Doc’s Restaurant has announced a New Year’s Eve dinner & comedy show in partnership with The Park Theater in Glens Falls on December 31, 2021. The event will include a 3-course prix fixe menu and performance by comedian Sean Donnelly.
Doc’s Restaurant is located in downtown Glens Falls and will be offering two fixed seatings in it’s dining room featuring a holiday à la carte menu at 5pm and 8pm only. For more information and to reserve your table, visit here or call 518-792-1150.
The New Year’s Eve Comedy Show will be featuring a ‘Comedy After Dark’ performance starring acclaimed comedian, Sean Donnelly. This event includes a champagne and cocktail hour, along with a 3-course prix fixe menu curated by executive chef, Matthew J. Delos. Tickets: $99.00 (includes tax, gratuity and complimentary champagne). Champagne & Cocktail Hour: 6pm. Dinner & Dessert: 7pm. Showtime: 8:15pm. For more information and to purchase tickets to New Year’s Eve Dinner & Comedy Show, visit here or call 518-792-1150.
Sean Donnelly
Doc’s Restaurant new COVID-19 Protocol went into effect 12/13/21, all Doc’s Restaurant patrons must wear a mask at all times regardless of vaccination status unless eating or drinking.
The Park Theater COVID-19 Protocol is dedicated to ensuring a safe and welcoming entertainment venue for all attendees and employees. The Park Theater is requiring proof of full vaccination upon arrival, and encouraging wearing masks indoors when not eating or drinking. Acceptable proof of vaccination include Excelsior Pass, Excelsior Pass Plus, SMART Health Cards issued outside of NYS, full-course vaccination through NYC COVID Safe app, a CDC Vaccination Card, or other Official immunization record.
For more information on Doc’s Restaurant’s New Year’s Eve Dinner & Comedy Show visit their website.
Beginning in September 2021, the Park Theater Foundation will begin its flagship series, “The Park Presents,” featuring a diverse lineup of national and international musicians from genres including folk, Americana, zydeco, jazz, classical and more.
The Park Theater, located in Glens Falls, is known as the “newest premier venue” in the area and has a passion for sharing quality and affordable musical entertainment and educational opportunities. The building was established as a movie theatre in 1911, subsequently closing in 1935. Revived in the mid-2000s, The Park Theater reopened its doors with a new vitality for providing a stage for music and arts performance in 2018.
The Park was shut down for eight months following the COVID-19 pandemic and returned in a small scale to present “Dinner & A Movie: ‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood‘” in November 2020. “The Park Presents” introduces the full-force comeback of the theater!
We have been hard at work on this schedule and are beyond excited to welcome live music back to our stage and guests to our seats.
Chris Ristau, Excecutive Director
On September 10, guitarist Ariel Posen will be the first to take the stage for “The Park Presents” season. This season will also feature The Gibson Brothers, the Villalobos Brothers, The Small Glories, The Jason Anick Acoustic Trio, and many more.
In addition to music concerts, the 2021/22 season will feature a variety of other programs including “Tribute Band Rewind,” “Live & Local,” “Comedy After Dark” and “Third Thursday Jazz.”
Tickets for the 2021/22 season will be on sale beginning August 6th, 2021. For the full performance listing or to purchase tickets, visit www.parktheatergf.com.
Art in the Public Eye has officially announced the set times for performances at the fifth annual Glens Falls Entertainment and Music (GEM) Fest 2021. The event will occur on August 7th at the Shirt Factory, located at 71 Lawrence St in Glens Falls from 10:30 AM until 10:30 PM.
GEM Fest brings musicians and artists together from throughout the region to perform on two stages, audiences can enjoy live painting, food trucks, and Shirt Factory gallery spaces featuring work from local artists. Hosting over 30 artist vendors, food trucks, and 20 performances across 2 outdoor stages, the GEM Festival is where the arts and music collide. This is a must-see summer event that celebrates Glens Falls’ diverse and rich local art and music scene.
This will be the first GEM Fest since the last 2019 event and they’re back with more incredible artists.
