platform for his upcoming record, Live! at Café Carlyle LP. The record release party is taking place on September 12, at 8PM EST.

    Hamilton Leithauser is an american singer-songwriter best known for being the lead vocalist of the American indie rock band The Walkmen. He is also widely known for his solo work like “A 1000 Times” and “Here They Come” His newest record, Live! at Café Carlyle LP, was recorded at New York City’s landmark Café Carlyle in January 2020. The Café Carlyle is known for being a luxurious, mural-lined cabaret venue at the Carlyle Hotel. It’s a high end establishment with a dress code and is known for having many celebrity appearances and originally opened in 1955.

    The record release party will be broadcasted from Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY where Hamilton Leithauser will be performing the album. Levon Helm Studios was established in 1975 and is famously known as an american studio and venue founded by Levon Helm who is widely known as the drummer and one of the vocalists in The Band who played Woodstock back in 1969. Tickets to the record release show can be bought here are available now and are $15 now and $20 on the day of the show. 

    For more information visit Hamilton Leithauser’s website.

  • SummerStage Jubilee Benefit Announced by the City Parks Foundations

    SummerStage Jubilee was announced by City Parks Foundations to benefit free programming in the park. The benefit will take place on September 17, 2020 at 8PM across different virtual platforms. The benefit will include performances from big names like Sting, Norah Jones, and Trey Anastasio and an appearance from Billie Jean King.

    The 2020 SummerStage Jubilee Benefit Concert will help support the free parks programs and ensure they can continue. The City Parks Foundation is the largest presenter of free arts and cultural programs in New York City parks. They serve 300,000 New Yorkers each year through arts, education, sports and community building initiatives. The fundraising being done through the SummerStage Jubilee event will help fund free tennis and golf instruction, experiential, science-based lessons, buying tools and bulbs for volunteers to beautify local parks, providing training, microgrants, and coaching to facilitate their local advocacy. Donations will also help ensure SummerStage, New York City’s largest free music festival, and SummerStage Anywhere, its virtual festival, will remain free and available to all New Yorkers. At a time when public programs have been upended, destroyed, and cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s parks have remained open as some of the only public assets available to all still in these trying times. 

     David Barse, City Parks Foundation Board Chairman spoke about the SummerStage Jubilee Benefit Concert saying,  “This benefit concert will help support the important work that the City Parks Foundation does in every community, park and green space we serve in New York City. Although the concert is free, as is our usual SummerStage festival, we hope that viewers will feel motivated to support our work and make donations to keep that work going during these challenging times.”

    The benefit will last an hour and will highlight the various City Parks Foundation programs. SummerStage Jubilee will feature musical performances by Sting, Norah Jones, Trey Anastasio, Rufus Wainwright, Leslie Odom Jr., Rosanne Cash, Emily King, PJ Morton and others to be announced on top of notable advocates for CPF’s work including tennis icon BillieJean King.

    https://youtu.be/BQE9IqKPMAA

    The benefit festival can be viewed  across all SummerStage social platforms (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Twitch) via live stream on Thursday, September 17 at 8PM EST. Donations can be made on the SummerStage website.

    For more information on the event visit the City Park Foundations website.

  • Get “Wrapped In The Round” with Umphrey’s McGee

    Umphrey’s McGee has announced a new take on the virtual concert experience. The two day concert, dubbed “Wrapped In The Round,” will feature all six members performing live on September 2 & 3 at 9 p.m. ET.

    Wrapped In The Round
    Umphrey’s McGee performing at The Stone Pony Summer Stage
    Asbury Park, NJ

    Stepping away from a traditional setlist, Umphrey’s McGee is bringing the fans to the stage. With every concert ticket purchase fans will be able to submit a Stew Art (S2) idea that will then be selected at random by band members throughout the two nights.

    Stew Art has became Umphrey’s unique way of connecting with fans. Deviating from the traditional song request, S2 allows fans to test the band’s improvisation skills live (past examples have included “Afternoon bus ride in Jamaica,” “Barry White love letter,” and “Flamenco Metal”). 

    The members of Umphrey’s have satisfied fans during the pandemic with both group and individual live streams. Brendan Bayliss‘ “Wine Not” stream as well as Joel Cummins‘ “Live From The Living Room” became a weekly engagement for many fans everywhere, and both recently took part in virtual music festival Quarantine Comes Alive.

    More recently, the band saw huge success with a set of intimate stripped down “Live in The Boondocks” concerts. Both “Live in The Boondocks” and “Wrapped in the Round” were filmed with assistance of TourGigs.

    Additional details on ticketing and opportunities to submit additional S2 themes are available at umphreys.com.

  • Start Making Sense to Perform at Jericho Drive-In

    Start Making Sense announced their plans to perform at the Jericho Drive-In Glenmont, NY on August 28, 2020 at 7PM. The show will follow social distancing guidelines with attendees staying in their cars and will be followed by a showing of the film The Big Lebowski at 9PM.

    Start Making Sense is a Talking heads tribute band that even Bernie Worrel, the keyboardist for Talking Heads and a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member, thinks the band does a great job recreating the Talking Heads’ music. Worrel said, “To all you listeners… This is an appropriate title — Start Making Sense. This band makes plenty of sense to me, and is a great representation of Talking Heads’ music. So listen up and go check them out!” 

    Tickets are on sale now here and include three different tiers of pricing according to the tiers of parking. Advance pricing on the first three rows will cost $80 a car load. Rows four through six are for sale for $70 a car load with the advance pricing. And lastly rows seven through thirteen will cost $60 per car load with the advance pricing. Each car load can have up to four people at that price with an additional $10 more per person over 4 to be paid at the gate. Day of show pricing is an additional $10 more per vehicle. Doors open at 6PM. 

    For more information on Start Making Sense visit their website. For more information on the show visit the Jericho Drive-In’s website.