Towne Crier in Beacon hosts Willie Nile
The real singer/songwriters can’t help but write songs and sing them. This alone explains the prodigious and consistent output of
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The Black Keys to headline Mountain Jam
It might seem strange for Mountain Jam – the yearly jam and roots/rock bacchanalia on Hunter Mountain – to be
Blues by some heavy Katz
The title of keyboardist Bruce Katz’s new CD, Homecoming, could refer to the strong showing by ace Hudson Valley roots
Join 150 musicians at UPAC for sing-along Messiah
The Euro knockabout composer George Frideric Handel wrote his famous Messiah in a mere 24 days of feverish composing, setting
Tony Trischka to play benefit for Unison
Banjoist Tony Trischka made his name developing his own form of newgrass: progressive bluegrass with an expanded harmonica and stylistic
Mark Guiliani plays the Falcon
It is time to stop calling sequenced, sampled and programmed music “futuristic” or even “forward-looking.” You can take off your
Steve Forbert plays benefit for Shadowland
Steve Forbert is a case study in what-else-am-I-gonna-do? perseverance. The Mississippi-born singer/songwriter’s bardic talent was obvious enough for at least
Bearsville hosts Mike Doughty’s Question Jar Show
Among the many ’90s frontmen charged with laying spiel atop electro-acoustic groove music played by frustrated jazzbos and one guy
Zoe Muth plays Rosendale & Hudson
After being dubbed “Seattle’s Emmylou,” the talented retro-folk and country singer/songwriter Zoe Muth saw fit to leave her native Pacific
Brad Mehldau backs Fleurine at the Falcon
The great tradition of vocal jazz has become – even more than mainstream instrumental jazz itself – the subject of