On Saturday, October 26 from Noon to 5pm, PhanArt, in association with Mirth Films, will hold a hometown Art Show and Health & Wellness Event at the Palace Theatre in Albany
Featured during the show is New Paltz band Kale for the October edition of Palace Sessions Live.
Located just a 0.5 mile walk down Pearl Street from the MVP Arena (where Phish will perform for three nights) PhanArt at the Palace will feature dozens of artists and vendors from the Capital District and across the country from the greater Phish community.
Presented alongside Mirth Films, PhanArt will host artists and vendors offering a great deal of art, clothing, home goods, music inspired memorabilia and much more from dozens of small businesses, in addition to a Health and Wellness fair on the Second Floor of the Palace Theatre. There attendees will find Reiki, aerial yoga, interactive art, healing circles, psychedelic integration and much more.
Confirmed artists and vendors include Perpetual Hang, Scotty Radford Art and Design, BLURD Glass, YouEnjoyMyVegan, Ethereal Honey, Blazinâ Donuts, Fiddle and Feather, Unusual Conclusions, The Overhead View and many more.
Kale, a genre-blending indietronica jam trio from New Paltz, will be playing 2 sets during the afternoon, along with music from Sweeping Views in between performances. Kale combines a love of danceable electronic rhythms, soaring melodies, and energetic hooks into an improvisational channel that allows for deep exploration of the musical cosmos.
The Palace Theatre is located at the corner of Clinton and North Pearl Street, just a half mile walk to MVP Arena, where Phish will perform each evening from October 25-27.
The first hometown PhanArt show at Albanyâs historic Palace Theatre takes place on Saturday, October 26 from 12-5pm. Admission is free as always!
Grammy-nominated singer/percussionist Everett Bradley’s persona Papadelic as funk’s Father Christmas, bringing funk-lore to Sony Hall for a Holidelic holiday show on Sunday, December 22.
Having performed with the likes of Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and SEAL among others, Everett’s use of funk is cleverly told through 70’s and 80’s inspired originals, with reimagined classics celebrating diversity and love as one nation under a groove.
Everett Bradley brings to life the role of Papadelic, funk’s Father Christmas, a combo of George Clinton and a soulful Santa. He weaves this psychedelic holiday tale with humor, heart and booty shakin’ grooves played by a P-funk clad band of top shelf misfits Papadelic affectionately calls dysFUNKtional. Sony Hall will be an ideal setting for Bradley’s favorite two worlds, a theatre with a club dance floor.
Bradley has perfected his funk holiday magic into a Christmas classic, called “A flashy, bass-heavy retro-futuristic take on the holidays” by The New Yorker and “A holiday funk-tacular” by Time Out New York.
An additional show has been announced on December 20 in Red Bank, NJ at LIVE at The Vogel. Tickets for Holidelic are available here.
Union College and The Egg have announced details for the four-day residency by Eisenhower Dance Detroit from October 15-18.
The residency includes community outreach, a professional experience for local dancers and a public performance at The Egg.
A mini-residency in mid-September included an audition for local college dancers and a rigorous weekend rehearsal process for those selected. Jolita Brettler, Melanie De La Cruz, Ava DuBoff, Hailey Dunn, Livi Gwinnett, Grace Newcombe, Emily Tobar and Abby Wilder, all Union College dancers, will perform “State of Mind” by Eisenhower Dance Detroit (EDD) Executive Director Stephanie Pizzo alongside members of EDD at The Egg on Friday, October 18.
About working with the Union students, EDD dancer Lillie Hamilton said, “We admired their eagerness, dedication, maturity and focus.” About the experience of learning and rehearsing the work in a brief period of time, De La Cruz claimed, “Honestly, I feel stronger, both physically and mentally.” Dunn added that the intensity of the process was “challenging emotionally, physically and socially but I feel as though I have grown both as a dancer and as a human being.”
The residency is made possible by the partnership of the venue and college as well as a major gift from Gus (Union class of ’59) and Sue Davis (Sage class of ’60) in memory of their daughter Stephanie.