42 Degree Stage
9:30 PM The Midnight Revival Band
8:20 PM Pillowhead
7:20 PM Simple Sin
6:30 PM Terrallite
5:40 PM Freedom Stratton
4:40 PM Brookline
3:50 PM The Hauntings
3:00 PM Project Racecar
2:05 PM Seize Atlantis
1:10 PM Peter Annello Trio
12:20 PM Grape Juice
11:30 PM Erin Powers
Adirondack Guitar Stage
6:20 PM Brain Medicine
5:20 PM Safety Meeting
4:40 PM Malicious Dee
3:50 PM We’re History
2:50 PM Lucas Garrett Band
1:50 PM Ragged Company
12:50 PM 42nd Draft
12:00 PM Only Dustin with Friends
To learn more about GEM Fest and Art in the Public Eye visit their website and to stay up to date follow the GEM Fest on Facebook.
Few bands have a relationship with the state of New York like the Grateful Dead. Outside of California, the Grateful Dead have performed more shows in New York than any other state.
With 309 unique shows performed across the Empire State in a 28 year span, beginning at Tompkins Square Park on June 1, 1967, the Grateful Dead made New York a home away from home, with venues of all sizes welcoming them during their career.
Over the past few years, NYS Music has looked back on some of these shows, whether they be archival releases, or an iconic show worthy of a closer look. In 2020, we began to look intently at the history of the Grateful Dead in the Empire State, and in doing so, discovered some overlooked diamonds in the rough.
While performances at Madison Square Garden, The Knickerbocker Arena and Barton Hall garner the glory, there are shows that are equally compelling which we took a second look at. Whether the performance was in The Bronx, Alfred State, Oswego, Glens Falls, Lake Placid or Watkins Glen, each show gets a thorough analysis, with first-hand accounts and memorabilia, as well as audio and/or video of each performance.
We’ve taken all these articles that examine the long history of the Grateful Dead in New York State, as well as Jerry Garcia’s solo and JGB performances, and created an interactive Google Map that allows you to observe the history of the Grateful Dead in New York – So MaNY Roads. You can find info on each of these shows (were you there?), and dive into shows you may or may not have known about.
With more than 300 shows to include in this series, we so far have looked at more than 50 of these shows, all searchable in the map below. More will be added each month as we continue looking at the Grateful Dead and their history in NY.
We welcome Section 119 as a sponsor for So MaNY Roads, our Grateful Dead in New York series. Section 119 takes you from beachfront to stage front with the highest quality merchandise celebrating the Grateful Dead. Shop for a variety of officially licensed clothing and accessories including board shorts, polos, button-down shirts and more at Section119.com.
A GoFundMe page challengers community members to help Frank Palangi, who despite losing virtually everything when home recording studio was struck by lightning, has “no plan B on backing down on [his] dreams.”
Frank Palangi, Musician, NYS Music Music In Motion Host
Most have been fortunate enough to never know what it felt like to decide what stayed and what burned. On June 29, Warren County raised Frank Palangi was home when lightning struck his home and ignited a fire that claimed the musician’s “home studio equipment, clothes, personal items, [and] some things [he] can never get back.”
Frank’s former hub for writing, recording, film production, teaching… and much more via Go Fund Me Page
Frank has been a proponent for participation in community for New York as a recording artist himself, hosting interview series NYS Music In Motion. Until the fire, Frank has consistently and frequently captivated YouTube audiences with polished music videos and out of the box collaborations.
Frank collaborates with 13 year old UK drummer on unique cover of “Purple Haze”
Go Fund Me Organizer Lindsay R, Organizer writes that Frank “happens to be one of the most humble, kind, and appreciative people there is. When the pandemic forced the closures of live music venues across the country, Frank began performing live shows online, from the very studio that we are now trying to help him rebuild. He freely gave of his time, energy, and talent because of his belief in the healing and transformative power of music, and fostered a sense of community amongst his fans during a time when we needed it the most.”
Frank Rocks. Let’s help him.
For now, Frank has lost his ability to do what he loves, but the community possesses the power to help him get it back, come together and put a little kindness back into this world. According to lightningsafety.com there is a 1 : 280,000 chance of lightning striking a home. Hopefully, the chances for our music-supporting community helping are better than that.
Our thoughts are with Frank and his family during this difficult time. You rock. “To rock” is something about who you are, and what lives inside of you, regardless of your ability to manifest creative endeavors at this moment. Some say that the best music comes out of the most difficult times, so sit tight. We’ve got you.
