Top Tips for Live Music (for the week beginning May 10th)

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By Mike Stampalia

Lots of concert announcements to digest this week.  Probably the biggest news is Trey Anastasio’s three night stand at SPAC in June.  Helps compensate for the other postponements and cancellations that continue to decimate their season.  The Flaming Lips at the Palace is a show to genuinely get excited about.  Similarly, the Fresh Grass Festival was announced, and with acts including Trombone Shorty and Bela Fleck that looks like a winner as well.  More near term, how about the 2-day jam band Spring Jubilee down in the Catskills?  Much to choose from in the area – get out there and enjoy it.

Best bet:  I’m loving the psychedelic triple bill of The Abyssmals, Laveda, and Electric Turtle over at Rare Form on Friday.  Good music and good vibes on the patio to welcome in the summer. Oh yeah, and it’s free.

Live this week:

Monday, May 10

Tuesday, May 11

Thursday, May 13

Friday, May 14

Saturday, May 15

Sunday, May 16

Just announced:

Frog Alley

  • {May 20} Kevin and Josh (6:00)
  • {May 21} TS Ensemble (8:00)
  • {May 22} Skeeter Creek (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {May 22} The Rhythm Pilots (8:00)
  • {May 23} Ryan Nilsen (1:00)
  • {May 27} Monkberry (6:00)
  • {May 28} Dead Spartans (8:00)
  • {May 29} The Refrigerators (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {May 29} The E-Block (8:00)
  • {June 3} Kevin and Josh (6:00)
  • {June 4} Jim McArdle (1:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 4} Aeromyth (7:30) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 4} Grand Central Station (8:00)
  • {June 5} Aeromyth (7:30) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 5} True Grit Outlaws (8:00)
  • {June 11} Creedenced (7:30) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 12} Creedenced (7:30) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 19} Thunderstruck (7:30) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 20} Thunderstruck (2:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 25} Strutter (7:30) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 26} Big Eyed Phish (7:00) {outdoor stage}

Old Songs

  • {May 20} presents Tom Lewis from the Falcon Studio in Whitby, UK (2:30) {online only}

Spring Jubilee at Blackthorne Resort

  • {May 21} The Wheel / The Lousy Sloughters / The Deadbeats / Groovestick (4:00)
  • {May 22} Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe / Dogs in a Pile / The New Motif (4:00)

Rare Form

  • {May 21} Machine Revival / Thinner Friends / Connor Armbruster (6:00)

Levon Helm Studios

  • {May 22} SOUNDOUT: A Benefit for Woodstock Day School featuring Marco Benevento, Dave Dreiwitz, Connor Kennedy, Amy Helm, Tracy Bonham, Burnell Pines, Peter Dougan and the WDS Advanced Enemble (4:00) {outdoors}
  • {September 24} Watkins Family Hour (8:00)

Caffe Lena

  • {May 23} Matt Nakoa (7:00)
  • {May 26} Thomasina Winslow & Robin O’Herin (7:00)

The Falcon

  • {May 27} Fred Zepplin (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 3} Deadgrass & Friends (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 4} Club d’Elf with John Medeski (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 5} El Palermo’s Chemistry Set (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 6} David Amram Quintet (7:00) {main stage}
  • {June 6} Jimmy Vivino & the Jimmy V-3 Band (7:00) {outdoor stage}
  • {June 9} The Levin Brothers (7:00) {outdoor stage}

The Hollow

  • {June 11} The Supper Club featuring The Jagaloons (6:00)

Saratoga Performing Arts Center: Backstreet Boys (was 7/24) postponed to July 23, 2022. Kidz Bop Live (was 7/25) canceled.  The Doobie Brothers (was 8/10) postponed to June 16, 2022.

New Shows

  • {June 18} Trey Anastasio (8:00)
  • {June 19} Trey Anastasio (8:00)
  • {June 20} Trey Anastasio (8:00)

Putnam Place

  • {June 18} Consider the Source (11:00)
  • {July 9} Neon Avenue (8:00)

Clifton Common

  • {June 27} The Accents (7:00)
  • {July 11} Moonshine Junkies (7:00)
  • {August 1} Moriah Formica (7:00)
  • {August 8} In the Valley / Under the Den (7:00)
  • {August 15} T.S. Ensemble (7:00)

The Strand Theatre

  • {July 3} Elton and Elvis – Matthew Boyce and the Suspicious Minds Band (7:30)
  • {February 3, 2022} Martin Barre (7:30)

Lark Hall 

  • {July 31} Organ Fairchild (8:00)

MASS MOCA

  • {September 24-26} Fresh Grass Festival featuring Dispatch / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue / Bela Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart / Watchhouse / Sam Bush / Steep Canyon Rangers / Sarah Jarosz / Aoife O’Donovan / Watkins Family Hour / Noam Pikelny / Bonny Light Horseman / Alison Brown / Amythyst Kiah / Darol Anger & Mr. Sun / Hawktail / Dedicated Men of Zion / Willi Carlisle / Felicia Collins / Berklee American Roots Music Program / CJ Field

Iron Horse Music Hall:  The Slambovian Circus of Dreams (was 6/5) postponed to December 11. The Kingston Trio (was 6/11) canceled.  The Bill Charlap Trio (was 6/13) canceled.

New Shows

  • {October 3} Joanne Taylor Shaw (7:00)
  • {October 23} The Misty Blues Band / Wes Buckley (7:00)
  • {January 29, 2022} Moondance (7:00)

Upstate Concert Hall

  • {October 25} Gojira / Knocked Loose / Alien Weaponry (7:00) 

The Palace Theatre: Cody Jinks (was 5/12) canceled.

New Show

  • {November 13} The Flaming Lips (8:00)

The Academy of Music

  • {March 2, 2022} Ladysmith Black Mambazo (8:00)

Proctors

  • {April 30, 2022} The Brooklyn Bridge / Jay Siegel’s Tokens / Shirley Alston Reeves / The Vogues / Skyliners / Vito Picone & the Elegants (7:00)

Did you miss last week’s concert announcements? Find them here.

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    Mike Stampalia is a part time music critic and historian, and has been an active supporter of the local music scene for more than three decades. He enjoys writing the daily “Top Tips for Live Music” column for Nippertown, and reviewing local concerts of particular interest. He hopes to one day lead a tribute band dedicated solely to the music of The Australian Pink Floyd.

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