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Music News for 062218:
---The Brackney Inn has burned down again! Talk about being snake bit! Last Novembers fire destroyed the second floor of the structure, but this fire seems worse as the entire second floor not only burned, but collapsed into the first! Not only that, but the owners had finished reconstruction and were hoping to re-open by the Fourth of July! After the second fire, the owners are re-evaluating all their options. Here’s a link: http://www.wicz.com/story/38440876/breaking-brackney-inn-on-fire-second-time-in-less-than-a-year
---Young The
Giant has been scheduled for Friday night, 9/21, which is night #1
of the 2nd Annual
Cayuga Sound Fest, at Stewart
Park in
---Local singer/ songwriter, Alex Creamer leaves on her first nationwide tour this week and as she ties up her loose ends, she posted this video on facebook! To check out her cover of Bob Dylan’s, “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” click on this link:
https://www.facebook.com/100010333806157/videos/632496917104763
---Local musician,
John Stark, faced with
mounting bills is selling his house to help cover his costs!
He posted this last week on facebook:
“I
am going to be putting my house up for sale soon It in in the 1st ward
and had 2 units. I currently rent the 2nd floor apartment for $650
including utilities. I have a loft with at least 1 more bedroom and has
1 bedroom on 2nd floor. Off street parking. I live on the 1st floor
presently. Which also has 2 bed rooms...it needs some work but has had
many upgrades. Furnace is newer roof is also has many replacement vynal
windows. Looking to get $38,000.in as is condition. Situated on a cotter
double lot. Message me if interested.”
---Johnson City native, now a resident of Nashville
TN, Zarni de Wet (also known
professionally as Zarni de Vette) continues to work on her next album in
her spare time (as she works for SNG in Nashville as a professional
songwriter)…and gave us a taste of it with a facebook post this week!
She really recorded the vocals in her bathroom at her home in
---Medical issues forced local band, Recycled Zombies to withdraw from their Friday night (tonight 6/22) show at Toppers in Endicott! This post below from their official facebook page explains a bit more…
“ATTENTION: Due to an unforeseen Medical issue, Recycled Zombies have to cancel our next two shows. Keep our Brother Al in your prayers. The show will still go on with Kickstart opening then Hollow Bodies and Kreature ends the night.”
…The “Brother Al” in question is lead guitarist, Al Cataldi, who had to have eye surgery to repair a detached retina. Feel better soon, Al!
---Meanwhile, local singer/ songwriter, Devinne Meyers posted facebook video of part of the Mike Davis & The Laughing Buddha Episodes set from last weekends Crowfest. You can see it by clicking on this link: https://www.facebook.com/100017442436109/videos/225743878017025/
---Just before Pentatonix tickets went on sale, the band announced that they were adding Echosmith and Scott Callum as warm-up acts for the entire tour, including at Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 8/23…and Montage Mountain on 8/25 in Scranton PA and the rest of their schedule…Bristow VA on 8/12…Camden NJ on 8/14…Wantagh NY on 8/15…Holmdel NJ on 8/20…Hartford CT on 8/26…Mansfield MA on 8/28…Burgettstown PA on 9/1…and Hershey PA on 9/2!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Panic! At
The Disco have announced a second leg for their “Pray For The Wicked” North American tour, set for the Winter of
2019, strap on your snowshoes and get ready to rave!
See them in
---Slash
with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators return in support of
Slash’s new album, “Living
The Dream” due on 9/21!
See them at…
---Alt-pop act,
lovelytheband has confirmed a
Fall leg on their 2018 tour, which brings more regional dates for the
rising stars, (recently at #1 on the Alternative charts with their song
“Broken.”)…a new date in
---Alt-rockers, Clutch & Sevendust have announced a Fall 2018 tour…Pittsburgh PA on 10/21…Toronto ON on 10/23…Worcester MA on 10/25…NYC on 10/26 & 10/27…and Philadelphia PA on 10/28!
---Hip hop star, Playboi Carti has announced a Summer 2018 tour that includes a swing thru our region…Pittsburgh PA on 8/8…Providence RI on 8/10…Boston MA on 8/11…NYC on 8/12…and Philadelphia PA on 8/14!
---Jim James of My Morning Jacket is planning an acoustic solo tour for Fall 2018 and it will play in our region at least a few times…NYC on 11/13…Port Chester NY on 11/14…Boston MA on 11/6…and Washington DC on 11/17!
---Seether
and Tremonti are hitting
the road together and spending six out-of-their-eleven dates in our
region! Catch them in…
---The
Breeders have announced a few
---Post modern rockers, The Alkaline Trio is back with Summer 2018 tour dates…Baltimore MD on 8/14…Sayreville NJ on 8/16…Brooklyn NY on 8/17…and Philadelphia PA on 8/19!
---Nothing has booked a handful of date for late Summer/ early Fall of 2018, with regional stops set for…Brooklyn NY on 10/5…Philadelphia PA on 10/6…and Cambridge MA on 10/7!
---Welshly
Arms announces a few American shows before their European tour…
---Reggae band,
UB40 has made plans for
Halloween! See then in…
---The
String Cheese Incident is coming around this Fall, with…two nights
in Upper Darby PA (near philly) on 10/31 & 11/1….and two more nights in
---Alt-pop singer,
Meg Myers has only announced
a handful of show thru the Fall, but some will be in our region…
---NJ post-hardcore band, Thursday, rather than tour…have expanded their two stops, which are now…two four-night blocks of residencies…Asbury Park NJ from 8/23-8/26 (formerly 3 nights)…then Brooklyn NY from 12/27-12/30 (formerly 2 nights)!
---Rap star, Pusha T, has announced a 20-date, cross-country tour…but will only stop in our region twice…Boston MA on 8/12…and Baltimore MD on 8/15!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---70’s progressive jazz/rock fusion band, The Soft Machine has booked one-show only/ per country in North America…Montreal QC on 7/7…and Philadelphia PA on 10/7!
---Chrisette
Michelle books a one-off in Glenside PA, just outside of
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Taj Mahal
adds
---Nine Inch
Nails adds a second night in
---Jukebox
The Ghost adds
---Toto
adds
---O-Town
adds a solo date outside of the Pop2K tour in
---The
Marshall Tucker Band was officially added to all of the remaining
Lynyrd Skynyrd farewell tour dates (except apparently in
---The
Vaccines add
---Yungblud adds Allston MA on 10/23!
---Jason
Mraz adds holiday dates in
---Life of
Agony adds
---Cold War
Kids add
---Fuel
adds
---First Aid
Kit adds a second night in
---David
Byrne adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Alkaline Trio (4)
---Cayuga Sound Fest (2)
---Chrisette Michelle (1)
---Clutch/ Sevendust (6)
---Cold War Kids (2)
---David Byrne (3)
---First Aid Kit (1)
---Fuel (1)
---Jason Mraz (4)
---Jim James (4)
---Jukebox The Ghost (1)
---Life Of Agony (1)
---lovelytheband (1)
---Meg Myers (2)
---Nine Inch Nails (3)
---Nothing (3)
---O-Town (1)
---Panic! At The Disco (8)
---Playboi Carti (5)
---Pusha T (2)
---Seether/ Tremonti (6)
---Slash with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators (7)
---String Cheese Incident (4)
---Taj Mahal (1)
---The Breeders (2)
---The Soft Machine (2)
---The Vaccines (1)
---Thursday (3)
---Toto (1)
---UB40 (3)
---Welshly Arms (3)
---Young The Giant (6)
---Yungblud (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 061518:
---Ringo
Starr & His All-Star Band are coming to
---Owners of the iconic Brackney Inn, in Brackney PA, responded to my relentless questions about when they will finally reopen after last Falls fire in their residential upstairs area destroyed the venue/bar. After hoping to re-open by the end of March, it looks like July 4th is more realistic…perhaps even sooner. We’ll keep ya posted, but that is good news indeed!
---Looks like Jen Chapin (who was just here a few months ago) is coming back as part of her upcoming Summer thru Fall 2018 tour! Chapin (the late harry’s daughter) is set to play Atomic Tom’s in Binghamton NY on 8/11, as well as other regional stops…Oxford Valley PA on 8/10…New Hartford CT on 8/16…Willimantic CT on 10/14…and it finishes with a four-week Sunday night residency at the Barbes club in Brooklyn NY on 11/4, 11/11, 11/18 and 11/25!
---Alternative music fest,
Cayuga Sound Fest returns for 2018 at Stewart Park in
---Kites and Powerlines have announced that their debut album, “There’s More Here Than Black & White” is now available for streaming, with a post on their facebook page last week: ”Attention everybody! Our new record "There's More Here Than Black & White" is finally available on a wide variety of digital services! This means you can find us on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Apple Music, Amazon, and pretty much any other form of digital music medium you can think of! Please add us to your playlists and help us out by sharing this post!” Congrats, guys!
---A Z.Z.
Top concert for $15.00?
It happens in
---Btw,
Prophets Of Rage and Slayer
have been added to the bill for the upcoming Rock-a-thon Fest at
Lakeview Amphitheatre, in
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---Finally, The Peach Festival has announced it’s full line-ups for Thursday 7/19 and Sunday 7/22, so check either the Local or Regional Concert Pages for full details.
---The NYS
Fair in
---Jeff Howell has officially changed the name of his new band from “Tears” to “Jeff Howell’s Boogie du Jour.” Apparently there are a bunch of other bands that have used, or are still using, the name “Tears.” Boogie on!
---Congrats to Mallory Evans of Next To Kin and her family! She gave birth to Miles Lohrman Evans on Tuesday morning 6/12! Both mama and baby doing fine…at 8 lbs. 9 ounces and 22.5 inches he better be!
LOCAL-ISH:
---Mike Love’s touring version of the Beach Boys have announced a new show at the former Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua NY, now known as CMAC, on Monday 8/6 as well as two other shows…Farmingville NY on 8/16…and Brooklyn NY on 8/17! They have also confirmed their local stop at Tioga Downs in Nichols on 8/7!
---“Wicked Game” singer/ songwriter, Chris Isaak has added a Summer 2018 tor leg that will make him “Local-ish” when he comes to…Penn’s Peak at Jim Thorpe PA on 8/16…Lincoln RI on 8/18…Montclair NJ 8/25…and two nights in Alexandria VA on 8/26 & 8/27!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Toto has released another round of their 40th anniversary tour dates, so here’s where you can find them in our region this Fall…Washington DC on 11/8…Atlantic City NJ on 11/9…Ridgefield CT on 11/12…New Brunswick NJ on 11/13…Morristown NJ on 11/15…Brookville NY on 11/17…and Lynn MA on 11/17!
---The Gaslight Anthem is back together, following a solo album and tour from their lead singer, Brian Fallon…and touring both Europe and North America…Toronto ON on 8/9 & 8/10…Boston MA on 8/13…Philadelphia PA on 8/15…and two nights at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park NJ to wrap it up on 8/17 & 8/18!
---All Time Low and Dashboard Confessional have announced a co-headlining trek across North America that will be long and massive…in addition to the previously announced date last week for Bethlehem MusikFest on 8/11, you can also see them in…Lewiston NY on 8/12…Toronto ON on 8/14…Wallingford CT on 8/16…Philadelphia PA on 8/17…Baltimore MD on 8/18…NYC on 8/19…Pittsburgh PA on 8/21…Boston MA on 8/25…and Asbury Park NJ on 8/26!
---Jack
Russell’s Great White (not to be confused with the real Great White,
Russell’s former band) is lining-up Fall tour dates with the
Bullet Boys…
---10 Years has a big summer planned with double stops of triple nights in Pittsburgh, as well as a stint on the Seether tour…Uncasville CT on 6/20…Pittsburgh PA on 7/27, 7/28 & 7/29…then, Hyannis MA on 8/1…three more nights in Pittsburgh PA on 8/2, 8/3 & 8/4…finally Vienna VA on 8/9!
---Former Eagles bass player,
Don Felder has confirmed Fall tour dates, but only two for our
region…
---Social
Distortion have announced Fall 2018 dates…
---Todd
Rundgren has booked a handful of tour dates for Summer 2018…only
three stops are in our region, but that’s not bad…Salisbury MA on
7/25…Pawling NY on 8/1…and Albany NY on 8/3!
There’s also a date in
---Alternative band, Dawes has added a Fall leg to their 2018 tour, which means more regional dates…Philadelphia PA on 9/11…Pittsburgh PA on 9/12…Canton MA on 9/16…and Red Bank NJ on 9/19!
---Trivium has announced a Fall leg of their 2018 tour and that includes the following regional stops…Baltimore MD on 10/11…Huntington NY on 10/12…Philadelphia PA on 10/13…and Worcester MA on 10/14!
---Jazz sax player,
Najee has booked a tour with
a few regional stops…
---Thrice
has announced a series of Fall 2018 dates…but only two for our
region…Silver Springs MD on 10/4…and
---Fans of 50’s music will be glad to know that
there are some bastions of the first wave left…Joey
Dee & The Starlighters will headline a show with
Sonny Turner and The
Happenings at the Theatre @
Westbury on
---Sleeping With Sirens has announced a summer leg to their 2018 tour, but with only two shows in our region…Boston MA on 7/11…and Washington DC on 7/15!
---Asleep At
The Wheel will roll thru our region with Summer dates just
announced, including…
---Kenny G
has announced a few Summer concert dates…
---Ween
announces a three-date tour, with just one show for our greater region…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Mike
Shinoda of
---If you’re a fan of modern metal, don’t miss this
huge intersection of concert tours at
Jones Beach Amphitheatre in
---Toni
Braxton books a “one-off” in
---Liam
Payne has booked only one show that is both east of the
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---Nathaniel
Rateliff has announced a one-timer, without the Night Sweats, at
---Jose Feliciano announces a “one-off” in NYC on 12/9!
---Fran
Cosmo, formerly of
---After their headline tour
Adelita’s Way jumps on the
Fozzy tour which makes only one appearance in our region…
---Vanessa
Williams will play a “one-off” in
---10,000
Maniacs confirm a one-shot show in
---Humble
Pie returns with a “one-shot” in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Rockers Daughtry, namesake of the American Idol alumni, Chris Daughtry, is adding dates to their tour in support of their new album, “Cage To Rattle” (due 7/27)…Montclair NJ on 8/24…and Huntington NY on 8/25!
---Taking
Back Sunday has booked a solo show on an off-night, during the
Coheed & Cambria tour…in
---Prophets
Of Rage add a solo show in
---Warren G
adds
---Firehouse
adds
---A Perfect
Circle adds
---Gavin
DeGraw adds a solo date on an “off” night during his co-headlining
tour with Phillip Phillips…in
---The Gin
Blossoms add
---The Box
Tops add
---Kid N
Play w/ Naughty By Nature
add
---The Grass
Roots add
---A$ap Ferg adds NYC on 7/16!
---Sarah
McLachlan adds
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---Bobby
McFerrin adds two nights in
---Arlo Guthrie adds Red Bank NJ on 10/4…Glenside PA on 10/7…Westbury NY on 10/19…New Haven CT on 10/20…and Hartford CT on 11/16!
---Andy
Grammer adds
---Wyclef
Jean, formerly of The Fugees, adds
---Joan
Armatrading adds
---The
Calling add
---Marshall
Tucker Band adds
---John
Waite adds
---Surf rock guitarist,
Dick Dale adds
---Shawn
Colvin adds
---The
Calling adds
---Michael
Nesmith, of the monkees adds
---The
Church (remember their one-hit wonder 80’s song, “Under
The Milky Way”?) adds…
---Don
McLean adds
---Darlene
Love adds
---Robyn Hitchcock adds NYC on 10/12!
---Carl
Palmer’s ELP Legacy adds
---.38
Special adds
---Tenacious
D adds a second night in
---Air
Supply adds
---Hot Tuna
adds NYC on 11/21…
---Thursday
adds two nights in
---Sting
adds
---Jesse
Colin Young adds
---Foster
The People add a solo show on an “off night” on the Paramore tour in
---Smash
Mouth add
---GZA
adds
---Cracker
adds
---LeAnn
Rimes adds
---Johnny
Marr adds
---Dua Lipa
adds
---Garbage
adds
---Stryper
adds
---Old Crow
Medicine Show adds
---The Fixx
add Warrendale PA on 8/10…and
---Smokey
Robinson adds
---Courtney
Barnett adds
---The
Temptations add
---They Might Be Giants add Pittsbugh PA on 11/3!
---Bret
Michaels, of Poison adds
---Houndmouth
adds
---Method
Man & Redman add
---lovelytheband
adds
---Lily
Allen adds NYC on 10/20…and
---Metallica
adds
---Dweezil
Zappa adds NYC on 11/2…and
---Kenny
Wayne Shepherd adds
---Sleeping
With Sirens adds
---Adelita’s
Way adds
---Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus adds
---Blue
October adds
---Psychostick
adds
---Cowboy Mouth has opened up a 3-night residency in Philadelphia by adding two more shows at Punch Line…on 8/16 & 8/17…to their already booked date on 8/18!
---Phil Lesh
adds
---The Plot
In You adds
---Donavon Frankenreiter adds Dewey Beach DE on 8/7!
---Gladys
Knight & The O’Jays add
---The
O’Jays add
---Sophie B.
Hawkins adds
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---Rooney
adds
---Zebra
adds
---Nils
Lofgren adds
---Geoff
Tate’s 30th
Anniversary of Operation Mindcrime adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---.38 Special (1)
---10 Years (9)
---10,000 Maniacs (1)
---A Perfect Circle (2)
---Adelita’s Way (1)
---Air Supply (1)
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---Andy Grammer (2)
---Arlo Guthrie (5)
---A$ap Ferg (1)
---Asleep At The Wheel (4)
---Beach Boys (3)
---Blue October (1)
---Bobby McFerrin (3)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (1)
---Chris Isaak (5)
---Courtney Barnett (1)
---Cowboy Mouth (3)
---Cracker (3)
---Darlene Love (1)
---Dawes (4)
---Dick Dale (3)
---Don Felder (2)
---Don McLean (1)
---Donavon Frankenreiter (1)
---Dua Lipa (1)
---Dweezil Zappa (2)
---Firehouse (1)
---Foster The People (1)
---Fran Cosmo (1)
---Garbage (1)
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---Gavin DeGraw (1)
---Geoff Tate (1)
---Gin Blossoms (2)
---Gladys Knight/ The O’Jays (2)
---Grass Roots (1)
---GZA (1)
---Hot Tuna (2)
---Jack Russell’s Great White/ BulletBoys (2)
---Jen Chapin (8)
---Jesse Colin Young (2)
---Joan Armatrading (3)
---John Waite (1)
---Johnny Marr (1)
---Kenny G (2)
---Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1)
---Kid N Play/ Naughty By Nature (1)
---LeAnn Rimes (1)
---Liam Payne (1)
---Lily Allen (2)
---lovelytheband (2)
---Marshall Tucker Band (1)
---Metallica (1)
---Method Man & Redman (1)
---Michael Nesmith (2)
---Mike Shinoda (1)
---Najee (5)
---Nathaniel Rateliff (1)
---Nils Lofgren (2)
---Old Crow Medicine Show (1)
---Phil Lesh (1)
---Prophets Of Rage (1)
---Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (1)
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---Robin Hitchcock (1)
---Rooney (1)
---Sarah McLachlan/ Patty Griffin (1)
---Shawn Colvin (1)
---Shinedown/ Godsmack/ Avenged Sevenfold/ Prophets Of Rage/ Breaking Benjamin/ Five Finger Death Punch/ Marilyn Manson/ Rob Zombie (1)
---Sleeping With Sirens (2)
---Smash Mouth (1)
---Smokey Robinson (1)
---Social Distortion (4)
---Sophie B. Hawkins (1)
---Sting (1)
---Stryper (1)
---Taking Back Sunday (1)
---Tenacious D (1)
---The Box Tops (1)
---The Calling (2)
---The Chainsmokers (1)
---The Church (2)
---The Fixx (2)
---The O’Jays (1)
---The Plot In You (1)
---The Temptations (1)
---They Might Be Giants (1)
---Thrice (2)
---Thursday (2)
---Todd Rundgren (3)
---Toni Braxton (1)
---Trivium (4)
---Warren G (3)
---Ween (1)
---Wyclef Jean (2)
---Young The Giant (3)
---Z.Z. Top (5)
---Zebra (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 060818:
---Before her first ever local show as a performer, (she was previously a journalist and an acupuncturist), last Friday (6/1) at the Old Union Hotel, Athena Desai stopped by her old school, MacArthur Elementary and was interviewed by Fox 40 HD News. To see it for yourself, just click on the link below:
---Most of the complete schedule for the three day JulyFest, which is also the 2018 Binghamton Music & Jazz Festival, was released last week…unfortunately I didn’t discover it until after I put last weeks report to bed, so let’s copy and paste it here, just in case you missed it:
Friday, July 6th:
12:00 – 1:00 PM
1:15 - 2:15 PM Teen Jazz Project Big Band
2:30 - 3:30 PM Jorden & The Wombats
3:45- 4:45 PM Bill Carter Presbybop (Chick Corea Tribute Band)
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Terry
8:00 - 11:00 PM Splash
Saturday, July 7th:
8:00 - 10:00 AM
Ultra Vibe w/
Mo "Reese"
12:00 – 12:45 PM Eric Ross Blues Band
1:00 – 1:45 PM
Glenda
2:00 – 2:45 PM
Michael Hill's Blues Mob
3:00 – 4:00 PM Gabe Condon Solidarity Band
4:30 – 6:00 PM Mystic Moondance Van Morrison Tribute Band
7:00 - 10:00 PM BlackLites R&B Show Band
Sunday, July 8th:
12:00 – 1:00 PM Noor Hila Project
1:15 – 2:15 PM TBA???
2:30 – 3:30 PM Carlos Chaluisant's Son Montuno
---The full schedule is also up for the Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival and looking at it from a local perspective night #1, on Thursday 7/5 may offer the Southern Tiers best, with Gene Hummel, the O’Neill Brothers, the Dishonest Fiddlers, Milkweed & Bug Tussle, with more regional and national acts taking over for the rest of the weekend! Here’s the breakdown:
Day #1:
Thu July 5th: Barleywine @ 2p/ Renegade Ramblers @ 3p/ Gene Hummel @ 4p/ Hubbard & Friends @ 5p/ O'Neill Brothers @ 6p/ Rebecca Colleen @ 7p/
Dishonest Fiddlers @ 8p/ Milkweed @ 9p/ Bug Tussle @ 10p
Day #2:
Fri July 6th: Set #1 w/ Slewfoot @ 11am/ Dishonest Fiddlers @ 11:55a/
Milkweed @ 12:50p/ Renegade Ramblers @ 1:45p/ Terry & the Busy Birds @ 2:40p
Fri July 6th: Set #2 w/ Melanie & The Boys @ 4p/ Molly & The Badly Bent Bluegrass Boys @ 455p/ Jersey Corn Pickers @ 550p/ Wilson Banjo Company @ 645p/ Mama Corn @ 740p/ Blue Mafia @ 835p/ Dave Adkins (2 sets) @ 930p
Day #3:
Sat July 7th: Set #1 w/
Molly & The Badly Bent Bluegrass
Boys @ 10am/ Jersey Corn
Pickers @ 1055am/ Terry &
The Busy Birds @ 1150a/ Mama
Corn @ 1245p/ Blue Mafia
@ 140p/ Seven Mile Bluegrass
Band @ 235p
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Sat July 7th: Set #2 w/
Cold Chocolate @ 4p/
Grill Billie Project @ 455p/
Wilson Banjo Company @ 550p/
Carolina Blue @ 645p/
Matthews Family Tradition @
740p/ Bug Tussle @ 835p/
Lonesome River Band (2 sets)
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Day #4:
Sun July 8th: Cold Chocolate @ 1055a/ Seven Mile Bluegrass @ 1150a/ Matthews Family Tradition @ 1245p/ Grill Billie Project @ 140p/ Carolina Blue @ 235p/ Bug Tussle @ 330p
---Here are two more additions to the schedule for
the FREE, Broome Bands Together
Summer Concert Series at
Otsiningo Park in
7/17: Odd Man Out w/ Brady Goldsmith @ 6p
8/14: Blue Velvet Band w/ Jorden & the Wombats @ 6p
…to see the full schedule so far, go to our Local Concert Page, and sort by venue, then scroll down to Broome Bands Together @ Otsiningo Park!
