The 2024 Northlands Music & Arts Festival complete lineup has been announced, featuring the return of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Big Something, and Cool Cool Cool.
The 2024 Northlands Music & Arts Festival lineup boasts a wide array of talent, featuring internationally acclaimed touring ensembles. the festival will again feature nonstop music on two adjacent stages facing a massive concert ground and some of the region’s top acts on a bustling campground stage. Those camping onsite will be treated to late-night silent disco performances, with music going into the early morning.
Northlands 2024 will include indie-jam sensation Goose, the rustic harmonies of Greensky Bluegrass, and jam band icons moe. Festival alumni Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, will return to the stage as a headliner, while Big Something and Cool Cool Cool also join the fantastic list of performers. Further adding to the roster are Krasno & Friends, Mihali, Sierra Hull, Dopapod, Spafford, TAUK, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, and Magic Beans. The festival again welcomes the all-star, all-female group Super Sonic Shorties, whom Nikki Glaspie leads. Other special guests include Kanika Moore (artist at large), Jennifer Hartswick, and Natalie Cressman.
We’re so excited to welcome Pigeons back to Swanzey for another year, as well as their amazing community of fans. Big Something and Cool Cool Cool are putting together special sets for their inaugural appearances- fans, new and old, will love it. As always, we are proud to showcase rising stars in the scene on the Camp Stage. Stay tuned.
Northlands Co-Founder Seth McNally
Northlands continues to lead the way in sustainability, committed to the adage “Enjoy Life. Do Good”. Following the elimination of single-use plastics in 2023 and the introduction of industry-leading recycling and composting programs, the festival will continue to significantly reduce its carbon footprint.
Tickets for the 2024 Northlands Music & Arts Festival are on sale now.
Acclaimed Brooklyn indie rock band Longwave has released a new music video for the track ‘Tidal Wave’ off of their latest breakthrough album The Strangest Things.
The new video was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album’s release and it was shot by Jason Oliva on tour in the UK and Europe from 2002 to 2003, and edited together by Bill Moldt.
The band will reissue their critically acclaimed album The Strangest Things on Jan. 26 and fans can preorder the limited-edition red vinyl now here including signed versions while supplies last.
The Strangest Things was the band’s second studio album after ‘Endsongs’ in 2000, and was produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Weezer) at his studio in Fredonia, New York & released by RCA. The 12-track record features the band’s seminal singles like ‘Wake Me When It’s Over’, ‘Pool Song’, ‘Tidal Wave’, and more.
To mark the occasion, The band will return to NYC to headline at Bowery Ballroom the night after its release on January 27, 2024. They will play the new record in full. Tickets are on sale now at boweryballroom.com.
Also, their limited-edition vinyl release will include the 12 tracks; and can be purchased through the band’s website .
Third Eye Blind has announced their ‘Summer Gods Tour’ that will kick off in June with shows in Buffalo, Saratoga Springs, and Wantagh this summer.
Third Eye Blind will kick off their fourth edition of the Summer Gods Tour which will make a stop at Darien Lake Amphitheater on July 3, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on July 12, PNC Bank Arts Center on July 14, Broadview Stage at SPAC on July 16 and Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater on July 18. The band’s upcoming tour will also feature a Jacksonville-based rock band Yellowcard and the New Jersey-based trio A R I Z O N A.
The band’s frontman shared their excitement for this tour as he stated, “I have this sense that I am feeling the same way everybody else is—that we need a summer tour so badly, like more than ever, we need the lights, the noise, the heat, and everybody up close to each other, singing as one. Can’t wait.”- Stephan Jenkins.
He also announced that a portion of the proceeds will benefit SeaTrees, an organization that works with coastal communities around the world to restore the ecosystems. “We have a beautiful, bright future,” with climate action in the center of it. “That’s what I want people to know,” Jenkins announced on CBS Mornings.
General on-sale tickets will begin on Jan.12 and can be purchased here.
