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Group Sol & Kiel has world at their fingertips
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The world music group Sol & Kiel is touring for the first time outside their Boston base, teaching audiences at coffeehouses and clubs throughout the Northeast about instruments such as the adungu (a nine-string Ugandan harp), the shruti box (an Indian hand pump instrument) and the balafon (a kind of West African marimba).
Annual New Orleans festival creates citywide funk school
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Jazz Fest shows once again that New Orleans is a citywide school for funk and jazz. For music fans it's a great place to find "undiscovered" talent.
Gaither Vocal Band will bring gospel music message to SPAC
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Chances are, if you’ve been in church, you’ve heard Bill Gaither’s music. On Wednesday, this Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee brings The Gaither Vocal Band to Saratoga Performing Arts Center to offer its message of grace, hope and redemption.
Flatbellys singer eager to see what's next for bluegrass band
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Lindsay Rachel Rilko didn’t know anything about bluegrass music when she began sitting in with The Flatbellys in 2008, at the weekly Tuesday open mic night at Dagwood’s Tavern in Lansing, Mich.
ALBANY
Eric Burdon rocks The Egg with ferocious, full sound
Monday, May 20, 2013
For Eric Burdon, act three, or is it four?, seems both promising and open-ended. At The Egg on Sunday, the 72-year old British singer rocked Memphis soul, Chicago blues and New Orleans barrelhouse with timeless authority and a killer band.
ALBANY
Review: Weider group percolates with Band mate Hudson
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Jim Weider’s Project Percolator, a straight-up rock band that played The Band and Dylan ballads like high-end garage-rock, boiled several times over on Saturday night at the Egg’s Swyer Theater.
ALBANY
Review: Rappers go old school for energetic Palace triple-bill
Friday, May 17, 2013
Old-school rappers Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte and Big Daddy Kane took the Palace Theatre to school Friday night, with each proving their longevity in the hip-hop world.
CAPITAL REGION
Youth Chorale tackling original composition focused on building of the Erie Canal
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Capital District Youth Chorale will perform “The E-RI-E Canal” for the first time before an audience during the chorale’s 30th anniversary concert.
BALLSTON SPA
GottaGetGon fest set for Memorial Day weekend
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The lineup, workshops and camping facilities are all set for the 44th annual GottaGetGon Folk Festival on Memorial Day weekend, May 24 through 26 at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds.
MC Lyte balances her roles as DJ, motivational speaker
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Pioneering female hip-hop star MC Lyte has a lot more on her plate than just MC-ing these days. She still finds herself on the road most of the year performing for audiences, but only about half of that is as the rapper best known for such ’80s and ’90s hits as “Ruffneck,” “Cha Cha Cha” and “Poor Georgie.”
Fest reveals enduring vitality of New Orleans
Thursday, May 16, 2013
“The young get old, the old get cold,” sang the leader of the Last Straws two weeks ago, launching the second weekend of Jazz Fest. Formed 57 years ago to play music already antique then, these vaudevillians sang that even in New Orleans, where the past isn’t gone and isn’t even past, change happens. It was the 44th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — my third.
Project Percolator provides Weider with change of pace
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Jim Weider's Project Percolator will perform Saturday night at The Egg, featuring the longtime guitarist for The Band.
AMSTERDAM
Mohawk Valley Chorus to sing challenging 'Carmina Burana'
Thursday, May 16, 2013
David Rossi, director of the Mohawk Valley Chorus, wanted to be sure there would be no surprises when the chorus performs Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” on Sunday. So, he began working them on the piece at their weekly rehearsals in January.
ALBANY
Zombies heading to Albany
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
British Invasion band to play free show at Empire State Plaza June 26
SCHENECTADY
Review: MacLean, audience team for intimate show
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
If Dougie MacLean was having as bad of a day as he explained he was before he kicked off the first of two sets Tuesday night at the GE Theatre at Proctors, he certainly turned it around during his performance.