It is rare to see an arena rock show where the headliner gets completely overshadowed by the opening band. It is even rarer when that headliner is a legendarily mighty live performer like ex-Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, with Metallica opening the show. But on April 27, 1986, 35 years ago tonight, the exalted Ozz was utterly outshined by a youthful, ‘Master of Puppets’-era Metallica at Glens Falls Civic Center.
James Hetfield – photo by Dino Petrocelli
Master of Puppets – hailed by many as the best thrash metal album of all time, along with Slayer’s Reign in Blood, released the same year – had come out around 2 months before this gig. Metallica was the best heavy band in the world in 1986. Period. It is inarguable. I know you might think they suck now, and that there were a ton of great other metal and punk bands then, but I don’t care – in April 1986, Metallica were better.
Cliff Burton – photo by Dino Petrocelli
During Metallica’s “Ecstasy of Gold” intro tape there was a curtain in front of the stage, and this writer remembers a good crush down the front, as about half the crowd – Metallica were relatively new then, and many of those present that night did not know them – surged down towards the front. Legendary Metallica bassist Cliff Burton came out from behind the stage-left curtain to check out the crowd, smoking a cigarette and nodding at the people down front. Then the curtain dropped to reveal a stage-set modeled after the Master album cover, and the band opened with a blasting “Battery,” sounding as ferocious and tight as you’d want. The band utterly crushed for 55 minutes, with James, Cliff and Kirk headbanging madly the whole time – and a good 2/3 of the crowd were right there with them.
James Hetfield – photo by Dino Petrocelli
There was a great song selection for the near-hour they played – a few new songs (“Master of Puppets”, “Sanitarium”), plenty of ‘Ride The Lightning’ stuff (the title track, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, set-closer “Creeping Death”), “Seek & Destroy” from Kill ‘Em All, and a crushing encore medley of Diamond Head’s classic “Am I Evil?” and the now-immortal thrash god-song “Damage, Inc.” Still one of my favorite shows ever. Sadly, this was the last time I saw Cliff Burton play – I had tix to see them in August in Montreal before Cliff’s untimely death, but James had that skateboard accident and it was cancelled. By the next time I saw them, Thanksgiving ’86 in Poughkeepsie, it was Jason on bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qcn2wVG9aI
And Ozzy played too. He went down well, naturally, bringing the house down as he descended from the ceiling on a “monster Ozzy” throne. But, as pro and energetic a live performer as Ozzy and his always-professional band is (in those days led by guitarist Jake E. Lee), it was anticlimactic. Of course I mean no disrespect to Ozzy, who after all sang for the greatest band of all time and has always rocked live – I’d seen him before and many times since and this was easily the least awesome, contributed to, no doubt, by having to follow a hungry, young Metallica at their utter peak. To be sure, he didn’t suck – it’s hard to truly fall flat with songs like “Suicide Solution”, “I Don’t Know”, “Flying High Again” or his old band’s “Iron Man” – but it seemed like standard arena-rock after what had come before.
Also, Ozzy in 1986 was promoting the flaccid ‘Ultimate Sin’ record and flirting with a glittery, frosted-hair-and-makeup, almost glam image, which didn’t work for him – after 3 songs he was his usual sweaty self and the glittery outfit and frosted hair made him look like some bloated, middle-aged, hysterical, sweaty housewife who’d had too many glasses of wine. He opened with “Bark at the Moon”, closed with “Paranoid”, played lots of first album classics and crappy then-new songs from ‘The Ultimate Din’ and not enough Sabbath. Ozzy Osbourne lost, Metallica won.
All hail METALLICA, 1986-edition.
Metallicasetlist: Battery, Master of Puppets, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ride The Lightning, Sanitarium, Seek & Destroy, Creeping Death, Am I Evil?, Damage, Inc.
Ozzy Osbournesetlist: Bark at the Moon, Suicide Solution, Never Know Why, Mr. Crowley, Shot in the Dark, I Don’t Know, Killer of Giants, Guitar Solo, Thank God for the Bomb, Flying High Again, Secret Loser, Drum Solo, Iron Man, Crazy Train, Paranoid
While a lineup of Dio, Megadeth and Savatage may sound like a great 80s metal triple-bill now, 33 years later, this show, in terms of ticket sales, was a flop.