Third Eye Blind Summer Gods Tour Dates
June 8 – Airway Heights, WA BECU Live at Northern Quest
June 9 – Nampa, ID Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
June 13 – Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
June 14 – Bend, OR Hayden Homes Amphitheater
June 15 – Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
June 20 – Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
June 21 – Chula Vista, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 22 – Las Vegas, NV Fontainebleau Las Vegas
June 25 – West Valley City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
June 26 – Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 28 – Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
June 29 – St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – St. Louis
June 30 – Franklin, TN FirstBank Amphitheater
July 2 – Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
July 3 – Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
July 5 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
July 6 – Noblesville, IN Ruoff Music Center
July 7 – Clarkston, MI Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 9 – Burgettstown, PA The Pavilion at Star Lake
July 11 – Gilford, NH BankNH Pavilion
July 12 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
July 13 – Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
July 14 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
July 16 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Broadview Stage at SPAC
July 18 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
July 19 – Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 20 – Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
July 21- Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
July 23 – Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
July 25 – Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds
July 26 – Jacksonville, FL VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
July 27 – Alpharetta, GA Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
July 28 – Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
July 31 – Rogers, AR Walmart AMP
August 1 – Dallas, TX Dos Equis Pavilion
August 2 – Austin, TX Germania Insurance Amphitheater
August 3 – Houston, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
Kate McDonnell and Canella will be making a stop at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs on Jan.28 to host March for Our Lives benefit concert to end gun violence.
McDonnell, an award-winning songwriter, will host the event which will include other regional performers who are also dedicated to the cause of ending gun violence in the country.
The concert will include acts from prolific singer-songwriter Jimi W, Albany-based singer Doc Horton, 11-year-old powerhouse Iveilah, Indie-rock band Canella, and a special performance from Kate herself.
Kate, the “Ballad Of A Bad Girl” singer has co-produced and will host a night of music at the Caffè Lena, a place that is widely recognized as the longest continuously operating folk music venue in the United States. She will be joined by other regional performers who are also dedicated to the cause of ending the culture of gun violence in the country.
The event will also be a fundraiser for the vibrant organization March for Our Lives, an organization that since founded in 2018, has helped pass over 300 gun safety laws across the country.
The concert will kick off at 3 pm and tickets can be purchased through here. The show will also be live streamed through Caffe Lena’s very own channel Caffe Lena TV.
The Park Theater Foundation in Glens Falls unveiled its lineup of events for January 2024 season which includes genre-bending Americana band Cold Chocolate, Rhoseway, a comedy night, and more.
The Park Theater is set to present a wide variety of shows throughout January as part of their highly anticipated 2023/24 season. The series of events which will run from Jan. 19 to Jan. 31 will include local and regional musicians, writers, comedians, and other artists who always serve to enhance the accessibility of the arts within the local community.
Upcoming Events
01/11/24:- “Live & Local” The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Live & Local’ featuring alternative rock group, Rhoseway. Led by Upstate NY-based singer-songwriter, Rob Fleming, Rhoseway will be performing as a 3-piece. Tickets: $10.00. Doors: 7:30pm | Showtime: 8:00pm.
Additional Upcoming Events:
01/18/24:- “Third Thursday Jazz” The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Third Thursday Jazz’ with The Matt Niedbalski Trio featuring Rob Lindquist (piano) and Jason Emmond (bass). Experience some of the best jazz music in the Capital Region! Tickets: $10.00. Doors: 7:00pm | Showtime: 7:30pm.
‘The Park Presents:’ Cold Chocolate (01/19/24): The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘The Park Presents’ featuring genre-bending americana band, Cold Chocolate, live on January 19th, 2024! Cold Chocolate fuses folk, funk, and bluegrass to create a unique sound all their own – a show not to be missed! Tickets: Early Bird – $15.00 | Day Of Show – $20.00. Doors: 7:30pm | Showtime: 8:00pm.
01/25/24:- “Live & Local: Songwriters’ Showcase” The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Live & Local: Songwriters’ Showcase’ – an intimate evening featuring some of the Capital Region’s favorite songwriters. Hosted by performer, producer and engineer, Josh Morris, these ‘artist-in-the-round’ performances give audiences the opportunity to hear local musicians’ songs and the stories behind them. This month’s artists include Josh Morris, Erin Harkes, Natalie Santini & Andy Arnold (Little Saints), and Matt Plummer (Bendt). Tickets: Early Bird – $10.00 | Day Of Show – $15.00. Doors: 6:30pm | Showtime: 7:00pm.
01/26/24:- “Comedy After Dark” The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Comedy After Dark’ featuring highly-acclaimed New York comedian, Doug Smith. He has appeared on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, and most notably “This Is Not Happening” on Comedy Central. Enjoy an evening of laughter and fun with family and friends! Tickets: Early Bird – $22.00 | Day Of Show – $25.00. Doors: 7:30pm | Showtime: 8:00pm.