The residency culminates at The Egg on Friday, October 18. From 7:15pm to 7:45pm, Laurie Zabele Cawley, Interim Dance Director at Union College, will partake in a pre-show talk with EDD’s Pizzo conversing about the company and the evening’s program. The 8pm performance will feature “Legacy Island” by Filipino Norbert De La Cruz III; “En-code” by Australian, disabled choreographer Marc Brew; “Hyper” by hip-hop ballerina Micaela Taylor and “See Me” by the athletic Christian Denice. The aforementioned “State of Mind” will close out the evening.
Returning to the Capital Region in mid-October, the company will conduct three lecture/demonstrations, three movement workshops and eleven master classes at Union College and seven other locations in the local area. The activities will reach participants from elementary age to senior citizens.
The schedule of activities is found below. Activities with an asterisk are free and open to the public
Tuesday, October 15
Two movement workshops at Mont Pleasant Middle School from 1:09pm to 2:42pm
Two dance technique classes at Schenectady High School from 1:08pm to 2:41pm
An advanced modern dance class at Skidmore College from 3:40pm to 5:30pm
An intermediate ballet class in Union’s Henle Dance Studio from 5pm to 6:30pm
Wednesday, October 16
An intermediate modern dance class at Skidmore College from 10:10am to 12pm
An intermediate ballet class at Emma Willard School from 3:45pm to 5:15pm
A movement workshop for Proctors’ Acting Academy from 4:15pm to 5:15pm
An intermediate modern class in Union’s Henle Dance Studio from 5pm to 6:30pm
Thursday, October 17
An introductory modern class at UAlbany from 10:30am to 11:50am
An adult/senior class in Union’s Henle Dance Studio from 11:15am to 12:30pm
Two lec/dems at the Albany Academies between 11:30am and 12:30pm
A mixed genre exploratory class for adults & seniors at SPAC’s School of the Arts from 12:45pm to 2pm*
An open master class in Union’s Henle Dance Studio from 6pm to 7:15pm*
A lec/dem in Union’s Henle Dance Studio from 7:30pm to 8:30pm*
Tickets for the Eisenhower Dance Detroit performance are $35 and $45 and may be purchased in person at The Egg box office at the Empire State Plaza, by calling 518-473-1845 or online.
Phish is, once again, going back to the Garden for their annual New Year’s Eve run. The band will play at MSG from Saturday, December 28th to Tuesday, December 31st. This will bring the running total of Phish shows at the Garden to 87 in all. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, October 11th at Noon ET.
A ticket request period is currently underway at https://tickets.phish.com (ending Monday, October 7th at Noon ET). A limited number of travel packages (hotel + tickets) will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2nd, at Noon ET at https://phishnye.100xhospitality.com. For complete ticketing information, visit https://phish.com/tours.
Phish also has four more upcoming New York State gigs as well, with a three-day benefit run that will take place at Albany’s MVP Arena in late October.
Billy Joel will return to the Dome in Syracuse for his 8th career performance, and he’s bringing along Sting with him. The pair will rock the JMA Wireless Dome on Friday, April 11, 2025.
The iconic musicians will each perform their most beloved songs from throughout their illustrious careers. The spectacular show is Billy Joel’s eighth appearance at the JMA Dome and first since 2015, a record-breaking statistic.
Billy Joel and Sting Syracuse jerseys – photo by CNY Central
This show will mark Sting’s first time at the JMA Dome as a solo artist, having appeared twice before in performances with The Police in 1982 and 1984).
“We’re excited to have both Billy Joel and Sting back at the JMA Dome. Both have been here before and have helped draw some of our biggest audiences to date. With this show, Billy will be extending his record number of Dome performances to eight over a nearly 25-year period. We’re grateful to again work with Live Nation on another big concert event and can’t wait to host it. It’ll be a great show,” said Pete Sala, vice president and chief campus facilities officer, managing director of JMA Dome.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, October 4 at 9 a.m. here.
