Proctors Passport Season Opens, Milonovich Headlines, Joy in Troy
Previews this Week and Early Next Maruja Limon, six women from Barcelona who look enough alike to be sisters – several actually are – kick off the six-show Music Haven Passport series Thursday at Proctors GE Theatre. The series alternates between the GE Theatre in Schenectady and Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs; both are…
More PORCHFEST Pix
Above: Eric Ayotte of Nice Hockey on Ardsley Below: Alex Torres Orquestra and fans on Wendell Below: Hansbrough-Quigley on Ardsley Below: Boulevard Area Neighborhood Association festival on the Plaza, with Scott Hopkins Duo Porchfest show Below: Dylan Canterbury Quintet on Douglas Below: Keith Pray’s Ortet on Wendell Below: Matty Stecks (Matt Steckler) and the 518…
Sunny Sounds Saturday
Review: Area Acts Star and Stir in Porchfest 26 Schenectady’s fourth Porchfest Saturday presented fifteen artists – from bluegrass to classical to jazz on six porches and inside a church. Among this year’s “bests” – nicer weather than forecast. Jazz dominated with seven acts; plus two bluegrass-y bands, two classical ensembles, a Latin dance band, an Indian sitar…
“To Tell Another Story…”
Review: Pilc Moutin Hoenig at A Place for Jazz; Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 Pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, bassist François Moutin and drummer Ari Hoenig blazed through jazz history Friday in a dizzy blur. Opening the 39th season of A Place for Jazz in the Carl B. Taylor Auditorium of SUNY Schenectady County Community College music school,…
A Calendar Cluster
Preview: Music Moves Indoors, or Onstage at Late-Season Festivals A PLACE FOR JAZZ REVS UP STRONG The Pilc Moutin Hoenig Trio of (mostly) European stars opens the 39th season of A Place for Jazz Friday in the Carl B. Taylor Auditorium of the SUNY Schenectady County Community College music school. Both pianist Jean-Michel Pilc and…
Cassandra Wilson, Dolly Parton
Fair Warning: I digress First came the name, then the presence, then the sound, and the soul. Generally, I research some before I go hear a new-to-me artist; but I skipped that step before Cassandra Wilson played The Egg, back when I knew her name and nothing more. She came onstage before a small band…
Hot Fun in the Language of Swing
Review: Hot Club of Saratoga in Jazz on Jay Finale; Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026 Hot Club of Saratoga bassist/leader Dylan Perillo introduced a song Thursday in a multi-lingual pun-fest: “The Bear Missed His Train,” he deadpanned. Unfazed, singer Julia Posin jumped into the uptempo “Bei Mir Bistu Schein.” (That’s the original Yiddish spelling; Schoen or…
Jazz on Jay Closes Thursday after the Hot Club of Saratoga Concert
The Hot Club of Saratoga closes the curtain on Jazz on Jay Thursday, just days after Music Haven presented its final concert this season: the Lost Bayou Ramblers, and Cecilia, last Sunday. Music Haven presents its final film offering Friday: “Song Sung Blue.” But we digress When the Hot Club of Saratoga plays gypsy jazz,…
Cajun (plus!) Finale at Music Haven
Review: Lost Bayou Ramblers, and Cecilia, at Music Haven; Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 What Cajun band rocks the Who’s “My Generation” – in French – and quotes Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”? Just one: The Lost Bayou Ramblers; south Louisiana’s deep-rooted, gloriously noisy, electro-acoustic crew. They rang down the curtain at Music Haven Sunday in a happy haze…
Encore, Sort Of…
Review: Alex Slomka and Friends at Jazz on Jay; Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026 See an artist twice in a short time and we notice different things. Seeing trombonist Alex Slomka at Jazz on Jay Thursday felt objectively different from his July show at the Van Dyck: different players except for bassist Lou Smaldpne who played…
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