NYS Music 2024

Author: Remy Commisso

  • Singer-Songwriter Rachael Sage to Perform At Town Crier

    NYC based alt-pop artist Rachael Sage will perform alongside her band, The Sequins at the Towne Crier in Beacon, NY on Aug 11. 

    Anyone with a dinner reservation can hear Sage perform songs off her latest record Another Side. Aside from being a singer-songwriter she is also a visual artist. Her artwork will appear at the Bank Square as part of Beacon Open Studios from July 19 to 21.

    Sage is a woman of many hats. Before her musical career she was a dancer with New York City Ballet. Two decades ago, she started her own independent record label MPress records and has toured with Grammy award winning artists Judy Collins and Shawn Colvin. Sage is also a philanthropist and has helped raise money for WHY Hunger, American Refugee Committee, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital and National Network For Youth. 

    Another Side is the companion album to The Other Side. All the tracks are the acoustic counterparts. The album has a folk-pop sound and the instrumentation breaks down the individual elements to the songs. Her cover of Yazoo’s “Only You” reached #32 on the Mediabase Top 40 radio chart.

    Sage and the Sequins will perform on the Salon Stage at the Town Crier. The venue and cafe hosts a number of local Hudson Valley artists and bands like Ryan Lee Crosby on Aug 16 and Boom Kat on Aug 9.
    To find more information on the show you can visit the Town Crier website here.

  • Frank Black Announces Teenager Of The Year Anniversary Tour

    Frank Black announced his “Teenager Of The Year” tour Jan 15 through Feb 6, and on Feb 1, Black and his band will perform at Brooklyn Steel.

    Black made the announcement through Brooklyn Vegan, a NYC based music blog. Teenager Of The Year is Black’s second studio album and was released 30 years ago under 4AD records. The classic alternative rock album was released a year after Black’s former band, The Pixies split up. 

    Eric Drew Feldman, who had previously played Keyboard on one of the Pixies tours, co-produced the album. The album also features Joey Santiago on guitar, a founding member of The Pixies. Teenager was originally not well received by fans but is now considered one of the greatest alternative rock albums and made it onto Pitchfork’s top 100 albums of the 1990s.

    College roommates, Santiago and Black formed The Pixies in 1986 after dropping out of The University Massachusetts Amherst. After a few years of conflict between the members, the band officially split in 1993. Before Teenager, Black released his first self-titled album in 1992. In 1997 he formed his band, Frank Black and The Catholics and the band recorded music throughout the early 2000’s.

    The Teenager Of the Year tour will include Feldman, Lyle Workman and Nick Vincent who originally appeared on the album.

    Tickets for the tour go on sale on July 19 and on Black’s Website here.

  • Beck To Perform With The Boston Pops At Tanglewood

    Artist and producer Beck will perform alongside the Boston Pops at the Tanglewood concert series on July 23.

    Beck’s vast discography exposes his genre melding experimental music. He rose to fame in the early 1990’s after he moved to NYC as part of the “anti-folk” movement. He moved back to his hometown of Los-Angelos and released his first hit single “Loser” in 1994. It remains his most streamed song on Spotify. 

    Beck has won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male Vocal Performance in 1997 for “Where It’s At.” Recently he has continued to collaborate with many other artists. For his 2019 album Hyperspace, He collaborated with Pharrell Williams. On July 12, Orville Peck and Beck released the alternative country single “Death Valley High.”

    Beck will also be collaborating with the Boston Pops conducted by Edwin Outwater, an esteemed conductor who has made appearances alongside New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra.

    The pops perform throughout the Tanglewood concert series. The venue is located in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts and is also the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 
    To purchase tickets to Beck’s performance you can visit the Tanglewood website here.

  • Slavic Soul Party To Perform Balkan Hits At Music Haven Series

    Slavic Soul Party, a New York City brass band will rock Schenectady, NY with their performance at the Music Haven concert series on July 21.

