Schleigho Celebrates 30th Anniversary in Albany, Finger Lakes, Buffalo and Erie this Summer

Celebrating 30 years as a band, the original quartet of Schleigho will hit the road for select shows in New York and Pennsylvania in June and August.

Schleigho (pronounced shlay-ho) is a NYC four-piece that came together while attending Boston’s Berklee School of Music in the early 1990s. Drummer Erik Egol, flutist/guitarist Suke Cerulo, jazz pianist Jesse Gibbon, and bassist Drew McCabe became entranced with jazz early on and molded a sound similar to the likes of Bela Fleck and Medeski, Martin, & Wood.

Traveling the Northeast college circuit in the 90s led to them being regulars at the Knitting Factory in NYC and played with jazz aficionados Fleck, Maceo Parker, and Galactic. Schleigho will take you on a musical journey through edgy improv, hypnotic vibey grooves, and intricately composed and heady, progressive originals spanning three decades. 

It’s a great feeling to enter a fresh creative cycle as we enter a fourth decade of playing together.  We have so much new material and so many new ideas as a result of individual growth as musicians and humans that we can’t work on it all at once.  It’s a blessing and we’re really excited about sharing our new Schleigho songs and sounds. 

It’s also great to play songs we wrote in a basement in 1993 which makes the whole current Schleigho experience feel like past, present and future all at once.  It’s surreal at times and pretty damn cool.   We are grateful for our fans and families for the love and support for all these years and we are grateful and excited to share some special nights with you

– Drew McCabe

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of the best of the early 90’s jam band scene as they debut new material and reflect on three decades of making music together.

Schleigho 30th Anniversary Tour Dates

Friday, June 9 – Parish Public House, Albany, NY
Saturday, June 10 – Upstate Boogie Fest, Hemlock, NY
Friday, August 4 – TBA, Buffalo, NY
Saturday, August 5 – Erie’s Blues and Jazz Fest, Erie, PA

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