The New York Guitar Festival has added Grammy-winning guitarist Warren Haynes to the already packed line up for ‘Reverend Gary Davis: In Search of the Harlem Street Singer’. Slated to be a virtually accessible twelve song series, NYGF will release one video performance on their Youtube channel nightly at 4 PM EDT.
Listen to the full collection of audio recordings from Reverend Gary Davis: In Search of the Harlem Street Singer––as debuted yesterday on WNYC’s “New Sounds”––HERE.
While access is free, organizers are asking viewers that can, to make donations to MusiCares. Started by The Recording Academy’s MusicCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, their goal is to help the music communities affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Listen below to Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal performing ‘Tryin To Get Home’
‘Reverend Gary Davis: In Search of the Harlem Street Singer’ Program Schedule
Westchester’s Jessica Lynn is asking you to take a stand with her behind our women veterans at a benefit concert at The Winery at Saint George in Mohegan Lake on March 11.
Prior to her upcoming five month European/UK/USA tour, Jessica Lynn returns to the beautiful and historic Winery at Saint George where she filmed her first Public Television Special to raise funds for a good cause.
Currently seen nationwide across America in her three full length PBS television specials, and with two Top 50 Country Radio singles under her belt along with years of international touring, Jessica has performed with some of the most recognizable names in country music such as Loretta Lynn, Keith Urban, Jo Dee Messina, and ZZ Top among others. Amidst all of her success, she has continually returned home to benefit her local community. A constant driving force behind charitable efforts for children, our military, and the arts at local schools, hospitals, and major venues, it’s important to Jessica to always stay true and close to her roots. Jessica is partnering with the incredible Barbara Giordano Foundation for this event whose mission is committed to the personal and professional growth of women veterans.
Women who served in the US Military have unique needs for healthcare, housing, employment and childcare in addition to needs shared with their male colleagues. The foundation exists as a holistic resource bringing together business, education, wellness and military community members to provide women who serve with opportunities for long term economic independence and personal empowerment. Ticket Sales as well as all pre-show fundraising initiatives will go towards the cause. Prior to the concert at 8:00 p.m., The Winery will open its doors at 6:00 p.m. for silent auctions, raffles, wine grabs, and a special VIP option that includes a pre-show meet and greet in Jessica’s dressing room around 7:00 p.m., a free autographed CD from Jessica, front row seats, and a complimentary glass of wine.
For more information on both Jessica Lynn and The Barbara Giordano Foundation, as well as to purchase tickets, please visit www.JessicaLynnMusic.org
Trey Anastasio adds to an already busy summer of Oysterhead and Phish with three additional orchestra performances in June. In addition to the previously announced performance on June 20 at Tanglewood with the Boston Pops, Anastasio joins the National Symphony Orchestra on June 17 in Washington D.C., the Philadelphia Orchestra on June 23, and the North Carolina Symphony on June 26 in Raleigh.
Saratoga Springs’s new venue, Universal Preservation Hall, will have its first full month of shows in March, ranging from jazz to comedy to an evening with the celebrity housewives. The venue is a former 1871 Methodist church which has been renovated into a state-of-the-art performance facility.
Universal Preservation Hall Press Photo.
The March lineup will start on the 4th with Sounds of the Hall which will be an evening of jazz music from Chuck Lamb and Friends and the Dylan Perrillo Orchestra. The schedule will wrap up on the 27th with Joey Alexander who is the youngest musician to ever be nominated for a Grammy Award® in a jazz category. There will be performances from a family circus, the Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame Ceremony, an award winning Broadway actress, and many more acts.
Universal Preservation Hall Press Photo.
For more information or tickets visit the Universal Preservation Hall’s website. Tickets are also available by phone at 518- 881- 4500 or at the Box Office at 25 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs.
Full venue lineup bellow:
Sounds of the Hall
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4. The Great Hall at UPH, $20.
Sounds of the Hall opens the month with an evening of jazz music from Chuck Lamb and Friends and the Dylan Perrillo Orchestra.
Louie Anderson Live!
8 p.m. Thursday, March 5. The Great Hall at UPH, $29.50 – $69.50.
Stand-up comedian and star of the show Baskets, Louie Anderson, will bring many laughs to The Great Hall at UPH.
