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  • Bonnie Raitt Headlines Rochester International Jazz Festival June 27th

    The CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival will feature the great Bonnie Raitt on June 27th at the Festival’s 20th-anniversary edition. More than just a best-selling artist, expressive singer, and accomplished songwriter, Bonnie Raitt will bring her “Just Like That…Tour” on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023. The festival will be held from June 23rd to July 1st, 2023, in downtown Rochester. 

    Bonnie Raitt Headlines 20th Anniversary Festival June 27th 2023

    The infamous Raitt has become an institution in American music. Born to a musical family, the ten-time Grammy winner is the daughter of celebrated Broadway singer John Raitt and accomplished pianist/singer Marge Goddard. Raitt was raised in Los Angeles where she grew up to have a respect for the arts and a commitment to social activism. 

    Bonnie Raitt Headlines 20th Anniversary Festival June 27th 2023

    Bonnie is as known for her lifelong commitment to social activism as she is for her music. She has long been involved with the environmental movement, doing concerts around oil, nuclear power, mining, water and forest protection since the mid 70’s.

    She even stated, “I’ve always wanted to make a record here, and once vaccinations made traveling safe again, we were thrilled to get everyone back together.” The mix of sounds and approaches on Just Like That…reveals how, 50 years after the release of her debut album, Bonnie Raitt continues to personify what it means to stay creative, adventurous, and daring over the course of a life’s work. “I think the absolute joy and relief of reuniting to play live music is really palpable on this record.”

    With Just Like That…, this is her twenty-first album and first new release in more than six years. Rolling Stone even named her as both one of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” and one of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt continues to draw on the range of influences that have shaped her legendary career.

    Tickets for Bonnie Raitt at CGI Rochester International Jazz Fest range in price from: Boxes $140, Orchestra $125, Loge/Mezzanine $105, Balcony $85. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 16th at 10am. To purchase, click the link here or call (585) 454-2060. 

  • BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! 44th Lineup Summer 2022

    Brooklyn-based leading arts and media institution, BRIC, announced its festival lineup for this summer’s BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! 2022, taking place from Wednesday, June 8th through Saturday, August 6th.

    This year’s lineup features artists including Phoebe Bridgers, Erykah Badu, Kamasi Washington, Vic Mensa, and more to who will perform at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park.

    BRIC celebrate Brooklyn 2022

    For the past 44 years, this festival presented in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance and NYC Parks has been the summer-long outdoor concert. BRIC celebrates talent spanning global music icons to chart-topping indie bands, including benefit concerts, family days, and movie nights.  

    “This summer is about being together – the power of gathering in this moment of human history,” said Diane Eber, Executive Producer of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! “Artists can show us the way to heal through creative expression and there’s no better place to experience that than the Bandshell. We are so honored to bring another season of magic to our communities at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!” 

    It wouldn’t be summer in Prospect Park without the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at the Lena Horne Bandshell. This festival brings a wide range of free music and family programming to Prospect Park, and gives Brooklyn’s diverse community a chance to come together—we’re excited for the season to begin.

    James Snow, Prospect Park Alliance Interim President

    BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! 2022 will also offer a movie night featuring the iconic 1980 musical film Fame, which follows the lives and hardships of the faculty and staff at the (fictitious) New York City High School for the Performing Arts. This season will also feature an evening dedicated to dance with Ragamala Dance Company, showcasing a performance of Sacred Earth. This iconic group draws their inspiration from South Indian American artists and uses multi-disciplinary dance works to epitomize intercultural and immigrant narratives that evoke a shared sense of humanity.  

    BRIC celebrate Brooklyn! 2022 Season Lineup 

    Opening Night: Kamasi Washington | Ravyn Lenae | DJ Reborn 
    Wednesday, June 8, 2022 

    Maxi Priest | Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra 
    Saturday, June 11, 2022 

    Benefit Concert: Phoebe Bridgers 
    Tuesday, June 14, 2022 

    Benefit Concert: Phoebe Bridgers 
    Wednesday, June 15, 2022 

    Benefit Concert: Davido 
    Thursday, June 16, 2022 

    BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! meets NPR Tiny Desk Contest On The Road 
    Saturday, June 18, 2022 

    Juneteenth UNITYFEST 2022 
    Sunday, June 19, 2022 

    Fonseca | La Cumbiamba eNeYé 
    Friday, June 24, 2022 

    Family Show: Cirque Kalabanté: Afrique En Cirque | Natu Camara 
    Saturday, June 25, 2022 