---The 22nd annual Rec Park Music Fest will be held on Sunday July 15th and has announced it’s line-up for 2018 and while it’s heavy on bluegrass & folk music, it’s still pretty awesome…not to mention totally FREE! Here’s the schedule:
Gerry Jarcia (jerry garcia/ grateful dead tribute band) @ 1:30p
Tenzin Chopak @ 2:45p
The O’Neill Brothers @ 3:45pm
Groove Method @ 5pm
KidBess (bess greenberg) & The Magic Ring (michael wu/ joe alston/ cory caruso) @ 6:15p
Home Brew (nate calzetoni of raibred’s grateful dead cover band) @ 730p
---Bainbridge is also holding their “Rock In The Park” festival coming up on July 7th! Tickets are now on sale now at Ticketmaster, Small Town Perks and B&W Wine & Liquor! Tickets be $20 in advance, $25 at the gate, kids 12 and under are free. Here’s the line-up:
12p: Project Z
1:30p: Burning Moonlight
2:45p: Beard of Bees
4p: Woodshed Prophets
5:15p:
Wreckless Marci
6:30p: Tusk (fleetwood mac tribute band)
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7/6: Yarn/ Kitestring/ Ridgeline Duo
7/13: Black Masala/ Root Shock/ Rachel Beverly
7/20: Dracula Jones/ Genitor/ Dana Twigg
7/27: Kat Wright/ The Big Takeover/ Stiv Morgan
---The
Chenango County Blues Festival has confirmed their schedule and
line-up for the two-day fest (on Friday & Saturday 8/17 & 8/18) in
Day #1: Fri 8/17 @ 5:30 pm ft: Toronzo Cannon/ John “Papa” Gros Band /Angel Forrest Trio
Day #2: Sat 8/18 @ 11:30 am ft: Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio/ Samantha Fish/ Cash Box Kings/ AJ Ghent/ Prestage Brothers/ The Keeshea Pratt Band/ Hubby Jenkins/ Brandon Santini/ Nate Gross Band
For more information click on this link: www.chenangobluesfest.org
---Just when I thought I’d uncovered all the local festivals…Blueberry Jam, on Thursday 8/2 thru Saturday 8/4, at RedBarn in Danville Springs, near Deposit, comes to my attention! Their music line-up is pretty decent, too! Tickets are priced $25 per day-$30 per day with camping/ early bird weekend passes are $40 and up to $50 at the gate with camping! Here’s the day-to-day music line-up:
Fri 8/3:
Kenyon Hill @ 5p/ Uncle Shake @ 6p/ Milkweed Electric @ 8p/ The Look @ 1030p
Sat 8/4:
Joe Stento @ 12p/ Elijah Summers and The Get Together @ 1p/ Edgy Sketch @ 2p/ Slideways @ 330p/ Fetish Lane @ 5p/ Kenyon Hill @ 7p/ Woodshed Prophets @ 9p/ The Grateful Dans @ 11p
Side stage performances by: The Barn Bats ( Kenyon Hill members with guests) Rhianna Shew, Lady Purple, Nick Garnsey, Uncle Shake, Kyle Farr and Brittany Rose with Corinne Roma and friendz
---The Binghamton Philharmonic will not just play Pops On The River, but Pops In The Park, on Tuesday night 7/3 @ 730pm, before the big fireworks show at Highland Park in Endwell!
---Former Endwell resident, Taina Asili has added some more shows to her 2018 schedule with her band y la banda Rebelde…PVD Fest in Providence RI on 6/8 & 6/9…Schenectady NY on 7/14 at Proctors Theatre and 7/22 for the Music Haven Concert Series…and the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs on 8/2!
---All the dates (presumably) for the
Summer Concert Series in
7/5 w/ Victory Wainwright & the Train
7/12 w/ Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
7/19 w/
7/26 w/
Bumper
8/2 w/ Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers
8/9 w/ Bon Bon Vivant
8/16 w/ Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
8/23 w/ Yonder Mountain String Band
---Lynyrd Skynyrd is adding a new leg to their farewell “Last Of The Street Survivors” tour and that means a new local show for we fans in the GBA…the Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre…plus two other regional shows…Royal Arena in Baltimore MD on 11/16…and Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City NJ on 12/1! Tickets are on sale on 6/15…Pre-sale is 6/12…Marshall Tucker Band is also on the bill for both shows. Not sure of prices yet.
LOCAL-ISH:
---Jonny Lang and Buddy Guy are teaming-up for a co-headlining tour that will bring back thru our region again this Summer and at least one show that’s local-ish…Jim Thorpe (at Penn’s Peak) PA on 7/20, as well as…Asbury Park NJ on 7/22…Westbury NY on 7/25…Hampton Beach NH on 7/26…Cohasset MA on 7/27…and Port Chester NY on 7/28!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---A day after announcing their new album, “The Now Now,” (due 6/29) Gorillaz announced North American tour dates and out of the seven dates total, five are in our region…Toronto ON on 10/8…Montreal QC on 10/9…Philadelphia PA on 10/11…Brooklyn NY on 10/13…and Boston MA on 10/14!
---Florence + The Machine tour have announced their North American tour dates, in supprt of their new album, “High As Hope,” due on 6/29…we won’t however seen them in our region until October…Washington DC on 10/5…NYC on 10/9…Boston MA on 10/12…Uncasville CT on 10/13…Philadelphia PA on 10/14…and Toronto ON on 10/16! You can see them earlier however at the previously announced GMA Summer Concert Series in NYC on 6/29!
---John Mellencamp has announced a Canadian Fall 2018 tour and that will bring him to the fringe of our region…in Kingston ON (north of watertown ny) on 10/4…and St. Catherines (near buffalo ny) on 10/7!
---Jessie J,
who just released a new EP, is touring this Fall!
See her in…
---Adelita’s Way is booking a solo package tour w/ Dead Girls Academy, Small Town Titans and Zero Theorem, apparently during a month-long break in their tour with Soul Asylum, which means we’ll see more of them, in our region…Warrendale PA on 7/17…Stanhope NJ on 7/19…Rochester NY on 7/21…and Jim Thorpe PA (which is a Soul Asylum show, according to Penn’s Peak, but other sources list it as just Adelita’s way, so we’ll just have to wait and see)!
---Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons have announced 2018 tour dates, and as always they stay on the road a lot! See them in…Farmingville NY on 7/6…Brooklyn NY on 7/7…Bethlehem PA On 7/8…Atlantic City NJ on 7/27 & 7/28…Pittsburgh PA on 8/23…Vienna VA on 8/24…Chautauqua NY on 8/25…and Rochester NY on 10/13!
---Former Smith guitarist, Johnny Marr, is coming back to America for a longer stay this Fall…NYC (manhattan) on 10/15…Brooklyn NY on 10/16…Silver Spring MD on 10/17…Toronto ON on 10/19…Buffalo NY 10/20…Boston MA on 10/21…and Philadelphia PA on 10/22!
---G. Love (without his band The Special Sauce) is undertaking a solo tour in late June and July that will bring him into our region, at least along the North Atlantic coast…Brigantine City NJ on 6/29…Long Beach NY on 6/30…Avalon NJ on 7/1…Montauk NY on 7/6…Bayport NY on 7/7…Pawling NY on 7/8…Harwich MA on 7/10…Dewey Beach DE on 7/19…Hampton NH on 7/21…Oak Bluffs MA on 7/24…Wellfleet MA on 7/26…and Wakefield RI on 7/28!
---The headliners have been announced for the
annual Bethlehem Musikfest
at
Fri 8/3: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Sat 8/4: Daughtry
Sun 8/5: Jim Gaffigan
Mon 8/6: Dierks Bentley
Tue 8/7: Kesha
Wed 8/8: Grouplove/ Gary Clark Jr.
Fri 8/10: Brantley Gilbert
Sat 8/11:
All Time Low/ Dashboard
Confessional
Sun 8/12: Jason Mraz
---There is a new version of
The Babys, anchored by
original drummer Tony Brock and original guitarist Wally Stocker!
The band also includes new members Joey Sykes of Boystown and
Meredith Brooks (remember her?) fame, bass player and singer John Bisaha;
and touring keyboard player Louis Middleton.
They’ll make a few visits to the fringes of our region…
---Beach House has announced tour dates in support of their new album, “7” (which just debuted on our local chart this week at #5 btw)…New Haven CT on 7/24…Philadelphia PA on 7/26…Toronto ON on 8/20…NYC on 8/22…Brooklyn NY on 8/23…Boston MA on 8/24…and Washington DC on 8/25!
---The only regional appearance of
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown
Band, so far this year will be at the
Milford Oyster Festival in
---Gaelic
Storm have announced two shows upcoming this week…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Antigone
Rising is back, but only for a one-off in
---Rock
Reggae & Relief is a one-day festival in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Jean-Luc
Ponty adds
---Boz
Scaggs adds Munhall PA on 11/6…
---Puddle
Of Mudd adds
---
---More
Jonny Lang dates are becoming co-headlining dates with
Buddy Guy, but there are
still some solo Lang dates in the mix, so select your date carefully!
Co-headining dates are now…Jim Thorpe PA on 7/20…Asbury Park NJ
on 7/22…
---Breathe
---Brandi
Carlile adds
---Smashing
Pumpkins add
---Josh
Groban & Idina Menzel add
---Sir Sly
add
---Trivium
adds
---Motionless In White with The Plot In You have booked a show ahead of the Warped Tour in Clifton Park NY (near Albany) on 6/14!
---Dirty
Heads add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Adelita’s Way (3)
---Antigone Rising (1)
---Beach House (7)
---
---Boz Scaggs (4)
---Brandi Carlile (1)
---Breathe
---Dirty Heads (1)
---
---Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (9)
---G. Love (12)
---G. Love & Special Sauce/ Donavon Frankenreiter/ Passafire/ Roots Of Creation (1)
---Gaelic Storm (2)
---Gorillaz (5)
---Jean-Luc Ponty (1)
---Jessie J (6)
---John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band/ Eddie Money (1)
---John Mellencamp (2)
---Johnny Marr (7)
---Jonny Lang/ Buddy Guy (6)
---Josh Groban/ Idina Menzel (1)
---
---Lynyrd Skynyrd/ Marshall Tucker Band (3)
---Motionless In White/ The Plot In You (1)
---Puddle Of Mudd (2)
---Rock Reggae & Relief (1)
---Sir Sly (1)
---Smashing Pumpkins/ Metric (1)
---The Babys (3)
---Trivium (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 060118:
---Whew!
What a busy weekend!
No end of Festivals in sight…
---A virtually unknown
Here’s a link to her facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/athena.desai/about?lst=100001400165520%3A544496194%3A1527614511
---Broome
Bands Together Summer Concert Series at
Otsiningo Park in
Tues 6/5: Deni Bonet
Tues 6/12:
The Yada Yada’s w/ Lori
Bass Brown
Tues 6/19:
Katie Scott & Persuasion
Tues 6/26: Voodoo Highway & Nate Calzetoni (raibred)
Tues 7/10:
The Shambles w/ the Bottom
Feeders
…The series will be interrupted by Spiedie Fest and more announcements for the Tuesday evening series should be forthcoming, as the series usually runs thru the end of August! All shows start at 6pm and while spectators, lawn chairs and blankets are welcome, alcohol is not. All shows are FREE!
---Here’s the official line-up for next weekends
(Saturday 6/9) Crowfest at
12:00-1p
J.Floyd & C. Wolf
1:15-2:30 Floating Down
2:45-4:00 Tim Ruffo Band
4:15-5:30 Bess Greenberg Trio
5:45-7:00
7:15-8:45 The Smokin' Crows
9:00-10:15 Mike Davis and the
Laughing Buddha Episodes
10:30-11:45 Raibred
…there will also be a bike run from Southern Tier Harley Davidson and fyi, it’s a BYOB event, as well.
---Laurel
Bowl in
---We can always count on local music veteran,
John Stark to let us know
when one of our local legends pass on.
Stark posted this update on facebook on Monday (5/28): “My
friend and fellow musician died due to an accident in the Homer
---Here’s a great alt-pop one-day fest in
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alt921-furnace-frenzy-tickets-46202078661
---Alice
Cooper is coming to the
Crouse-Hinds Theatre @ The OnCenter in
---John
Fogerty, former lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival, has
announced a solo tour to follow his Summer jaunt with ZZ Top and while
it spends way too much time in
---Blackberry
Smoke has booked a Fall 2018 leg and along with that a stray summer
date in
LOCAL-ISH:
---Earth, Wind & Fire has announced a concert at the former Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, now known as CMAC in Canandaigua NY on 8/29.
---Rocker Gary Hoey, has announced a series of shows that include at least one localish stop…Jim Thorpe PA at Mauch Chunk Opera House, on 6/16…plus, Merrimack NH on 6/15…Lincoln RI on 7/7…Atlantic City NJ on 8/27…and Derry NH on 12/1!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The
Summer Slaughter Tour has announced it’s schedule of shows for
Summer 2018, so regionally that means we’ll see them in…
---Rapper KRS-ONE has booked a last minute tour that has already begun, or at least will have by the time you read this on Friday 6/1…it began last night on 5/31 at the Ardmore Music Hall in Ardmore PA (near philly) and continues tonight in NYC in Brooklyn with the 30th anniversary celebration of Yo! MTV Raps! You do have a chance to catch the rest of it however starting tomorrow night in…New Haven CT on 6/2…Greenfield MA on 6/8…Rochester NY on 6/9…Philadelphia PA on 6/10…and the previously announced shows in Pittsburgh PA on 6/12…and Baltimore MD on 6/14!
---The B.B.
King Blues Band has found a way to keep the legacy of B.B. King
alive, with new lead singer, Tito
Jackson! That’s right, a
former member of The Jackson 5 is keeping the blues alive!
It sounds a bit crazy, but I really like it!
They haven’t booked too many shows yet, but give them time…
---One hit wonder,
Thomas Dolby (surely you
remember “She
Blinded Me With Science” right?) is playing a ten-date tour in
July and August and seven of the dates are in our region!
Starting with…
---KC & The Sunshine Band, who will be coming to Binghamton NY for Spiedie Fest in August, have added new Summer dates for 2018…Newport RI on 7/7…Webster MA on 7/8…Hyannis MA on 8/2…Hampton Beach NH on 8/4…Philadelphia PA on 8/11!
---Lord Huron is scheduling an extensive Summer tour to match the popularity of their recently released album, “Vide Noir,” so expect to see them in…Toronto ON on 7/25…Pittsburgh PA on 7/26…North Tonawanda NY on 7/28…two nights in Brooklyn NY on 8/1 & 8/2…Portsmouth NH on 8/3…Montreal QC on 8/4…and Boston MA on 8/5! They’ll also be hitting regional festivals…Firefly on 6/17…Osheaga on 8/4…and Catskill Wine & Food on 10/7!
---Southern
Culture On The Skids has announced Fall dates for 2018…
---Folk singer,
Gordon Lightfoot has released
Summer 2018 tour dates…
---The Jayhawks have announced a smattering of Fall dates…NYC on 9/22…Tarrytown NY on 9/23…Alexandria VA on 10/11…Montclair NJ on 10/12…and Somerville MA on 10/13!
---American Idol Season Ten winner, Scotty McCreery has announced more Summer and a few Fall dates for 2018…Dewey Beach DE on 8/9…Cohasset MA on 8/11…Frederick MD on 9/20…Hampton Beach NH on 9/27…and Durham CT on 9/29!
---Martin
Sexton will headline the one-day only,
Connecticut Folk Festival at
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The singer, who might have been lead vocalist for Led Zeppelin, Terry Reid, has booked a one-timer…Saturday night 11/10 at Turning Point in Piermont NY!
---Jazz legend
Tom Scott has booked a
one-off with his band L.A. Express in
---Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals & Ronnie Spector & the Ronettes are teaming-up for a one shot show in Lynn MA on 10/27!
---New band Arthur Buck (side-project for peter buck of r.e.m. and joseph arthur) have booked a one-off in Brooklyn NY at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, on 9/20 in support of their self-titled album, which is due on 6/15.
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Molly
Hatchet adds
---Michael Glabicki (of Rusted Root)…adds Mohawk NY on 6/24…New Bedford MA on 7/14…Beacon NY on 7/15…Amagansett NY on 7/17…and Rome NY on 9/13!
---Beach
Boys add
---The Fixx
adds
---Pitbull
adds
---Yes
adds
---David
Alan Coe adds
---Lita Ford
adds
---Cowboy
Mouth adds
---Particle Kid adds NYC on 7/8!
---Uli Jon
Roth adds
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox adds NYC on 8/23…and Bethany Beach DE on 8/24!
---John
Mayall adds
---War
adds Bensalem PA on 8/3…
---Tom
Chapin adds
---Aztec
Two-Step add
---Ed Sheeran adds Snow Patrol, as a warm-up band, to his North American tour!
---Three Dog Night adds NYC on 8/6!
---Arlo
Guthrie adds two nights in Rockport MA on 7/26 & 7/27…and
---Daughtry
adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Alice Cooper (3)
---Arlo Guthrie (3)
---Arthur Buck (1)
---Aztec-Two Step (1)
---Beach Boys (1)
---Blackberry Smoke (6)
---
---Cowboy Mouth (1)
---Daughtry (2)
---David Allan Coe (1)
---Dirty Heads/ lovelytheband/ Jukebox The Ghost/ L.I.F.T./ Brother Sundance/ Morgan Saint (1)
---Earth Wind & Fire (1)
---Felix Cavaliere/ Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes (1)
---
---Gordon Lightfoot (7)
---John Fogerty (2)
---John Mayall (1)
---KC & the Sunshine Band (5)
---KRS-ONE (5)
---Lita Ford (1)
---Lord Huron (8)
---Particle Kid (1)
---Pitbull (1)
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (2)
---Michael Glabicki (5)
---Molly Hatchet (2)
---Scotty McCreery (5)
---Southern Culture On The Skids (7)
---Summer Slaughter Tour (5)
---Terry Reid (1)
---The B.B. King Blues Band w/ Tito Jackson (3)
---The Fixx (1)
---The Jawhawks (5)
---Thomas Dolby (7)
---Three Dog Night (1)
---Tom Chapin (1)
---Tom Scott &
---Uli Jon Roth (1)
---War (2)
---Yes (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 052518:
---Local TV station, Fox 40 (remember them spectrum subscribers?) provided coverage of last weekends “Bands To The Rescue” benefit for Every Dogs Dream Rescue volunteer animal rescue shelter in Chenango County at Touch Of Texas in Nimmonsburg NY on 5/19! See the story by clicking on this website: http://www.wicz.com/story/38230770/bands-to-the-rescue-raises-funds-for-every-dogs-dream
---Abba tribute band,
Abba The Concert are coming
to the
---The “Southern Uprising Tour” featuring Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker Band and The Outlaws is coming to Tags in Big Flats NY on 9/22 @ 7pm! Tickets go on sale today (5/25) starting at $24.50! The tour overall only has two other dates listed at this time, both in July, so this listing hints that perhaps there is another leg about to be announced.
---Nikstock has moved away…the two-night rock music fest headlined by Alice Cooper cover bands Tempter and Nightmare, has made it’s home in the Owego area for most of it’s existence, recently switching to Champion Speedway in Owego, but now it’s moved into the foothills of the Adirondacks at Kasoag Lake Park in Williamstown NY, roughly 40 miles northeast of Syracuse and will be held on Friday & Saturday June 15th & 16th. The festival still brags of 40 bands on two stages over two days, and 100 kegs of beer, plus (even in the age of the #metoo movement) the bikini contest…hosted by Ivonna Cadaver from TV’s Macabre Theatre. For the full list of bands, check out the festival website: www.nikstock.com.
---Local singer, percussionist, maracas, claves, timbales and conga player, Freddy Mendoza, of Rooster & The Roadhouse Horns, posted on facebook last Friday, after we put our previous report to bed, that he was cancer free! That’s great news for the Southern Tier, as Freddy has become a local icon in his over twenty years as a performer in local bands. Rock on Freddy!
---Aztec
Two-Step has announced a local show, in
---Former Allman Brother Band member, Dickey Betts is bringing his “out of retirement/ comeback” tour to the NYS Fair in Syracuse NY FREE on The Court on 8/28! Also recently added….Dave Mason (of Traffic) & Steve Cropper (of Booker T & The MG’s) are touring as a duo and they’ll play the NYS Fair FREE on The Court on 8/23 @ 2p! Also announced this week is a show by R&B breakout star, Ravyn Lenae FREE on The Court @ 2p on 8/24!
---The Devon Allman Project has expanded their Summer tour and announced Fall dates as well, including a local stop…Papermill Amphitheatre in Baldwinsville NY, just outside of Syracuse NY on 7/28, with plenty of additional regional shows added as well…Shirley MA on 7/19…Somers Point NJ on 7/20…Woodstock NY on 7/24…Rochester NY on 7/26…Pawling NY on 7/29…New Bedford MA on 7/31…then, after a trip to the UK & Europe…Sellersville PA on 10/2! No opening act has yet been announced, but don’t be surprised if Duane Betts is added later on, as he’s listed to open both before and after many of the regional dates listed above.
---Modest Mouse is coming back into our local area in Fall 2018 at the Crouse-Hinds Theatre at the OnCenter in Syracuse NY on 10/2…as well as many other regional stops…Buffalo NY on 10/1…Worcester MA on 10/5…Mashantucket MA on 10/6…Atlantic City NJ on 10/7…Brooklyn NY on 10/9…Montclair NJ on 10/10…Asbury Park NJ on 10/12…Bethlehem PA on 10/13…and Albany NY on 10/14!
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone seem like they’re always on tour and finally
they’ve added a date that’s local and not the NYS Fair, but it’s not
much closer! See them in
LOCAL-ISH:
---90’s era boy bands are back this year…first, with the return of the Backstreet Boys and now, 98 Degrees, (come on NSync, you’re next!) who are mounting a huge reunion tour that starts in August, but doesn’t even get to our region until December! The itinerary includes a local-ish stop at Turning Stone Casino in Verona NY on 12/13…and regional dates are…Silver Spring MD on 12/6…Morristown NJ on 12/7…Medford MA on 12/8…Ridgefield CT on 12/12…Niagara Falls NY on 12/14…Atlantic City NJ on 12/15…Westbury NY on 12/16…and Rutland VT on 12/17!
---The Phillip Phillips/ Gavin DeGraw tour will now come as close as The Poconos…catch them at Mount Airy Casino in Mount Pocono PA on 8/30…as well as…Bensalem PA on 8/28…Vienna VA on 8/31…and Asbury Park NJ on 9/2! In addition Phillips has also announced some solo shows ahead of the tour…NYC on 6/7…Montpelier VT on 7/14…Pittsburgh PA on 7/15…and Ridgefield CT on 7/16!
---Blues guitarist, Jonny Lang has announced Summer shows and one of them will be as close as Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 7/20…plus additional regional shows in…Toronto ON on 7/13…Westbury NY on 7/25…Hampton Beach NH on 7/26…Cohasset MA on 7/27…Port Chester NY on 7/28…and Plymouth NH on 10/14!