    The nine piece band blends Slavic, Balkan and Roma tunes to create their unique sound. The band has been officially named the number one GypsySoul, BalkanBrass band in NYC. The band is led by drummer Matt Moran who is accompanied by Kenny Bentley on the tuba, John Carlson and Kenny Warren on trumpets, Adam Dotson and Tim Vaughn on trombones, Peter Hess on the saxophone, Peter Stan on the accordion and Chris Stromquist on percussion.

    Over the last 15 years they have released seven albums and toured around North America, Europe and Turkey and Zimbabwe. The group has a less than traditional way of recording. They recorded the album Bigger in under four hours with another brass band and used four roosters in the making. Slavic Soul Party re-arranged Duke Ellington “Far East Suite” for their 2016 album, adding their own twist to the classic jazz record. 

    Joining the concert series as Slavic Soul Party’s opener is Niva, a four-woman Macedonian band from Brooklyn. The band performs a variety of tradition folk music in Macedonian 

    This year’s Music Haven series features a lineup of incredible international and cultural performers. The 34th season includes Mokoomba, a Zimbabwean Afro-fusion band, Buckwheat Zydeco, a creole-funk artist from Louisiana and an Irish folk band called Goitse.

    You can catch these free performances every Sunday from July 7 to Aug 30. Yanni’s 2-Go will serve a global menu throughout the series. During the Slavic Soul Party performance, they will serve traditional Balkan dishes like Moussaka and Baklava. 

    To find more information about the lineup, you can visit the Music Haven Website here.

  • New Wave Rock Band The Pretenders To Perform Hits At Tanglewood

    New wave British-American band, The Pretenders, will perform at this year’s Tanglewood concert series on July 16. 

    The Pretenders started with vocalist and guitarist, Chrissie Hynde. She moved from Akron, Ohio to London to begin her music career in 1973. She recorded demos with original bandmates including lead guitarist and keyboardist James Honeyman-Scott, bassist Pete Farndon, and drummer Martin Chambers. They released their first original record, Pretenders, in 1980. The album was a huge success and so they released their second album, Pretenders ll, in 1981.

    The band, surrounded by the drugs in the London music scene, experienced the great loss of Honeyman-Scott due to an overdose in 1982. This happened just two days after Farndon was kicked out of the band because of his drug use.

    With new members, they released 10 more albums, but their earlier music remained their most successful records. The Pretenders is currently made up of Hynde and Chambers, bassist Nick Wilkinson, lead guitarist James Walbourne, pedal steel guitarist Eric Heywood and keyboardist Carwyn Ellis. In 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This month, The Pretenders will perform for their fans on the Koussevitzky Music Shed stage.

    Tanglewood is an iconic annual concert series located in the Berkshire hills in Western Massachusetts. It is the summer residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra where they regularly give performances throughout the summer. 
    To find more information on Tanglewood and to buy tickets for The Pretenders you can visit the website here.

  • Rochester Jazz Vocalist Nancy Kelly To Perform In Buffalo Series

    Renowned jazz vocalist Nancy Kelly will inaugurate the Jazz at Richardson Jazz series in Buffalo on Aug 16. Her performance will be inside the Richardson Hotel as part of the “pre-fall” preview performance. Thus Kelly will sing alongside a band including saxophonist Jerry Weldon, organist Dino Losito, and drummer Carmen Intorre, Jr. 

    Nancy Kelly began her career in her hometown of Rochester.

    Namely, Kelly started her career in her hometown of Rochester, NY studying piano, clarinet and voice at the Eastman School of Music. She became a house singer at Jewels, a jazz venue in Philadelphia. Currently, she often appears in other iconic venues such as Birdland, The Blue Note and The Rainbow Room all in NYC. 

    Moreover, she performs in clubs in Los Angeles, Miami and even around the world including France, Switzerland and Turkey just to name a few. She’s released chart topping recordings and in 2020, she was inducted into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame. 

