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Michael Hallisey

Michael is a freelance journalist by trade, and a financial representative by profession. His reporting has covered a wide variety of topics including album reviews, sports, local history, climate change and Internet security. He has earned bylines with The Harlem Valley Times, The Spotlight, The Colonie Sports Tracker, 8Ball Music and Upstate Metal.

News Desk

The X takes to The Net: Popular radio program returns to the area as RadioRadioX.com

Michael Hallisey Aug 16, 2018

Internet radio is far from a new concept, but it’s growing. NetRadio is credited with the concept of web-based audio when it started broadcasting back in 1995. That’s when a network of four different formats out of Eden Prairie, Minnesota…

Albany

Park Playhouse Permanently Expanding to The Cohoes Music Hall

Michael Hallisey Aug 15, 2018

Building on 30 successful years in Albany’s Washington Park, Park Playhouse is expanding its year-round artistic and educational program offerings at the Cohoes Music Hall in the City of Cohoes. In addition, the company announced that it is…

Artist Profile

Mirk set to release new album complete with unique visual experience

Michael Hallisey Aug 6, 2018

Josh Mirsky sits at a table behind an egg sandwich at the Daily Grind. It’s a coffeehouse tucked inside a basement in Albany. If you were walking down Lark Street, you could miss it. But, it’s one of the stops he allows himself to take. It…

Albany

518 Songfest at The Egg provides special moments shared between musicians and fans

Michael Hallisey May 30, 2018

518 Songfest at The Egg proved to be an intimate experience between songwriters, performers and fans throughout the night on Friday, May 18. Some of the best stories, however, happened prior to the show. Below, we’ve captured the evening…

Albany

E Street Band’s Steven Van Zandt takes his band (and lesson plans) to The Palace

Michael Hallisey May 2, 2018

Steven Van Zandt is a product of the ‘60s, a period of time he describes as the last, great social renaissance period. Van Zandt, himself, could be described as a renaissance man. How you know of him may differ from your father. Younger…

Features

Gallery: Pink Talking Fish at Putnam Place

Michael Hallisey Apr 24, 2018

Unique tributes to video games, Phish, Talking Heads and Pink Floyd were on display on April 21 at Putnam Place with Pink Talking Fish and Scott Hannay Plays Video Games. Taking themes from N64, Playstation and Gameboys games is no small…

Uncategorized

Beau Sasser Trio to host Funk Night in Albany on May 24

Michael Hallisey Apr 24, 2018

The next installment of Funk Night in Albany takes place on Thursday, May 24 at Parish Public House with Beau Sasser Trio taking the stage. Featuring Adam Siegel (saxophone), organist supreme Beau will be joined by Adrian Tramontano (Kung…

Interviews

Ambassador Music Group’s Andrew Gabriel Jumps into Burgeoning Music Scene with Both Feet

Michael Hallisey Apr 22, 2018

Andrew Gabriel sits for a picture in front of his desk. It’s the hub of his music studio. The tools of his trade sit upon its surface in precise symmetry. The flat screen monitor shines with Ambassador Music Group embossed in white…

Photo Gallery

Proctors Hosts Beatles Themed Capital Records Live! at GE Theatre

Michael Hallisey Mar 27, 2018

It was the perfect duo – a collection of the area’s best musicians and the iconic catalog of music from The Beatles – together at Proctors for Capital Records Live! at the GE Theatre on Friday, March 23. Let’s Be Leonard, Wild Adriatic,…

Alternative/Indie

Arielle O’Keefe, Known as Girl Blue, is in Control of Her Own Musical Destiny

Michael Hallisey Mar 23, 2018

photos by Shannon Straney Arielle O’Keefe walks into The Hollow Bar + Kitchen with a guitar case in her hand and only blues on her mind. She just finished a prior engagement that left her unfulfilled. The audience wasn’t familiar with…

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