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Bonnaroo Announces 2026 Schedule and On-Site Additions
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, has announced the schedule for the 2026 festival…
Maverick Concerts Announces 2026 Season
Maverick Concerts has announced its 2026 season, adding to a long history of presenting a wide variety of talented…
Cry Baby: The Musical Opens at Cohoes Music Hall
Cry Baby: The Musical, by John Waters, is opening Friday, April 10th at Cohoes Music Hall. The performance is a…
Caffe Lena Celebrates Bob Dylan’s 85th Birthday with 518 All-Star Tribute Concert
On Sunday, May 24, Caffe Lena will celebrate the 85th birthday of Bob Dylan with a special evening of live music…
Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Moves Legendary NYC…
Grammy-winning pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra announced that their…
5th Annual Woofstock Music Festival Returns to Scotia in June
Bring the whole family - both the two and four-legged kind - for one of the Capital Region’s favorite outdoor…
Shakira Brings Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour to UBS Arena This July
Global superstar Shakira will return to the New York area this summer with a newly announced stop on…
Skaneateles Festival Announces 2026 Season
The Skaneateles Festival has announced its 2026 summer season, running Thursday, July 30 through Saturday, Aug. 22…
Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival Announces 34th Annual Lineup
The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance returns to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds in Trumansburg, NY…
Albany Announces 78th Annual Tulip Festival
Albany has announced its 78th Annual Tulip Festival, highlighting the City’s rich Dutch heritage and featuring an…
Hudson River Music Festival Returns to Croton Point Park
The Hudson River Music Festival announced its return to Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson on Sunday, June 21,…
Miles Davis Makes Instrumentation a Language at National Sawdust
Miles Davis imagined how the trumpet can communicate beyond words, drawing audiences into The Voice of Miles: A…
Albany Symphony Brings Free Canalside Concerts to NY This Summer
The two-time Grammy Award-winning Albany Symphony will present three free outdoor concerts along the New York…
Public Circuit Channel Brooklyn’s Underground Energy on Modern Church
New York City’s electronic underground has always thrived on collaboration, and few recent releases capture that…
PhanArt Returns to Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas This Spring
This spring, PhanArt will return to Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, bringing three distinctive installations. The events…
Michael Ward with Dogs and Fishes Bring West Coast Soul to The Bitter End on April…
New York City’s historic The Bitter End will host a night of seasoned musicianship on Wednesday, April 1, as…
Outlaw Music Festival 2026 Brings Willie Nelson and Co. to Jones Beach, SPAC,…
Entering its second decade, Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival returns with a star-studded cast of musicians,…
Hudson River Music Festival Announces Lineup for Return to Croton Point Park
The Hudson River Music Festival, inspired and grounded in Pete and Toshi Seeger’s folk picnics, and presented by…
Live Nation Lawsuit Reaches Tentative Settlement with Many States Still in…
The lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 39 states against Live Nation has reached a tentative…
Oteil & Friends Expand Summer 2026 Tour with New August Dates
Acclaimed bassist Oteil Burbridge has announced an expanded run of Oteil & Friends shows for summer 2026,…