NYS Music 2024

Author: NYS Music Staff

  • Disco Biscuits Announce Album Release Show At Webster Hall

    The Disco Biscuits have announced an upcoming album release show for Revolution in Motion at New York City’s famous Webster Hall. The much anticipated gig is set to take place on March 29, coinciding with the release date of the band’s first new studio project in more than nine years. It comes in the midst of an already expansive 2024 winter tour, right in between performances scheduled for Wilkes Barre, Pa and Buffalo. It also marks the return of The Disco Biscuits to Webster Hall for the first time in nearly 25 years.

    Revolution in Motion is already being touted by the Biscuits’ fanbase as the bands latest rock opera, following in the footsteps of Hot Air Balloon and Chemical Warfare Brigade. This latest one was originally conceptualized by guitarist Jon Gutwillig and collaborator Joey Friedman in 2021 before they brought Biscuits keyboardist Aron Magner in to help write the following year. The songs, which tell the tale of an alien interstellar journey, have all made their way into the band’s live repertoire one by one upon completion and are now ready for their official release in album form.

    “With a large part of the space opera taking place in New York City, we thought it was only appropriate to play a show there on the day of its release,” noted Magner. “After our late-night rager at the Palladium over our New Year’s run in 2023, we can’t wait to get back to NYC and tell this story from start to finish.”

    The Album Release Show at Webster Hall will go on sale to the public on Friday, January 26 at noon E.T. An Artist Presale will begin on Wednesday, January 24 at noon E.T. with the password: RevolutionInMotion. Visit www.discobiscuits.com for more information.

  • Hip-Hop Pioneers Atmosphere to play Webster Hall on Spring Tour

    Atmosphere have announced “Tour De Friends: Part Deux” featuring spring dates that take the group through the East and Midwest of the country, with a stop at Webster Hall on April 21.

    Atmosphere tour webster hall
    Credit: Dan Monick

    Atmospher is an American hip-hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of rapper Slug (Sean Daley) and DJ/producer Ant (Anthony Davis). In December 2023, Atmosphere released the Talk Talk EP, whose title track originally appeared on their latest album, So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously. The duo also made their cult, early 2000’s mixtape Sad Clown Bad Dub 2 available for the first time ever.

    For over two decades, Atmosphere has maintained a course of rigorous output, releasing over two dozen studio albums, EP’s and collaborative side projects in as many years. In that time, the venerated duo have built a legacy out of bringing honesty, humility and vulnerability to the forefront of their music, continually challenging themselves to evolve without straying too far from their roots.

    Slug shows masterful storytelling and writes compelling narratives, leaving a trail of his own influence while paying homage to the rappers and songwriters that helped shape him. Ant has skillfully molded the soundtracks with inspiration from soul, funk, rock, reggae, and the wizardry of hip-hop’s pioneering DJ’s and producers, creating his own trademark sounds while providing the pulse for songs about life, love, stress and setbacks. Atmosphere has been a musical shepherd, and with each new album comes a new journey as they guide generations of listeners through this thing called life.

    The Atmosphere presale will begin Wednesday, January 24 at 10AM local time with the general on sale starting Friday, January 26 at 10AM local time. Tickets and information are available on atmospheresucks.com.

    Atmosphere TOUR DE FRIENDS: PART DEUX DATES 

    4/10 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant

    4/11 – Louisville, KY @ The Mercury Ballroom

    4/13 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall

    4/14 – Orlando, FL @ Florida Groves Festival * ^

    4/16 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring

    4/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia

    4/19 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston

    4/20 – New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place

    4/21 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall

    4/23 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom

    4/25 – Columbus, OH @ The Bluestone

    4/26 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s

    4/27 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi Indy (The Annex) 

    4/28 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues Cleveland

    4/30 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection

    5/01 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall

    5/03 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed

    5/04 – Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom

    5/05 – Sioux Falls, SD @ The District

    * without HEBL and NOFUN! 

    ^ Festival Performance

  • Albany Symphony’s “Steinke + Mozart & More from 1784” to Delight this January at Troy Music Hall

    The two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Albany Symphony will showcase two of Mozart’s greatest works, Haydn’s Symphony No. 80, and a world premiere by Harriet Steinke, on Saturday, January 13th at 7:30pm and Sunday, January 14 at 3:00pm at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.  

    albany symphony mozart

    Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19 and selections from Marriage of Figaro will feature renowned fortepianist Yi-heng Yang and singers from The Juilliard School.

    The Albany Symphony celebrates our living musical heritage through its adventurous programming, commissioning and recording of new work, and broad community engagement beyond the concert hall. 

    Performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19, soloist Yi-heng Yang has been described as an “exquisite collaborator” (Opera News) and is noted for her “remarkable expressivity and technique” (Early Music Magazine).  Audience members will have the rare opportunity to experience the work performed on the fortepiano – a precursor of the modern piano — as it was by Mozart himself. “We are so fortunate to have an artist as deeply steeped in Mozart’s style as Yi-heng is, joining us to perform this amazing work very much the way Mozart himself would have performed it,” said Music Director and Conductor, David Alan Miller. Yang is on faculty at The Juilliard School where she teaches piano, fortepiano, chamber music and improvisation. She is a director of The Academy for Fortepiano Performance in Hunter, NY, and the creator of their international Fortepiano Salon Series 

    Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19 premiered in 1784 and was one of six in the genre he composed that year and was written for the composer to perform himself. Described as “athletic,” combining grace with vigor, the work concludes with perhaps the most complex concerto finale that Mozart composed.

    The concert will also feature a world premiere by Harriet Steinke, The Slow Movement. Hailing from Michigan, Steinke captivated Albany Symphony audiences last season with her work Harrietlehre.  During the 2023-2024 season she will have new works premiered by the Voyager Reed Quintet, the Civic Orchestra of New Haven and saxophonist Zach Arthur and cellist Kellen Degnan. She completed graduate studies in music composition at Yale School of Music and has received a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “We are very happy to welcome Harriet back to the Albany Symphony,” said Miller.  “She is an exciting new voice in the composition world.”

    The January program also includes selections from The Marriage of Figaro, considered one of the great operas. In addition to favorite arias featuring talented Juilliard vocalists, the Albany Symphony will perform the well-known and much beloved overture to the opera.

    The evening concludes with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 80. Though No. 80 lacks a nickname as sometimes grace Haydn’s symphonic works, it is nonetheless full of character, drama, and surprises. Not for nothing is the prolific Haydn called by some the “Father of the Symphony.”

    Recognized as one of the American’s most innovative and creative orchestras, the two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Albany Symphony Orchestra is renowned for virtuosic performances featuring classic orchestral favorites, lesser-heard masterworks, and a diverse array of new music from leading and emerging voices of today. The Symphony has received more ASCAP Awards than any other orchestra in America, as well as several GRAMMY® nominations, including the orchestra’s most recent win in 2021.

  • Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Announces Mozart and Schumann Chamber Series Concert

    The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra will hold its second Chamber Series Concert of the 2023-24 season, Mozart and Schumann, a program featuring gorgeous trios by CCO musicians and friends.

    The CCO was founded in 1976 and is officially designated “Ithaca’s Orchestra.” Each season includes an  Orchestral Series, Chamber Music Series, a Holiday concert, free Family Concerts, and the long-standing  Willard Daetsch Youth Outreach Program, which earned the 2015 Yale Distinguished Music Educator  award. In 2017, the CCO added a Youth Orchestra, which offers a high quality symphony orchestra  experience for youth in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

    Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Mozart

    The concert will showcase musicians, Sarah Chandler (clarinet), Kyle Armbrust (viola), Charis DiMaras (piano), John Lathwell (oboe), Taylor Smith (bassoon), Andrew Zhou (piano), Christina Bouey (violin), Rosie Elliott (cello), and Yoon Lee (piano).  

    We are eagerly anticipating our next Chamber Series concert. Our musicians performed to a sold out house at our November Chamber Series concert, at the First Unitarian Church. We also nearly sold out our performance of Handel’s Messiah at Ithaca College’s Ford Hall in December. There is nothing like walking out onstage as a musician and seeing a house full of enthusiastic audience members. Our subscriber base is 1/3 larger this year, and we are finding more and more new people giving our concerts a try. We invite you to make this your first CCO experience!

    Managing Director, Sarah Chandler

    PROGRAM 

    MOZART: Trio in E-flat Major, K. 398, Kegelstatt, for clarinet, violin and piano 

    FRANÇAIX: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano 

    Intermission 

    SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63 

    For more information on tickets for the Mozart and Schumann concert, visit CCOithaca.org or contact the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Box Office at 607-273-8981

  • Palace Sessions go Live starting Jan. 13 with The E-Block

    The Palace Theatre and Mirth Films have announced the return of the Palace Sessions with a free performance by The E-Block, to be held at the Palace Theatre on Saturday, January 13 at 7pm.

    This performance is free and open to the public, and will be filmed live for a future airing of The Palace Sessions.

    photo by Jarron Childs

    The E-Block is a 5-piece indie R&B band based in Upstate New York, blending the acoustic warmth of singer-songwriter music with an ice-cold rhythm section informed by modern R&B. With a deep bag of influences and free-flowing style, The E-Block has earned a reputation as a unique live act in the Capital Region scene.

    The Palace Sessions is a live music series featuring some of our favorite regional & national acts performing in different spaces within the historic performing arts center. The Palace Sessions was conceived in 2020 through a partnership with the City of Albany & Mirth Films as an outlet to provide live music to the Capital Region (and entertain ourselves!) during a time when venues were closed and raise money to support the Palace Theatre. Now, The Palace Sessions lives on with free live performances in the Palace Lobby, open to the public and aired online.

    Past Palace Sessions performers include moe., Eastbound Jesus, Annie in the Water, Thomas Nicholas, Moriah Formica, and more…

    Enjoy past episodes of the Palace Sessions online . Tickets, while free, are available .