Phish lead guitarist Trey Anastasio has officially released a new guitar-only instrumental album entitled Atriums via Rubber Jungle Records. The music is culled from years of experimental soundchecks and selections that were played in the public spaces, namely the atrium, at Las Vegas’ Sphere during the band’s recent run there in April. Proceeds from this new release will benefit the Divided Sky Foundation and its newly opened facility in Ludlow, Vermont.
Anastasio and Phish – renowned for creating immersive concert experiences – took full advantage at Sphere, utilizing sculptures, light and sound to transform the hallways of the futuristic venue. Those ambient soundscapes are now released as ATRIUMS. The six-track album doesn’t feature any strange song names but the music is far from ordinary and each one is approximately 15 minutes in length and offers a unique sonic composition consisting primarily of droning loops, echoes, and waves of tonal feedback layered with gentle, melodic fretwork.
“Atrium 1” features some harrowing, echoey guitar effects interspersed with brief moments of digital feedback. Whereas “Atrium 3” has a more blissful demeanor with simple, repetitive melodies on a loop, not too dissimilar from how the band’s “secret” third set at Mondegreen started where they played behind a screen of accompanying visuals instead of in front of one like Sphere. See below for all selections from the recently released Atriums.
In addition to this album, Phish also recently announced a special three-day run of shows in Albany, NY at MVP Arena that will also serve as a benefit to the Divided Sky Foundation. A limited amount of tickets can still be found on tickemaster.com.
The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes (OSFL) celebrates Oktoberfest this autumn with a musical journey through the works of legendary German and Austrian composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, and the Strauss family—Josef, Johann Sr., and Johann Jr.
This special concert will take place on Saturday, October 12, at 7:00 PM, at Christ Episcopal Church in Corning, NY.
The evening’s highlight will be a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, featuring Jinyoung Yoon, an award-winning violinist from Seoul, South Korea, whose stunning artistry has earned her international recognition. She has been a soloist with prominent orchestras, including the Seoul Philharmonic and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra as the first prize winner of the ECSO concerto competition. Jinyoung is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Ida Kavafian and Erin Keefe. Yoon continues to impress audiences as a rising star in the classical music world.
The OSFL, under the baton of Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada, will perform a program filled with iconic works, capturing the lively spirit of Oktoberfest. The repertoire for the evening includes Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture and Brahms’ Violin Concerto on the first half of the concert. The second half brings together the prolific output of the talented Strauss family with polkas, waltzes and more:
The famous Blue Danube, Gypsy Baron Overture, Annen Polka, and Leichtes Blut “High Spirits” Polka composed by Johann Strauss, Jr.
Frauenherz Polka “A Woman’s Heart” by his brother Josef Strauss
Radetzky March by their father, Johann Strauss, Sr.
From Beethoven’s dramatic overture to the swirling waltzes and polkas of the Strauss family, “Oktoberfest at the Symphony” offers a perfect blend of elegance and festivity, reminiscent of Vienna’s golden age of music.
In an effort to make this cultural experience accessible to all, the OSFL is offering FREE tickets for children under 18 when accompanied by a ticketed adult. Tickets are available at $29, $44, or $59, with a discounted rate of $15 for college students with a valid ID.
This concert is presented in cooperation with Corning Rotary’s Crystal City Oktoberfest, promising a festive atmosphere that celebrates the intersection of music and community.
A sneak peak of this concert will be presented to Corning Painted Post Middle School students, with support from the Bobbie and John G. Ullman Family Foundation.
Programs of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes are made possible in part with general support from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, the Hilliard Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the governor and the New York State Legislature, and Corning Incorporated Community Impact & Investment. FREE Under 18 is provided by the Anderson Foundation.
For tickets, subscriptions, and more information, visit www.osfl.org or contact the OSFL office at (607) 936-2873.
Farm Aid 2024 arrives at Broadview Stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 21, with preparations in store for a full day of live music, farming education and festival events that make the day long event an annual affair a can’t miss show for the whole family.