01/27/24:- “Live & Local” The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Live & Local’ featuring americana band, Reese Fulmer & The Carriage House Band. Reese Fulmer & The Carriage House Band challenge the traditional relationship of a songwriter and his band, with a fluidly rotating cast of top-notch players and a flair for experimentation that combine for a unique and mesmerizing live performance. Suggested Donation: $15.00. Doors: 7:30pm | Showtime: 8:00pm.
01/31/24:- “Running On Empty” The Park Theater Foundation hosts Rochmon Record Club for a series of listening parties. Hosted by Chuck Vosganian, this listening party will focus on Jackson Browne’s “Running On Empty” (1977). Tickets: $12.00. Doors: 6:30pm | Showtime: 7:00pm.
For more information on events, membership, or volunteer opportunities, visit or phone the box office at 518-792-1150.
Since Ella Fitzgerald’s passing in 1996, there’s now a major biography that shows the depth of her character and her lasting impact on American Music.
Written by Judith Tick an authority on American music and women in music, Judith is professor emerita at Northeastern University with award winning books and articles on music to her credit.
Ella Fitzgerald throughout her life, was a very private person, giving little information about herself and her troubled youth. With Tick’s book the author has managed to incorporate new information and new little known material on Ella’s life and cultural contributions. Tick has been able to achieve this through sources unavailable to past biographers, notably from resources of the 1930s and 1940s such as African American newspapers, some digitized as recently as 2010.
The author lovingly explains her mother’s love for Ella’s music, her mother’s being born within a year of Ella and the author’s home as she grew up being filled with the music of Ella Fitzgerald, providing a base of life long admiration for the singer which is demonstrated in the author’s writing of her subject.
Tick concentrates on the theme of “becoming” and “transformation” in Ella’s life as inspiration for writing the book after reading an Ella interview where the singer explains how SongBooks marked a turning point in her musical creativity.
The biography comprehensively demonstrates Ella’s moxie and mettle in the extraordinary success she achieved from troubled beginnings to international fame.
Overcoming poverty, misogyny and racism, Ella Fitzgerald was instrumental is raising the status of female vocalists within the music business. From the 1930s to the 1950s Ella was pursuing mainly jazz singing in clubs and ballrooms. In the 1960s jazz pop evolved as was bossa nova’s popularity with Ella also experimenting with soul and new songwriters, smartly finding a way to appeal to younger audiences. “Across her entire career, the artist was always becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” the author notes. It would be a 60 year career.
This book differs from prior books on Ella Fitzgerald with the author focusing on three neglected aspects of her life and work: early career, private life and her reception as an artist.
After her brief childhood in the south, Ella moved to Yonkers where we think of her beginning her career in music. By the time Ella was 9, she was called ambitious and self reliant by her teachers. At age 10, she declared to friends that she would be famous.
While her mother worked as a cook and a laundress, she managed to supply Ella with piano lessons. The author chronicles Ella’s New York neighborhood and childhood, her early ambitions richly detailed from newly digitized newspaper sources, and describing the New York social club scene that Ella started venturing into.
One of Ella’s first performances featured in New York Age was her song and dance routine at Twentieth-Century Club in Tarrytown, where she was starting to become known as “the gypsy of song.”
While trying to earn money to help her family’s finances after her mother’s car accident, Ella became truant from school and was arrested.
Labeled “ungovernable”, she was sentenced to 5 years at the New York Training School For Girls in Hudson. In the 1930s the school originally had a good reputation with studies in music and he arts.
As an adult, having been asked in Lenox, Massachusetts by two visitors from Hudson about her time there, Ella gave this response: “I loved singing and playing the piano a little. Harmony was my tough problem, but there was a wonderful woman at the Hudson training School who helped me out. We worked together for hours until we had real, wonderful harmony. It was really Helen Pitcher who started me out and gave me my first taste for success.”
“I want you to feel love, just like you were a loving person, not just because I’m a singer”
Ella Fitzgerald
When asked to return in the 1960s as a distinguished alumna, Ella unfortunately declined recalling some very negative experiences she also had endured at the Hudson school, which included segregation and not being allowed in the school’s choir. A choir she did “sing her heart out” in was at the Hudson Zion AME Church.
In this book, the author cites the New York Times article credited with breaking the story of Ella’s time at the Hudson school and her interview of Hudson’s Russ Immarigeon on his research pertaining to Ella’s time in Hudson.
By 1934 Ella was back in Yonkers and it is still a mystery as to how she got there.
The Apollo in Harlem soon became a haven of creativity to her with its lack of segregation, starting her again on her lifelong journey to greatness as a powerful female in music.