---Led Zeppelin cover band, Get The Led Out are in demand…and we mean IN demand…they’re doubling and tripling up stops in certain cities, and making a local-ish stop as well! They’ve just booked a second night in Ocean City NJ on 6/26…and also in Huntington NY on 6/30…plus single stops in Willimantic CT on 8/4…Morristown NJ on 8/8…Utica NY at the Stanley Center on 8/10…Hampton Beach NY on 8/18…Westbury NY on 11/2…then two shows in Waterloo NY on 11/16 & 11/17…and three shows in Harrisburg PA from 11/29 thru 12/1! Maybe they should think about playing larger venues, huh?
---Ginger Baker’s son Kofi, Jack Bruce’s son Malcolm and Eric Clapton’s nephew Will Johns have teamed-up for a unique project…The Music of Cream, 50th Anniversary tour! The unique tribute band will be touring extensively this Fall, including a stop in Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak on 10/13 and plenty of other regional dates…Montreal QC on 9/28…South Burlington VT on 10/1…Ridgefield CT on 10/3…Woonsocket RI on 10/4…New Bedford MA on 10/5…Northampton MA on 10/8…Lynn MA on 10/10…New London CT on 10/11…Concord NH on 10/12…Englewood NJ on 10/15…Huntington NJ on 10/16…Glenside PA on 10/17…Waterloo NY on 10/18…Red Bank NJ on 10/22…Harrisburg PA on 10/23…Baltimore PA on 10/24…and Greensburg PA on 10/25!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson are teaming-up for another “Twins of Evil” tour that they’re billing as “The Second Coming.” Witness the onslaught yourself at…Bristow VA on 7/21…Holmdel NJ on 7/24…Burgettstown PA on 7/25…Toronto ON on 7/26…Montreal QC (as part of “Heavy Montreal” fest) on 7/28…Wantagh NY on 8/7…Mansfield MA on 8/8…Camden NJ on 8/9…Hartford CT on 8/11…and Darien Center NY on 8/12!
---Wiz Khalifa and Rae Sremmurd have teamed-up for a 2018 Summer tour that will blaze a hip hop trail thru our region…Toronto ON on 7/24…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/25…Burgettstown PA on 7/26…Brooklyn NY (only Wiz) on 8/2…Holmdel NJ on 8/4…Hartford CT on 8/5…Mansfield MA on 8/7…Bristow VA on 8/9…and Camden NJ on 8/10!
---Sting and Shaggy are taking their musical relationship beyond the album they recorded…they’re taking it on the road as well…Oxon Hill MD on 9/19…Philadelphia PA on 9/20…Atlantic City NJ on 9/21…Boston MA on 9/25…NYC on 9/26…and Toronto ON on 9/28!
---John Mayall, whose Bluesbreaker bands of the 60’s & 70’s included Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Walter Trout, Andy Fraser, Paul Butterfield and Aynsley Dunbar, a veritable who’s who of British rock and blues, is still alive and kickin’ and ready to tour the USA at the ripe old age of 84…He’ll be playing our region in September…Norfolk CT on 9/7…Beverly MA on 9/8…Woodstock NY on 9/12…Washington DC on 9/14…Sellersville PA on 9/15…Fairfield CT on 9/19…and in NYC for three nights, 9/20-22!
---Alternative queen, Liz Phair has announced a Fall 2018 leg on her latest tour in support of the new “Exile In Guyville” boxed set…Washington DC on 10/3…Philadelphia PA on 10/5…Brooklyn NY on 10/6…Boston MA on 10/8…Montreal QC on 10/9…and Toronto ON on 10/10!
---It turns out that 4U isn’t the only Prince related tour in America, The Revolution (…as in Prince’s old band…) is extending beyond is one-shot reunion show with new dates in…NYC on 10/11 & 10/12…Silver Spring MD on 10/26…Boston MA on 10/27…and Providence RI on 10/28!
---Parkway
Drive has announced new tour dates in support of their latest album,
“Reverence,”
and even better, it’s a package tour with
The Devil Wears Prada, August
Burns Red and Polaris! See it in…
---Phish has announced Fall 2018 tour dates and I guess we’ll have to be happy with CurveBall, (in Watkins Glen on 8/17-19) because we aren’t getting much out of this leg of the tour…just two shows, both in Albany NY at the Knickerbocker (aka the times union center) on 10/16 & 10/17!
---There’s a nice little alternative music festival
in
---Jack Black’s comedy/ music duo, Tenacious D is back with regional dates set up for November 2018...Brooklyn NY on 11/3…Boston MA on 11/5…Washington DC on 11/7…Philadelphia PA on 11/8…and Pittsburgh PA on 11/9!
---Classic rockers, Atlanta Rhythm Section is coming into our region this summer in a variety of ways…which means both as a headliner and as a warm-up band…Bethlehem PA on 5/26…New Castle PA (with Firefall and Foghat) on 6/21…Holmdel NJ (warming for Lynyrd Skynyrd) on 6/22…Wantagh NY (again warming for Skynyrd) on 6/23…Bristow VA (warming for Skynyrd) on 7/7…Copiague NY on 7/11…Alexandria VA (with Poco) on 7/12…and Pennsauken NJ on 8/2!
---Alt-rockers, Nothing But Thieves, come back to our region in September with new shows in…Washington DC on 9/7…Boston MA on 9/8…Montreal QC on 9/9…Toronto ON on 9/10…NYC on 10/11…Asbury Park NJ on 10/13…and Philadelphia PA on 10/14!
---Paul Anka is getting out of Las Vegas for a few months and coming east…Englewood NJ on 10/3…Morristown NJ on 10/4…Westbury NY on 11/2…Medford MA on 11/4…Uncasville CT on 11/9…and Atlantic City NJ on 11/10!
---The BoDeans have announced their June dates…far too late in May, if you ask me…but if you still have some $ for concert tickets, you can check them out in…NYC on 6/7…Woodstock NY on 6/8…and Boston MA on 6/9!
---Finally there are more Garbage dates for our region…Washington DC on 10/21…Boston MA on 10/23…Philadelphia PA on 10/25…Atlantic City NJ on 10/26…and Brooklyn NY on 10/27…that’s all on top of the previously announced show in Port Chester NY on 10/20!
---Synth/ pop band, Future Islands are touring this summer and crashing our region, too…Montreal QC on 8/4…Lancaster PA on 8/26…Washington DC on 9/28…and Queens NY (warming up for The National) on 9/30!
---Jazz great,
Chick Corea will tour the US
in late Summer/ early Fall with a five-night stand in Allston MA, just
outside of Boston from 9/19 thru 9/23!
You can also see Corea in
---Rockefeller Plaza in NYC has announced the Today show Summer Concert Series mostly on Fridays thru the summer, (which started with Meghan Trainor two weeks ago on 5/15, then followed by Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish on 5/25…sorry, I’m so late on this, but sickness has prevented me from posting earlier). Here’s the rest of the list:
Mon 5/28: Troye Sivan
Fri 6/1: Shawn Mendes
Fri 6/8: Kelly Clarkson
Fri 6/15:
Christina Aguilera
Fri 6/22: 5 Seconds Of Summer
Fri 6/29: Panic! At The Disco
Fri 7/6: Lady Antebellum
Fri 7/13: Maroon 5
Fri 7/20: Charlie Puth
Fri 7/27: Julia Michaels
Thu 8/2: Keith Urban
Fri 8/10: Jason Mraz
Fri 8/17: Cole Swindell
…with two bands and dates to be named later!
Remember, you have to show up at 5am at
---Veteran songwriter,
Jimmy Webb will play Autumn
dates in 2018…starting with an isolated summer show on 7/16…then
Purchase NY on 10/6…Roslyn NY on 10/7…Bethel NY on 11/3…Union NJ on
11/4…and
---Squirrel
Nut Zippers have added a Summer leg to their 2018 tour…Beverly MA on
8/3…Albany NY on 8/4…
---Bela Fleck & The Flecktones will be in our region next month…Rochester NY on 6/26…Toronto ON on 6/27…Lenox MA on 6/29…Port Chester NY on 6/30…and Montreal QC on 7/1!
---The man who taught The Beatles, particularly
John Lennon, how to play harmonica;
Delbert McClinton, is coming
around this fall…
---The John Pizzarelli Jazz Trio will is set to tour our region this Summer…Shirley MA on 7/6…Westhampton Beach NY on 7/15…Truro MA on 7/21…Albany NY on 9/14…Lexington MA on 9/15…and Rockport MA on 9/16!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Wayne
Newton has booked a one-timer for
---Aaron
Neville’s only date east of
---Iron &
Wine returns to the
---Johnny
Marr, former lead guitarist of British superstars, The Smiths, has
booked a handful of
---The
Tramps ft. Earl Young book a one-timer at
Tim McLooney’s Supper Club in
---Nicki Minaj booked a one-shot show for 5/19, totally at the last minute, so I hope you didn’t miss it! Here’s hoping that this will lead to a tour! Her website is teasing “more events coming soon,” so we’ll see.
TOUR TWEAKING:
---The day before he appears at the GrassRoots
Festival, Jim Lauderdale will
also be in
---Harry
Connick Jr. adds
---Uncle
Kracker adds
---BulletBoys
& Enuff Z’Nuff add
---Ben Folds
adds
---The
English Beat add…
---Breathe
---Robert
Cray Band adds
---Boyz II
Men add
---Brian
Wilson adds
---Joan Jett
adds a solo show after the end of the Styx tour…
---Earth
Wind & Fire adds
---Drive-By
Truckers will play a solo show on an “off” night on the Tedeschi
Trucks Band tour in
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---5 Seconds Of Summer (1)
---98 Degrees (9)
---Aaron Neville (1)
---
---Aztec Two-Step (2)
---Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (5)
---Ben Folds (1)
---Boyz II Men (1)
---Breathe
---Brian Wilson (3)
---BulletBoys/ Enuff Z’Nuff (2)
---Charlie Puth (1)
---Chick Corea (6)
---Dan + Shay (1)
---Delbert McClinton (5)
---
---Drive-By Truckers (1)
---Earth Wind & Fire (1)
---Fastball/ Sister Hazel/ Eve 6/ Fuel (1)
---
---Garbage (5)
---Gavin DeGraw/ Phillip Phillips (4)
---Get The Led Out (12)
---Harry Connick Jr. (2)
---Herman’s Hermits (2)
---Iron & Wine (1)
---Jason Mraz (1)
---Jim Lauderdale (1)
---Jimmy Webb (6)
---Joan Jett (1)
---Jonny Lang (7)
---John Mayall (9)
---John Pizzarelli Jazz Trio (5)
---Johnny Marr (1)
---Julia Michaels (1)
---Keith Urban (1)
---Kelly Clarkson (1)
---Kofi Baker/ Malcolm Bruce/ Will Johns (18)
---Lady Antebellum (1)
---Liz Phair (6)
---Maroon 5 (1)
---Modest Mouse (10)
---Nothing But Thieves (7)
---Panic! At The Disco (1)
---Parkway Drive/ The Devil Wears Prada/ August Burns Red/ Polaris (6)
---Paul Anka (6)
---Phillip Phillips (4)
---Phish (2)
---Rob Zombie/ Marilyn Manson (10)
---Robert Cray Band (1)
---Shawn Mendes (1)
---Squirrel Nut Zippers (5)
---Sting/ Shaggy (6)
---Tenacious D (5)
---The BoDeans (3)
---The Revolution (5)
---The Tramps
---Uncle Kracker (1)
---Wayne Newton (1)
---Wiz Khalifa/ Rae Sremmurd (9)
---Zoso (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 051818:
---Looking for something to do on Saturday
afternoon (5/19)? How about
the first annual Bands To The Rescue benefit for Every Dogs Dream Rescue
charity! It’s got a great
line-up starting at 1pm at the former
1p) Lyza
2p) Mojo Filter
3p) Masterpiece Energy
4p) SHE’S A
SPY ft. Brenna Swanger
5p) FC3 (joe stento/ benny fiacco/ todd Russell)
6p) Gene Hummel (hummel’s jug/ mug)
Tickets are $10.00, but it all goes for a good cause! Doors at 12:30p and the show starts at 1pm!
---The Marathon Music Festival is next Sunday (5/27) and that means, aside from relay, half-relay and/or pub runners; lots of bands, scattered across the city of Binghamton at different stages! According to everything we can glean so far, here’s where bands and what bands are scheduled to be playing, so far (but I’m sure we’ll be adding more):
BC
Courthouse w/ Devinne Meyers/
Peacemaker’s Stage w/ Lady Purple & Jamalot/ Amy Michelle/ Kenyon Hill
Cheri Lindsey Park w/ She’s A Spy/ Amber Martin
MetroCenter w/ Slideways/ Alex Creamer
…for more on the festival click on these links:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/MarathonMusicFest/events, or https://www.marathonmusicfest.com.
---Binghamton’s local national touring band, folk icons, Driftwood National Summer tour dates have been expanded to include…Greenfield MA on 6/9…and Hamilton NY on 8/26! More to come I’m sure!
---The only Prince tribute that is official sanctioned by the estate of Prince, 4U: A Symphonic Celebration is coming to the Anderson Center at Binghamton University in Vestal on Friday, 9/21! Perhaps even more notable is that this project’s music and arrangements were curated by The Roots’ Questlove; a Prince superfan! In addition to it’s local stop, the tour will also make regional stops in…New Brunswick NJ on 9/6…Vienna VA on 9/8…Buffalo NY on 9/19…Brooklyn NY on 9/20…and Lynn MA on 9/22! Symphonic back-up will be provided by the Binghamton Philharmonic. Tickets are on sale now (Friday 5/18) for $49-69.00!
---Local alternative band, Kites and Powerlines announced that their ltest album, “There’s More Here Than Black & White,” is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Apple Music and Amazon!
---Randy McStine posted more on his facebook page this week about the project he’s been working on with Dave Kerzner. McStine reports that he’s “Working out some massive ambient (guitar) sounds” for the “In Continuum” recording and he also posted a work session from his home, where he was working out a “Big huge guitar solo.” See for yourself and like his page at: https://www.facebook.com/randy.mcstine
---The combo FC3 (which stands for Fat City 3, btw) is getting some local love from Fox 40 News At Ten! The trio, which draws on their varied backgrounds, soul (lead guitar/ lead singer, Joe Stento), blues (bass player Benny Fiacco) and reggae (drummer Todd Russell)! Click on the link for more: http://www.wicz.com/story/38185462/established-local-musicians-combine-talents-for-new-sound
---The Norwich Summer Concert Series adds another cool band…Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad invades East Park in Norwich NY on 7/12!
---The Brackney Inn, in Brackney PA, which has been sidelined since last fall by a fire on it’s upper residential floor, still has not reopened and management still hasn’t pegged a grand re-opening, but they did tell me this week that reconstruction is “getting towards the end,” so we should have some happy news to report soon!
---Brenna Swanger posted photo’s from her band, She’s A Spy, recent show in NYC with Natalie Claro at Funkadelic Studios. You can see them here: https://www.facebook.com/brennaswanger3210/posts/1766274373451439?notif_id=1525744191278756¬if_t=notify_me&ref=notif
And also here: http://www.unclearmag.com/concerts-events/2018/5/7/natalie-claro-new-york-city
---Blues Traveler are coming to The Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 8/1…as well as some other choice venues in our greater region…Ocean City NJ on 7/30…North Stonington CT on 8/2…Johnstown PA on 8/4 for Flood City Music Fest…Rochester NH on 8/15…Utica NY on 8/17…Lowell MA on 8/18…Great Neck NY on 8/19…and two nights in Nantucket MA on 8/21 & 8/22!
LOCAL-ISH:
---Can’t wait until
Lake Street Dive come to
State Theatre in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Drake is finally going to hit the road to support his forthcoming album and the Toronto rapper is taking rising stars, Migos with him for a huge cross-country tour, built to get bigger with gaps between dates in larger markets tailor made for additional nights…Toronto ON on 8/10 & 8/11…NYC On 8/24 & 8/25…Brooklyn NY on 8/26 & 8/31…Montreal QC on 9/4…Boston MA on 9/7 & 9/8…Washington DC on 9/12 & 9/13…and Philadelphia PA on 9/15!
---Yes, it’s only May, but already Mannheim Steamroller is announcing their holiday schedule and, as always, there are plently of regional stops…Bethlehem PA on 11/29…Hershey PA on 11/30…Philadelphia PA on 12/1…New Brunswick NJ on 12/6…Providence RI on 12/7…Boston MA on 12/8…Waterbury CT on 12/9…and Red Bank NJ on 12/10!
---Christina Aguilera is back! The pop singer, fresh from dissing her fellow judges on “The Voice,” is launching an American tour that brings her into our region…Oxon Hill MD on 9/30…NYC on 10/3 & 10/4…Uncasville CT on 10/6…and Boston MA on 10/11!
---Finally, after a residency in Las Vegas, tours of Europe and Asia…Nine Inch Nails is coming home this fall to tour the entire country, including dates in our region…Washington DC on 10/9…NYC on 10/13 & 10/14…Boston MA on 10/19 & 10/20!
---Neil
Young has announced a six-date solo tour…unfortunately, only two of
the dates will play in our region…
---Folk rockers, First Aid Kid, are coming this Fall to a region that already has a lot of folk rockers…Boston MA on 9/7…Philadelphia PA on 9/8…Washington DC on 9/10…and Brooklyn NY on 9/11!
---The Hold Steady are doing anything but holding steady…they’ll be on the road for the next few months with a lot of tour dates scheduled for our region…Jersey City NJ on 7/25…Philadelphia PA on 7/26 & 7/27…Asbury Park NJ on 7/28…and finally…holding steady in Toronto ON, for four nights at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern on 9/12-9/15!
---Chicago has booked a Fall 2018 Canadian tour, following their stint with REO Speedwagon…there will some dates with driving distance however…Kingston ON on 9/11…and Montreal QC on 9/13!
---Alternative rockers,
Kaleo has booked some
regional tour dates, but they’re really spaced out…
---Another alt-rock band, The Neighbourhood has booked a Fall leg that will bring them back around to our area…Boston MA on 102…Toronto ON on 10/4…Brooklyn NY on 10/5…and NYC on 10/6!
---The Outbreak Tour has added a new Fall leg featuring Lil Xan and it makes multiple stops in our region…NYC on 9/26…Boston MA on 9/27…Philadelphia PA on 10/18…and Silver Springs MD on 10/19!
---Remember
The Vapors? The British
band that had a one-hit new-wave wonder with “Turning
Japanese” in the early 80’s…they’ve returned with a two-night stand
in NYC at the Mercury Lounge
on 10/20 & 10/21! That will
be their only appearance in the
---The city of
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Bret
Michaels of Poison has booked 13 solo shows around the country, but
only one that’s even close to us…Watertown
Fairgrounds Arena in
---Rap duo,
Method Man & Redman have one show only booked for the whole
year…Canalside in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Incubus
adds
---David
Crosby adds
---
---Soul
Asylum add a solo show outside of the Collective Soul/ 3 Doors Down
tour…in
---Breathe
---Charlie Daniels Band adds Quakertown PA on 7/12!
---Steve Augeri, the first singer to stand in for Steve Perry in Journey, is now solo and adding a second night in Quakertown PA on 7/26!
---Trapt
adds
---Big Head
Todd & The Monsters finally add a date in our region on their
current tour…7/13 in
---Eddie
Money adds Batavia NY on 6/22…Hyannis MA on 7/2…Cohasset MA on
7/29…and a very cool stop at the Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg PA on
9/26, which also includes Rick
Springfield, Greg Kihn and
Tommy Tutone on the same bill!
Why don’t they package that up and take it across
---Peter
Cetera adds
---Michael
McDonald adds
---Journey &
Def Leppard add Cheap Trick
to their
---Air
Supply adds
---John
Sebastian adds
---Camila Cabello adds a solo show on the Taylor Swift tour…in
---The Box Tops add NYC on 8/3…
---Kip Winger adds
---Darius Rucker adds NYC on 5/25!
---Kelly Clarkson adds NYC on 6/8!
---The Jayhawks add
---Aimee Mann adds
---Average White Band adds NYC on 5/10!
---Sergio Mendes adds NYC on 6/30!
---Skid Row add
---Saliva adds
---Ani DiFranco adds Great Barrington MA on 6/17!
---Bad Wolves add
---Danny Seraphine’s CTA adds
---The Smithereens add
---Fitz & The Tantrums add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---4U (6)
---Aimee Mann (1)
---Air Supply (4)
---Ani DiFranco (1)
---Arrested Development (1)
---Average White Band (1)
---Bad Wolves (2)
---Big Head Todd & The Monsters (1)
---Blues Traveler (10)
---Breathe
---Bret Michaels (1)
---Camila Cabello (1)
---Charlie Daniels Band (1)
---
---Danny Seraphine’s CTA
---Darius Rucker (1)
---Dark Star Orchestra (1)
---David Crosby (1)
---Drake (12)
---Driftwood (4)
---Eddie Money (3)
---Father John Misty (1)
---First Aid Kit (4)
---Fitz & The Tantrums (1)
---Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (1)
---Incubus (4)
---John Sebastian (3)
---Kaleo (3)
---
---Kelly Clarkson (1)
---Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1)
---
---Method Man/ Redman (1)
---Michael McDonald/ Peter Cetera (1)
---Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1)
---Neil Young (2)
---Nine Inch Nails (5)
---Outbreak Tour w/ Lil Xan (4)
---Peter Cetera (1)
---Rick Springfield/ Eddie Money/ Greg Kihn/ Tommy Tutone (1)
---Saliva (2)
---Sergio Mendes (1)
---Skid Row (1)
---Soul Asylum (1)
---Steve Augeri (1)
---The Box Tops (3)
---The Hold Steady (8)
---The Jayhawks (1)
---The Neighbourhood (4)
---The Smithereens (2)
---The Vapors (2)
---Trapt (1)
---Umphrey’s McGee (1)
---Vanilla Ice (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 051118:
---Spiedie Fest finally announced their 2018 musical line-up last Thursday (5/3), just as we were getting ready to post last weeks report, so we saved it until this week…mostly because it was rather anti-climatic! It was really no big secret which acts were going to play, just the days…KC & The Sunshine Band on Friday 8/3…Phil Vassar on Saturday 8/4…and Cheap Trick on Sunday 8/5!
Tickets for the entire weekend are $25.00 until 7/8…$30.00 after that. Friday 8/3 will FREE to all…Saturday and Sunday admission is $5.00 at the gate—but does not grant access to the concert area, children eight and under are FREE! Tickets are available at Weis Markets, Wegmans, Oakdale Mall Office, Lupo’s Sidney Federal Credit Union and ticketmaster at this link: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/000054A5A3BC228F
---It has been confirmed, the Mobday show that has been booked at the Spotlight Binghamton on 6/9, with headliner, Year Of The Locust and two other support bands, Titan and Something Deadly, will indeed be a full reunion show! According to lead singer, Ryan Nickerson the band has also discussed “doing more shows in the near future,” but logistics may prevent a formal tour since band members all live in different areas now. Whether Mobday returns for good or not Nickerson says that he and Jordan will be playing more shows and making new music, which is great, but we have heard that before… [Note: Mobday did announce a festival date for 6/3, but the venue has not been announced as yet.]