An Evening with Chris Botti
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6. The Great Hall at UPH, $79.50 – $179.50.
Grammy Award® winner for Best Pop Instrumental Album, Chris Botti will enchant UPH patrons with his trumpet playing.
An Evening with the Celebrity Housewives
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7. The Great Hall at UPH, $30 – $109.50.
Don’t miss Brandy Glanville, Carole Manzo and Caroline Radziwill as they discuss their sensational personal lives, cherished families, amazing businesses and how fame changed their lives forever.
The Marvelous Marquise Family Circus
2 p.m. Sunday, March 8. The Great Hall at UPH, $10.
Think you know circus? Think Again! The Contemporary Circus & Immersive Arts Center presents a unique family unlike you’ve met before.
Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame Ceremony
6 p.m. Monday, March 9. The Great Hall at UPH, $50.
A member of the Grand Ole Opry, a woman who founded an iconic American coffeehouse and two local connections to MTV are among the six 2020 inductees.
Megan Hilty
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13. The Great Hall at UPH, $32.50 – $109.50.
Known for her role as Ivy Lynn on NBC’s Smash, Megan Hilty brings her Tony-Award® nominated talent to the Saratoga.
Howard Jones Acoustic Trio presented by Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14. The Great Hall at UPH, $29.50 – $69.50.
This show will provide the opportunity for the audience to hear first-hand about the inspiration behind Howard Jones’ beloved material as well as stories from his touring career.
Irish Hooley with the Screaming Orphans
7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 15. The Great Hall at UPH, $25.
These four sisters from County Donegal, Ireland are bringing the party to Saratoga on St. Patrick’s Weekend with a good old-fashioned Irish Hooley.
Rochmon Record Club presents: Paul Simon’s “Graceland”
7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. The Great Hall at UPH, $25.
The Rochmon Record Club will converge to listen and learn about Paul Simon’s 7th solo album “Graceland” which feature some of Simon’s most beloved songs.
One Night in Memphis
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20. The Great Hall at UPH, $30 – $65.
This rocking concert tribute pays homage to legendary Sun Records recording artists Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
Journeyman
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21. The Great Hall at UPH, $19.50 – $39.50.
Fronted by Shaun Hague, Journeyman is the only nationally touring tribute to Eric Clapton.
Joey Alexander
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27. The Great Hall at UPH, $39.50 – $89.50.
Don’t miss the youngest musician to ever be nominated for a Grammy Award® in a jazz category.
NYC’s Peak are off to a hot start in 2020 and in full gear during their winter tour. Following the release of full set video from their Brooklyn Bowl show in October, they recently released Hot Clips Volume 2, the second installment in our live series with selected tracks from fall and early winter tours, featuring new songs and some of their hand-picked favorite jams from the road.
Nicole Mercedes, the Brooklyn-based dream-pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, has shared the debut single “Stoop” from her sophomore album Look Out Where You’re Going, due in April 2020.
Mercedes tells Atwood Magazine about the meaning of the track, saying, “This is a song about embracing the feeling of loneliness, about those summer nights where all you’re looking for is a distraction, and a rotating door of friends and strangers to drink with, talk with, make out with. The stoop is my favorite place to do that because things are constantly happening around you and you can kind of just sit there drinking some wine in your slippers, passively being a part of the landscape.”
The forthcoming album is a collaboration with producer Joe Rogers (Laura Stevenson, Rubblebucket) and Deer Tick’s Andy T. Mercedes performs all compositions and arrangements on the LP, and with Rogers has created a sound that is both equally pop and haunting all at once. Mercedes’ previous projects include Debbie Downer and Flocke, but her solo endeavor sets forth a whole new era of lush, cinematic, sex-positive, feminist, self-aware songs.
Mercedes performs next at The Sultan Room on March 19 in Brooklyn. Get tickets here.
On Wednesday, April 1, The Strand Theater in Hudson Falls will welcome Twiddle frontman Mihali Savoulidis, with a special guest yet to be announced. Mihali has a long history performing in the greater Capital Region, both with Twiddle and solo side projects that have sold out Putnam Place and Pearl Street Pub in the last year. The show is part of the A.I.M. for Spring Concert Series, presented by ADK Music Festival.
The Decemberists have announced dates for their 20th anniversary summer tour, including a performance at Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards in Lafayette on August 15 and Central Park Summer Stage on August 20.