Even if you won’t be in Saratoga Springs, you can still be a part of the annual excitement that Farm Aid brings. Watch on FarmAid.org or the Farm Aid YouTube channel where they will livestream the full festival (including a press event) from the Broadview stage beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET.
Additionally, SiriusXM subscribers can listen to Farm Aid 2024 starting at noon ET on SiriusXM’s Willie’s Roadhouse (channel 61) and Dave Matthews Band Radio (channel 30) via SiriusXM radio and on the SXM app. Live coverage will include backstage interviews with artists and family farmers, hosted by SiriusXM’s Dallas Wayne, Ari Fink and Joey Black. Eligible customers can get their first three months of SiriusXM streaming for free. Click here to see offer details, sign up and experience all that SiriusXM has to offer.
Of course there’s a huge day of music on tap, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Margo Price, Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lukas Nelson, Charley Crockett, Joy Oladokun, Southern Avenue, Cassandra Lewis, Jesse Welles, Wisdom Indian Dancers, and Kontiwennenhá:Wi.
Farm Aid 2024 Music Performances Schedule
1 p.m.: Kontiwennenha: Wi 1:12 p.m.: Wisdom Indian Dancers 1:27 p.m.: Jesse Welles 1:43 p.m.: Cassandra Lewis 2:07 p.m.: Southern Avenue 2:42 p.m.: Joy Oladokun 3:17 p.m.: Charley Crockett 3:57 p.m.: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 4:42 p.m.: Lukas Nelson with the Travelin’ McCourys 5:27 p.m.: Mavis Staples 6:22 p.m.: Margo Price 7:17 p.m.: Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds 8:12 p.m.: John Mellencamp 9:07 p.m.: Neil Young 10:02 p.m.: Willie Nelson & Family
Here’s a step-by-step guide for an awesome Farm Aid 2024 festival!
Willie Nelson performs at Farm Aid on Randall’s Island Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
First and foremost – get the Farm Aid 2024 app: Download the Farm Aid 2024 app for iPhone and Android to personalize your festival experience. Use it to get details about the HOMEGROWN Concessions® menu, learn the stories of local farmers, and make a schedule of music, workshops and artist briefings for the day. The app includes photo frames so that you can share your Farm Aid 2024 experiences.
Get your hands dirty: In the HOMEGROWN Village, you can celebrate and engage in the cultures of agriculture. From noon until 5:00pm, experience hands-on activities about climate, soil, water, energy, food and farming. Check out the FarmYard Stage where farmers and artists will discuss pressing issues, like food access, soil health and climate change and share inspiring stories. In the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent participate in hands-on demonstrations, including beekeeping, willow weaving and mushroom growing.
Discover the Music and More from Farm Aid 2007 at Randall’s Island – the first Farm Aid in New York State!
Swap Seeds: Join the annual HOMEGROWN Seed Swap! Bring seeds from home and come on down to the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent to meet enthusiastic seed savers, swap seeds and go home with new varieties to try (you can even take home seeds even if you have none to swap). If you’re bringing seeds keep them domestic, please, and bring them in a sealed and labeled envelope.
Meet a Farmer:Introduce yourself to a farmer! We’re here to celebrate farmers and they’ll be all around at Farm Aid 2024 at SPAC. Look for people wearing a “farmer” pass, enjoy their food at HOMEGROWN Concessions® and hear from them on the FarmYard Stage and in the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent.
Farm Aid Board of Directors – Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Margo Price, John Mellencamp – Photo by Scott Streble
Eat HOMEGROWN: We’re proud to offer family farm food throughout the venue. Our HOMEGROWN Concessions® contains ingredients produced by family farmers utilizing ecological production practices with a fair price paid to the farmers. Check out menu items like: local pastured beef burgers, pastured pork sausages, delicious cheeses from pasture-based and organic dairies, watermelon and feta salad, cider donuts made from local flour and much more. Farm Aid partners with Legends Hospitality and Live Nation to offer HOMEGROWN Concessions®.