---SHE’s A SPY ft. Brenna Swanger for playing the Big Apple last weekend! The band warmed up for Natalie Claro at Funkadelic Studios on Saturday, May 5th! At least one picture of the show has been posted online! Click here to see it: http://www.unclearmag.com/concerts-events/2018/5/7/natalie-claro-new-york-city
---The
Robert Cray Band is coming to the
Anderson Center at Binghamton
University in
---Toy Box Trophies are changing their name again thanks to the addition of a new female lead singer and a new bass player (their old singer Tony still sings in Persuasion, but wanted to go back to recording. Tom left as well.)…The band, also formerly known as Cast Of Thousands, (originally changed their name because they were often confused with Thousands Of One.) will now be known as Limited Edition! You can still follow them on facebook by bookmarking this link: https://www.facebook.com/ToyBoxTrophies/?notif_id=1525795428763910¬if_t=page_name_change&ref=notif
---Former American Idol candidate,
Kaitlyn Jackson says that her recovery from recent knee surgery is
coming along pretty well! In
a facebook post made on 5/6
---Jeff Howell and his new band, Tears posted a video of their cover of two classic Outlaws songs, “Ghost Riders In The Sky” and “Green Grass And High Tides Forever!” Wanna see it for yourself? Click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPubxfmS1AQ&feature=share
---So there was a
Yolk reunion at
Callahan’s in
---Changes are coming to
The Dock in
Don't miss our very last live music show, Donna the Buffalo, on May 11th. Starting on May 14th, our weekly events, including Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & Friends, I-Town Jazz Jam, Paint Nite Ithaca, and Reggae Night with Crucial Reggae Social Club, will be hosted at The Haunt.” Got all that?
---Unfortunately for
---Meanwhile there’s a new venue in
---They Might Be Giants will play the State Theatre in Ithaca NY this fall on Thursday night 10/25…as well as some other regional stops…Lancaster PA on 6/15…Baltimore MD on 10/26…NYC on 10/27…Providence RI on 10/28…Montreal QC on 10/30…Toronto ON on 11/2…and Buffalo NY on 11/3!
---John
Fogerty has announced that he’ll play the
Arena at Casey Plaza (the
second Mohegan Sun) in
---Cross-over artist Mary Chapin Carpenter has announced a show in Oneonta NY at the Foothills Center on 7/18…and has added other dates to her 2018 Summer tour, including…Truro MA on 7/24…South Orange NJ on 7/26…and Selbyville De on 7/28!
---The line-up for the New York State Blues Festival at Clinton Square in Syracuse is not only set for June 28th thru the 30th but the line-up has also been announced and it includes a couple of local musical acts… both Nate Gross and Chris Merkley! Here’s the three-day breakdown:
|
Day #1 (6/28): |
The Lightkeepers/ Larkin Poe/ The
Hi-Jivers |
|
Day #2 (6/29): |
Chris Eves/ Emanuel |
|
Day #3 (6/30): |
Chris Merkley/ Mike DeLaney & The
Delinquents/ Mike “Cotton Toes”
Scrivens/ Roustabouts/ Los Blancos/ AJ
Ghent Band/ The Bruce Katz Band/ Todd
Fitzsimmons/ Anders Osborne/ CJ Chenier
& The Red Hot Louisiana Band |
LOCAL-ISH:
---Barry Manilow will play Turning Stone Casino in Verona NY on 7/12…as well as a few other regional dates…a second night in Vienna VA on 6/9…Bethlehem PA on 7/5…Uncasville CT on 7/10!
---Cowboy Junkies are adding Summer 2018 dates to their tour! The new leg comes into our region in…Lexington MA on 7/18, then continues on…Edgartown MA on 7/19…Portsmouth NH on 7/20…NYC for two nights on 7/22 & 7/23…the previously leaked Alexandria VA on 7/26…and finally into our local-ish area at Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 7/28!
---Blackmore’s Night (the acoustic medieval duo of Richie Blackmore of Deep Purple/ Rainbow and his wife, Candace Night) will basically be touring our region in July, including a local-ish stop in Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak on 7/26…as well as…Northampton MA on 7/21…Huntington NY on 7/22…Washington DC on 7/25…Ridgefield CT on 7/28…and Montclair NJ on 7/29! Somebody should really sign these two up for NY Faerie Fest…Budget concerns not withstanding.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Phil Collins, the former drummer and lead singer of Genesis, who also had a remarkable solo career in the 80’s, has come out of retirement and following last years European tour, finally comes to America and back to our region with a Fall 2018 tour…Washington DC on 10/7…Philadelphia PA on 10/8…Boston MA on 10/9…Toronto ON on 10/11…Newark NJ on 10/13…Brooklyn MA on 10/14…and Montreal QC on 10/16! Collins had retired due to a deterioration of his ability to hear. I hope this means he’s found good ear pieces to help him out.
---Shawn
Mendes has finally announced tour dates in support of his
forthcoming album and these dates extend far into 2019,
including…Pittsburgh PA on 8/6…Newark NJ on 8/10…Washington DC on
8/13…Boston MA on 8/15…Montreal QC on 8/21…and NYC on 8/24!
More announcements are expected soon as warm-up artists have yet
to be determined and there’s still no date for
---J. Cole
has announced tour dates in support of his new album, “KOD,” and he’s taking Young
Thug with him…for the most part!
See the pair in…
---American Idol is resuming it’s American tour of top contestants! This year the top 7 contestants (as opposed to past years when the top 10 or 12 would tour) plus special guest, American Idol season 8 winner, Kris Allen! The tour is, of course coming into our region and making the following stops…Baltimore MD on 8/12…Albany NY on 8/13…Upper Darby PA on 8/14…Westbury NY on 8/16…Morristown NJ on 8/17…Englewood NJ on 8/18…Lynn MA on 8/19…York PA on 9/12…Munhall PA on 9/13…Red Bank NJ on 9/14…New Bedford MA on 9/15…and Washington DC on 9/16!
---The
Levitate Music Festival has announced it’s full line-up and it’s
actually, pretty cool! The
two day festival is set in
|
Day #1
7/7 |
Trey Anastasio (phish)/ Slightly
Stoopid/ Stick Figure/ Twiddle/ Ripe/
Xavier Rudd/ The Suffers/ Robert
Randolph & The Family Band/ Samantha
Fish/ New |
|
Day #2
7/8 |
The Head And The Heart/ Rebelution/ |
---P!nk has expanded her “Beautiful Trauma” tour and she’ll be coming back to our region four more times in 2019…Toronto ON on 5/13…two nights in Montreal QC on 5/17 & 5/18…and a second night in NYC on 5/21! Will there be more? Well, there are built in gaps for multiple nights to be added if need be, so perhaps!
---ABC-TV has announced it’s Good Morning America “GMA Summer Concert Series,” line-up, which will take place at Rumsey Playfield at Central Park! The line-up is as follows:
5/15: Liam Payne & J Balvin
5/25: Sting & Shaggy
6/1: Halsey
6/8: Ne-Yo
6/15: Pitbull
6/22: Bebe Rexha
6/29:
7/6: G-Eazy
7/13: Backstreet Boys
7/20: Camila Cabello
7/27: Fall Out Boy
8/3: Kelsea Ballerini
8/10: The Chainsmokers
8/17: Leon Bridges
8/24: Luis Fonsi
8/31: Alesso
---Slightly older teenagers might enjoy the Pop2K tour, featuring a rotating line-up of Lance Bass, O-Town, Aaron Carter and/or Ryan Cabrera; coming soon to a town near you…Baltimore MD on 6/28…Harrisburg PA on 6/29…Jamaica NY on 6/30…New Bedford MA on 7/1!
---Jesse McCartney has announced fresh tour dates for the Summer of 2018…Silver Springs MD on 6/26…NYC on 6/28…Philadelphia PA on 6/29…Freehold NJ on 6/30…and Boston MA on 7/2!
---John Corabi’s “The
Dead Daisies” have returned and the former Motley Crue singer, will
bring with him Dizzy Reed’s
Hookers & Blow, which features not only for GNR member, but his own
line-up of stars, guitarist Alex Grossi of Quiet Riot, bass player
Robbie Crane of Black Star Riders and drummer Mike Dupke of W.A.S.P. and
John Mellencamp! You can see
these two great bands in
---I thought I’d heard it all, until now…the
Golden Nugget in
Day #1 (7/12): B-Street Band (tribute to bruce springsteen)
Day #2 (7/13): Wanted DOA (tribute to bon jovi)/ Completely Unchained (tribute to van halen)
Day #3 (7/14):
Tuesdays Gone (tribute to
lynyrd skynyrd)/ Best Of The
Eagles (tribute to the
eagles)/ Beginnings (tribute
to
Day #4 (7/15):
Free Fallin’ (tribute to tom
petty)/
---Alt-pop singer, Alex Clare has announced a short, eleven-date, Fall 2018 tour and nearly half of it is within our region…Brooklyn NY on 10/4…NYC on 10/6…Baltimore MD on 10/7…Washington DC on 10/10…and Sellersville PA on 10/11!
---John Prine tour dates in support of his new top five album, “Tree Of Forgiveness” have been announced…and are being added to this week in light of it’s hugh success…Vienna VA on 6/1…Burlington VT on 6/13…Boston MA (with Peter Wolf) on 6/15…Concord NH on 6/16…and Pittsburgh PA on 7/20!
---Rap star, Rich Homie Quan has announced a summer schedule that bounces thru our region in July…Amityville NY on 7/13…Washington DC on 7/14…Cambridge MA on 7/15…and NYC on 7/16!
---The Unlikely Candidates have booked a schedule of late Spring dates, including…Cambridge MA on 5/31…Albany NY on 6/1…NYC on 6/2…Philadelphia PA on 6/3…Baltimore MD on 6/4…the previously leaked Washington DC on 6/5!
---Young pop singer, JoJo (not part of the R&B band K-Ci & Jojo), has booked a theatre sized Spring tour that will bring her into our region…Washington DC on 6/12…Philadelphia PA on 6/13…Cambridge MA on 6/16…Brooklyn NY on 6/17…and NYC on 6/19!
---Father
John Misty has announced Summer tour dates and a few of them are
within our region…
---70’s soul band, The Spinners have announced regional Fall 2018 tour dates…Lewiston NY on 8/21…Cape May NJ on 8/31…Uncasville CT on 12/29…and Ocean City NJ on 12/31!
---Alternative band,
Borns announced Fall dates,
but there are only two stops in our region so far…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The Rock Allegiance Fest has been announced and
the line-up is impressive…Avenged
Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Skillet, Bullet For My Valentine,
Beartooth, Insane Clown Posse, Gwar, Of Mice & Men, Fozzy, Bad Wolves,
From Ashes To New, Devour The Day and at least six more bands!
It’s set for 10/6 at the Pavilion at
---Outside of the Levitate Festival and the Phish
“Curveball” festival in Watkins Glen, the only
Trey Anastasio appearance north of the Mason Dixon and east of the
---The Calling have booked only one show east of Nevada so far for 2018…that’s in NYC on 6/28 at The Gramercy!
---Fans of 80’s pop-rockers,
Scandal have booked only three dates in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---The
Magpie Salute adds
---Otep
adds
---The Charlie Daniels Band adds Brookville NY on 7/6…Darien Center NY (as part of the lynyrd skynyd tour) on 7/13…Hartford CT (also with skynyrd) on 7/14…Little Valley PA on 8/1…Lancaster PA on 8/12…Hyannis MA on 8/18…Webster MA on 8/19…Williamsburg PA on 9/21…and Concord NH on 11/8!
---Ry Cooder
adds Emmylou Harris to two
shows on the tour…7/1 in Lenox MA…and in
---Blue
Oyster Cult adds
---Justin
Timberlake adds
---Drive-By
Truckers add
---Jeff Beck is adding solo shows on “off nights” on the “Stars Align” tour with Paul Rodgers and Ann Wilson…York PA on 8/5…Pittsburgh PA (with Ann Wilson) on 8/11…and Port Chester NY on 8/15!
---It also appears that “The Stars Align” tour stop in Lewiston NY on 8/7, has been downgraded to “just” a Jeff Beck/ Ann Wilson show and that Paul Rodgers is not longer on the bill on that day.
---Delbert
McClinton adds
---The
Outlaws add
---Oleta
Adams adds Rockport MA on 11/3…and
---Marco
Benevento adds
---Old Crow Medicine Show adds NYC on 7/26!
---Rival
Sons add
---America Idol winner, Phillip Phillips adds NYC on 6/7!
---Stephen
Stills & Judy Collins add
---Meanwhile
Judy Collins adds a solo show in
---Steve
Augeri adds
---Ed
Sheeran adds a second night in
---Gordon
Lightfoot adds
---The Alex
Clare date, formerly in
---The Grass
Roots add
---NRBQ
ads
---Taylor
Dayne adds
---Los Lobos
adds
---Tyler The Creator has withdrawn from the Childish Gambino farewell tour…but it’s still a great tour and also includes Rae Sremmurd!
---Meghan Trainor adds NYC on 5/15!
---Doyle Bramhall II adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Alex Clare (5)
---American Idols (12)
---Barry Manilow (4)
---Blackmore’s Night (6)
---Blue Oyster Cult (2)
---Borns (2)
---Charlie Daniels Band (7)
---Cowboy Junkies (6)
---Delbert McClinton (1)
---Doyle Bramhall II (2)
---Drive-By Truckers (1)
---Ed Sheeran (1)
---Fake Fest (4)
---Father John Misty (3)
---Gordon Lightfoot (1)
---J. Cole (2)
---J. Cole/ Young Thug (7)
---Jesse McCartney (5)
---Jeff Beck (3)
---John Fogerty (1)
---John Prine (5)
---JoJo (5)
---Judy Collins (1)
---Justin Timberlake (3)
---Levitate Music Festival (2)
---Los Lobos (1)
---Marco Benevento (3)
---Meghan Trainor (1)
---
---NRBQ (1)
---Oleta Adams (2)
---Otep (1)
---Old Crow Medicine Show (1)
---Phillip Phillips (1)
---P!nk (4)
---Pop2K Tour (4)
---Rich Homie Quan (4)
---Rival Sons (1)
---Robert Cray Band (4)
---Rock Allegiance Tour (1)
---Ry Cooder/ Emmylou Harris (2)
---Scandal (1)
---Shawn Mendes (6)
---Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins (1)
---Steve Augeri (1)
---Taylor Dayne (1)
---The Calling (1)
---The Grass Roots (1)
---The Magpie Salute (1)
---The Outlaws (2)
---The Spinners (4)
---The Unlikely Candidates (6)
---They Might Be Giants (8)
---Trey Anastasio (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 050418:
---The daily line-up for the Peach Festival has been announced and it’s (as usual) pretty epic…
Day #1 (Thu 7/19):
Twiddle/ Pigeons Playing
Day #2 (Fri 7/20):
Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family
Band/ Umphrey’s McGee/ The Revivalists/ moe./ Twiddle & Friends/ Michael
Franti & Spearhead/ Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band
Day #3 (Sat 7/21):
Dark Side of the Mule/ Joe
Russo’s Almost Dead/ moe. + Little Feat (2 sets)Blackberry Smoke/ Chris
Robinson Brotherhood/
Day #4 (Sun 7/22):
Gov’t Mule/ Dickey Betts Band/
Warren Haynes/ Oteil Burbridge & Friends
…for our listings of all the bands in the festival, see our Local or Regional Concerts Page, elsewhere on this site!
---Former (and the only one from our area) American
Idol contestant, Kaitlyn Jackson
posted a new video last month, of a song she recorded back in 2014.
The video was shot in
---Zarni de
Wet’s back in town,
---The Carole King Musical “Beautiful” has added two
more nights at the
---Alex Creamer says her latest album, “Shaking The Shelter,” is now available at iTunes, Spotify and Amazon!
---Checked in with the Brackney Inn, damaged last year by fire. Ownership reports that construction is, “…progressing quickly now, but still can’t pinpoint a (grand re-opening) date.” Hopefully that will change soon now that weather has improved.
---If you need a taste of some “Audio Chocolate,” Paul Tauterouff shared a track from his latest album on facebook recently and I’ll share the link with you. It sends you to his bandcamp page, where you can stream and/or download the track, but it’s not free…but it is only a dollar and even I can almost afford that. Here’s the link: https://paultauterouff.bandcamp.com/track/farewell
---Carl Dixon, formerly of The Guess Who, April Wine and Coney Hatch is coming to McGirks in Chenango Bridge NY on 5/11! Tickets are $25.00!
---Devinne Meyers new album, “The Silver Line Project,” must be nearly done. Meyers has created a new facebook page dedicated purely to the album. Here’s a link: https://www.facebook.com/DMsilverlineproject/?notif_id=1525122630872212¬if_t=page_invite&ref=notif
---Local guitar god, Randy McStine announced on his facebook page this week that he’s prepping to go into the studio to contribute to the latest project by Dave Kerzner…and also discloses that other artists making contributions to this recording include, (long time music partner) Nick D’Virgilio and Matt Dorsey! Sounds like a fun time!
---The NYS
Fair in
---New venue alert:
The Kuckoo’s Nest, Inc. at
LOCAL-ISH:
---Dave
Matthews & Tim Reynolds sneak in a show at
CMAC in
---Gavin
DeGraw has announced a few dates…mostly on the Phillip Phillips
tour, but will play a solo show at
Darien Lake Amphitheatre in
---Bullet
For My Valentine will play the NYS Fairgrounds (really?
Not Lakeview Amphitheatre?
…it’s not like they still have the Grandstand at the NYS Fair…)
in
---Blackmore’s Night, the medieval music duo of Richie Blackmore (yes, the guitar player from Deep Purple and Rainbow) and his vocalist wife, …are set to play Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 7/26…with the entire rest of the seven-town tour, completely within our region…Glenside PA on 7/19…Northampton MA on 7/21…Huntington NY on 7/22…Washington DC on 7/25…Ridgefield CT on 7/28…and Montclair NJ on 7/29!
---Folk singer,
Jonathan Edwards (remember
his one-hit-wonder, “Sunshine?”) is set to play the
Nelson Odeon in Nelson NY
(just outside of Cazenovia—near Syracuse) on 9/14!
He also announced shows in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Fleetwood Mac have finally announced their 2018-19 tour…52 dates, to start with, but spaced out so they can add multiple dates in major cities! The Lindsey-less Mac will play…Pittsburgh PA on 11/1…Toronto ON on 11/5…then the Mac won’t be back until 2019…Washington DC on 3/5…Atlantic City NJ on 3/9…NYC on 3/11…Newark NJ on 3/13…Hartford CT on 3/15…Albany NY on 3/20…Baltimore MD on 3/24…Buffalo NY on 3/26…Boston MA on 3/31…and Philadelphia PA on 4/5! Whew!
---Death Cab
For Cutie have announced a Fall 2018 set of tour dates in support of
a new album from the band, expected to be released in August!
It will also be their first tour without guitarist, Chris Walla,
who is leaving to seek opportunities in producing and to work on solo
projects. See
DCFC in…Upper Darby PA on
10/9…two nights in
---Boz Scaggs is spending his summer on-the-road with a schedule that criss-crosses thru our area with ten new dates…North Bethesda MD on 6/13…Stamford CT on 6/14…Atlantic City NJ on 6/16…Englewood NJ on 6/17…York PA on 6/19…Niagara Falls ON on 6/21…(the previously announced) Rochester NY on 6/23…Huntington NY on 6/26…Torrington CT on 6/28…Hyannis MA on 6/29…and Lowell MA on 6/30!
---Owl City, best known for the song “Fireflies,” has booked a pretty ambitious Fall tour, for a one-hit-wonder…Toronto ON on 9/15…Philadelphia PA on 9/17…Lancaster PA on 9/18…NYC on 9/19…Boston MA on 9/21…and Washington DC on 9/22!
---Folk icons, The Kingston Trio have booked a Summer-into-Summer tour that will bring them into our region…Beverly MA on 7/20…Plymouth NH on 7/21…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/22…Hartford CT on 9/16…Glen Allen VA on 9/19…then, this Fall…York PA on 11/8…Tarrytown NY on 11/9…and in 2019…Alexandria VA on 1/27…and Old Saybrook CT on 6/22 & 6/23!
---The Alarm has announced Summer tour dates, and of course they will bring them to our region…Toronto ON on 7/31…Derry NH on 8/1…Bay Shore NY on 8/2…Pawling NY on 8/3…Lewiston NY on 8/4…Asbury Park NJ on 8/5…Philadelphia PA on 8/7…and Washington DC on 8/8!
---M. Ward, of She & Him, is booking a weeks worth of solo shows during a week off on The Decemberists tour, on which he is warming up, but just two in our region…Bethlehem PA on 6/15…and Washington DC on 6/16…then after the tour…Toronto ON on 7/11…Woodstock NY on 7/14…Portsmouth NH on 7/15!
---Operation Mindcrime, Geoff Tate’s Queensryche cover band, has booked more tour dates…Lancaster PA on 6/7…Amityville NY on 6/12…Sellersville PA on 6/13…Stroudsburg PA on 6/14…Washington DC on 6/15…Sayreville NJ on 6/16…Warrendale PA on 6/18…Baltimore MD on 6/19…and Poughkeepsie NY on 6/20!
---Former ‘Til Tuesday lead singer, Aimee Mann has booked tour dates…Ocean City NJ on 6/18…Jersey City NJ on 6/19…Great Barrington MA on 6/22…Katonah NY on 6/23…and Derry NH on 6/24!
---Tony Orlando is taking a tour of the U.S. that would be massive if it wasn’t spread out so far…Asbury Park NJ on 5/6…NYC on 5/8…then two nights in Niagara Falls ON on 7/27 &7/28…New Haven CT on 9/8…West Springfield MA on 9/17 & 9/18…and, the previously announced, Atlantic City NJ on 12/31!
---The Great South Bay Music Festival appears to have most of their acts booked and scheduled for this years festival set for 7/12 thru 7/15 at Shorefront Park in Patchogue NY on Long Island…the best nights so far seem to be Friday (for modern rockers) with Sublime, The Dirty Heads and Less Than Jake…and Sunday (for classic rockers) with Dickey Betts Band, Hot Tuna, Little Feat and the Devon Allman Project! To see all four days check the Regional Concert Page and scroll down to the “Great South Bay Music Festival.”
---Speaking of Sublime With Rome, they’re also headlining the Rock The Roots Tour this year, along with a rotating cast of warm-up bands…Walden NY on 6/30…and West Dover VT on 7/7, before it heads to the Midwest and West Coast.
---Steve Cropper and Dave Mason have teamed-up for an unexpected co-headlining tour…Munhall PA on 7/14…Tarrytown NY on 7/15…Beverly MA on 8/16…Jim Thorpe PA on 8/18…Albany NY on 8/22…and Baltimore MD on 8/25!
---Gary Numan is taking his synth-rock on tour and it’s coming to our region this Fall…Pittsburgh PA on 9/17…Toronto ON on 9/18…Boston MA on 9/20…Washington DC on 9/21…NYC on 9/22…and Wilmington DE on 9/23!
---South Korean pop band,
BTS is testing the waters in
---Once Darlene Love (formerly of The Crystals) gets done with the “Malt Shop Memories” Cruise she has planned two terrestrial shows planned, both at The Cabot in Beverly MA on 12/8 & 12/9!
---The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have announced a new leg to their 2018 tour, but that means only two dates for us…Toronto ON on 8/18…and Worcester MA on 8/25, with the reunited 80’s version of Fishbone!
---Speaking of Fishbone reunion tour dates…there are only two others in our region, not that there were that many to begin with…Silver Spring MD on 8/23…and Brooklyn NY on 8/24!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Nile Rodgers is taking
Chic back on tour (sadly his partner in the original band, Bernie
Edwards passed on long ago), but the band remains strong, however only
one regional show before they head for the
---Monica
announces what is pretty much a one-off…as her only other show this year
is booked for
---Nils Lofgren (from both Crazy Horse and the E-Street Band) will play a one-shot-solo-show at The Cabot in Beverly MA on 9/22!
---The
Summer Jam Fest at Jones
Beach Amphitheatre, in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Cowboy
Junkies add
---Tracy
Bonham adds
---The Zac
Brown Band adds
---NRBQ
add
---The
Wailers add
---Rickie
Lee Jones adds
---KRS-One
adds
---Boy
George & Culture Club add
---The Indigo Girls add Red Bank NJ on 5/25…Provincetown MA on 5/27…Ocean City NJ on 7/9…and Vienna VA on 7/10!