    Vic Mensa | aja monet 
    Friday, July 8, 2022 

    Crumb | Slauson Malone 1 
    Saturday, July 9, 2022 

    Kronos Quartet & Sam Green: A Thousand Thoughts | Roomful of Teeth 
    Thursday, July 14, 2022 

    Chicano Batman | Charlotte Dos Santos 
    Saturday, July 16, 2022 

    Ragamala Dance Company: Sacred Earth 
    Friday, July 22, 2022 

    John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin | Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments | Special Guests 
    Saturday, July 23, 2022 

    The Beths | SASAMI | Charlotte Cornfield 
    Friday, July 29, 2022 

    Film Night: Fame | Sing Harlem 
    Saturday, July 30, 2022 

    Benefit Concert: Khruangbin 
    Thursday, August 4, 2022 

    Benefit Concert: Erykah Badu 
    Friday, August 5, 2022 

    Closing Night: Yemi Alade | Amindi 
    Saturday, August 6, 2022 

    To RSVP, click the link here.  For more information, visit the link here. 

  • DROM Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Special Series of 15 Shows

    The acclaimed home for Global Music, the DROM celebrates their 15th anniversary with a special series of 15 shows in 2022.

    DROM is a music venue that celebrates diverse and intersecting cultures with hundreds of performances over the last 15 years from international, national, to New York-based artists. Numerous music fans and thousands of artists have ventured to the venue to experience the live music.

    Our goal from the beginning was to bring cultures from different regions into one room. We created a scene with contemporary world music and Jazz sounds

    Serdar

    Together, Sedar IIhan as the owner and director and Mehmet Dede as programming director bring DROM to life as the home for musicians and passionate listeners to live music and performances. Jazz-based artists like Robert Glasper, Snarky Puppy and Gregory Porter have performed at DROM along with a sold out show from pop singer Sammy Rae just before the start of the pandemic.

    DROM 15th Anniversary Series – More shows to be announced throughout the year:

    Drom 15th Anniversary Series – More shows to be announced throughout the year

    Fri and Sat, May 6 and 7 – Mor ve Otesi – Night one tickets / Night two tickets

    Fri, May 20 – Spanish Harlem Orchestra “Imágenes Latinas” Album Release Concert – tickets

    Sat, June 4 – Mike Stern – tickets

    Thu June 9 and Fri June 10 – Django New Orleans” featuring Stéphane Wrembel – tickets

    Wed, June 15 – Yiddish New York’s Summer Klezmer Extravaganza –tickets

    Tue, June 28 – Ara Dinkjian with NY Gypsy All Stars play the Ara Dinkjian Songbook – tickets

    Fri, July 1 – Sexmob –tickets

    Wed, July 14 – Pedrito Martinez presents Echoes of Africa –tickets

    Fri, July 22 – NY Gypsy All Stars with special guest Ibrahim Maalouf – tickets

    Sat July 30 – Summer for the City at Damrosch Park, globalFEST at Summer for the City, Presented in collaboration with Drom NYC and Barbès Brooklyn – free

    Sun, November 6 – Pierre Bensusan –tickets

    Wed, December 14 – BronX BandA featuring Arturo O’Farrill – tickets

  • Sad Summer Fest 2022 Presented by Journeys

    Sad Summer Fest presented by Journeys features a variety of artists and local bands including Neck Deep, MayDay Parade, and more. This unforgettable event will make stops in New York City at Pier 17 on July 22nd, and at the Stone Pony Summer Stage July 29th. 

    When asked what message he has for fans ahead of the summer tour, vocalist of Waterparks Awsten Knight writes, “I am ready to step around in the mud and get huge. If you see me doing push-ups in the parking lot do not approach me Lucas will tackle you OUT! Saddie summer will be my baddie summer better watch out because I get MOODY in the summer!! See you soon.” 

    “We’re stoked to be on Sad Summer this year!” says Neck Deep lead singer Ben Barlow. “We really can’t wait for another American summer, ripping a few heavy gigs, making the most of the sunshine and closing your night out with a show you’ll never forget.”  

    Mayday Parade will co-headline Sad Summer Fest for the second time, coming back this time with their latest music in the setlist. The band released their most recent album “What It Means to Fall Apart” in November and has spent the start of 2022 taking those new songs on the road, as well as performing songs from their self-titled album in celebration of its eleventh anniversary. Speaking on the band’s return to the Sad Summer Fest stage, lead singer Derek Sanders says, “We’re happy to have the opportunity to play such a great tour with so many wonderful bands. We look forward to seeing so many of you out there, it’s gonna be a wild summer.”  