Want to learn about how HOMEGROWN Concessions® started and how it’s changing the live music industry? Take a listen to a brand-new podcast episode where farmers and eaters unite!
Make Soil: Be passionate about composting and recycling! With a goal of zero waste, HOMEGROWN Concessions® uses compostable serviceware and Farm Aid promotes and supports composting in the venue. Loving Earth Compost of Saratoga will receive the food waste gathered at Farm Aid 2024 to make future soil.
Revisit the last time Farm Aid was at SPAC in 2013!
Wear the mission on your T-shirt: Take home a Farm Aid at SPAC t-shirt, hoodie, bandana or hat. New limited-edition items include a custom screenprint poster by artist Gary Houston and Wachiay Studio, regenerative leather bracelets stitched by Native artists from Oyate Studio and locally produced leather key fobs. Our online store is open for pre-orders!
Support the Regional Food Bank: Festivalgoers are encouraged to bring non-perishable, unopened items in original packaging. Grains, soups, proteins and personal hygiene items are highly desired. No glass or pet food, please! Food Bank volunteers will be stationed at both entrances. The Food Bank helps feed 350,000 people each month through a network of more than 1,000 partner agencies and direct distribution programs.100% of the fresh, nutritious food grown on the Regional Food Bank’s farm, Patroon Land Farm, goes to the clients of the Food Bank!
Chat with a volunteer: So many folks donate their time to create an incredible Farm Aid experience for all festivalgoers. Our team (in the volunteer t-shirts) is ready to help out in any way!
Eat apples at the HOMEGROWN Youthmarket Presented by Taste NY: Come to our farm stand run by young people who care about agriculture. This year’s HOMEGROWN Youthmarkets will be staffed by young people from Saratoga County 4-H, The National Grange, FFA’s Saratoga County chapter and Two Bridges Youth Farmers Market. Festivalgoers can meet these young adults, learn about the work they do in their communities, get to know the farms represented and taste fresh fruits, vegetables, cider, juices, cookies and maple candy from local farms and orchards. Donors supporting the HOMEGROWN Youthmarket include Square, Red Jacket Orchards and Indian Ladder Farms.
If you’re joining NYS Music for Farm Aid this weekend at SPAC, make sure to read through the venue rules and make sure your bag meets the guidelines! And keep an eye out for special guests – the late Pete Seeger joined Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp on stage for an unforgettable performance of “This Land is Your Land.” Watch below.
Mark Perro, co-founder of punk group The Men, will create an original, live musical score for the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu on Saturday, October 12 at Story Screen Cinema in Hudson, NY.
Mark Perro of The Men
Perro, a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter, co-founded The Men, known for their genre-blending sound that spans punk, rock, and experimental music.
The evening is co-presented by Upstate New York-based film programmers Sleepover Trading Co., who will create an exclusive retro clip show featuring vintage trailers, commercials and other oddities that will play before the feature. Based in Catskill, Sleepover Trading Co. is dedicated to retro VHS, toy and comic culture with the goal of recreating your perfect childhood sleepover, and are known for their custom made clip shows, presenting screenings of cult classic films throughout the Hudson Valley.
I’ve known Mark since The Men were a three piece playing the back room at Tommy’s Tavern. We are very excited for him to bring the noise to one of the world’s most famous silent films.
Sleepover Trading Co. co-founder Rob Ribar
This unique event is part of Story Screen’s month-long Story Scream HorrorShow X series, celebrating all things spooky and cinematic in the month of October. The live scoring also marks Perro’s first live score, having released nine albums and four EPs with The Men, including 2023’s New York City and 2024’s Manhattan Fire.
The Men
Nosferatu, directed by F.W. Murnau, is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and continues to one of the most unsettling vampire films ever made. Portrayed by Max Schreck, the bald, spidery vampire has influenced countless incarnations throughout contemporary cinema in the century following its release. Famed critic Roger Ebert said of Nosferatu in 1997, “To watch F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” (1922) is to seethe vampire movie before it had really seen itself. Here is the story of Dracula before it was buried alive in clichés, jokes, TV skits, cartoons and more than 30 other films. The film is in awe of its material. It seems to really believe in vampires.”