    Markedly, Jazz at Richardson is the “central hub” for jazz within the buffalo music scene. It is JazzBuffalo’s collaboration with the Richardson Hotel and the Douglas Development Corporation, inviting artists to perform indoors and outdoors at the hotel. JazzBuffalo or Greater Buffalo Jazz Society, mission is to make more performances like this possible. The non-profit organization has continued to build a new jazz audience since it was founded in 2011. 

    To purchase tickets to the star-studded performance, you can purchase tickets on eventbrite.

  • Long Island Music Hall of Fame Announces Summer Concert Lineup

    The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook, Long Island announced its summer concert calendar July through August. 

    The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame or, LIMEHOF, was created to celebrate the history of musical talent in Long Island. As a result it was officially born in 2004 after the decades-long buildup to the music hot-spot that Long Island is Today.

    The museum has inducted over 120 artists. Their current featured exhibit is Billy Joel: My Life, A Piano Man’s Journey. Meanwhile, every year LIMEHOF gives back to the community with their $1000 scholarships to music students to inspire the next generation of Long Island Talent.

    However, to support the Long Island artists, LIMEHOF hosts concerts year round as well. This summer, returning bands like the Liverpool Shuffle will perform. Similarly, Long Island natives Frank Latorre, the King Bees and Joe Piket will also take the stage. 

    Performers

    Starting the July events is Bob Westcott on July 7. Westcott is a guitarist that got his start in the 60’s in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. He performed all over the U.S. before settling down in eastern Long Island.

    In addition, singer-songwriter Linda Sussman will take to the stage on Aug 4. She is an americana folk artist who has performed at iconic venues like Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Kenny’s Castaways in NYC as well as the Hall of Fame.

    Chiefly, all summer concerts are free with admission to the museum. Additionally more information about the concert schedule and LIMEHOF can be found their website here.

    Summer schedule 2024

    July 7 – Bob Westcott

    July 14 – Ben Diamond / Son Stone

    July 28- (“Beatles on the Balcony” featuring the Liverpool Shuffle – first ever free concert outdoors on LIMEHOF terrace featuring Beatles tribute band)

    Aug. 11- Frank Latorre & the King Bees

    Aug. 18- Shindig!

    Aug. 25- Joe Piket & the Storm

  • The Chesterfield Kings Bring Back The Sounds Of The 60’s With 2 Singles

    Rochester band, The Chesterfield Kings just released two new singles, “Fly The Astral Plane ” and a cover of one “So Sad About Us” from one of their inspirations, The Who.

    The Rochester based band has released 11 albums.

    The band’s frontman, Andy Babiuk says he wrote the song “with a more psychedelic approach.” Despite their east coast beginnings, “Fly The Astral Plane” sounds like the soundtrack to a 60’s San Francisco summer.  “The lyrics can have a double meaning depending on what you’re into. But if you close your eyes and listen, you’ll get there,” Babiuk said.

    “So Sad About us” is more uplifting with its production than The Who’s version but still stays true to the band’s sound. The 7-inch cover is reminiscent of the hey-day of psychedelic rock. 

    The band formed in the late 70’s, are bringing back the classic rock sounds. Together the five piece band have released 11 albums and made appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as Late Night with Conan O’Brien. In 2009, they hiatus but recently came back to record and perform together. 

    Thus, next year, the band will join a lineup of other bands and artists from May 9-13 as part of Little Stevens Underground Garage Cruise. Rock fans will have the opportunity to sail from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas while listening to punk and classic rock bands.
    You can stream The Chesterfield King’s singles on any streaming service and find more information on their website.

  • Mihali Announces Dates at Garcia’s and The Yard at Ray’s

    Rising Reggae star Mihali just announced nine new tour dates, including The Yard at Ray’s in Bouckville, NY on July 25 and Garcia’s in Port Chester, NY on Aug 8.

    Chiefly, Mihali is the co-founder and former lead singer of the band Twiddle. However, the band parted ways in 2023. But Mihali was recording solo music long before their end. Thus, his first piece of solo music was his song “Breath and Let Go” which he released in 2020. 

