Every August there are a variety of Woodstock 1969 tribute events, the last major one being the Heroes of Woodstock tour with many of the original festival performers in 2009 for the 40th anniversary. This Friday and Saturday Aug. 18 and Aug. 19, several of the original Woodstock performers and key figures will be appearing […]
Panorama’s Sophomore Year Brings Diverse Music To Randall’s Island
For its second year counting, another sun sets on the Panorama Music Festival in Randall’s Island Park. Along with a lineup spanning across a vast array of decades and styles, Panorama brought some unexpected surprises this year, most prominently a broad artistic landscape to admire and become engulfed in. Panorama’s biggest sponsor this year was […]
Dead and Company Play Perfect Sets During Return to Citi Field in New York City
Dead and Company’s third tour made its way to Citi Field on June 24 while the Mets were away in San Fransisco, defeating the Giants by a score of 5 – 2. The summer evening weather made for a spectacular night of music with a packed stadium. The long-standing game of guessing the show opener […]
Clearwater Festival Returns After a One-Year Hiatus
Returning to Croton Point Park after taking last year off, the Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival, the country’s oldest music and environmental festival started by none other than folk legend Pete Seeger, came back in full force. Taking place during its usual Father’s Day Weekend, Clearwater continued its tradition of being one of the most […]
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival Returns This Weekend Following 2016 Hiatus
The Clearwater Festival, more formally known as Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, is returning this weekend on June 17 and 18 to Croton Point Park in the lower Hudson Valley. Founded by the late Pete Seeger, the festival took a brief one-year hiatus in 2016 while the organization focused on fundraising efforts for repairs to […]
Metallica Hits Nassau Coliseum for the Only Hardwired Tour Arena Show
Metallica’s Hardwired World Tour made it’s second of two stops in the New York Metro area on May 17 at the newly renovated Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Volbeat kicked the night off with several of their new songs from Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie along with a few of their previously released tunes. […]
5-8-77 Revisited: Grateful Dead’s Holy Grail of Shows Makes Debut at The Cap; Larry Reichman Discusses New Photo Book
5/8/77 – Grateful Dead’s most talked about and traded show from Barton Hall at Cornell University, has been mastered from the Betty Board tapes and commercially released along with other May 1977 Dead shows. The hype, excitement, and anticipation over this release since its announcement earlier this year has been turned over into just as […]
Melissa Etheridge Returns to Paramount Hudson Valley with a Big Sound
In less than a year since making an impressive solo performance at Paramount Hudson Valley, Melissa Etheridge returned on April 29 with her full band for another appearance at the historic theater. It was a night filled with some of her popular tunes and several off of her 2016 release, MEmphis Rock and Soul, including […]
Trey Anastasio Band Opens ‘Paper Wheels’ Tour At The Cap, Night One
On Friday, April 14, the hallowed halls of The Capitol Theatre welcomed a sold-out crowd for the first of two nights there for the start of Trey Anastasio’s solo tour. The magnificent sound and history of The Cap made it the perfect setting for a tour opener, not to mention a diverse setlist composed of […]
A New York City St. Patrick’s Day with Larry Kirwan and Friends
Every St. Patrick’s Day, the New York City streets and subways flood with green from onlookers of the 5th Avenue parade and thirsty pub-goers. With many options for a good St. Pat’s show or party from uptown to down and across to Brooklyn, one might almost need to throw a dart at a subway map to […]