---
---Walter Trout moves his NYC show on 7/25 to the HighLine Ballroom as B.B. Kings Blues Club has closed.
---Martin Barre’s 9/20 show in NYC is also moved to the HighLine Ballroom!
---John Mayall finally adds a show in our region…Beverly MA on 9/8…hopefully there will be more!
---Blind
Melon adds
---Arctic
Monkeys add
---The
Psychedelic Furs add
---The Outlaws add NYC on 8/3!
---Los
Lonely Boys add
---The
Platters add
---Hippiefest adds Glenside PA on 7/28!
---Anthrax
adds
---Brian
Wilson postponed his 12-date Spring tour last week after having back
surgery to resolve recurring pain.
---Vladimir Putin’s favorite band,
Pussy Riot add another
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aimee Mann (5)
---Anthrax (1)
---
---Boy George & Culture Club (1)
---Boz Scaggs (10)
---BTS (2)
---Cowboy Junkies (2)
---Dave Matthews/ Tim Reynolds (1)
---Death Cab For Cutie (5)
---Fishbone (2)
---Fleetwood Mac (12)
---Gary Numan (6)
---Gavin DeGraw (1)
---
---Hippiefest (1)
---Indigo Girls (4)
---John Mayall (1)
---KRS-One (2)
---Little Feat (1)
---Los Lonely Boys (3)
---M. Ward (5)
---Monica (1)
---Nils Lofgren (1)
---NRBQ (4)
---Operation: Mindcrime (9)
---Phillip Phillips/ Gavin DeGraw (1)
---Pussy Riot (1)
---Rickie Lee Jones (1)
---Rock The Roots Tour (2)
---Steve Cropper/ Dave Mason (6)
---Summer Jam Fest (1)
---The Alarm (8)
---The
---The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (2)
---The Outlaws (1)
---The Platters (2)
---The Wailers (1)
---Tony Orlando (8)
---Tracy Bonham (1)
---Zac Brown Band (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 042718:
---The GrassRoots Festival daily schedule for all four stages has finally been announced! Daily highlights include…
|
Day
#1:
|
Bess Greenberg/ Tenzin Chopak on the Grandstand Stage!
Donna The Thousands Of One on the Dance Tent Stage! |
|
Day
#2:
|
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad/ Big Mean
Sound Machine/ Patti Griffin/ The
Gunpoets on the Infield Stage!
Ryan Montbleau/ Valerie June/ Jim
Lauderdale/ Danielle Ponder
& the Tomorrow People on the
Grandstand Stage! |
|
Day #3: |
Mosaic Foundation on the Cabaret Stage!
Donna The Sim Redmond/ Wood Brothers/ The Blind Spots/ Tenzin Chopak on the Grandstand Stage!
Taina Asili y Banda Rebelde and the
Grady Girls on the Dance Tent
Stage! |
|
Day #4: |
Big Mean Sound Machine on the Dance Tent Stage! Notorious String Band on the Cabaret Stage!
Donna The
Mosaic Foundation on the Grandstand
Stage! |
…For the full schedule see the Local or Regional Concert Pages!
---Speaking Of Festivals, the “Grateful For The Dead” fest is set for Saturday May 12th @ noon and the line-up is a who’s-who of local rock and jam bands…Gerry Jarcia String Band @ 12p…Slideways @ 1:30p…Raibred @ 2p…Andru Bemis @ 3:30p…Voodoo Highway @ 4p…Dusty Wayne & Me. Pete at 530p…the Kitchen Sink Band @ 6p…Chris Mollo @ 730p…and the headliner, Ship Of Phools @ 8p! The show is a fundraiser for local nonprofit organizations, but there are FREE tickets available in the Owego Pennysaver, Tioga County Courier and distributed program books!
---Another sign of Summer…The
Norwich Summer Concert Series
is already starting to release the line-up for the Summer of 2018…Honey
Island Swamp Band will play at
---Bad Wolves, who had an instant #1 covering The Cranberries “Zombie” following the death of their lead singer, Delores O’Riordan, are making the most of their newfound fame by not only hooking up with both legs of the latest Five Finger Death Punch tour, but also scheduling their own headlining package tour between legs, with Ashes To New and Diamante, and yes it’s coming our way in…Syracuse NY at The Westcott Theatre on 6/12, as well as…Baltimore MD on 6/16…Lancaster PA on 6/18…and NYC on 6/19!
---Bluesman,
Walter Trout is bringing his
band to
---Arctic
Monkeys will make a local-ish tour stop in
---Clint
Ferro, local DJ on 100.5 The Drive, originally from Brackney PA, is
also a musician with a local history as a member of the
Benjamin Raubinsons and
another short lived project, two-piece band called, “The
Captures.”
He is now based in
---Waterman’s
Distillery in
---One of the worlds most iconic pop singers,
Janet Jackson is coming into
our region on a small tour that has “local-ish” ramifications!
Her tour is set to play the
Lakeview Amphitheatre in
---The Chris Robinson Brotherhood will play the Peach Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on Saturday, 7/21, which will be day #3 of the four day festival….they will also play regional shows in…Fairfield CT on 7/22…Providence RI on 7/24…Asbury Park NJ on 7/26…Patchogue NY on 7/27…Beverly MA on 7/28…Plymouth NH on 7/29…Baltimore MD on 7/31…and Burlingham NY (which is way down in the Catskills between Monticello and Newburgh.) on 10/6!
---Deep Purple and Judas Priest will join forces for a late Summer/ early Fall tour that will pass thru our region at least a half-dozen times…Montreal QC on 8/29…Wantagh NY on 9/1…Bethel NY (at Bethel Woods) on 9/2…Darien Center (at Darien Lake) NY on 9/5…Holmdel NJ on 9/6…and Camden NJ (near philly) on 9/9!
---The Subdudes have announced a scant schedule for 2018, but it nonetheless brings them into our local area at least once for a show at the Earlville Opera House in Earlville NY (near Sherburne NY) on 11/2…in addition to some other regional dates…Truro MA on 7/5…Rockport MA on 7/9…Earlville NY on 11/2...Norfolk CT on 11/3…and Plymouth MA on 11/4!
---Local guitar god, Randy McStine, is now playing bass, on an “as needed” basis for Stratospheerius.
---
---From the Legal Dept.: Local Steely Dan tribute band, Cousin Dupree has changed their name and are now known simply as “Duppree.” Please make a note of it.
---…and finally, Burning Moonlight are looking to take their band to the next level with a new lead guitarist, so how good are you? Here’s an edited version of what Bob Hughes posted on the Burning Moonlight facebook page earlier this week:
“Hey Peeps! The word is out and we are starting to gather information
for those who are interested in auditioning as our new lead guitar
player.
:) We
are still in the process of logistics, equip, etc., as we setup and get
ready for auditions. As of now we will be looking at mid to late May to
kick off the auditions. We will be using the following 3 songs:
GnR-Sweet Child O' Mine, Led Zeppelin-Black Dog, and Journey-Stone In
Love. In addition to these 3 songs we will also play
any song on our current setlist that you may know. Here is a link to our
current song list:
http://burningmoonlightband.com/songs.php
As
a band we are looking for a well versed and seasoned player that is
always fully prepared, consistent, and responsible in all aspects of
being in a working band. Solid backup vocal skills are an absolute must.
You must be willing to work as hard as we do to make this band
exceptional. We are looking to stay true to ourselves and the current
genre we perform, however we are receptive to new ideas and songs.
Ideally we want to bring in a player who is enthusiastic about the
challenge and will bring in their own style which will ultimately take
Burning Moonlight to the next level.
We
are veteran players and focused on what we do. There is no room for
drama or abusive activities that will derail this band. We will not
tolerate it. The right player with the right skills will find they are
part of a brotherhood and family in this band.
:) We
want to hear from you and we are excited about our next chapter.
:)
To
setup an audition, message us directly on our fb page
@burningmoonlightband or send Bob Hughes a direct msg in fb. Thank You
all very much for your interest and if you are ready to rock with us,
let us know!”
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Well, after we leaked it over a month ago all
the shows on the Kenny Wayne
Shepherd and Beth Hart
tour have been confirmed this week!
Just in case you forgot, here they are…
---Lauryn Hill is taking her breakthrough solo album, “The Mis-Education Of Lauryn Hill,” on tour for its 20th Anniversary and the itinerary will bring her right into our region…Greenwich CT on 6/1…Bristow VA on 7/8…Boston MA on 7/11…Philadelphia PA on 7/13…Wantagh NY on 7/15…Toronto ON on 7/18…and Holmdel NJ on 8/8! …oh, and btw, she’s going by Ms. Lauryn Hill these days.
---Jazzman,
Pat Methany has announced Summer dates for our region…Great
Barrington MA on 8/2…Newport RI on 8/3 & 8/4 (for the Newport Jazz Fest,
duh!)…
---Buckcherry
will headline the “Gen-X Summer” tour which also includes veteran
alt-rock stalwarts P.O.D., Lit
and Alien Ant Farm!
The tour is set to impact our region in July…
---Pop singer,
Janelle Monae is playing
smaller theatres in support of her new album, “Dirty Computer.”
Her tour will stop in…
---Jim
Messina, formerly of Poco and Loggins & Messina, has finally
announced his full schedule of tour dates and that actually includes a
few stops near us…Plymouth NH on 7/14…Truro MA on 7/15…and Rockport MA
on 7/16! The rest of his
schedule is set in the
---Halestorm has added a new leg to their 2018 trek and it will bring them back thru our region this summer…Baltimore MD on 7/31…Uncasville CT on 8/2…Albany NY on 8/3…and Lewiston NY on 8/6!
---The
Magpie Salute (the rest of the black crowes without chris robinson,
who has his own black crowes cover band and the chris robinson
brotherhood) adds
---Speaking of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (who are mentioned in the local portion of this same post—see above) have announced another wave of show dates to their 2018 itinerary…Norfolk CT on 6/9…Atlantic City NJ on 8/4…Atlantic City NJ again on 11/10…Staten Island NY on 11/16…and Alexandria VA on 12/15!
---I don’t know if I like this new configuration of
the Outbreak tour…it’s so small!
The newest incarnation of it features only three bands…Cipha
Sounds, Nitty Scott and A
Tribe Called Yes!
They’ll make stops in…
---The
Newport Jazz Festival has confirmed their line-up for 2018 and
highlights include Living Colour,
Pat Metheny and George
Clinton & P-Funk! The
festival will run from Friday August 3rd thru Sunday August 5th
at Fort Adams State Park in
---Simple Minds are bringing their UK 80’s rock to the U.S. this fall with stops in…Bethlehem PA on 9/24…Red Bank NJ on 9/26…Montreal QC on 9/28…Toronto ON on 9/30…NYC on 10/2…Boston MA on 10/3…Upper Darby PA on 10/5…and Washington DC on 10/6!
---My Bloody Valentine has announced a new U.S. tour…their first in five years…but it’s only for a few regional dates…and not that many more (8 total) national shows…Philadelphia PA on 7/30…and NYC on 8/1!
---The Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg PA just posted most of their 2018 line-up! So far it’s…Daughtry on 9/21…Casting Crowns on 9/23…Darci L ynne Farmer on 9/24…Melissa Etheridge on 9/27…and Vince Gill on 9/28!
---A Perfect Circle have announced an 11-city tour, which so far only includes one date for our region…11/6 in NYC, but there’s a two-week gap in their itinerary at that point, so I’m expecting there will be more.
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---MTV is planning a big blow-out for the
30th Anniversary of
Yo! MTV Raps with a huge concert at
The B.C. in
---The
Jayhawks have booked a one-off at the World Café Live in
---Doyle Bramhall II has booked a one-show tour at the HighLine Ballroom in NYC on 5/19!
---Chilliwack
has announced it’s annual Canadian tour…but it’s extremely limited, to
just two cities and only one is near enough for me to list…Mississauga
ON (just south of Toronto) on 6/8 at the
International Centre!
If you’ve forgotten their lone
---Speaking of Canadian one-hit wonders
Magic! Is playing
---
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Train is booking solo show on “off-nights” on the Hall & Oates tour…Verona NY on 6/10…and Atlantic City NJ on 6/15!
---
---Mary
Chapin Carpenter adds
---The
Drifters add
---Michael
Glabicki of Rusted Root adds
---The Summerland Tour (y’know, Everclear, Marcy Playground and Local H) add Falls Church VA on 5/30…and Providence RI on 6/1
---Brian McKnight adds NYC on 5/11!
---David Allan Coe adds NYC on 5/16!
---Graham
Parker adds Bordentown NJ on 5/3…
---The
Retro Futura Tour adds
---G. Love
& Special Sauce adds
---Aztec Two-Step add NYC on 6/21…and Great Barrington MA on 7/27!
---Ryan
Cabrera adds
---Bishop
Briggs adds
---The
English Beat adds…
---
---Keifer
Sutherland adds
---Paul
Young & Midge Ure add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A Perfect Circle (1)
---
---
---Aztec Two-Step (2)
---Bishop Briggs (2)
---Buckcherry/ P.O.D./ Lit/ Alien Ant Farm (5)
---Bad Wolves/ Ashes To New/ Diamante (4)
---Brian McKnight (1)
---
---Chris Robinson Brotherhood (8)
---David Allan Coe (1)
---Doyle Bramhall II (1)
---Everclear/ Marcy Playground/ Local H (2)
---G. Love & Special Sauce (1)
---Graham Parker (4)
---Halestorm/ In This Moment (4)
---Janelle Monae (4)
---Janet Jackson (3)
---Jim Messina (3)
---
---Lauryn Hill (7)
---Magic! (1)
---Mary Chapin Carpenter (1)
---Michael Glabicki (2)
---My Bloody Valentine (2)
---
---Outbreak Tour w/ Cipha Sounds/ Nitty Scott/ A Tribe Called Yes (5)
---Pat Metheny (10)
---Paul Young/ Midge Ure (1)
---Ryan Cabrera/ City Under Seige/ Rookie Of The Year (1)
---Ryan Cabrera/ Aaron Carter/ O-Town (1)
---Retro Futura Tour (2)
---Simple Minds (8)
---Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (6)
---Summer Block Party Festival w/ Jill Scott/ Boyz II Men/ DJ Jazzy Jeff (1)
---The Drifters (1)
---The English Beat (6)
---The Jayhawks (1)
---The Magpie Salute (5)
---The Subdudes (6)
---Train (2)
---Walter Trout Band (3)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 042018:
---Alex Creamers “band” has gone thru a transformation…It’s now called Alex & Reid (as in Reid Miner, former “7 Miles” drummer) and it’s about to hit the road for the Summer! Here’s how Alex explained it to me in a personal message on facebook. “We started out as a three piece called 7 Miles, but the bassist left and we decided to keep making music. Reid switched from the (drum) kit to a cajon so it would work with just guitar and percussion and we decided to hit the road this summer. I've been wanting to do this road trip since high school so I finally said enough is enough and started booking shows.” The tour is going coast-to-coast, starting in NYC on 6/25…Philadelphia PA on 6/27…Greensboro NC on 6/30…Memphis TN on 7/6…Baton Route LA on 7/9…New Orleans LA on 7/10 & 7/11…Austin TX on 7/13 & 7/14…West Hollywood CA on 7/19…Ventura CA on 7/22…San Francisco CA on 7/24 & 7/27…Portland OR on 7/30…Vancouver BC on 8/3…Boise ID on 8/7…Boulder CO on 8/12…Independence MO on 8/17…Pittsburgh PA on 8/24, 8/25 & 8/26! Break-a- leg you two!
---It’s been nearly a month since the Triple Cities Carousel celebrated it’s 5th Anniversary and announced their changing of hands as Chris Bodnarczuk stepped down and Judith Gross stepped up. Four days later the new publisher balked and it was announced the magazine was no more. In it’s wake were rumors of legal wrangling (which since have proved unfounded) and now firm rumors that some staff writers and community members may be trying to get the rights to the arts magazine away from Equinox Broadcasting (the publisher who quashed the paper.) or start a new arts publication from scratch…perhaps as a nonprofit, or in conjunction with the new Bundy Museum radio station. Forces are at work, but how long before we see a result? It could be as soon as June. Stay tuned.
---Regional jam-band from out of the
---Soul Asylum is playing an off night on the 3 Doors Down tour at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA and they’re bringing Fuel and Adelita’s Way along! Tickets are $42-47.00 and on sale today (4/20)!
---Guster
has announced Summer 2018 tour dates, one local-ish dates at
Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 8/2…and a regional one…
---FYI:
---Former Driven singer, Lisa Cruz is joining forces with Leroy James as Double Shot!
---Donna The
Buffalo, the folk/zydeco local superstars, add a new show to their
schedule in
---Michael Wu bass player for The Gunpoets says the band has been working on some great new songs, ok he said they are “straight FIYA.” Sounds like a new album is coming for 2018!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Former Grand Funk Railroad lead singer/ songwriter, Mark Farner has a new project…Mark Farner’s American Band is on tour and coming soon to our region…Rochester NY on 7/11…NYC on 10/30…Fall River MA on 11/1…and two dates on our Regional Concerts Page will be upgraded from simply Mark Farner shows to Mark Farner’s American Band shows…Natick MA on 11/2…and North Tonawanda NY on 11/3! Exactly how this really changes a Mark Farner concert however is yet to be seen (…and heard.). This may be nothing more than an improvement in imaging, playing off a Grand Funk Railroad classic, “We’re An American Band.”
---Controversial pop singer, Bad Bunny (currently featured on the J Balvin/ Cardi B song “I Like It.”) is testing the waters and getting her feet wet as a touring act and her tour will come into our region this Spring…Uncasville CT on 4/27…Brooklyn NY on 6/8…Boston MA on 8/17…and Newark NJ on 8/18!
---Grunge-era alt-pop singer Matthew Sweet (remember “Girlfriend,”) has announced tour dates for late Spring…Alexandria VA on 6/13…Fairfield CT on 6/15…Bay Shore NY 6/16…Boston MA on 6/17…Dewey Beach DE on 6/19…NYC on 6/20…and Philadelphia PA on 6/21!
---Justin Hayward (of the Moody Blues), has officially announced his worldwide tour, so now we can add to the date that was leaked (Fall River MA on 8/7) last week…Salisbury MA on 8/5…Hartford CT on 8/11…two nights in Sellersville PA on 8/14 & 8/15…two more nights in NYC on 8/16 & 8/17…and Alexandria VA on 8/22!
---The
Day #1: Ani DiFranco/ They Might Be Giants/ Tom Chapin/ Willie Nile
Days #2: Jeff Tweedy of Wilco/ Rhiannon Giddens
The annual two-day festival is held in
---Michael
McDonald, formerly of The Doobie Brothers, is announcing more tour
dates, on top of some that were previously leaked (like the Jim Thorpe
PA show at Penn’s Peak on
5/20!)…
---Sebastian Bach, formerly of Skid Row, has announced a solo tour that includes some regional dates, mostly in Canada however…Barrie ON on 6/28…Kingston ON on 6/29…Montreal QC on 7/2…and Poughkeepsie NY on 7/8!
---Tommy
Stinson (of The Replacements/ GNR/ Bash & Pop) has announced two
benefit shows in his hometown,
---Suicidal Tendencies have announced a Canadian tour that will come into the fringes of our region…Toronto ON on 7/25…Kitchener ON on 7/26…and Montreal QC on 7/27!
---Bowzer, formerly of Sha Na Na, continues to book his “Rock N’ Roll Parties,” with two announced for 2018 so far…at the Music Box Theatre in Hershey PA on 5/13, featuring Shirley Alston Reeves, Little Peggy March and The Toys! The other is also planned for the Music Box Theatre in Hershey on 9/9 and so far features Freddy Cannon, likely with more acts to be added.
---Even as Rusted Root tours, so does their leader, Michael Glabicki, tour as a solo act, coming to regional venues in…Philadelphia PA on 5/3…Ellicottville NY on 6/29…and Roslyn NY on 7/18 & 8/8!
---Grunge era alternative punk/ metal band, L7 has announced some last minute shows that you already missed last week, because they were announced on the day of the first show and probably more of a tune-up, in small theatres…on 4/10 in Jersey City NJ…4/11 in Boston MA…4/12 in NYC…and Philadelphia PA on 4/13…but there are some shows coming up this summer when their worldwide tour comes back around…Toronto ON on 7/25…and Montreal QC on 7/27 as part of the 77 Montreal Festival!
---Glee stars,
Lea Michelle and
Darren Criss (she played
Rachel and he played Blaine) are going on tour together and they will be
singing their way into our region…Pittsburgh PA on 6/2…Washington DC on
6/3…Easton PA on 6/8…
---Former members of Ronnie James Dio’s band, Dio are still touring as the Dio Disciples, with Ripper Owens, formerly of Judas Priest covering RJD’s part…dates for this Dio tribute band in our region are few…Poughkeepsie NY on 8/3…New Bedford MA on 8/4…and Amityville NY on 8/5!
---Superorganism
is coming back around…after some Winter dates, they will return to
---Dennis DeYoung (former lead singer of styx) has announced a Spring Leg to his 2018 tour and that includes new regional dates…Atlantic City NJ on 4/27…Millersville PA on 4/28…Torrington CT on 5/18…Concord NH on 5/19…and Ellicottville NY on 6/30!
---Godspeed You! Black Emperor has announced Summer dates and that means four more regional shows…Toronto ON on 8/7…Buffalo NY on 8/8…Hudson NY on 8/9…(the previously announced) Baltimore MD on 8/11…and Asbury Park NJ on 8/12!
---Before hitting the road with Culture Club and the Thompson Twins Tom Bailey, The B-52’s have booked a half-dozen solo shows including a few in our region…Philadelphia PA on 6/1…Hampton Beach NH on 6/2…and Ridgefield CT on 6/5!
---The Righteous Brothers featuring original member, Bill Medley and new member Bucky Heard, stepping in where the late Bobby Hatfield left off, when he died in 2003, are leaving Las Vegas and playing some dates across America, including three in our region…Lancaster PA on 6/8…Atlantic City NJ on 6/9…and Westhampton Beach NY on 6/10!
---The Flaming Lips have added Summer and Fall tour dates that will bring them back to our region…Montreal QC on 8/20…Providence RI on 8/22…and Pittsburgh PA on 8/24!
---Morris Day & The Time (from Prince’s “Purple Rain” movie…remember “The Bird” & “Jungle Love”?) have announced a few (far too few really) tour dates in our region…NYC on 8/11…Alexandria VA on 8/12…and Washington PA on 9/15…and they’ve also been added to a Kool & The Gang show at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket CT!
---Post-punk/ gothic blues rockers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, have announced a slew of U.S. tour dates…for both Spring and Fall…Northampton MA on 4/30…Boston MA on 5/1…NYC on 5/3…Brooklyn NY on 5/5…then in the fall…Washington DC on 10/25…Brooklyn NY on 10/26…and Toronto ON on 10/28!
---Tech N9ne is headlining a package tour that is coming into our region in late May and June…Silver Spring MD on 5/30…Philadelphia PA on 5/31…Boston MA on 6/1…Buffalo NY on 6/2…Pittsburgh PA on 6/5…Lancaster PA on 6/6…and Montreal QC on 7/28 as part of the Heavy Montreal Fest!
---Speaking of
Heavy
---Hippiefest is back, but so far has only booked on date in our region with headliner Vanilla Fudge (playing mostly cruises these days) coming to Westbury NY on 7/27…along with Rick Derringer, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels and Badfinger w/ Joey Molland!
