bluegrass

For the second year in a row, Floodwood played a holiday show at the Kirkland Arts Center (KAC), in Clinton. I regrettably missed the show last year and was determined not to miss it again. The KAC is an intimate venue and ticketing was…

Dan Smalls Presents and the State Theater of Ithaca hosted a magical experience with the New York Banjo Summit on Friday November 2, 2012.  All in attendance in the nearly packed house were treated to a mixture of history, storytelling,…

Singer and song writer Tom Brosseau was the opening act for the evening and took the stage with just him and an acoustic guitar. Brosseau swooned the small crowd with his emotional songs full of compassion and a slight optimism. Brosseau…

Local Americana group Eastbound Jesus played last Friday at Albany's popular venue, Red Square. The band announced early in the day on their Facebook page that there would be no opening band and they were excited to play longer sets that…

Sad news in the folk and bluegrass music world, as 7-time Grammy winner Arthel Lane 'Doc' Watson passed away due to complications from surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was an amazing…

Albany’s best kept secret, Eastbound Jesus, started a rainy and windy day playing a free show at Jillians of Albany for a packed house prior to The Avett Brothers taking the stage a few blocks north at The Palace Theater on Sunday April…