“It’s time you knew the real story of Gamehendge!”
These nine words from actress Annie Golden, playing Jimmy’s Grandma during Phish’s New Year’s Eve concert, released a swell of emotions from Phish fans gathered at Madison Square Garden, witnessing for the first time in nearly 30 years, the first full performance of “Gamehendge.”
Photo by Brian Ferguson
Written by guitarist Trey Anastasio as his senior thesis at Godard College, titled The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, the rock opera tells the tale of retired colonel from Long Island who enters a mythical land where the lizards live under the rule of the evil king Wilson.
Gamehendge shirt c. 1999, via PhanArt
To the lay person, this is the plot to a children’s book, but to Phish fans, this is the holy grail of shows, only performed five times prior and not even this century, until December 31, 2023.
With a cast of Annie Golden (Grandma), Mitchell Sink (Jimmy), Jo Equality Lampert (The Wolf), Jeff Williams (Colonel Forbin), Daniel Gaymon (Rutherford) and Rebecca Magazine (Tela), the performance spanned a total of 17 songs, with costumed dancers, a flying mockingbird and slow-moving assassin sloth among them, over two sets, stretching past midnight into the first hour of 2024.
The full show remastered video of the entire performance was released on Tuesday. Watch below and relive Phish’s 83rd show at Madison Square Garden.
Set 1: Everything’s Right, Tube, Ether Edge > Reba, Taste, Ruby Waves, A Life Beyond The Dream, Character Zero
Set 2: Down with Disease, Harpua > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > The Lizards > Punch You in the Eye > AC/DC Bag > Tela > Llama > Wilson > The Sloth > Divided Sky
Set 3: McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Auld Lang Syne > Split Open and Melt, You Enjoy Myself > Loving Cup > Possum
Encore: Cavern > First Tube > Tweezer Reprise
Additionally – Phish quietly announced a new box set would be available for sale in March. The Spectrum ’97 will celebrate the December 2 and 3 shows during the famed “Phish Destroys America” Fall 1997 tour. More info to come.
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater has announced iconic Americana artist Toshi Reagon’s 40th Annual Birthday Concerts from January 24-31, featuring a run of seven shows that showcase Reagon’s renowned repertoire, with a slew of special guests and events.
Joe’s Pub has hosted Toshi Reagon’s Birthday Concerts since 2005. Reagon is a multi-talented and versatile singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer with a profound ear for Sonic Americana. Her expansive career includes residences at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, and multiple festivals and venues nationally and internationally. She has worked with many musicians, choreographers, film and theater makers, including Meshell Ndegeocello, Alsarah, Lizz Wright, Urban Bush Women, Dorrance Dance, Ananya Chatterjea, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Rhiannon Giddens, Robert Wilson, her band BIGLovely and many more.
Reagon co-composed music for two Peabody Award-winning films and is a 2015 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2018 United States Artist Fellow, and Andrew W. Melon Creative Futures Fellow Carolina Performing Arts. She is currently a Met Museum Civic Practice Fellow and a Bowdoin College Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow. In 2021, Toshi received the APAP Award for Merit in the Performing Arts and was a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Music.
In 2022 Toshi Reagon received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Emerson College. In 2011 she founded the Community-based festival Word*Rock*& Sword, and in 2018 she created the production company Wise Reagon Arts which produces the opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, created by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon. As of 2023 the opera has been presented on four continents and has been seen by over 40,000 audience members.
Toshi Reagon’s 40th Birthday Concerts include a fundraiser/concert performance of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and the popularSacred Music Show. Special guests include BIGLovely, Nona Hendryx, Helga Davis, Joan as Policewoman, Catherine Russell, Morley, and Tariq Al-Sabir.
Joe’s Pub was named for Public Theater founder Joseph Papp. Since it opened in 1998, it has played a vital role in The Public’s mission of supporting artists at all stages of their careers with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. It presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community, and artistic freedom. In addition to one-night-only concerts and multi-night engagements, Joe’s Pub is home to the annual Habibi Festival, which hosts artists representing contemporary and traditional music of the SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa) region, and The Vanguard Award & Residency, a yearlong curation series that celebrates the career, and community, of a prolific and influential artist.
Joe’s Pub 2024 winter lineup includes a wide variety of events, including the return of Kim David Smith, Mali Obomsawin, Penny Arcade (as part of the Under the Radar Festival), neurodiverse cabaret from EPIC Players, Isaac Oliver, Xavier Smith, Never Sleep Alone, the debut of Venus Cuffs, Magatte Fall (curated by Angelique Kidjo), Mai Khoi, Nella, Jill Sobule, Donny McCaslin and performance pieces in concert, including Fouad of Nazareth, and Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra.