---Rockers CKY are undertaking a four band package tour with Slaves, Royal Thunder and Awaken I Am that is headed for our region in July…Easton PA on 7/28…Warrendale PA on 7/29…Rochester NY on 7/31…Toronto ON on 8/1…then after a jaunt west and south…Brooklyn NY on 8/30…Philadelphia PA on 8/31…and Worcester MA on 9/1!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Nancy
Wilson (heart guitarist and background singer…although she did sing
leads on “These Dreams.”)…plays a one-off in
---Thomas
Dolby books one lone show in our region (out of two over all in the
world this year) on 8/4 in
---Lupe
Fiasco books a one-shot at
Asbury Lanes in
---Operation
Mindcrime, Geoff Tate’s post-Queensryche project has announced just
one date in the
---X-Files and Californication actor, David Duchovny will perform a concert (he has an album too!) at the Public Arts venue in NYC on Sunday 4/22!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Alison Krauss adds Pittsburgh PA on 6/8…Selbyville DE on 7p…Leno MA on 6/19…Chautauqua NY on 6/23…and Toronto ON on 6/25!
---Firehouse
adds
---Poison
& Cheap Trick add
---Alice
Cooper adds
---Glen
Phillips, of Toad The Wet Sprocket, plays a solo show in
---Bishop
Briggs adds
---Maxi
Priest add
---Ted Leo &
The Pharmacists also add
---Elton John adds two nights in NYC at MSG on 3/5 & 3/6 in 2019!
---Jason
Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience will play a solo show on an off
night on the Foreigner/ Whitesnake tour…on 6/24 at the
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone are adding on…
---Gordon Lightfoot is adding onto his Summer 2018 tour…Rockport MA on 6/11 & 6/12…NYC on 6/13…Alexandria VA on 6/18…Lexington MA on 6/21…and Concord NH on 6/22!
---Railroad
Earth adds two nights at
---Buddy Guy adds NYC on 4/17 & 4/18!
---Earth
Wind & Fire add Stroudsburg PA on 6/2…and
---
---Blondie
adds
---Richie
Furay adds
---Bone
Thugs N Harmony adds
---Blind
Melon have added one show…to their former one show tour…
---AWOLNATION
adds
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox adds Shirley MA on 6/6!
---Lily
Allen adds
---Beach
Boys add
---Marshall Tucker Band adds Red Bank NJ on 9/21!
---Seal
finally adds some more shows in our region…
---Art Garfunkel adds Red Bank NJ on 5/16…and NYC on 6/29!
---Hip hop one-hit wonder, Biz Markie (“Just A Friend”) books a show on an off-night on the “I Love The 90’s Tour”…in Philadelphia PA on 7/20!
---Huey Lewis & The News have cancelled all their tour dates for 2018 as Huey is suffering from hearing loss.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Alice Cooper (1)
---Alison Krauss (5)
---Art Garfunkel (2)
---AWOLNATION (1)
---Bad Bunny (4)
---Beach Boys (2)
---Bishop Briggs (1)
---Biz Markie (1)
---Blind Melon (1)
---Blondie (1)
---Bone Thugs N Harmony (1)
---Bowser’s Rock N’ Roll Party (2)
---Buddy Guy (2)
---CKY/ Slaves/ Royal Thunder/ Awaken I Am (8)
---David Duchovny (1)
---Dio Disciples (3)
---Donna The
---Earth Wind & Fire (2)
---Firehouse (2)
---Glen Phillips (1)
---Godspeed You! Black Emperor (4)
---Gordon Lightfoot (6)
---Guster (2)
---Herman’s Hermits
---Hippiefest (1)
---Huey Lewis & The News (-4)
---Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience (1)
---Justin Hayward (7)
---
---Lea Michelle/ Darren Criss (5)
---L7 (2)
---Lupe Fiasco (1)
---Marshall Tucker Band (1)
---Matthew Sweet (7)
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (1)
---Maxi Priest (1)
---Michael Glabicki (4)
---Michael McDonald (5)
---Morris Day & The Time (3)
---Nancy Wilson (1)
---
---Operation Mindcrime (1)
---Poison/ Cheap Trick (1)
---Railroad Earth (2)
---Richie Furay (1)
---Seal (2)
---Sebastian Bach (4)
---Suicidal Tendencies (3)
---Superorganism (4)
---Tech N9ne (6)
---Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (1)
---The B-52’s (3)
---The Flaming Lips (3)
---The Righteous Brothers (3)
---Third Eye Blind (1)
---Tommy Stinson (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 041318:
---Elevated
Promotions held a “Throwback Sneaker Party” last weekend and vowed
“We Taking It Back” on their event post for
The Icehouse at
---These aren’t the only hip hop acts coming into
town btw, in the next few weeks we will also get a visit from
A Boogie With Da Hoodie at the
Broome County Arena in
---Former M.E. resident, now Albany area singer/ songwriter/ activist, Taina Asili has announced Spring 2018 tour dates…Philadelphia PA on 4/14…Poughkeepsie NY on 4/21…Boston MA (two shows at two venues) on 4/27…Worcester MA on 4/28…Keene NH on 4/29…Albany NY on 5/13…Providence RI on 6/9…NYC on 6/14…NYC again on 6/22…and the Grassroots Festival on the first day of the GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg NY on 7/19! Asili has been featured on Rolling Stones website for her protest song, “No Es Mi Presidente.”
---Alternative rockers,
Lake Street Dive have
announced a summer/ fall leg for their 2018 tour and that will bring
them back, not only to our region, but our local area!
New regional dates include…Red Bank NJ on 6/29…
---The “Down-To-Earth”
Festival has confirmed that it will be held on three nights in
August…from Friday 8/17 thru Sunday 8/19, at
---Good
Nature Farm Brewery & Tap Room has announced much of their Summer
2018 schedule and despite their remote location, in
5/13: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
5/27: The Heavy Pets
6/3: The Ghost Of Paul Revere
6/17: Amy Helm
6/24: Martin Sexton
7/15: Dark Hollow
8/19:
Donna The
---Former Deep Purple/ Black Sabbath/ California Breed and present Black Country Communion lead singer, Glenn Hughes has just announced U.S. dates in between his visits to Europe! Regional stops include…Westbury NY on 8/25…New Haven CT on 8/26…Asbury Park NJ on 8/28…NYC on 8/29…Wilmington DE on 8/31…Lancaster PA on 9/1…Warrendale PA on 9/5…Glenside PA on 9/7…a local-ish show at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 9/8…Poughkeepsie NY on 9/11…Derry NH on 9/18…Boston MA on 9/19…Providence RI on 9/21…and Tarrytown NY on 9/22! Whew!
---The Paper Mill Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY has announced more of their Summer 2018 schedule…new dates (on top of the already announced…Get The Led Out on 5/19 and Dark Star Orchestra on 5/20) include…Umphrey’s McGee on 5/17…Nahko & Medicine For The People on 6/27…and Matisyahu on 7/22, who is also adding more regional dates…NYC on 4/25…Ocean City MD (with Stephen Marley) on 6/13…Wantagh NY (also with Stephen Marley) on 6/14…Stroudsburg PA on 6/15…Atlantic City NJ on 6/16…Baltimore MD on 6/17…Nantucket MA on 7/24 & 7/25…and South Burlington VT on 727!
---Kid Rock will be coming to Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 9/14…the hip hop star just announced a tour that will not only bring him thru the “salt city” but also to…Gilford NH on 8/4…Saratoga Springs NY on 9/15…and Mansfield MA on 9/29! The question is…will anybody care? He’s politically strayed from his fan base and is trying to embrace a new country audience that doesn’t seem aligned with his brand of music. We shall see.
---Huey
Lewis & The News have announced one new date on their 2018 tour,
with local-ish implications…Turning
Stone Casino in
---
---It appears, according to the bands website, that the Dirt Farm documentary on “The Sultana” will be rerun on WSKG-TV’s “Expressions” TV show on May 10th @ 8pm. Don’t miss it again, but for now you can watch the show on the Dirt Farm website @ http://www.dirtfarm.org.
---Big Mean Sound Machine’s Fourth Annual “Big Mean BBQ” has been announced! The event will be two day & nights this year…on Friday 8/24 & Saturday 8/25 at the GrassRoots Festival Campgrounds! The line-up has yet to be announced.
---There is a new facebook page that pays tribute to the now defunct Blind Tiger Pub. It is the request of the page administrator that fans of the venue share their picture, video’s and stories from the history of the legendary and influential pub in tribute to it. It’s named Blind Tiger Pub Johnson City, NY RIP. If you wanna check it out or add something to it, here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2050092368650714
---311 and The Offspring are teaming up for a Summer 2018 jaunt that will come into our local area as well as our greater region…Philadelphia PA on 8/10…Gilford NH on 8/11…Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 8/12…Hartford CT on 8/21…Holmdel NJ on 8/22…Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 8/24…Wantagh NY on 8/25…Bristow VA on 8/26…Toronto ON on 8/28…and Allentown PA on 8/29!
---Blues guitarist, Gary Clark Jr. has announced a Summer touring schedule, which mightily impacts our region and at least one local-ish show…two nights in Port Chester NY on 6/7 & 6/8…Northampton MA on 7/30…Baldwinsville NY (essentially Syracuse) at the Paper Mill Amphitheare on 8/1…Hampton Beach NH on 8/2…and two nights in Toronto ON on 8/6 & 8/7!
---Barry Manilow is playing a few dates here and there this summer and one of them is even local-ish…Vienna VA on 6/8 & 6/9…Bethlehem PA on 7/5…and Verona NY at Turning Stone Casino on 7/12!
---How about local musician
Bess Greenberg? She
nailed the warm-up spot for Richie Kotzen (of poison & the winery dogs)
last night (4/12) in
---Gunpoets bass player, Michael Wu announced this week that his jazz side-project, Triple Down is taking a break for now…which explains why he has so much time to devote recently to Bess Greenberg’s back-up band, “The Magic Ring.”
Condolences: Local musician, John Stark posted on his facebook page on Monday (4/9) that drummer, Robert Blandford Jr. has died. He was known as a member of many early rock bands in the Triple Cities, such as…Ted Alexander & The Premiere’s…Pierre & The Citations…Crystal Ship…Black Diamond Express…Susquehanna Pirate Kazoo Band…and Steppin’ Out (which he also sang in), just to name a few. He also played tenor sax. Many contemporary stars of our local music community expressed sympathies, including…Terry Burke, Rick Iacovelli and Mike Barker…as well as former Beach Boys member (the famed sixth member), Ed Carter. Blandford died on 4/9 at age 74. No cause of death has been released.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Australian pop superstars, 5 Seconds Of Summer, will tour in support of their third album, “Youngblood” (due on 6/22) which will bring them into our region this Summer…Toronto ON on 8/27…Uncasville CT on 8/29…Boston MA on 8/30…Allentown PA on 9/1…Vienna VA on 9/5…York PA on 9/13…and Holmdel NJ on 9/14!
---The Goo Goo Dolls have announced a special tour to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their landmark album, “Dizzy Up The Girl.” The tour will stumble thru our region in the fall starting with…Philadelphia PA on 10/12…Washington DC on 10/13…NYC on 10/15…Red Bank NJ on 10/16…Boston MA on 10/17…two nights in their hometown, Buffalo NY, on 10/19 & 10/20…and Toronto ON on 10/21!
---Toad The Wet Sprocket has announced tour dates for Summer 2018 and they’ll be coming into our region for a visit…NYC on 8/8…Alexandria VA on 8/9 & 8/10…Boston MA on 8/11…Derry NH on 8/12…and a local-ish date at Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 8/14!
---Bullet For My Valentine has announced more dates on their Spring 2018 tour and there are seven more regional stops included…Silver Spring MD on 5/6…Niagara Falls NY on 5/8…Hampton Beach NH on 5/11…Clifton Park NY on 5/12…Pittsburgh PA on 5/14…Montclair NJ on 5/15…and Hartford CT on 5/17! As with other previously leaked BFMV date at the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg PA on 5/18, Trivium and Toothgrinder will open!
---The joyful sound of the worlds first proto-punk band (aside from The Kinks), MC5 will be heard again on their 50th anniversary as the MC50 tour has been announced! The tour features founding MC5 member, guitarist Wayne Kramer, as well as guitarist Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, Dug Pinnick from King’s X and Fugazi drummer Brenden Canty and Zen Guerrilla frontman Marcus Durant! This tour is coming near you to kick out the jams in…Washington DC on 9/11…New Haven CT on 9/12…Boston MA on 9/13…Huntington NY on 9/14…Philadelphia PA on 9/15…NYC on 9/17…Montreal QC on 9/18…Toronto ON on 9/19…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/21
---Grammy Award winning singer/ songwriter/ actress, Jill Scott is hitting the road…Toronto ON on 6/26…Newark NJ on 6/28…Rochester NY on 6/29…Baltimore MD on 7/12…and Oxon Hill MD on 7/14 & 7/15!
---The Retro Futura Tour has announced their itinerary and line-up for 2018, but so far only two regional stops…Westbury NY on 7/13…and Lynn MA on 7/15! Btw, the line-up is very strong…ABC, Belinda Carlisle (the go-go’s), Modern English, Tony Lewis (the outfield), Limahl and Annabella’s Bow Wow Wow!
---Otep is back and they’re stepping out this summer…Toronto ON on 7/17…NYC on 7/19…Reading PA on 7/20…Poughkeepsie NY on 7/21…and Warrendale PA on 7/23!
---Nick Lowe has a new EP and tour dates with Los Straitjackets coming to…Jersey City NJ on 6/22…Pawling NY on 6/23…Westhampton Beach NY on 6/24…and Bethlehem PA on 6/26!
---Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have just announced Spring 2018 tour dates for North America, including regional stops for…Jersey City NJ on 5/11…Buffalo NY on 5/12…and Toronto ON on 5/13!
---I don’t usually cover tribute bands, a few
perhaps, but this one caught my eye right away…Danny
Seraphine’s CTA ft. Bill Champlin!
Both are former members of Chicago…Seraphine is the original
drummer and Bill Champlin was the bands third lead singer, following
Terry Kath and Peter Cetera, so this is a tribute band with a lot of
cred! So far only one date
for them north of the Mason/
---Alternative band, Maps & Atlases have announced Spring 2018 tour dates…Washington DC on 6/19…Brooklyn NY on 6/20…Cambridge MA on 6/21…Philadelphia PA on 6/22…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/23!
---Smile Empty Soul is taking Eve To Adam, Kaleido and Talia on the road for a nice package tour that is coming into our region…Rochester NY on 6/4…Watertown NY on 6/5…Albany NY on 6/6…South Burlington VT on 6/7…Laconia NH on 6/8…Lawrence MA on 6/9…Providence RI on 6/10…Poughkeepsie NY on 6/13…Amityville NY on 6/14…Clifton NJ on 6/15…and Baltimore MD on 6/16!
---Donavon Frankenreiter has just announced a tour that lives on the east coast…Dewey Beach DE on 8/7…Owings Mills MD on 8/8…Asbury Park NJ on 8/9…Brooklyn NY on 8/11…two nights in Amagansett NY on 8/13 & 8/14…Fairfield CT on 8/15…North Stonington CT on 8/16…Salisbury MA on 8/17…Washington DC on 8/18…Nantucket MA on 8/19…two nights in Wellfleet MA on 8/20 & 8/21…NYC on 8/22…Wantagh NY on 8/23…Philadelphia PA on 8/24…Buffalo NY on 8/26…two nights in Wildwood NJ on 8/28 & 8/29…Pawling NY on 8/30…and South Burlington VT on 8/31!
---The Revivalists have added a summer leg to their growing list of 2018 tour dates…Nantucket MA on 7/31 & 8/1…Lowell MA on 8/3…Hampton Beach NH on 8/5…Cockeysville MD (as part of the “Hot August Music Festival” near Baltimore) on 8/18…and Vienna VA on 8/19!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Following the Peach Festival, The Dickey Betts Band has booked the Beacon Theatre in NYC with The Marshall Tucker Band, Duane Betts and The Devon Allman Project! Rock on boys!
---Progressive 80’s rockers,
Zebra have booked a one-off in
---
---Modern rock band,
Ash have announced 2018 tour
dates that include our little northeast/ mid-atlantic zone, but
strangely it’s only one show…Brooklyn NY on 5/30!
Everything else before and after is situated in the
TOUR TWEAKING:
---
---Scott
Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox add Kennett Square PA on 8/19…
---Roger
McGuinn adds
---Old Crow
Medicine Show adds
---Jeff
Lynne’s ELO adds
---Aztec
Two-Step add Flemington NJ on 6/2…
---Faster
Pussycat…add
---Warrant
adds
---Rodriguez
adds
---Ja Rule
and
---Al
Stewart adds
---The
Chapin Sisters add
---Kip Winger adds NYC on 7/17!
---Michael
Glabicki (of rusted root) adds
---The Jeff
Beck/ Paul Rodgers/ Ann Wilson tour called “The
Stars Align Tour,” adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---311/ The Offspring/ GymClassHeroes (10)
---5 Seconds Of Summer (7)
---A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (1)
---Al Stewart (1)
---Ash (1)
---Aztec Two-Step (4)
---Barry Manilow (4)
---Big Mean Sound Machine (3)
---Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (3)
---Bullet For My Valentine (8)
---Danny Seraphine’s CTA
---Dickey Betts Band/ Marshall Tucker Band/ Duane
Betts/
---Donavon Frankenreiter (21)
---Faster Pussycat (2)
---Gary Clark Jr. (7)
---Glenn Hughes (14)
---Goo Goo Dolls (8)
---Hot August Music Festival (1)
---Huey Lewis & The News (1)
---Ja Rule/
---Jeff Beck/ Paul Rodgers/ Ann Wilson (1)
---Jeff Lynne’s ELO (1)
---Jill Scott (6)
---Kid Rock (4)
---Kip Winger (1)
---
---Maps & Atlases (5)
---Matisyahu (10)
---MC50 (9)
---Michael Glabicki (1)
---Nick Lowe (4)
---Old Crow Medicine Show (1)
---Otep (5)
---Retro Futura Tour (2)
---Richie Furay (1)
---Rodriguez (1)
---Roger McGuinn (2)
---Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (4)
---Smile Empty Soul/ Adam To Eve/ Kaleido/ Talia (11)
---
---Taina Asili (10)
---The Chapin Sisters (1)
---The Revivalists (5)
---Toad The Wet Sprocket (6)
---Umphrey’s McGee (1)
---Warrant (1)
---Zebra (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 040618:
---Tioga Downs Casino announced their Summer Concert Series on Monday (4/2) and it looks pretty good! Five concerts stretched out over five months, ticket prices are reasonable and btw, all tickets are available thru tickermaster…
Thu 5/31: Chris Janson @ 8p ($20.00)
Thu 6/28: Eddie Money @ 8p ($20.00)
Sat 7/28: Wynonna @ 8p ($15.00)
Tue 8/7: Beach Boys @ 7p ($40.00--only $60.00 if you buy two)
Sun 9/2: Michael Bolton @ 8p ($20.00)
---On the heels of this past weekends appearance at their homebase, the Ransom Steele Tavern in Apalachin…Driftwood, our local “national touring band” is beginning a series of mostly Thursday-Friday-Saturday regional mini-tours! After dates this weekend in Albany NY on 4/6…and Syracuse NY on 4/7 at The Westcott…the tour begins in earnest, starting on 4/12, that will bring them to…Wellsboro PA on 4/12…Buffalo NY on 4/13 & 4/14…Philadelphia PA on 4/19…Winchester VA on 4/20…and Charlotte NC on 4/21…Wellsville NY on 4/27…Cleveland OH on 4/28…Annapolis MD on 5/3…Roanoke VA on 5/4…and Silk Hope NC on 5/5! The band is also booking Summer Festivals which will bring them to local and regional festivals like…The Lilac Festival in Rochester NY on 5/20…The Great Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman NY on 7/7…the Northwest String Summit in North Plains, Oregon on 7/19 & 7/20…before coming home to night #3 of The Peach Festival in Scranton PA on 7/21…and the final day of the Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg NY on 7/22! Whew!
---The first (hopefully annual) Music & Motorcycles festival, Crowfest has announced it’s 2018 festival date…Saturday 6/9 at Ransom Park in Tioga Center NY! Bands participating in the event are…The Smokin’ Crows…Raibred…J. Floyd…Tim Ruffo Band…Mike Davis & the Laughing Buddha Episodes…Floating Down…Tijuana Danger Dogs…and the Bess Greenberg Trio! Tickets are $10.00 in advance…$15.00 at the door! …and btw, the event not only brags that it features a bike run, food, drink and live music…but fire dancers? Proceeds go to fight PTSD and Cancer Awareness.
---Congrats are due as iconic
---Ithaca’s favorite sons, X-Ambassadors are playing some headlining shows on “off-nights” during the Fitz & The Tantrums tour, so look for them to play…South Burlington VT on 6/12…and Lancaster PA on 6/13…as well as a new date warming-up for Fitz & the Tantrums in Vienna VA on 6/7!
…Here’s a very cool 90’s based tour featuring some
of the best alt-pop bands to come out of the grunge-era!
The Gin Blossoms are
headlining the tour which also features
Tonic and
Vertical Horizon! Even
better, the show will be coming to
Tags in Big Flats on 6/8, as
well as…
---Ithaca Reggae Festival, set for 6/22-24 at Stewart Park in Ithaca has announced it’s 2018 line-up with Clinton Fearon, Sister Carol, Big Mean Dub Machine, The Meditations, Double Tiger Fall Creek Brass Band, the return of Thousands Of One and Mosaic Foundation, just to name a few! Daily scheduling has yet to occur, and we’ll try to forward and/or share that info as soon as we can!
---The NYS
Fair in
---Meanwhile for
Blondie, this is the
continuation of a pattern of festival dates they’ve planned for the
Summer of 2018...MassMoca on 8/3…Osheaga in
---If you are just jumping on the Superorganism bandwagon, the dance/ electronic band, who presently have a hit song, “Everybody Wants To Be Famous,” rising on the Alternative charts, have announced that their last show before heading oversea’s will be Saturday night (4/7) in Syracuse NY at the Lost Horizon! It’s a late addition, so don’t be alarmed that you haven’t heard about it before.
---Finally, The
Outlaw Tour has announced for
Montage Mountain, (which for
some reason is always one of the last locations they announce for…) and
the tour is set to play
---As if the weekend of July 20th thru
the 22nd wasn’t already busy enough with both the GrassRoots
Festival in
---Michael Franti has announced Summer 2018 tour dates that not only include regional appearances, but a local one too…Hyannis MA on 7/13…Greenfield MA (for day #2 of the Green River Festival) on 7/14…Hampton Beach NH on 7/17…East Providence RI on 7/18…Scranton PA (at night #2 of the Peach Festival) on 7/20…Jay VT on 7/21…Cohasset MA on 7/22…Ocean City MD on 7/24 & 7/25!
---Alison Krauss has announced a Summer leg to her 2018 tour and new dates include at least one or two local-ish stops…Pittsburgh PA on 6/8…Selbyville DE on 6/9…Wilkes-Barre PA at The Kirby on 6/10…Lenox MA on 6/19…Chautauqua NY on 6/23…Toronto ON on 6/25…Rochester NY on 6/27…Bensalem PA on 9/6…Mashantucket CT on 9/7…Gilford NH on 9/8…and Verona NY at Turning Stone Casino on 9/9!
---Kenny
Rogers may be done with large scale tours, but he’s still playing
some shows here and there…thus we find him at
The Kirby Center in
Wilkes-Barre PA on Thursday May 31st…plus Lincoln RI on
6/1…and a second night in NYC on 6/3! [note: as report went to be
published…
---
---Atlas Genius has been added to the Bush tour date at the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg PA on 4/11!
---April
Fools: Anyone who gets Jeff
Kahn’s weekly Cyber Café West
newsletter, which comes out, by e-mail, on Sunday morning, got a
surprise when the newsletter arrived!
In the re: line was the word “closing.”
