NYSMusic STAFF

Garrett Montgomery joined the NYSMusic staff in 2014, covering The Mad Tea Party Jam. During the summer of 2014, he tag-teamed many shows with long-time friend Chris Cleary, covering MTPJ, Umphrey's McGee, Luna Light Festival, Catskill…

Kim Neaton has been lucky enough to find a career in the music world, where her obsession and over analyzing of it has a purpose, instead of just making her friends and family wish she'd just shut up about it once in awhile. Born and raised…

Zack Luckin has been writing for NYS Music since his freshman year of college. He has covered shows in the Ithaca area and music festivals such as Grassroots, Sterling Stage, and Summer Camp. Starting at the age of five, Zack began taking…

Meet Steve. Steve is your ordinary 20-something career-driven civil engineer with degrees from RPI and Cornell, solving problems to better the public good. He attends meetings, drinks coffee out of one of a vast collection of mugs, keeps a…

Kevin McCallum, a Music History and Art History major and Writing minor at Syracuse University, began writing for UpstateLIVE last year as a sophomore, and he has since joined with NYS Music staff to continue covering live music. He was…

Thomas Sgroi or Big Tom as most of his friends refer to him is an upcoming name in the music photography world. Tom grew up all over the Northeast and New York State, including living in Albany, Utica and most notably Buffalo. Tom graduated…

Scott Harris is a music photojournalist as well as a street, landscape and fine art photographer and an avid member of the Instagram community. Originally from southwestern Connecticut, Scott attended college and lived for the better part…

Brennan Fischer has always embraced musical expression in all its forms. After a childhood filled with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, and David Bowie, Brennan studied trombone and voice throughout grade school. He proceeded to…

Since an early age, Jimmy Chambers always wanted to be a writer. Of what, he wasn’t sure, but he knew that is what he wanted to. This became his passion and he used it as a form of comfort. He realized a few years later that music was also…

Music has always been a life-sustaining medium for Jeremiah Shea. Some of his earliest recollections of having "the bug" include drumming on anything he could hit his hands on, air guitar snow shoveling throughout the long Buffalo winters,…