Photos courtesy of Alex B and 215Music.net A well run music festival can be a fantasy land, a respite from reality. Such was the case at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA this past weekend. As concertgoers reveled in musical bliss, the world around them grew darker and stormier. Unimaginable horrors were unfolding. Music, […]
American Acoustic Brings Magic to Chautauqua
When you scan your ticket at the gate for admittance to the Chautauqua Amphitheater you don’t immediately enter a concert venue. You first gain admittance to the Chautauqua Institution, a self-contained gated community unlike any other. There is a surreal quality to the surroundings, only amplified on this cool, rain-drenched August evening. A group was […]
Mountain Jamming: 2017 Peach Music Festival Preview
It is not unusual in this day and age for a band to have it’s own festival. It is however, unusual, for a band’s festival to outlast the band itself. The Peach Music Festival, this year running August 10-13, was started by the Allman Brothers Band back in 2012. The band broke up for good […]
Our 10 Favorite Sets at the 2017 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Fest
Another successful Rochester International Jazz Fest is in the books. Sadly, the best week on the calendar for avid music fans in the area is now in the rear view mirror. Though the memories will live on forever. We traipsed up and down and in and around the East End neighborhood for 9 straight nights, […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band Smokes the Highland Bowl
The 3rd edition of Tedeschi Trucks Band‘s summer bonanza know as the Wheels of Soul rolled through Rochester, a city that has been lucky enough to have hosted the tour all three years. This year, as last, Highland Bowl, the criminally underused natural amphitheater right in the city, served as the venue. Classic blues rock […]
The NYS Music Guide to the 2017 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival
Starting June 23, and up until July 1, Rochester will once again become one of the hottest destinations for live jazz, and music in general. Once a year, for a nine-day stretch, the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Fest brings this medium-sized city wall-to-wall big city talent from across the globe. Headliners at the glorious Eastman Theatre, the Club […]
Hearing Aide: Andy Hall & Roosevelt Collier ‘Let the Steel Play’
Roosevelt Collier, the pedal steel player from the Lee Boys, and Andy Hall, the dobroist for The Infamous Stringdusters, forged a friendship aboard the Jam Cruise in 2012. Since then, they’ve managed to play together occasionally when their schedules aligned. The relationship grew and has finally borne fruit, in the form of their new release, Let […]
Kevin Morby Provides a Preview of Things to Come in Philadelphia
Kevin Morby is releasing his new album in just a couple weeks (out June 16), but you’d forgive those in attendance on Friday, May 26 during the sold out show at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia if they were unaware. The album didn’t even getting a passing mention from the stage, even as the band filled […]
Leif Vollebekk Honestly Good at German House
Honest Folk, a little over a year in existence, promotes occasional pop-up folksy shows in the Rochester area. For their latest booking, they brought Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk to the Historic German House. Rather than plop Vollebekk and band, drummer Evan Tighe and bassist Michael Felder, up on the venue’s tall stage, they set up on […]
Leif Vollebekk Playing Rochester’s German House
Montreal multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk is bringing his deep and moving lyricism to Rochester for what will be a special show at the Historic German House. He is touring behind his critically-acclaimed third album, Twin Solitude, released earlier this year. The three years between records saw him in a creative rut, brought on by […]