Thankfully Kahn (who also owns the Cyber Café West) says the
Cyber Café will remain open,
but following the recent, sudden closing of
The Blind Tiger Pub in
---Rumor Mill: Could there be impending action by the now-defunct Triple Cities Carousel against Equinox Broadcasting? Rumors are swirling…
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon
Davison, Billy Sherwood version of Yes
continues their 50th Anniversary tour announcing 32 new world
wide dates leading up to next February’s YesCruise.
Amazingly, twelve of the shows will land in our region…Pittsburgh
(Munhall) PA on 7/5…Jim Thorpe PA on (at
Penn’s Peak) 7/6…Montclair NJ
on 7/7…Boston MA on 7/10…Hampton Beach NH on 7/11…Atlantic City NJ on
7/14…Staten Island NY on 7/15…Peekskill NY on 7/17…Westbury NY on
7/18…two nights in Philadelphia PA on 7/20 & 7/21…and finally Washington
DC on 7/23! No word when the
other version of Yes (
---Just off a tour of theatres to warm-up their new singer, Jeff Gutt, Stone Temple Pilots team-up with The Cult and Bush to storm Arena’s across the country this summer! See this triumvirate of modern rock at…Burgettstown PA on 7/21…Toronto ON on 7/25…Wantagh NY on 7/27…Holmdel NJ on 7/28…Boston MA on 7/30…Gilford NH on 8/2…and Bristow VA on 8/5!
---Chris Brown (yeah, that Chris Brown) is hitting (no pun intended.) the road in July and making half-a-dozen stops are he passes thru our region…in Bristow VA on 7/12…Newark NJ on 7/15…Brooklyn NY on 7/16…Camden NJ on 7/18…Boston MA on 7/19…Hartford CT on 7/21…and finally, Burgettstown PA on 7/22! Rich The Kid, H.E.R. and 6Lack will open up.
---Blues guitar maestro,
Joe Bonamassa has announced dates for Fall 2018 already, and that
means…two nights in
---Grunge-era alt-pop singer, Tracy Bonham (remember her Grammy-nominated song, “Mother Mother,” from her 1996 gold album, “The Burdens Of Being Upright?”) is taking to the road for a tour that will include a handful of regional dates, including…Cambridge MA on 6/6…Northampton MA on 6/7…Vienna VA on 6/14…Philadelphia PA on 6/20…and NYC on 6/21!
---Hip hop star, A$AP Ferg has re-announced tour dates that were originally supposed to bring him (and only him as his warm-up acts haven’t been confirmed for these new dates.) into our region this month, but now (except for Toronto) won’t until July…Toronto ON on 5/6…Montreal QC on 7/23…Clifton Park NY on 7/24…and Boston MA on 7/27! Ferg pushed his tour dates back to finish work on his new album.
---The AWOLNATION tour is coming into our region this June! After a spot on the X-Fest at Star Lake Amphitheatre in Burgettstown on 6/2, look for the alt-rockers to come to…Clifton Park NY on 6/15…South Burlington VT on 6/17…Hampton Beach NH on 6/21…and Providence RI on 6/22! Opening up for the tour are rising alt-pop stars…Irontom and lovelytheband.
---So by now, the cat’s outta-the-bag…Bruce Springsteen has announced another stretch at the Kerr Theatre in NYC! Broadway residency #5 is 49 dates long and runs from 9/26 thru 12/15!
---The Posies have announced their 30th Anniversary World Tour and it will bring into our region at least a half-dozen times, in…Philadelphia PA on 6/13…Fairfield CT on 6/14…Somerville MA on 6/15…Washington DC on 6/16…NYC on 6/17…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/19!
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has announced a new leg of dates that will take them from late Spring into early Summer and thru our region…Alexandria VA on 5/31…Ridgefield CT on 6/1…Derry NH on 6/3…Boston MA on 6/6…Bethlehem PA on 6/7…and Uncasville CT on 12/21!
---Daryl Hall & John Oates are taking Train on the road (which sounds like a clash of transportation methods, I know.) this Summer with no less than seven regional tour stops for fans in our coverage zone…Philadelphia PA on 5/26…Toronto ON on 6/5…Boston MA on 6/7…Pittsburgh PA on 7/9…Washington DC on 6/11…NYC on 6/14…and Montreal QC on 7/13!
---Bruce Hornsby has announced 2018 tour dates that will play our region nearly a dozen times…Waterloo NY on 6/14…Washington PA on 6/15…Bensalem PA on 6/16…Englewood NJ on 6/18…Lewiston NY on 6/19…Vienna VA on 6/29…Selbyville DE on 6/30…Morristown NJ on 7/16…Hampton Beach NH on 7/18…Burlington VT on 7/20…and Webster MA on 7/21!
---Veil of
Maya, who are part of the Underoath tour…will play some solo
headlining dates of their own on the tours “off nights.”
See them in…
---Another leg has been added to the Pat Benatar tour, so Summer 2018 tour dates are now realized…Plymouth MA on 6/20…Beverly MA on 6/21…Ridgefield CT on 6/23…Great Barrington MA on 6/25…Morristown NJ on 6/27!
---One of the worlds top ten best slide guitarists, Ry Cooder has announced tour dates…Alexandria VA on 6/3, 6/4 & 6/11…Ridgefield CT on 6/6…Boston MA on 6/7…NYC on 6/8…Derry NH on 6/9 & 6/12…Toronto ON on 6/26…Montreal QC on 6/29…Burlington VT on 6/30…Lenox MA on 7/1…and Philadelphia PA on 7/3!
---British rockers, Paul Young and Midge Ure (formerly of Ultravox) are teaming up on most dates of a 2018 Summer tour…Bethesda MD on 6/5…Sellersville PA on 6/6…Huntington NY on 6/7…NYC on 6/8…Pawling NY (just paul on this show) on 6/10…and Toronto ON on 6/12!
---Molly Hatchet has announced solo shows, following their stint on the Lynyrd Skynyrd farewell tour…Wellsville NY on 6/23…and Verona NY on 8/30!
---Everclear, Marcy Playground and Local H are back as the “Summerland Tour” returns, bringing Grunge-era alt-pop to…Philadelphia PA on 5/31…Huntington NY on 6/3…NYC on 6/5…and Warrendale PA (just outside of Pittsburgh) on 6/6!
---Wow.
The Line-up Joe Perry is
taking on his brief three-night, while Steve Tyler’s off
trying-to-play-country-musid, tour will just have guitar players
everywhere drooling like infants…along with Perry, fellow Aerosmith
guitarist, Brad Whitford…singer,
Gary Cherone of Extreme…Barry
Goudreau of Boston…and Joe Perry Project singer,
Charlie Farren!
Perry’s latest Project is set to play
---Ronnie Milsap just keeps right on going, just like the Energizer bunny…on his latest tour he’s planning regional stops in…Alexandria VA on 4/5…Greensburg PA on 4/6…Plattsburgh NY on 7/18…and Ridgefield CT on 7/19!
---Nirvana for Death Metal heads, Maryland Deathfest has announced their line-up for 2018! The festival is spread out in two venues…Baltimore Soundstage and Rams Head Live…and it’s four days long, from Thursday 5/24 thru Sunday 5/27! Check the Regional Concert Page to pick your line-up and venue!
---Former head Beach Boy,
Brian Wilson, has announced a small tour this Fall to play the Beach
Boys “Christmas Album” in it’s entirety!
Only two dates are booked so far for our region…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Vladimir Putin’s favorite band (NOT), Pussy Riot, are allowed to travel outside of Russia to bring their wonderfully anti-authoritaran pop/punk to America…Sunday 5/27 in Harrisburg PA at Club XL…but while they’ve only announced one headlining tour date in our region , don’t fret…you can also see them on Friday 5/25 as part of Boston Calling!
---An
---Natalie
Merchant has just announced a dozen, mostly oversea’s dates…and one
lonely
---The Wailers will play a “one-off” to help open the new Diamond Horseshoe at Times Square (also called by their corporate name, sony hall) in NYC on 6/19!
---Ace Frehley is also playing a “one-off” at the new Diamond Horseshoe at Times Square in NYC, even earlier, on 5/4!
---The Moody Blues,
Justin Hayward, will play one
terrestrial date leading up to the “On The Blue Cruise,” which will be
8/7 in
---60’s pop singer, Melanie, plays a one-off for us land-lubbers (her only other appearances are on the Flower Power Cruise set for Spring 2019) at Piermont NY on 8/3!
---Once Van
Morrison is off the Outlaw
Music Festival he has booked a one-shot solo show in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---REO
Speedwagon adds
---Kix
adds
---Buckethead, former Guns N’ Roses guitarist in the lean years…adds some more dates to his solo tour…Northampton MA on 4/6…Providence RI on 4/11…and Philadelphia PA on 4/18!
---Eric Burdon & The Animals add Glenside PA on 5/9!
---Ben
Harper and Charlie
Musselwhite add…a third night in
---Jean-Luc Ponty adds Glenside PA on 8/18!
---The War
On Drugs add
---Billy Joel adds his 58th show in his MSG residency in NYC on 11/10!
---Parkway
Drive adds Silver Spring MD on 5/5…
---Steve
Forbert adds Kennett Square PA on 7/27…
---
---Ian
Anderson adds
---Memphis May Fire, Fire From The Gods and The Word Alive are playing an “off-night” on the Sevendust tour, in Pittsburgh PA on 5/10, at Mr. Smalls!
---Bone
Thugs N Harmony add
---Frankie
Valli & The Four Seasons added a second night in
---Tony Bennett adds two nights in Westbury NY on 5/18 & 5/19…Vienna VA on 6/23…and Bethlehem PA on 6/30!
---Prong & Helmet add NYC on 5/23!
---Paul
Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat, add
---Buddy Guy
adds
---21 Savage
picks up two “off nights” on the Post Malone tour…5/20 in NYC…5/22 in
---Finally,
John Sebastian (of the Lovin’ Spoonful) adds two regional shows to
his 2018 itinerary…
---Kofi
Baker Cream Experience is moving their 5/2 show at
---Foghat
confirms that they’ll be playing the Woodstock CT Fair on 9/2…and a
twin-bill with Grand Funk
Railroad at Twin Rivers
Casino in
---The “I
Love The 90’s Tour” adds
---Bon Jovi
postponed their two
---Kenny Rogers just cancelled the remainder of his 2018 dates due to a health issue. Tickets can be refunded at your point of purchase.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---21 Savage (2)
---
---AWOLNATION/ lovelytheband/ Irontom (4)
---Ben Harper/ Charlie Musselwhite (6)
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (6)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Blondie (3)
---Bone Thugs N Harmony (1)
---Bruce Hornsby (11)
---Bruce Springsteen (49)
---Buckethead (3)
---Buddy Guy/ Jonny Lang (1)
---Chris Brown/ Rich The Kid/ 6Lack/ H.E.R. (7)
---Counting Crows (10)
---Eric Burdon & The Animals (1)
---Everclear/ Marcy Playground/ Local H (4)
---Fitz & The Tantrums/ X-Ambassadors/ Mikky Ekko (1)
---Foghat (2)
---Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (1)
---Hall & Oates/ Train (7)
---Helmet/ Prong (1)
---
---I Love The 90’s Tour (1)
---Ian Anderson (1)
---
---Jean-Luc Ponty (1)
---Joe Bonamassa (4)
---Joe Perry (3)
---Justin Hayward (1)
---Kenny Rogers (3)
---Kix (1)
---Kofi Baker’s Psychedelic Trip (1)
---Lyle Lovett (7)
---
---Melanie (1)
---
---Michael Franti (9)
---Molly Hatchet (2)
---Natalie Merchant (1)
---Outlaw Music Festival (9)
---Parkway Drive (3)
---Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett (1)
---Paul Young (1)
---Paul Young/ Midge Ure (5)
---Pat Benatar (5)
---
---Pussy Riot (1)
---REO Speedwagon (12)
---Ronnie Milsap (4)
---Ry Cooder (13)
---Steve Forbert (3)
---
---The Posies (6)
---The War On Drugs (1)
---The Wailers (1)
---Tony Bennett (4)
---Tracy Bonham (5)
---Van Morrison (1)
---Veil Of Maya (2)
---Willie Nelson/ Van Morrison (1)
---X-Ambassadors (2)
---Yes (12)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 033018:
---So here is, the end of March, and still the
Brackney Inn, in Brackney PA,
isn’t open. In case you
forgot, the
---Well this story is so bizarre, and changed so quickly that I will have to break it up into two parts! Here’s the original story I wrote, following last weeks 5th Anniversary party for the Triple Cities Carousel…
---The
Triple Cities Carousel magazine (or rag as they refer to themselves)
is changing hands! After
five years at the magazine, Founder and Editor-in-Chief,
Chris Bodnarczuk, is moving
on, to take a position with the
Anderson Center at
---Now here’s part two…just four days after the party this post appeared on the Triple Cities Carousel facebook page, “We’re so very sorry to announce that our publisher, Equinox Broadcasting, has decided not to continue forward with Carousel at this time. Thank you all for your support over these last five years. We love you all so very much.” There was no reason given for Equinox to cease publication except that there may have been some kind of falling out between between management and Bodnarczuk. Whatever the case it will be missed by many local musicians and the musical community.
---There’s a new venue in Apalachin!
Waterman’s Distillery at 6172 Route 434 in
https://www.watermansdistillery.com/home
---Old Crow Medicine Show has announced Summer dates including a local-ish stop at the Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown NY on 7/14…as well as a bunch of new regional stops…Washington DC on 4/28…New Haven CT on 7/17…Hampton Beach NH on 7/19…Providence RI on 7/20…Shelburne VT on 7/22…Dewey Beach DE on 7/27…as well as a festival date in Greenfield MA on 7/15 for Green River Festival!
---Kiefer Sutherland is back! Apparently the television and movie star’s theatre tour last year wasn’t a fluke and now he’s returned to play larger venues…Toronto ON on 5/10…Alexandria VA on 5/20…Dewey Beach DE on 5/23…Asbury Park NJ on 5/25…Bethel NY (at Bethel Woods!) on 5/26…Pawling NY on 5/27…and Amagansett NY on 5/28!
---Creedence Clearwater Revisited (ft. former Creedence Clearwater Revival members Doug “Cosmo” Clifford and Stu Cook) have announced 2018 tour dates and they’ll be coming to our area’s, both local and regional, in July…Atlantic City NJ on 7/6…Lincoln RI on 7/7…Huntington NY on 7/25…Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak on 8/1!
---America has announced Summer dates and a few new additions to their Spring tour…Torrington CT on 3/30…Providence RI on 5/10…Utica NY at the Stanley Center on 5/11…Washington PA on 5/12…Salamanca NY on 7/7…and Peekskill NY on 7/14!
---Michael Wu, currently with The Gunpoets and Triple Down (formerly with Try. Fail. Repeat.), posted on Sunday that he has finished recording his bass tracks for Devinne Meyers forthcoming debut solo album, “Silver Line.” No release date has been set for the album yet, but it’s uncertain how much more work has to be done on the project.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---3 Doors Down, Collective Soul and Soul Asylum have forged a huge Summer Alt-pop tour that will thunder thru our region starting in August…Clearfield PA on 8/3…Gilford NH on 8/10…Holmdel NJ on 8/11…Brookhaven NY on 8/14…Uncasville CT on 8/16…Niagara Falls NY on 8/18…Atlantic City NJ on 8/19…and Baltimore MD on 8/21!
---Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band just announced Fall 2018 tour dates, so look forward to seeing the recently knighted “Sir Richard” in NYC on 9/13…Saratoga Springs NY on 9/14…Wallingford CT on 9/15…Boston MA on 9/17…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/19!
---Panic! At
The Disco will tour this Summer to support their new album, “Pray
For The Wicked,” due 6/22…Regional dates will be
plenty…Pittsburgh PA on 7/18…Uniondale NY on 7/20…Baltimore MD on
7/21…Toronto ON on 7/22…NYC on 7/24…Boston MA on 7/25…and Philadelphia
PA on 7/27!
---Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam are joining forces for a great summer alt-country/ blues triple bill…it’s being called the “LSD Tour,” and it’s set to play our region no less than a half dozen times in June…Boston Ma on 6/12…NYC on 6/13…Bethel NY on 6/15…Gilford NH on 6/16…Oxon Hill MD on 6/17…and Baltimore MD on 6/19!
---Bruce
Springsteen has announced another set of 32 Broadway dates at the
Kerr Theatre in
---G-Eazy
returns to the road with a hip hop laden Summer package tour that also
features Lil Uzi Vert, Ty Dolla
$ign and YBN Nahmir!
Regional stops include…
---Halsey and singer Jessie Reyez will team-up for a modest North American tour including five dates in our region…Montreal QC on 7/8…Providence RI on 7/11…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/12…Atlantic City NJ on 7/14…and Vienna VA on 7/15!
---Steely Dan have announced a Fall leg to their 2018 tour with dates in…Pittsburgh PA on 10/8…Buffalo NY on 110/9…Baltimore MD on 10/14…and highlighted by a nine-night residency in NYC at the Beacon Theatre on 10/17-18, 10/20-21/ 10/24, 10/26-27 and 10/29-30! Each night of the Beacon residency will be a theme night, so pay attention when you buy your tickets to see which show you want to go to.
---Harry
Connick Jr. has announced a new tour, now that his syndicated TV
show has been cancelled…
---Mondo Cozmo will open up for part of the Vance Joy tour…then split off to play their own headlining shows…NYC on 6/13…Philadelphia PA on 6/19…and Boston MA on 6/20…before hooking back up with Vance Joy in Montreal QC on 6/21…and Toronto ON on 6/22!
---Fans of 80’s techno-pop will love this latest
retro package tour featuring; Boy
George & Culture Club, The B-52’s and
Tom Bailey of The Thompson
Twins (which reminds me…when are they going to reunite?)!
See the spectacle in…
---needtobreathe will headline a package tour that breaks into our region in the heat of Summer 2018…Toronto ON on 8/15…Washington DC on 8/17…Boston MA on 8/18…and Philadelphia PA on 8/19! Also on the bill are Johnnyswin and Billy Raffoul!
---Grand
Funk Railroad has announced, what is so far, a twelve-date tour, but
only one of those dates will appear in our region…
---The Indigo Girls are announcing more Spring, Summer and even Fall tour dates now as they extend their 2018 tour into October…Providence RI on 5/23…Tarrytown NY on 5/24…South Orange NJ on 9/12…Boston MA on 9/14…and two nights in Glenside PA on 10/11 & 10/12!
---Geoff Tate, formerly of Queensryche, is launching a solo tour (seemingly without his new band, Operation: Mindcrime) headed directly for our region starting in…Lancaster PA on 6/7…Amityville NY on 6/12…Sellersville PA on 6/13…Washington DC on 6/15…Sayreville NJ on 6/16…Warrendale PA on 6/18…Baltimore MD on 6/19…and Poughkeepsie NY on 6/20!
---Little River Band has announced Summer 2018 dates…Salisbury MA on 7/5…Verona NY on 7/6…Cohasset MA on 7/7…Hyannis MA on 7/8…Hamden CT on 7/27…LeRoy NY on 7/28…Quakertown PA on 8/23…Alexandria VA on 8/24…Woonsocket RI on 10/20…Williamsport PA on 11/2…and Altoona PA on 11/16!
---Rise
Against is touring to support their new album, “Mourning
In Amerika” with both AFI
and Anti-Flag! Dates
include…
---Tower Of Power Is announcing Summer and Fall 2018 dates…two nights in Alexandria VA on 6/22 & 6/23…Lexington MA on 6/28…Lincoln RI on 6/29…Rochester NY (part of the Rochester International Jazz Fest) on 6/30…and Glenside PA on 10/20!
---Liam Gallagher, formerly of Oasis and Beady Eye, has announced a solo North American tour that is seven dates long and set for May…five of the dates btw, fall into our regional area…Toronto ON on 5/13…Boston MA on 5/14…NYC on 5/16…Philadelphia PA on 5/17…and Washington DC on 5/18!
---Patti Smyth & Scandal are back and have announced twelve dates for this Spring and Summer…most of which are within our regional confines…Peekskill NY on 4/26…East Greenwich RI on 4/28…Derry NH on 4/29…Newton NJ on 5/4…Washington DC on 5/5…Ridgefield CT on 8/4…North Tonawanda NY on 8/5…Amagansett NY on 8/24…and Shirley MA on 8/25!
---Blues legend, Walter Trout is taking his band out on the road for an extensive work out…including the previously leaked show in Natick MA on 7/20…Sellersville PA on 7/21…Cheswick PA on 7/22…NYC on 7/25…Pawling NY on 7/26…Athens NY on 7/27…Fall River MA on 7/28…Derry NH on 7/29…Old Saybrook CT on 7/31…and Fairfield CT on 8/1!
---I try not to get carried away with tribute bands in my weekly report, but this one caught my eye because it’s led by one of the original members sons…Kofi Bakers Cream Experience is rolling into our region (in fact, so far, it begins, is contained in, and ends in our region!) and is poised to strike…Harrisburg PA on 4/26…Marlboro NY on 4/27…Patchogue NY on 4/28 & 4/29…Bordentown NJ on 5/2…Kennet Square PA on 5/3…Bridgeport CT on 5/4…and Shirley MA on 5/5!
---Harry Chapin’s brother
Tom, and his daughters Abigail & Lily, are going out on the road
together this Spring and Summer, to promote a new EP by
The Chapin Sisters, “Ferry
Boat” due 4/30!
Tour dates include…NYC on 4/20…
---Lead singer of Cheap Trick, Robin Zander, is headed for Broadway! Zander will star in the Broadway production of Rocktopia from April 23rd thru the 29th. If you’re not familiar with the play, it combines Classic Rock with Classical music.
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---EDM duo,
The Crystal Method will play a “one-off” on Saturday 5/19 in
---Led Zeppelin tribute band,
Zeppelin Complete, may be ready to announce their 2018 tour dates,
but for now, this is a one-off…
---90’s alt-rockers,
Snow Patrol have announced a
17-date world tour, but only one for the
---Jamiroquai
has announced only one
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Slightly
Stoopid add
---Dark Star
Orchestra adds
---Ted
Nugent adds
---Pat
Benatar adds
---Tommy
Stinson (of the replacements & gnr) adds
---Karla
Bonoff adds Sellersville PA on 9/20…and
---Melissa Manchester adds Shirley MA on 8/12!
---Get The
Led Out adds
---Peter
Yarrow, formerly of Peter Paul & Mary, adds
---Roger
McGuinn, formerly of The Byrds, adds
---Rik
Emmett, formerly of Triumph, adds
---Arlen
Roth adds
---Frankie
Valli & The Four Seasons add
---Richard
Marx adds
---Earth
Wind & Fire adds two nights in
---The last three dates of
Wynton Marsalis 13-date NYC residency at the
---The Pretenders add Red Bank NJ on 6/28…and Silver Spring MD on 6/29!
---Beyonce & Jay-Z add second nights in Landover MD on 7/27…and East Rutherford NJ on 8/3!
