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The Cooperstown KOA's second annual Campfire Jams Festival is taking place at the Cooperstown KOA Journey campground in Richfield Springs next weekend, September 5-6. Seven bands total, spanning many subgenres within the country music…

Lake George's beloved annual concert series, Fridays at the Lake, concludes this Friday, August 29, with performances by Saratoga-based bands Ten Most Wanted and Rick Rourke's Lost Wages. The free concert at Lake George's Shepard Park will…

From Sept. 5-8, on Cool Whisper Farm in North Hillsdale, NY the Oldtone Music Festival will bring music lovers old and young together to celebrate the music of the past and even the future. Ahead of the 2024 installment of one of…

The annual Ganondagan Indigenous Music and Arts Festival returns on July 22 and 23. The event runs 10AM-5PM on both Saturday and Sunday at the Seneca Art & Culture Center in Victor, NY. The festival is free to the public, however…

The Empire State Plaza’s Center for the Performing Arts, or The Egg, recently announced that Maria Muldaur, Taj Mahal and Sona Jobarteh would all be joining the Albany venue’s 2023-24 programming. Muldaur is scheduled to perform on Sept.…

The Wailers from Jamaica brought classic roots reggae to The Strand Theater in Hudson Falls on Saturday, April 22. Playing to a packed theater, the band got the crowd to their feet for a night of reggae dancing after much enticing and…

Chris Mazuera, a regular in the “Lofi Beats To Study To,” Spotify playlist, is getting a little less late-night cram and a little more late-night kickback in his newest single, “Roots.” Mazuera released four singles in advance of his…

Amy Helm will release her third album, What the Flood Leaves Behind, on June 18 through Renew Records/BMG.  Helm, the daughter of The Band’s legendary vocalist and drummer Levon Helm and singer-songwriter Libby Titus, has successfully…

Valerie June's critically acclaimed 2013 recording, Pushin’ Against a Stone, drew wide attention to the Tennessee native's eclectic mix of blues, folk, bluegrass influences, world music rhythms, and her singer/songwriter abilities. She…

Holding court above the Niagara River Gorge, Artpark in Lewiston, NY on June 25th was an idyllic setting for an evening of roots reggae featuring Ziggy Marley and his band, with Steel Pulse in support. A way laid back crowd was chilled out…