To purchase tickets to Toshi Reagon’s 40th Birthday Celebration Concerts, and for more information on Joe’s Pub, visit here.
Joe’s Pub 2024 Winter Lineup
Under the Radar Festival
Penny Arcade: The Art of Becoming
Tuesday, January 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 17 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, January 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 21 at 8:30 p.m.
From one of downtown’s most articulate survivors, comes Penny Arcade’s humorous and revealing musical memoir, The Art of Becoming.
Storytelling
House of SpeakEasy: Seriously Entertaining
Tuesday, January 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Seriously Entertaining is House of SpeakEasy’s acclaimed series of literary cabarets where authors take the stage to riff informally, dinner-theater-style, on the evening’s theme. The Wall Street Journal calls it “Think-y entertainment for New York’s book-loving crowd,” and The New York Times says it’s “a literary mixtape [with] perfect flow and variety.”
Generation Women
Wednesday, January 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Generation Women is a multigenerational storytelling night that invites a woman or non-binary performer in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s+ to share an original true story on a theme. The mission of Generation Women is to amplify underheard voices and create space for intergenerational connection and community.
Amanda Krische: Open Invitation, presented in partnership with YoungArts
Saturday, January 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Part performance art play, part dance production, and part dinner party, Open Invitation is a farcical riot of an evening. Created and directed by multidisciplinary choreographer Amanda Krische, and featuring live music and a cast of dynamic performers, audiences are invited to participate in a night of play, care, and movement theater. Through a revolving door of short stories told through movement, Open Invitation constructs a surrealist dream space.
EPIC Underground: Storytellers
Wednesday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m.
The EPIC Underground: Storytellers is a night of dramatic storytelling, stand-up, and spoken word featuring neuro-diverse performers and their original works centered around the theme of Origins. Join the storytellers as they weave their captivating journey through a unique lens of experiences – from triumphs to trials, from laughter to tears – resulting in the joy of finding their authentic selves.
Cabaret
Peter Smith: Songs for a New Year
Thursday, January 11 at 9:30 p.m.
Kick-off 2024 at Joe’s Pub with one of New York’s favorite showgirls, Peter Smith (and a band!) singing songs and slinging stories in celebration of fresh starts. She has been called “a genius” in The Hollywood Reporter and The New Yorker has called her “wickedly playful.”
Photo: Shaniqwa Jarvis.
Monét X Change: Life be Lifein’
Tuesday, January 16 at 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 17 at 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 18 at 9:30 p.m.
Born and bred in New York City, Monét X Change is an entertainment spitfire and the first double crown winner from RuPaul’s Drag Race having earned the title Miss Congeniality on Season 10 and becoming the first Queen of Color inducted into the Hall of Fame after winning All-Stars 4. Known for delivering energetic and show-stopping performances, Monét’s showmanship is a reflection of a tireless work ethic to cultivate and perfect her immaculate lip-syncing skills, comedic chops, and pitch-perfect live singing skills.
The Meeting* hosted by Justin Elizabeth Sayre
Sunday, January 28 at 9:30 p.m.
Justin Elizabeth Sayre brings back their classic comedy-variety show, The Meeting* for another round of fun. With lots of special guests, laughs and commentary on the world that is, Sayre returns to the format and the fun.
Lisa Stephen Friday: Trans Am
Monday, January 29 at 6:30 p.m.
TRANS AM is a daring, new, one-woman rock musical by Lisa Stephen Friday, featuring the music of Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday. It’s a touching, funny, rock-your-face-off look at a transgender woman’s very human experience. The band was a cult favorite, punk-pop/glam-rock darlings in the 90s and aughts, regularly headlining NYC clubs like CBGB, The Knitting Factory, Arlene’s Grocery, Mercury Lounge, and more. Lisa is an extraordinary storyteller, actress, and musician with a fascinating life story, and the play is a necessary piece of theatre in today’s rapidly shifting cultural landscape – exploring what it means to be different in a world where labels of “other” are still too often the status quo.
Photo by Mike Kozemchak.
OK, Olympia, Let’s Go!
Monday, February 5 at 6:00 p.m.