    Mihali, or Mihali Savoulidis, continued to write throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover Savoulidis sent Ivy Terra front man, Nathan Feinstein, a demo of his song “All Day” and Feinstein finished the song remotely and sent it back. As a result the two began to collaborate frequently, with Feinstein producing Savoulidis’s first record from 2022’s Effection.

    According to Savoulidis, there’s a lot of happiness and hope portrayed on Effection. “Personally, I’m wearing a lot of hats right now,” said the Reggae star. “I’m incredibly proud and excited to be releasing so much music and, as always, evolving.”

    Significantly two of his shows will be in his home state of Vermont. Hence on Aug 15 and 22 he will perform at Nectar’s in Burlington. Additionally there will be two New York stops. Moreover during his set at the Yard at Ray’s, Savoulidis will collaborate with the hip-hop blues band G. Love and Special Sauce. 

    Meanwhile, tickets can be purchased on Mihali’s website here.

    Mihali Tour 2024

    July 14 – Wilmington, NC – Bowstring Brewyard 

    July 17 – Ocean City, MD – Seacrets Beach Stage 

    July 19 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live 

    July 20 – Wilmington, DE – The Queen 

    July 21 – North Stonington, CT – Jonathan Edwards Winery 

    July 24 – Hampton, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 

    July 25 – Bouckville, NY – The Yard at Ray’s 

    July 26 – Cheswick, PA – Mountain View Amphitheater 

    August 8 – Port Chester, NY – Garcia’s 

    August 15 – Burlington, VT – Nectar’s 

    August 22 – Burlington, VT – Nectar’s 

    August 25 – Boston, MA – Terptown Throwdown 

    August 29 – Port Chester, NY – Garcia’s 

    September 18 – Toronto, ON – Adelaide Hall 

    October 9 – South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Brewing Company 

    November 7 – Los Angeles, CA – The Venice West 

    November 8 – San Diego, CA – Winstons Beach Club 

    November 9 – Sanger, CA – Golden Road Festival 

    November 10 – Mill Valley, CA – Sweetwater Music Hall

  • Clifton Park Announces Commons Concert Series Lineup

    Clifton Park in Saratoga County, NY is once again hosting its Performing Arts at The Commons concert series starting on June 30. 

    The free concerts take place on Wednesday, Sunday and Thursday evenings from June 30 to Aug 29. Wednesday night performances are family centered events that are always kid friendly. The first Wednesday will feature Mr. Mike The Magician and his comedy magic show. 

    Clifton Park commons

    The series also features two cover bands performing classic rock music to the Clifton Park community. Fleetwood Macked, who will perform on Aug 4 not only sound like the famous band but also resemble them in looks and character. They are “Hailed as the most authentic Fleetwood Mac tribute band in the U.S.” according to their website. 

    Bon Journey, a tribute band to both Bon Jovi and Journey, will take to the Clifton Common Stage on Aug 18. The band includes Bobby Pizzoferrato, a former member of the band Wild Cherry. The band has three other lead singers making it a vocal heavy act.

    Clifton Park and its surrounding areas have events all summer long. The same opening weekend of the performing arts concert series is the 47th annual Saratoga Jazz Festival. The Opera Saratoga Summer festival happens between June 2 and July 7. 

    To Find more information on the Performing Arts at The Commons series you can visit the Clifton Park Website.

    Performing Arts At The Clifton Park Commons 2024

    June 30- Community Chorus

    July 10- Mr Mike the Magician (Family Show)

    June 14- The Accents

    July 31- Zucchini Brothers (Family Show)

    Aug 4- Fleetwood Macked

    Aug 7- Mr Twisty (Family Show)

    Aug 14- Junk Music (Family Show)

    Aug 18- Bon Journey

    Aug 24- Gramma Tippy Toes (Family Show)

    Aug 29- Skeeter Creek