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Bio: Sal Cataldi is a musician, writer and former entertainment publicist living in the Hudson Valley and NYC. He is leader of the band Spaghetti Eastern Music (first gig was at the CBGB gallery in 2004) and member of the ensembles Guitars A Go Go, Vapor Vespers and spaceheater. He is also the host of “Reading In Funktamental” on WGXC 90.7 FM/Wave Farm, a monthly show/podcasts where he speaks to the authors of the books on music, many that he reviews here at NYSMusic.com

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Farewell Steve Trimboli, Impresario Behind NYC’s Beloved Scrap Bar and Goodbye Blue Monday

Sal Cataldi Dec 22, 2021

Ahh, the morning social media tune-in (sigh). It’s increasingly filled with the kind of news you really don’t want to hear and certainly can’t use. On Monday, December 21, it was teeming with word that the NYC music and arts scene had lost…

Interviews

Rita Ryan of WVKR Marks 300th Episode of LocalMotion

Sal Cataldi Dec 21, 2021

Ever since übermanager Albert Grossman and his top client Bob Dylan moved up to Woodstock in the Sixties, the Hudson Valley has been a hot bed of popular music-making. It’s been the longtime residence of many of the best-known names in…

Photo Gallery

Jug Life! Bearsville Theater Salutes the Sebastians – Lovin’ Spoonful John and Photog Wife…

Sal Cataldi Dec 6, 2021

The Bearsville Theater put the spotlight on one of Woodstock’s most famous couples, legendary musician John Sebastian and his photographer wife Catherine, at a joint all-star concert/art opening on Friday, December 3. The concert and…

Book Reviews

Stars and Behind-the-Scenesters Trace the Rise of the “Rock Concert” in New Oral History

Sal Cataldi Nov 27, 2021

Like rock music itself, the rock concert has very humble, homegrown origins. It started way back in the later 40s/early 50s when radio DJs and record store owners saw them as a way to generate more bucks from the racy new musical style…

Pop

“GET BACK NYC” Benefit for Teen Cancer America Comes to Cutting Room December 6

Sal Cataldi Nov 19, 2021

Given the massive interest in The Beatles’ forthcoming Get Back film, an army of notable downtown artists are heading uptown to the Cutting Room for GET BACK NYC, a local remake/remodel of tunes from the Fab’s classic…

Show Reviews

Cate Hamilton Brings Cinematic Pop Sounds to East Berlin

Sal Cataldi Nov 13, 2021

If you dig the lush cinematic pop of Lana Del Ray but wish it came with more heartbreaking lyricism and some heavy R&B vocal chops to deliver it all, you should check out the music of 22-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Cate…

World/Reggae

Radio Free Brooklyn Celebrates Changüí and Music of Cuba with free event on November 17

Sal Cataldi Nov 8, 2021

Gianluca Tramontana, music journalist and host of the Radio Free Brooklyn show Sitting with Gianluca, spent 2017–2019 in the mountains around Guantánamo City, Cuba, immersed in—and recording— joyous, all-inclusive and mostly…

Show Reviews

Rick Wakeman Brings Gifts of Keyboard Wizardry and Gab to Bearsville Theater

Sal Cataldi Nov 7, 2021

Prog rockers are not a group known for their sense of humor. But there is one towering prog godhead who is top of the heap as an instrumental virtuoso and teller of ridiculously entertaining tales, ones featured in his surprisingly…

Venue Profile

Dylan & The Band’s Big Pink Lives On

Sal Cataldi Nov 4, 2021

Make no mistake. Don LaSala is not Conrad Hilton and he’s not in it for the money. Since 1998, LaSala and his wife Sue have been the owners and loving caretakers of one of the holy sites of rock history, the humble salmon-colored house in…

News Desk

Tony Falco, Impresario Behind Hudson Valley’s Long-Running Falcon, Passes Away

Sal Cataldi Oct 30, 2021

Hudson Valley lost one of its most tireless champions of music with the passing of Tony Falco, the face behind one of its most vital and varied performance venues, The Falcon. Falco passed away after a six-month battle with…

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