A multimedia celebration through live theater and film of the life and career of Olympia Dukakis written by her brother Apollo Dukakis and edited by her children Christina, Peter, and Stefan Zorich. The evening will feature performances by Apollo Dukakis and Phyllis Kay with special appearances by Blythe Danner (Tony and Emmy Award winner), Rocco Sisto (two-time Obie Award winner), and Austin Pendleton (Obie & Drama Desk Award winner).
Kim David Smith: More Mostly Marlene
Tuesday, February 6 at 9:30 p.m.
Described by Broadway World as the “David Bowie of cabaret,” “slyly subversive” by The Wall Street Journal, and labeled the “male Marlene Dietrich” by The New York Times, Australian cabaret performer Kim David Smith conjures the glitter, doom, and decadence of 1920’s Berlin and beyond in his intimate celebration of Dietrich’s musical and cultural legacy: “Mostly Marlene.”
Tease Factory, presented in partnership with Venus Cuffs
Wednesday, February 14 at 9:30 p.m.
Get ready for a taste of the erotic, a rhinestone butt jiggle, spoken word that opens your mind, and sexy burlesque that will tingle your senses -this is the classiest tease you will ever experience in your life.
Mama Alto: Transcendent
Sunday, February 18 at 8:30 p.m.
One of Australia’s finest cabaret artists, Mama Alto, makes her solo USA debut at Joe’s Pub. Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste, and gender transcendent diva. Her liquid velvet voice comes to the fore, traversing smoky torch songs, sumptuous jazz ballads, and luscious vocals.
Joe McGinty & The Loser’s Lounge: The Music of Neil Young
Thursday, February 22 – Saturday, February 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 22 – Saturday, February 24 at 9:30 p.m.
Joe McGinty & The Loser’s Lounge present the music of Neil Young! For the first time, The Loser’s Lounge will perform an entire show of Neil Young’s incomparable catalog, including songs from his solo career, his work with Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Buffalo Springfield, Rick James, the hits, the oddities, and more.
Comedy
The Last Night On Earth hosted by Matt Wilkas & Nadia Quinn
Wednesday, January 10 at 9:30 p.m.
Join Nadia Quinn and Matthew Wilkas for a magical evening of music, comedy, a bunch of VERY special guests, and a healthy dose of introspection.
Ruby McCollister: Hollywood Soldier
Wednesday, February 7 at 9:30 p.m.
Ruby McCollister presents notes, thoughts, and pieces from her newest work-in-progress solo show: Hollywood Soldier. A night of revelations, laughs, and special guests.
Isaac Oliver is Your Valentine
Tuesday, February 13 at 9:30 p.m.
Writer/performer Isaac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot, The New York Times, “High Maintenance,” “GLOW,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) returns to Joe’s Pub for his annual Valentine’s Eve night of solo sit-down comedy.
Never Sleep Alone
Wednesday, February 21 at 9:30 p.m.
Celebrity sex and dating guru Dr. Alex Schiller leads her audience through a wildly entertaining comedy show where people laugh and learn. Whether you’re single and seeking or happily coupled, NEVER SLEEP ALONE is the New York night you’ve always wanted.
Ryan Raftery: The Titans of Media Trilogy (Tues Anna Wintour | Wed Martha Stewart | Thur Kris Jenner)
Tuesday, February 27 – Thursday, February 29 at 7:00 p.m.
Ryan Raftery returns to Joe’s Pub with his TITANS OF MEDIA TRILOGY OF FEMALE EMPOWERMENT. The Anna Wintour, Martha Stewart, and Kris Jenner musicals will be performed in repertory, Tuesday – Thursday, a different diva center stage every night.
Music
Sxip Shirey’s Hour of Charm
Thursday, January 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Fresh off a winter run in Munich with the contemporary circus production LIMBO, Sxip Shirey curates a night of surprising sounds, beautiful songs, and fantastic compositions.
Bria Skonberg / Anat Cohen
Friday, January 12 at 7:00 p.m.
New York-based and Canadian-born singer, trumpeter, and songwriter Bria Skonberg has been described as one of the “most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation” (Wall Street Journal). Bria has stormed onto the jazz scene with her smoky vocals, blistering trumpet, and compelling compositions and arrangements. The Juno Award winner has sung the music of Aretha Franklin alongside Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child, played with U2 at the iconic Apollo Theater, sat in with the Dave Matthews Band, and much more.
Celebrate AMERI’KANA feat. Making Movies, The Sensational Barnes Brothers, Los Texmaniacs & AMERI’KANA All-Stars
Friday, January 12 at 9:30 p.m.
