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Concert Review: Billy Gilman @ Cohoes Music Hall 12/4/2023
Released when he was just 12 years old, Billy Gilman’s album "Classic Christmas" is a staple of holiday music in my home and has been since its release in 2000. The city of!-->…
Erin Harkes Embodies Uncle Ernie
To prep for a big show celebrating the release of a culmination of hard work, "doctor's orders" might include rest and relaxation. Probably a bunch of water. Maybe a little!-->…
Concert Review: Creative Improvisers Orchestra @ The Shirt Factory, 12/03/2023
The variety and quantity of instruments in a jazz orchestra or big band are far from fixed, especially for those specializing in the avant-garde genre. The Creative Music!-->…
Concert Review: Darlingside / Field Guide @ Spa Little Theatre, 12/3/2023
Darlingside has returned with a new album "Everything is Alive," and as suggested by the album title, has resurrected the band's tradition of beautiful sounds paired with!-->…
Concert Review: The Klezmatics @ Proctors GE Theater, 12/02/2023
When Proctors Passport Series presenter Mona Golub and Eighth Step Director Margie Rosenkranz learned both wanted to present the Klezmatics at Proctors GE Theatre, they!-->…
Concert Review: Jonas Brothers / Lawrence @ MVP Arena, 12/02/2023
The Jonas Brothers brought their highly ambitious "Five Albums, One Night, The World Tour" to Albany's MVP Arena on Saturday night. As the tour's name implies, the trio!-->…
The Ultimate Van Morrison Tribute Band at The Linda
On December 1st, the attendees entering The Linda, WAMC's performing arts studio, were a crowd of Van Morrrison fans, some of whom may have seen him live at Woodstock 54!-->…
Concert Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band Creole Christmas Extravaganza @ Troy Savings Bank Music…
You can take musicians out of New Orleans, but you can’t…well, you know.The six dapper gents of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, whose touring ensemble is an elastic!-->!-->!-->…
Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble shows off swagger
“The theme for tonight is songs we’ve not done in a very long time,” announced Keith Pray early in Tuesday night’s show by his Big Soul Ensemble at the Cock ’n Bull in!-->…
Concert Review: Misty Blues’ Homage to Odetta @ Caffe Lena, 11/26/2023
In an ever-smaller world seemingly consumed by environmental, political and military flames that threaten our very survival as a species, music is our eternal flame. Misty!-->…
Concert Review: Avatar’s ‘Chimp Mosh Pit Tour’ @ Empire Live, 11/27/2023
Gothenburg, Sweden natives Avatar brought their “Chimp Mosh Pit Tour” to Empire Live in downtown Albany on Sunday night. Avatar is touring in support of their most recent!-->…
Concert Review: Ali McGuirk @ Caffe Lena, 11/24/2023
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Welcoming singer-songwriter Ali McGuirk to its historic listening room, Caffe Lena hosted quite the impressionable performance on Friday, Nov. 24th. With a!-->…