Union College Jazz Ensemble Opens Jazz on Jay Season Thursday at Noon
Union Professor and Ensemble Director Tim Olsen Leads Student Musicians Six sax or clarinet players, two trumpeters, four trombonists (one also sings), two pianists, two guitarists (one also plays bass), two bassists, three drummers/percussionists and nine singers. That’s the Union College Jazz Ensemble, kicking off the Jazz on Jay season Thursday with the largest crew…
NRBQ: Night 2 at Levon’s
On the second of a two-night stand at Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios Saturday, NRBQ everything worked, it all fit and flowed faster and farther, better than Friday. The mood was up; tempos, too; also confidence, communication – unspoken, intuitive – and cohesion. NRBQ, from left: Terry Adams, John Sebastian, Jake Edwards, Casey McDonough, Scott Ligon, Klem…
Intermission, Between NRBQ Shows
Part 2 of 3 Thin rain flew sideways on wind so strong it earned warnings on the Kingston Rhinebeck Bridge over the whitecap-etched Hudson far below. On a rainy Saturday morning sentimental journey to the Bard campus, where my son, daughter and son’s wife all graduated, there was not a soul in sight. The art…
NRBQ at Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock; Friday, May 29 (First of two nights)
Boarding their flight from Los Angeles to JFK, Fred and Mary compared destinations with a stranger across the aisle. “We said we were headed to Woodstock,” Fred recalled. “Oh, you’re going to see NRBQ,” said plane neighbor Mark Rowland, a writer who’d profiled the ‘Q’ decades before in Musician magazine. “Seeing NRBQ play…for the first…
Coming Attraction(s): Reviews of NRBQ at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock
A lot happened: two shows, 53 songs (a few repeated from night to night), a guest star. And I’ll tell and show you tomorrow. Promise. For now, it looked like this. NRBQ at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, Saturday night, from left: Terry Adams, keyboards and vocals; guest John Sebastian looking over his shoulder, guitar,…
Cumbia Accordion King in Passport Series Finale
Review: Yeison Landero Thursday, May 14 at Proctors GE Theatre When Colombian cumbia king Yeison Landero called out nations at Proctors GE Theatre Thursday to pinpoint fans’ origins, each remote homeland drew cheers. “Colombia! Mexico! Ecuador! Panama! Costa Rica!” Then a woman tentatively called out “Albany?” to loud laughs. Wherever folks came from, they met…
A Big Finish: Yeison Landero Wraps Proctors Passport Series
Preview: Yeison Landero at Proctors Passport Series (presented by Music Haven in Proctors GE Theatre); Thursday, May 14, 2026 Saving perhaps its most exciting and complex music for last, Music Haven’s Passport Series wraps up Thursday with cumbia accordionist Yeison Landero at Proctors GE Theatre. Photo provided Invented on Columbia’s Caribbean coast as street music,…
Birthday Bop
Review: Art D’Echo Trio + 2, and the Vinny Marotta Trio; Saturday, May 9 at the Van Dyck Happy 100th birthday, Miles and ‘Trane; happy musicians on the Van Dyck bandstand and a happy capacity crowd of music fans Saturday. Both the headlining Art D’Echo Trio, with guests, and the Vinny Marotta Trio honored an…
Bobby Previte’s Second Arrow Thursday, April 30, 2026 at the Van Dyck Music Club
When drummer-composer Bobby Previte explained his new music is “all about this band” Thursday at the Van Dyck, this might have seemed obvious. But how he orchestrated the skills in his first new ensemble in 20 years with freedom and force, strength and subtlety, felt uncommonly dynamic. Merriam-Webster defines dynamic, the noun, as “a particular…
First-Ever Earth Fest
The first Mohawk–Hudson Earth Fest drew families and folk fans to Schenectady’s Central Park Saturday, despite chilly gray weather, for music and messages mixing alarm and hope on environmental concerns. The free-admission noon to 4:30 p.m. co-production of Music Haven and the Eighth Step folk Coffeehouse at Proctors alternated music with speeches on the Music…
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