Celebrate AMERI’KANA is a journey into the rich tapestry of American music, celebrating its diverse origins and the individuals who contributed to its evolution. The specialty show features Latin GRAMMY-nominated Panamanian band Making Movies, Memphis gospel/soul group The Sensational Barnes Brothers, and GRAMMYAward-winning Tex-Mex Conjunto ensemble Los Texmaniacs. The evening will also include a collaborative ensemble called AMERI’KANA All-Stars led by Making Movies with Los Texmaniacs, The Sensational Barnes Brother, Mexican singer-songwriter Renee Goust, Memphis swamp/soulstress Marcella Simien, and more.
Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band / Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth
Saturday, January 13 at 6:30 p.m.
The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band (JKIBB) continues sacred traditions, performing new works, reimagined traditional melodies, and standards made famous by the Indigenous jazz musicians who came before us. JKIBB is a sonic celebration of the diversity and vitality of Indigenous voices in jazz: past, present, and future.
Bitch / Kaia Kater
Saturday, January 13 at 9:30 p.m.
Bitch is a longstanding queer music icon who released her newest album Bitchcraft in 2022 on Kill Rock Stars. With her signature electric violin and lyrical smarts front and center over huge beats and deep synths, Bitch coined the genre “Poet Pop” and she has been touring nationally ever since. Montreal-born Grenadian-Canadian. Kaia Kater’s jazz-fueled voice and deft songcraft have garnered acclaim from NPR’s Tiny Desk, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and No Depression. Her upcoming album, Strange Medicine, is due out May 2024.
James Brandon Lewis / ETHEL & Robert Mirabal
Sunday, January 14 at 5:30 p.m
Love is connection. Love is gratitude. Love is passion. Love is audacity. These qualities define tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis’ second album with the glorious Red Lily Quintet: For Mahalia, With Love. In this unique expression of thirteen years of friendship and collaboration, GRAMMY Award-winning, master musician, actor, artist, and storyteller, Robert Mirabal, elder of the Taos Pueblo, and GRAMMY Award-winning, genre-defying, New York-based string quartet, ETHEL, come together gratefully to, yet again, reimagine the concert experience.
Sirintip / Kaki King / Pipo Romero
Sunday, January 14 at 8:30 p.m.
Sirintip is an award-winning experimental Swedish-Thai singer and composer clout in both the pop and jazz worlds. Her unique use of effect pedals with her voice has brought her around the world performing with Snarky Puppy, Mark Guiliana (David Bowie), Benny Andersson (ABBA), and more, heard on over 30 officially released recordings. With a star-studded career that has spanned two decades, Kaki King continues to live at the forefront of guitarists and performance-makers. In the past, she has collaborated with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and toured with Natalia Lafourcade, contributed music to Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (which won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score), and performed in a variety of spaces.
Pipo Romero, a gifted composer and virtuoso acoustic guitarist from Cádiz, Spain, has become a prominent figure in the acoustic guitar scene. His unique fusion of styles, labeled “Spanish Acoustic Fingerstyle,” has garnered praise from critics and journalists. His compositions blend Folk, Flamenco, Celtic, and classical melodies, creating an emotional and multicultural experience.
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the internationally acclaimed camping event, has shared the 2024 lineup taking place June 13-16 on the Bonnaroo Farm, located just 60 miles southeast of Nashville in Manchester, TN. Bonnaroo 2024 hosts a spectacular roster of top artists performing on more than ten unique stages over the four-day festival, with live music and much more through the night and into early morning with special sunrise sets.
This year’s highlights include performances from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Fred again.., Pretty Lights, Megan Thee Stallion, Cage The Elephant, Maggie Rogers, Melanie Martinez, Khruangbin, Cigarettes After Sex, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Diplo, Carly Rae Jepsen, Fisher, Jon Batiste, Dominic Fike, Parcels, Idles, Joey Bada$$, Lizzy McAlpine, T-Pain, Interpol, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Two Friends, Taking Back Sunday, Gary Clark Jr, TV Girl, Thundercat, Ashnikko, Brittany Howard, and more.
The festival started back in 2002 highlighting the greats of the jam band scene including Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio Band, String Cheese Incident, and Phil Lesh and Friends with Bob Weir. Now the festival is known for its wide-ranging bill bringing in people from all over to enjoy its ten unique stages and four days of great music.
For the first time in Bonnaroo history, the What Stage (Bonnaroo’s main stage) will have a special Thursday night headline set, which will feature an incredible performance by Pretty Lights, who will also perform a second sunrise set on The Other Stage during the weekend. Bonnaroo is also excited to announce that Sunday night’s headline set will mark the only U.S. festival performance by Fred again.. in 2024.