The late, great Ronnie James Dio is rightfully heralded as a virtual deity these days, 12 years after his death. Rainbow, Black Sabbath, those first couple Dio albums, his late work with Heaven & Hell, that voice – the man was a giant in his field. All should hail him.
Forgotten these days is that, by the late 80s, the Dio star had faded more than a bit. By early 1988, when this show happened, the Dio solo band had gone from the upward trajectory of the killer Holy Diver and Last In Line records, which elevated Dio to huge, Madison Square Garden-headlining godhood, to a slow decline which had started with Sacred Heart, the departure of Vivian Campbell, and the treading-water, unremarkable Dream Evil record, which was current when this show happened.
Dio, the band, seemed to be heading into their Spinal Tap phase – in 1984 they’d packed this venue (and RPI Fieldhouse in Troy a year later), when this show happened, popularity had ebbed, the stage was moved up to the middle of the floor, and half of the arena was closed off – and even cut in half, the place still didn’t look very full.
Opening the show was Savatage, who were promoting their popular Hall of the Mountain King record. They played a short set to a small crowd, included early tracks like “The Dungeons are Calling” and “City Beneath the Surface,” but didn’t seem to make a huge impression, although their epic, 80’s power metal was a perfect match for Dio. Savatage never broke big, but various members of the Savatage team went on to monumental success with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, so they had the last laugh.
Megadeth was the band this writer was there to see in 1988 – their first two records were huge favorites of mine in the mid-80s, and they were about to release their third, So Far, So Good, So What. The band’s lineup had shifted: joining Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson were new guitarist Jeff Young and drummer Chuck Beehler, replacing the drug-addled Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson, who’d been in the band when they played an incredible gig at Colonie Coliseum just over 7 months earlier. They weren’t big enough yet to affect the morose ticket sales too much this night, but I remember a short, killer set, kicking off with “Wake Up Dead” and “The Conjuring,” with some as-yet unreleased new tracks (“Hook in Mouth,” “In My Darkest Hour”), and some Peace Sells-era heavies like “Devil’s Island” and “Peace Sells” itself. The set finished with some covers, Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots” (the only track played from their Killing is my Business debut), and the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK”. Megadeth would return soon after, playing the Palace Theatre in Albany in April 1988, and drawing as many or more people than had attended this Glens Falls gig with Dio.
Dio and his band – now featuring Craig Goldy on guitar instead of original Irish guitarist Viv Campbell – hit the stage with first-album classic “Stand Up & Shout,” and stuck to a mostly crowd-pleasing set, playing a lot of the first-and-second album classics, and four songs from then-new ‘Dream Evil’. But in 1988 things were changing, and the stage show with the costumes, mechanical spiders and endless solos – before a not-packed hall – gave it somewhat of the aforementioned Spinal Tap vibe. Dio in ’88 seemed like the past, and Megadeth seemed like the future. I’d worshipped him 5-6 years earlier, but by the time of this gig there was so much cool thrash metal and alt-rock that perhaps Dio just seemed anachronistic to me. In retrospect, he was not.
In ’88, things looked pretty over for Ronnie, which obviously wasn’t true at all. But (probably because of the dismal sales for this gig) I think this was the last time the DIO band played the Albany area – although he’d some back with Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell in years to come, already by then a beloved veteran, and his legacy is solid. All hail Ronnie James Dio.
Savatage setlist: City Beneath the Surface, 24 Hrs. Ago, Beyond the Doors of the Dark, The Dungeons Are Calling, Hall of the Mountain King, Power of the Night
Megadeth setlist: Wake Up Dead, The Conjuring, Hook in Mouth, In My Darkest Hour, Devil’s Island, Peace Sells, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, Anarchy in the U.K.
Dio setlist: Stand Up and Shout, Dream Evil, Night People, Naked in the Rain (incl. Guitar Solo), The Last in Line, Holy Diver, Drum Solo, Heaven and Hell, Man on the Silver Mountain, All the Fools Sailed Away, Keyboard Solo, Rock ‘n’ Roll Children, Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rainbow in the Dark, We Rock, Don’t Talk to Strangers
