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Friday October 6 at Funk n Waffles Music Hall in Rochester started with one voice and one guitar, as Woodstock's Connor Kennedy took the stage to warm up the stage for Amy Helm. He would end the night, as part of Helm's band, on a two-neck…

Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene opened their US tour, their first in six years, at the State Theater in Ithaca on Saturday, September 16. They're touring behind Hug of Thunder, their first album in seven years. With the…

A well run music festival can be a fantasy land, a respite from reality. Such was the case at the 2017 Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA this past weekend. As concertgoers reveled in musical bliss, the world around them grew darker and…

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.…

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, running August 10-13, 2017 was started by the Allman Brothers…

A successful 2017 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…

The third edition of Tedeschi Trucks Band's summer bonanza known 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…

Starting June 23, and up until July 1, 2017, 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…

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…

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…