    Journeys is excited to partner with Sad Summer Fest again this year. Connecting with our consumers and employees through live music events has always been a huge part of our identity as a brand. The ongoing partnership between Sad Summer Fest and Journeys has allowed us to come together to create a memorable and safe experience for fans that were missing live music and the face to face connection with their favorite artists.

    Kari Irons, Journeys, Senior Vice President of Marketing 

    Tickets will officially go on sale March 24th at 10am local time, for purchase here.

    SAD SUMMER FEST 2022 PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS

    July 8 – Sacramento, CA – Heart Health Park @ Cal Expo 

    July 9 – Anaheim, CA – City National Grove Outdoors 

    July 12 – Dallas, TX – Gilley’s 

    July 13 – Houston, TX – Lawn @ White Oak Music Hall 

    July 15 – Orlando, FL – Orlando Amphitheater at the Central Florida Fair 

    July 16 – Atlanta, GA – Coca Cola Roxy 

    July 19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE Outdoors 

    July 20 – Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Outdoors 

    July 22 – New York, NY – The Rooftop @ Pier 17 

    July 23 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium Outdoors 

    July 24 – Baltimore, MD – MECU Pavilion 

    July 26 – Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live Outdoors 

    July 27 – Newport, KY – Ovation 

    July 29 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summer Stage 

    July 30 – Philadelphia, PA – Skyline Stage @ the Mann 

    August 2 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica 

    August 3 – Lewiston, NY – ArtPark Amphitheater 

    August 5 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Ballroom 

  • Sea.Hear.Now Festival Announced, With Headliners Stevie Nicks And Green Day

    This September, the Sea.Hear.Now Music and Surf festival will be coming to Asbury Park, NJ. There will be over 25 performances on three stages, and a unique surfing experience to coincide with the festival.

    SeaHearNow
    Sea.Hear.Now Festival Logo.

    Stevie Nicks and Green Day will be headlining the two-day long festival, as well as performances by Cage The Elephant, Billy Strings, Gary Clark Jr., The Head and the Heart, and more. Festival-goers will be able to view the best women and men on the Eastern Seaboard compete in “The North Beach Rumble” surf contest. Returning champions Cassidy McClain and Eric Geiselman  will be competing along with others for the prize purse and bragging rights awarded for the best overall style and creativity.

    SeaHearNow
    The full lineup of the Sea.Hear.Now festival.

    There will also be a gallery celebrating art, featuring local legend and world-renowned photographer Danny Clinch. The Transparent Gallery will feature artwork from musicians on the lineup and impromptu performances and talks by the artists themselves. All proceeds will go to the Wooden Walls Project, which helps bring public art to Asbury Park.

    From September 17-18, the Sea.Hear.Now festival will be stopping in Asbury Park, NJ, and all tickets and VIP packages can be found here.

  • TroutStock 2022 Features Dirtwire, Magic Beans, and more, August 5-7 in Coeymans Hollow

    Coming this summer, the TroutStock 2022 festival is celebrating a full weekend of music. Along with 20 different musical acts, more vendors and a larger capacity compared to last year. This unforgettable event will be held from August 5th-7th in Coeymans Hollow, just a 30 minute drive from Albany and 45 minutes from Kingston.

    TroutStock 2022
    Coming summer 2022

    The grassroots festival will be held at Magic Forest Farm, Coeymans Hollow, NY, 225 acres of forested land nestled in the foothills of the Catskills near Albany. Likewise, featuring artists like Dirtwire, Magic Beans, Leon Trout, Bella’s Bartok, Strange Machines, and more. 

    This is a 3-day camping and music filled event that will have local food, craft and art vendors accompanied by top of the line sound and music.

    Magic Forest Farms

    Originally starting out as just a backyard party, TroutStock festival quickly progressed. With the support of their fans and friends, they transformed into what it is today. With their first event last August, TroutStock decided to go for round two and expand the festival. Overall, their goal is to celebrate the friendships they have gained over the years by bringing everyone together to showcase their amazing talents. 

    Magic Forest Farms Camping

    The location of the festival, Magic Forest Farm, is a beautiful spot that allows for freedom and creativity. Furthermore, giving attendees plenty of personal space while camping and in the crowd.  

    The goal of this festival is to keep this an intimate experience year after year with a headliners and local acts. Additionally, for attendees to get an up close experience of their favorite bands without fighting the crowd.  

    Live Music Schedule

    Friday August 5th – 10:30am-2am
    Saturday August 6th – 10:30am-2am
    Sunday August 7th – 10:30am-4:00pm 

    For all guests, the festival grounds will need to be 100% cleared by 5pm on Sunday August 7th.

    To purchase tickets, visit and for more additional information, please visit