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Moment in Time, a new album from Blues artist Mark Tolstrup and Texas vocalist Jill Tolstrup just released. Along with the album's release was an announcement for a tour across New York. The album serves as a collaboration…

Three was a charm at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) Wednesday, July 22 as Matt Nathanson, Barenaked Ladies and Train took the stage as a near-perfect trifecta, chock full of favorites – and a few surprises. Butch Walker, Pat…

The Dave Matthews Band played their first of two back-to-back shows at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) on Friday, July 17. Playing at SPAC nearly every year since 1994 has created a summer tradition for local crowds, who…

Goose the band brought two bands with them to SPAC to celebrate the 4th of July weekend. The Disco Biscuits were there on Friday, and moe. jumped onstage Saturday evening. NYS Music sent two photographers: myself on Friday night,…

As the Santana hit “Smooth” aptly put it, “Man, it was a hot one” both literally and figuratively for bands and fans at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) when the Doobie Brothers and Santana split the ticket Wednesday, July 1. …

On a picture-perfect summer night, thousands of faithful fans spent a fun filled evening with one of America’s favorite troubadours, James Taylor, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) on June 28. Taylor ambled onto the…

The 49th Saratoga Jazz Festival presented 22 artists on two stages — more than 20 hours of music — on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 at SPAC. I caught at least some of every single set, and was often hustling between the…

Jack Johnson is the King of Laid Back, and while Jimmy Buffett and others might come close, Johnson gets the title; casual dress, easy smile, fluid musical style, unapologetic forgetting of lyrics, spontaneity, solo playing of requests and…

The streets of downtown Saratoga Springs will once again come alive with the sound of music this spring as Caffè Lena marks an impressive milestone — 66 years of continuous operation — with the return of its beloved Sing in…

The Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge delivered the old gold at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Sunday, Aug. 31, the stuff for which fans know and love them and will continue to know and love them: rawness, passion, power, message, and,…