The group, who first formed in 2000 in Portland, Oregon, will embark on a summer tour headed from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast, with a final stop at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on August 22.
“Twenty years ago, in a basement practice space in Portland, Oregon, a bunch of musicians threw together under the name The December Brides, a name that lasted only a few hours before it was marginally improved to The Decemberists,” says the band’s frontman Colin Meloy. “On such occasions, it seems fitting to throw some kind of party. And so we’re heading out on the road, we Decemberists, to celebrate the work we’ve made over the last two decades.” For more information and tickets visit decemberists.com.
The Decemberists 20th Anniversary National Tour Dates
Jul. 28 – KettleHouse Amphitheater – Missoula, MT
Jul. 29 – Paramount Theater – Seattle, WA
Jul. 31 – Edgefield – Troutdale, OR
Aug. 1 – Edgefield – Troutdale, OR
Aug. 3 – The Mountain Winery – Saratoga, CA
Aug. 4 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
Aug. 6 – Gallivan Center -Twilight Concert Series – Salt Lake City, UT
Aug. 7 – The Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO
Aug. 8 – CrossroadsKC – Kansas City, MO
Aug. 10 – Surly Brewing Co – Minneapolis, MN
Aug. 11 – Auditorium Theatre – Chicago, IL
Aug. 14 – Roy Thompson Hall – Toronto, ON
Aug. 15 – Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards – La Fayette, NY
Aug. 16 – Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts – Vienna, VA
Aug. 18 – The Met Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
Aug. 19 – The Boch Center-Shubert Theatre – Boston, MA
Phish frontman Trey Anastasio will perform 10 shows from late May into early June across the Northeast and into the Midwest. Trey Anastasio Band will headline nine of the dates, and will then share the bill with Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit at Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands PAC in Canandaigua. Tickets are on sale Friday, February 21 at Trey.com/tour.
Trey recently performed at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester in January, and will perform at Tanglewood in June with the Boston Pops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ajag-DJ8
Trey Anastasio Band Summer Tour
May 22 – MECU Pavilion – Baltimore, MD
May 23 – Stone Pony Summerstage – Asbury Park, NJ
May 24 – Stone Pony Summerstage – Asbury Park, NJ
May 26 – The Strand – Providence, RI
May 28 – Thompson’s Point – Portland, ME
May 29 – Mountain Jam – Bethel, NY
May 30 – Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands PAC – Canandaigua, NY*
June 2 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI
June 5 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
June 6 – Jacob’s Pavilion at Nautica – Cleveland, OH
On February 28, 2018, at 4:00 am, drummer John Colpitts was nearly killed. Colpitts, a founding member of Oneida and a prolific Brooklyn percussionist also known as Kid Millions and Man Forever, was in Los Angeles traveling to the airport when he was involved in an accident. His car was struck at high speed and the accident was so serious that it took him out of commission for five months before he eventually picked up his drumsticks and returned to his instrumental passion.
Two years later to the day, Roulette will present the US premiere of a narrative performance by Colpitts that explores pain, recovery, transcendence and a return to life and art. Known for his intense playing style and fervent live performances, Colpitts will perform solo with drums, adopting the modes of Laurie Anderson and Spalding Gray to evoke the question: How does one truly recover from an accident when your body is changed forever?
With drums and narration from John Colpitts and directed by Mark Armstrong, the performance at Roulette starts at 8pm on Friday, February 28, 2020. Marking the US premiere of this narrative performance, Colpitts explores the car accident that nearly ended his life and its aftermath. Tickets are available .
A composer, drummer, writer, and educator based in Brooklyn, John Colpitts performs under the moniker Man Forever and Kid Millions. Named one of the 100 Greatest Drummers in Alternative Music by Spin Magazine in 2001, he founded and plays drums in Oneida, People of the North, and Man Forever.
Founded in 1978 at the height of the NYC downtown experimental arts revolution, Roulette Intermedium is now a state-of-the-art performing arts venue, presenter, and producer of new and experimental music, dance, and intermedia. In 2011, Roulette moved into its current 400-seat, renovated 1927 art deco theater in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2019-20, Roulette will present 120 performances and special events and will also host 125 organizations through our Community Services Program, featuring partnerships with over 70 diverse Brooklyn institutions.