Bonnaroo 2024 will be further highlighted by a very special edition of the festival’s world-famous SuperJam. Set for Saturday, June 15 in That Tent, 2024’s all-star collaboration will be “Once More With Feeling(s) – The Dashboard Confessional Emo SuperJam,” with performances from special guests both announced and unannounced, making this session a must-see celebration of community, showmanship, and unmatched musical adventure. Additional lineup announcements – including plans for the magical “Where In The Woods” stage as well as Late Night showcase performances – will be unveiled soon.
Bonnaroo has maintained a unique commitment to local and regional issues since the festival’s very beginnings. Founded in 2009 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the Bonnaroo Works Fund (BWF) contributes to more than 100 local, regional, and national nonprofit partners benefiting the arts, education, environmental sustainability, and social impact, with a direct focus on local reinvestment and asset building. This week, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival released its latest Economic Impact Study, revealing that the 2023 event contributed $339.8 million to the regional economy, including more than $5.1 million in tax revenue to the region.
The presale begins Thursday, January 11 at 10 am (CT), and fans can sign up now for a presale passcode exclusively here. A public on-sale will follow if tickets remain. 2024 ticket options include 4-Day General Admission, 4-Day GA+, 4-Day VIP, 4-Day Platinum, along with a variety of camping and parking options starting at just $25 down with a payment plan.
Bonnaroo 2024 Complete Lineup
THURSDAY, JUNE 13
Pretty Lights (Headlining Main Stage)
FISHER
BigXthaPlug
Disco Lines
Durand Bernarr
Eggy
Geese
Gwar
The Heavy Heavy
HoneyLuv
it’s murph
Matt Maltese
Medium Build
Michigander
Militarie Gun
Nation of Language
Neal Francis’ Francis Comes Alive
Ocie Elliott
Oliver Heldens
Róisín Murphy
Say She She
Sid Sriram
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
Post Malone
Maggie Rogers
Khruangbin
Seven Lions
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
Dominic Fike
Lizzy McAlpine
Interpol
T-Pain
Svdden Death
TV Girl
Gary Clark Jr.
The Mars Volta
Faye Webster
Key Glock
Thundercat
Lovejoy
ISOxo
GROUPLOVE
David Kushner
The Japanese House
Dr. Fresch
49 Winchester
MIKE.
Larkin Poe
Shy FX
Bonny Light Horseman
Baby Queen
Mdou Moctar
Jessica Audiffred
Half Moon Run
Hamdi
LYNY
SATURDAY, JUNE 15
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cage The Elephant
Melanie Martinez
Cigarettes After Sex
Diplo
Jon Batiste
Reneé Rapp
Parcels
IDLES
Brittany Howard
Sean Paul
Knock2
Ethel Cain
Gregory Alan Isakov
The Teskey Brothers
BADBADNOTGOOD
Teezo Touchdown
Whyte Fang
Bakar
d4vd
The Maine
Josiah and the Bonnevilles
Kasablanca
NEIL FRANCES
Tanner Usrey
Ryan Beatty
MIKE
Trousdale
Vandelux
LOVRA
Once More With Feeling(s) – The Dashboard Confessional Emo SuperJam
Multi-faceted Upstate musician Lucas Garrett has announced the release of his evocative and groovy new single “Going Home.”
Lucas Garrett is a musician from Upstate New York, who has played professionally for over nine years. He has a unique style that blends progressive rock, folk, new wave, and indie, with an expansive discography. With the new track announcement, Garrett is also welcoming his newest band member, Collette, a multi-instrumentalist, and writing partner.
Some people don’t get do-overs with one another in life. This song celebrates the moments where this ends up being possible. Best friends coming back together after years apart and a lifetime of experiences later… how do they find each other again? Better? Worse? Who knows? But the ride and the journey is worth it.
Lucas Garrett
“Going Home” has a nostalgic and homey feel to it, incorporating melodic and groovy guitars and percussion that won’t quit. Tackling topics of camaraderie, and nostalgia, the video for “Going Home” incorporates select live performances of Garret and crew over the years. With unique arrangements and enticing lyricism, the track encompasses the feelings that going home, wherever that may be, has over you, and all the exciting and nerve-wracking emotions that come with it.
“Going Home” from Lucas Garrett is available to stream everywhere. For more information about Garrett, visit here.