The screening and performance will take place at Story Screen Cinema, a community-focused movie theater located at 160 Fairview Ave, Hudson, NY. Story Screen also offers a full array of food, cocktails, non-alcoholic drinks and local beers plus an extensive pinball and arcade game collection. Known for its creative programming and love for cinema, Story Screen Cinema brings together film lovers and casual viewers alike for unforgettable experiences.
Additionally, the Crandell Theatre in Chatham, will go back to its roots on Friday, October 4 at 7 pm and screen Nosferatu with musician and silent film historian Ben Model accompanying the film on theater organ, brought in for one very special night, allowing the audience to experience the film just as it sounded upon its original release in 1922. Tickets are $25 and $20 for members.
It’s been just over two weeks since Phish’s Mondegreen music festival in Delaware, the band’s 11th in their more than 40 year career, and a reunion of fans as the band’s 2024 summer tour wound down.
Phish Mondegreen photo by Filip Zalewski
Spread out widely across the grounds of The Woodlands and Dover Motor Speedway, fans found themselves walking miles at a time to make it into the festival. And that’s before you’re dancing and driving your step count up and up. If you walked around 30 miles in those four days, you seem to fall in the median of the 40,000 attendees, based on anecdotal data.
Amid the huge jams and festival Phish that was heard over eight sets, there were plenty of non-musical highlights as well, particularly the art installations that peppered the festival area.
Over four days time, you’d have had the opportunity to see Luke Jerramâs Museum Of The Moon, where a 21-foot recreation of the Moon was suspended in mid-air, shining brightly through the trees at night. Just past the security checkpoint, you could see Lars Fiskâs Dodge Ball (a dodge caravan reimagined in the shape of a ball) and on the far side of the concert field, Henk Hofstraâs Eggcident installation.
The Cerealist Bowl photo by Taylor Weinberg
There was the parallel reality of Nova Heat, Olivier Grossetête’s Cardboard City Hall (which had to be dismantled a day early on Saturday, due to expected high winds) and Leigh Fordham Hall, which doubled as a game show stage before and after Phish each day.
Standing out as the most memorable and unique was The Cerealist Bowl, which was a speakeasy that required a password, featuring costumed servers and strange performance art, uniquely, a man who sat in front of a cotton candy machine, slowly covered in stringy pink sugar fibers.
Heliosphere photo by Brian Ferguson
Centered in the festival field was The Heliosphere, a beacon of light that bumped late-night music post-Phish, and served as a way to find yourself in these expansive grounds, making the immense festival feel much smaller, manageable even.
There were of course some downsides, including fan complaints during and after the festival citing ADA shuttle issues and accommodations. Add in communication issues between production team and staff in the campgrounds (also with shuttles) and there were some things that could have been done better. But nothing on the music or art end was lacking at any point of the weekend.
Museum Of The Moon photo by Derek Java
Even though the threat of severe weather on the final day led to a single afternoon set of Phish instead of two evening sets, fans took this in stride, rejoiced at the idea of afternoon Phish at a festival (something scrapped for Mondegreen, but a staple of all 3.0 fests, Magnaball, Superball and Fest 8.
While some who lived proximate to Delaware and were home Sunday night, others had time to rest before they ventured home, as planned, on Monday. For a four day run, the idea of music ending a little earlier was welcome to some older fans, allowing time to soak in these few days of Phish before heading back to civilization.
While the severe weather never materialized, the band made a smart call to plan for safety, to ensure the music was not impacted, and informed fans with plenty of advance notice, a notification going out on the Mondegreen app around 5pm on Saturday evening.
Overall, the festival was a huge success by all standards, with fans left wondering how long until they return to Dover for Phish Festival #12.
Below, view photos from Phish’s Mondegreen via four NYS Music photographers, each with a different style and eye for the band over the four day music festival.