---Kurt Vile
adds
---Roger
Hodgson, former lead singer of Supertramp, adds
---Rick
Springfield adds
--- Courtney
Barnett adds
---Rita
Coolidge adds
---Air
Supply adds
---Pitbull
adds two nights in
---Trapt
adds
---Cowboy
Junkies add
---Max
Weinberg’s Jukebox adds
---Mary
Chapin Carpenter adds
---Mikky
Ekko adds
---Moon Taxi
adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---3 Doors Down/ Collective Soul/ Soul Asylum (8)
---Air Supply (1)
---
---Arlen Roth (1)
---Beyonce/ Jay-Z (2)
---Bruce Springsteen (32)
---Courtney Barnett (3)
---Cowboy Junkies (2)
---Dark Star Orchestra (1)
---Earth Wind & Fire (2)
---Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (1)
---Geoff Tate (8)
---Get The Led Out (1)
---Grand Funk Railroad (1)
---Halsey/ Jessie Reyez (5)
---Indigo Girls (6)
---Jamiroquai (1)
---Karla Bonoff (2)
---Kiefer Sutherland (7)
---Kofi Baker’s Cream Experience (8)
---Kurt Vile (3)
---Liam Gallagher (5)
---Little River Band (11)
---Lucinda Williams/ Steve Earle/ Dwight Yoakam (6)
---Mary Chapin Carpenter (1)
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (1)
---Melissa Manchester (1)
---Mikky Ekko (1)
---Mondo Cozmo (3)
---Moon Taxi (2)
---Panic! At The Disco/
---Pat Benatar (1)
---Patty Smith & Scandal (9)
---Peter Yarrow (1)
---Pitbull (2)
---Richard Marx (1)
---Rick Springfield (3)
---Rik Emmett (1)
---Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (5)
---Rise Against/ AFI/ Anti-Flag (8)
---Rita Coolidge (1)
---Roger Hodgson (4)
---Roger McGuinn (1)
---Slightly Stoopid (5)
---Snow Patrol (1)
---Steely Dan (13)
---Ted Nugent (1)
---The Chapin Sisters/ Tom Chapin (3)
---The Crystal Method (1)
---The Pretenders (2)
---Tommy Stinson (2)
---
---Trapt (1)
---Walter Trout Band (9)
---Zeppelin Complete (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week.
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Music News for 032318:
---Well now that we know the rumors about Blake Shelton playing the Dicks Sporting Goods Open were true, perhaps we should address the rumors about Spiedie Fest 2018, which have also been swirling, and just as consistently! The rumor mill is saying that it will be KC & the Sunshine Band on night #1, Friday August 3rd…Cheap Trick on night #2, Saturday August 4th…and country artist, Phil Vassar on night #3 Sunday August 5th! That announcement is coming too, so it won’t be long before we know for sure!
---The Cyber Café West in
---The
Dropkick Murphy’s and
Flogging Molly have announced a co-headlining tour that will be both
local and regional! The
local date is in Big Flats NY (just west of
---The Cadillac Three have been booked for
Tags in Big Flats NY (just west of
---Diet Cig
has announced two shows coming up fairly soon, one of which impacts our
local-ish region…Hamilton College
in
---Joan
Osborne (of course you remember her grunge-era hit, “One Of Us,”
from the 90’s!) will kick off her North American tour at the
Hangar Theatre in
---Five
Finger Death Punch is coming to both
---The
Shinedown and Godsmack
co-headlining tour…just got local!
The bands will not only be touring, but touring a TON with no
less than 12 total show within our greater region!
Local stops include…Lakeview
Amphitheatre in
---Black Label Society is starting to add shows in the U.S. following their through Europe…one is actually local-ish…SI Hall at the NYS Fairgrounds in Syracuse on 7/27…then, Hartford CT on 7/29…Wilmington DE on 7/30…Toronto ON on 8/7…Montreal QC on 8/8…Stroudsburg PA on 8/9…Huntington NY on 810…and Sayreville NJ on 8/11!
---The Dirty Heads will co-headline a package tour with Iration that is coming pretty close-by…Saranac Brewery in Utica NY on 6/10, as well as…Asbury Park NJ on 6/2…Pittsburgh PA on 6/5…Philadelphia PA on 6/7…Baltimore MD on 6/8…and Boston MA on 6/9! Also on the bill: The Movement and Pacific Dub!
---Mountain
Jam has announced most of their 2018 line-up and so far, it’s made
for millenials…Night #2 (on Friday 6/15) includes:
---The
Sadies have added a local-ish date…in
---Just confirmed for the
Peach Festival, at Montage
Mountain in
---
---Mike Love’s touring version of The Beach Boys has a local-ish date at Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 8/5…as well as some regional stops…Selbyville DE on 8/3…Cohasset MA on 8/8…Hampton Beach NH on 8/9…Hyannis MA on 8/11 (2 shows)…Webster MA on 8/12…Ridgefield CT on 8/15…Ocean City NJ on 8/20 & 8/21 (2 shows each night)!
---Just to underscore the finality of the
Blind Tiger Pub in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Beyonce
& Jay-Z have made it
official! They are indeed
touring across the
---Steven
Tyler of Aerosmith, is launching his own nine-date solo tour, with
the Loving Mary Band…which is
pretty much the same band that worked on
---Dark Star Orchestra has added a new Summer 2018 leg to their current tour and you can see the tribute band in…Hampton Beach NH for two nights on 7/27 & 7/28…Rochester NY on 8/3…Jay VT on 8/4…East Providence RI on 8/5…Ridgefield CT on 8/8…Brooklyn NY on 8/10…the previously leaked Asbury Park NJ on 8/11…and two nights in Dewey Beach DE on 8/13 & 8/14!
---Willie
Nelson has announced his
Outlaw Festival, which is set, so far, to run from late May into
early July, but only one regional show for us so far…Bristow VA on 5/27!
This years line-up for this particular stop (as the line-up
changes each time) includes
Willie Nelson & Family,
Sturgill Simpson and
Elvis Costello & The Imposters!
Seems like it might come closer.
The last two years it has played both
---Sean Paul has announced a trifling of tour dates…four all together…and three of them are within the boundaries of our region, but this tour was announced nationally at short notice…Brooklyn NY on 3/22…Mashantucket CT on 3/23…and Revere MA on 3/24!
---The
Dangerous Summer are taking a Spring jaunt thru out greater region
with stops at…
---Arcade Fire has announced regional dates for Summer 2018…Pittsburgh PA on 7/10…Boston MA on 7/18…Philadelphia PA on 7/19…and Bristow VA on 7/20!
---Hip hop star, Logic is taking new-comers NF and Kyle on a Spring into Summer tour across the U.S. with plenty of regional stops…Mansfield MA on 6/8…Hartford CT on 6/10…Camden NJ on 6/13…NYC on 6/16…Holmdel NJ on 6/17…Darien Center NY at the Darien Lake Amphitheatre on 7/3…and Toronto ON on 7/5!
---Hair metal band, Skid Row is playing only three US dates between European tours, and two of them are within our region…Verona NY on 4/13…and Poughkeepsie NY on 4/14!
---Modern rockers, Nonpoint will co-headline with Butcher Babies on a Springtime package tour that is coming into our region…Reading PA on 5/7…Hampton Beach NH on 5/8…Westbury NY on 5/9…Sayreville NJ on 5/20…and Rochester NY on 5/22! Also on the bill are Cane Hill and Sumo Cyco!
---Trivium
has announced a solo headlining tour before they jump on the Bullet For
My Valentine tour! Dates on
the tour include…Silver Spring MD on 5/6…
---Randy
Bachman, formerly of BTO and The Guess Who is undertaking a mostly
Canadian tour, but there will be one regional show in our region…
---Sevendust has announced tour dates with Memphis May Fire, Fire From The Gods and Madame Mayhem, but so far only two regional dates…Lancaster PA on 5/6…and Clifton Park NY on 5/9!
---Ballad singer, Melissa Manchester has new tour dates…a three night stand in NYC at 54 Below from 7/13 thru 7/15, as well as…Margate NJ on 8/2…Sellersville PA on 8/3…and Pittsfield MA on 8/13!
---Beck has announced a Summer leg to his 2018 tour, which includes additional regional dates…Toronto ON on 7/7…Montreal QC on 7/10…Boston MA on 7/15…NYC on 7/19…and Philadelphia PA on 7/20!
---The Dickies & The Queers have teamed-up for a joint tour that comes thru our area in June…Buffalo NY on 6/10…Stanhope NJ on 6/12…Brooklyn NY on 6/13…Cambridge MA on 6/14…Poughkeepsie NY on 6/15…and Philadelphia PA on 6/16!
---Looks like Rick Astley rolled us all as his former one-off in Pittsburgh PA (on 4/19) has now become a full-fledged tour adding…Toronto ON on 4/13…Montreal QC on 4/14…Boston MA on 4/15…Huntington NY on 4/17…and Washington DC on 4/18!
---Modern metal band, Norma Jean is headlining a package tour with Gideon, Toothgrinder and Greyhaven that visits our region in…Philadelphia PA on 3/23…Hartford CT on 3/24…Brooklyn NY on 3/25…Cambridge MA on 3/26…and Baltimore MD on 3/27!
---Joe Jackson (not the Jackson 5 patriarch…(the singer of “Stepping Out” & “Is She Really Going Out With Him”) is back on the road with a Summer tour that includes…Tarrytown NY on 7/6…Burlington VT on 7/8…Providence RI on 7/9…Portsmouth NH on 7/12…Harrisburg PA on 7/17…and Munhall PA on 7/18!
---Progressive metalcore band, Born Of Osiris will headline a package tour of clubs and theatres that will play…Lancaster PA on 5/5…Rochester NY on 5/6…Providence RI on 5/8…Poughkeepsie NY on 5/9…and Hartford CT on 5/10! Also on the bill: Currents, Fit For A King and Gideon.
---Gary Lewis & The Playboys have announced quite an ambitious schedule of dates in next year…Hershey PA on 4/28…Atlantic City NJ on 8/17…Newton NJ on 10/12…and Galloway NJ on 2/10/2019!
---90’s alt-rocker, Liz Phair has announced a quick seven-date tour…only two stops are in our region however…Cambridge MA on 6/6…and Brooklyn NY on 6/7!
---Surf music guitar legend,
Dick Dale has announced a handful of dates, one of which is in our
region…
---81-year-old southern rocker
Charlie Daniels cancelled a show in
---Survivor
has booked a show in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Robby
Kreiger of The Doors has booked a one-off at the Newton Theatre in
---Donnie Iris & The Cruisers have announced a one-shot at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille in Warrendale PA on 5/5!
---The Dead Kennedy’s have also announced a one-off in Warrendale PA at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille on 5/7!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Lamb Of
God & Behemoth add
---Stone Sour adds Stroudsburg PA on 5/6!
---Aaron Lewis of Staind is adding more dates to his solo country tour…two nights in Verona NY on 5/18 & 5/19…Bethlehem PA on 6/14…Atlantic City NJ on 6/15…and Mashantucket CT on 6/16!
---Great
White adds
---Fleet
Foxes add
---Former Talking Heads lead singer, David Byrne is adding on more dates…Manahawkin NJ on 9/7…Wallingford CT on 9/8…and Albany NY on 9/9!
---Billy Joel adds another month onto his MSG residency on 10/27!
---Brian
Howe, formerly of Bad Company adds
---Changes on the Saving Abel tour…as Tantric drops off on 5/11 to play Levittown PA…
---Tantric
also adds solo shows in…
---So, the list of solo Saving Abel shows grows…New Bedford MA on 4/16…Altoona PA on 5/10…and Stanhope PA on 5/11!
---LeAnn Rimes adds Munhall PA on 5/6…and Hunter NY on 6/10!
---Vince
Neil, former lead singer of Motley Crue, adds Dundalk MD on 6/30…
---Duane Betts & The Devon Allman Project add Warrendale PA on 8/4!
---Kix adds Hummel Wharf PA on 3/24…Dewey Beach DE on 7/12…and Warrendale PA on 12/15!
---BulletBoys
add
---Greta Van
Fleet adds second nights in
---Umphrey’s
McGee add
---Faster
Pussycat adds
---Carbon
Leaf adds
---Stryper
adds NYC on 5/8…
---The
Decemberists add Red Bank NJ on 6/12…and
---Tom
Keifer, former lead singer of Cinderella adds NYC on 7/19…and
---The 90’s
Block Party Tour adds another regional stop…
---Theory Of
A Deadman adds to their Canadian tour with new dates…
---Buckethead
adds
---Buddy Guy
expands his tour with new dates in
---Gov’t Mule adds
---Indigo Girls add Beverly MA on 5/15!
---Taj Mahal adds Beverly MA on 6/2!
---The
Walter Trout Band adds
---Hot Tuna adds Beverly MA on 10/12!
---Los Lonely Boys add Beverly MA on 6/9!
---George Clinton & P-Funk add Beverly MA on 8/4!
---Jean-Luc Ponty adds Beverly MA on 8/24!
---Marc Cohn adds Beverly MA on 6/1!
---Saliva
adds
---Michael McDonald adds Jim Thorpe PA on 5/20!
---Ted Nugent adds Jim Thorpe PA on 7/11!
---REO Speedwagon adds Jim Thorpe PA on 9/21!
---Four Freshmen add Jim Thorpe PA on 10/9!
---Glenn Miller Orchestra adds two days (1pm shows) at Jim Thorpe PA on 10/24 & 10/25!
---Bill Haley’s Comets adds Jim Thorpe PA on 10/30!
---George Thorogood & The Destroyers add Spyglass Ridge Winery in Sunbury PA on 8/11!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---90’s Block Party (1)
---Aaron Lewis (5)
---
---Beach Boys (8)
---Beck (5)
---Beyonce/ Jay-Z (5)
---Bill Haley’s Comets (1)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Black Label Society (8)
---Born Of Osiris/ Currents/ Fit For A King/ Gideon (5)
---Buddy Guy (2)
---Buckethead (6)
---BulletBoys (2)
---David Byrne (3)
---Carbon Leaf (1)
---Dark Star Orchestra (10)
---Dead Kennedy’s (1)
---
---Dick Dale (1)
---Diet Cig (2)
---Dirty Heads/ Iration/ The Movement/ Pacific Dub (6)
---Donnie Iris & The Cruisers (1)
---Dropkick Murphy’s/ Flogging Molly (7)
---Faster Pussycat (1)
---Five Finger Death Punch/ Breaking Benjamin (11)
---Fleet Foxes (2)
---Four Freshmen (1)
---Gary Lewis & The Playboys (4)
---George Clinton & P-Funk (1)
---George Thorogood & The Destroyers (1)
---Gov’t Mule/ Avett Brothers/ The Magpie Salute (3
---Great White (3)
---Greta Van Fleet (3)
---Hot Tuna (1)
---Indigo Girls/ Michelle Malone (1)
---Jean-Luc Ponty (1)
---Joan Osborne (6)
---Joe Jackson (6)
---
---Kix (3)
---LadyFest 2018 (2)
---Lamb Of God/ Behemoth (1)
---LeAnn Rimes (2)
---Liz Phair (2)
---Logic/ NF/ Kyle (7)
---Los Lonely Boys (1)
---Marc Cohn (1)
---Melissa Manchester (6)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Nonpoint/ Butcher Babies/ Cane Hill/ Sumo Cyco (5)
---Norma Jean/ Gideon/ Toothgrinder/ Greyhaven (5)
---Randy Bachman (1)
---REO Speedwagon (1)
---Rick Astley (5)
---Robbie Kreiger (1)
---Saliva (1)
---Saving Abel (3)
---Sean Paul (3)
---Sevendust/
---Shinedown/ Godsmack (5)
---Skid Row (2)
---Stone Sour (1)
---Stryper (3)
---Survivor (1)
---Tantric (3)
---Ted Nugent (1)
---The Dangerous Summer (6)
---The Decemberists (2)
---The Dickies/ The Queers (6)
---The Sadies (1)
---Theory Of A Deadman (2)
---Trivium (7)
---Umphrey’s McGee (1)
---Vince Neil (3)
---Walter Trout Band (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 031618:
---The week-to-week line-up for Cans & Clams (in their new location at Endwell Greens) has been released! Here’s the breakdown:
5/25: Splash
6/1:
Rooster & The Roadhouse
Horns
6/8: Brotherhood
6/15: The Look
6/22: Rooster & The Roadhouse Horns
6/29: Straight Up
7/6: Brotherhood
7/13: Group du Jour
7/20: Splash
7/27: Rooster & The Roadhouse Horns
8/3: Brotherhood
8/10: Splash
8/17: (off for Dicks Sporting Goods Open)
8/24: Group du Jour
8/31: Rooster & The Roadhouse Horns
All shows start at 6pm! For more info go to: http://www.cansandclams.com
---This year’s
Dick Sporting Goods Open
concert will be announced on Monday 3/19!
The act is rumored to be a big name, high-profile country artist
(which means we here at Radio2.0 won’t care, but we’ll still list it) and officials will
insist that “he” be on site by afternoon on the day of the show.
The tournament and concert will be held at EnJoie golf course in
---The fundraiser for the
Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival, is set for Saturday 4/7, at the
Kalurah Shrine in
---The NYS Fair in
---The Peach
Festival at
---Other bands are being confirmed for The Peach Festival at Montage Mountain…Blackberry Smoke has been assigned to Thursday 7/19 & Saturday 7/21…The Revivalists on 7/21…The Devon Allman Project will play on Saturday 7/21…and The Chris Robinson Brotherhood on Sunday 7/22!
---Paramore and Foster The People will undertake a joint tour that will get Summer started perfectly, including a local-ish date in Syracuse NY at Lakeview Amphitheatre on 6/17…Toronto ON on 6/18…Gilford NH on 6/20…Columbia MD on 6/23…Philadelphia PA on 6/24…and Brooklyn NY on 6/26!
---The Big-X-Cuse Fest is a one-day Alternative Rock fest, set for the Court at the NYS Fairgrounds in Syracuse NY on 6/16 and it includes a very cool bill…Dashboard Confessional, Cold War Kids, Judah & The Lion, Moon Taxi, lovelytheband, AJR, Two Feet and Spirit Animal! No ticket details are available right now.
---It’s hasn’t been promoted yet, but it’s on the Kenny Wayne Shepherd website (@ http://www.kennywayneshepherd.net/tour ) that KWS is going on tour with Beth Hart and one of their stops will include The Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 8/2! As for the rest of the tour…Greensburg PA on 7/17…Post Chester NY on 7/21…Hampton Beach NH on 7/22…New Haven CT on 7/25…Albany NY on 7/27…Westbury NY on 7/28…and Asbury Park NJ on 7/31!
---The “I
Love The 90’s Tour” for 2018 finally books a tour in our greater
local area…on 5/26 in Mount Pocono PA at
Mount Airy Lodge!
On the bill for this appearance…Salt
---Here’s an interesting tour…the “Voodoo Threauxdown” tour will bring
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue to
Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 8/11, along with the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the
New Breed Brass Band, Galactic, Cyril Neville, Walter “Wolfman”
Washington and Kermit Ruffins!
The tour is also coming to…
---T-Pain
has added a show to his (now) seven-date tour in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Still waiting as posting-time for any word of a
rumored Beyonce/ Jay-Z that
is supposed to be set for Summer 2018!
It would be their first tour together since 2014, but the rumor
mill got hyper-ramped up when ticketmaster accidentally posted a show in
---Eric
Clapton is playing a few dates this year, having already declared
he’s done with tours,
---Modern rockers, Arctic Monkeys will get back on the road this summer with new tour dates…Queens NY on 7/24…Boston MA on 7/27…Washington DC on 7/28…Pittsburgh PA on 7/31…and Toronto ON on 8/5!
---Playboi
Carti has announced an ambitious world tour that is coming to our
humble region soon…
---Paul Simon has announced another leg on his farewell tour, but it’s also being called the “final leg,” so miss it at your own risk…Washington DC on 9/14…Newark NJ on 9/15…Pittsburgh PA on 9/17…and NYC on 9/20, 9/21 & 9/22!
---Bobby
McFerrin (“Don’t Worry, Be
Happy”…remember?) has book a 10-date residency at the
Blue Note in NYC, that runs
from 3/23 thru 4/1! That’s
ten night’s-in-a-row, without a break!
He’ll also play
---Josh Groban and Idina Menzel are teaming-up for a joint Fall 2018 tour that will bring them into our humble little region in…Boston MA on 11/9…Philadelphia PA on 11/12…Rochester NY on 11/13…Washington DC on 11/15…Pittsburgh PA on 11/16…and NYC on 11/18! More dates could be added for this one…especially in NYC.
---The Robert Cray Band has announced their 2018 tour itinerary and the veteran blues band dives into our area at…Geneva NY on 6/15…Alexandria VA on 6/20…Uncasville CT on 6/23…Jim Thorpe PA (probably their closest stop at Penn’s Peak) on 6/24…Patchogue NY on 6/26…Concord NH on 6/28…Beverly MA on 6/29…and two nights in North Truro MA on 6/30 & 7/1!
---Melissa
Etheridge has announced Summer 2018 dates and lucky us, they’ll
bring her into our region…
---James Bay has a new album, “Electric Light” coming out and also has a tour to support it that is coming our way…Washington DC on 4/2…Brooklyn NY on 4/3…Boston MA on 4/5…Philadelphia PA on 4/6…Toronto ON on on 4/8…then after a jaunt in the UK…NYC on 9/18…Washington DC on 9/20…Philadelphia PA on 9/25…Boston MA on 9/26…and Toronto again on 9/28!
---Booker T.
has announced dates into 2019!
There are some regional shows…
---Al Jardine, of The Beach Boys, hits the road as a solo act this Spring with regional dates on…3/29 in Plymouth NH…Beverly MA on 3/30…NYC on 4/1!
---The velvet teddy bear,
Ruben Studdard is returning to the road, riding the crest of the
wave of sentiment surrounding the reboot of the show that made him
famous, American Idol! Catch
up with the Season two winner in…
---Indigo Girls have expanded their 2018 tour by adding a Spring/ Summer leg…Huntington NY on 5/10…New London CT on 5/11…Saratoga Springs NY on 5/12…Ridgefield CT on 5/16…Portsmouth NH on 5/18…Kingston NY on 5/19…Lebanon NH on 5/20…Ocean City NJ on 7/9!
---The Fabulous Thunderbirds announced a last minute tour that actually began Thursday (3/15) in Bay Shore NY…and now continues in…Rockport MA on 3/17...Shirley MA on 3/18…NYC on 3/20…Washington DC on 3/21…Stanhope PA on 3/22…Stanhope NJ on 3/22…Hartford CT on 3/23…and also make a stop in Bethlehem PA on 3/24 for the Blast Furnace Blue Festival, which runs from 3/23 thru 3/25, blues fans!
---The Used are coming back around with a Spring tour that will bring them into our region…Wilmington DE on 5/1…Stroudsburg PA on 5/4…Toronto ON on 5/8…Buffalo NY on 5/11!
---Black Dahlia Murder has added a Summer leg on their current tour so tack-on stops in…Toronto ON on 6/12…Rochester NY on 6/13…Boston MA on 6/14…NYC on 6/15…Philadelphia PA on 6/16…Baltimore MD on 6/17! Also on the bill…Whitechapel, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Aversions Crown and Shadow Of Intent!
---Hawthorne Heights have announced tour dates…Albany NY on 4/18…Boston MA on 4/19…Brooklyn NY on 4/21…Easton PA on 4/22…Philadelphia PA on 4/24…Asbury Park NJ on 4/25…and Washington DC on 4/26!
---The Front Bottoms have announced regional tour dates and here’s where you can check them out…Clifton Park NY on 5/22…Baltimore MD on 5/23…Pittsburgh PA on 6/4…Toronto ON on 6/8…Montreal QC on 6/9…Providence RI on 6/10!
---Bon Iver
finally has two shows booked in our region…two nights in
---Ja Rule
has booked two dates only…
---Beach House has announced 2018 tour dates…Upper Darby PA on 7/26…Toronto ON on 8/20…NYC on 8/22…Brooklyn NY on 8/23…Boston MA on 8/24…and Washington DC on 8/25!
---Balladeer Michael Bolton has booked some theatre-sized tour dates for this Spring…and one for Summer…Huntington NY on 3/29…Bethlehem PA on 3/31…two in Niagara Falls ON on 4/6 & 4/7…and then (after a trip to Australia) comes back on 8/29 to play Turning Stone Casino in Verona NY!
---Ted Leo &
The Pharmacists have announced their 2018 Summer dates and regional
implications include…
---Tricky has announced a 2018 tour that starts in our region…Philadelphia PA on 4/30…Boston MA on 5/2…NYC on 5/3!
---The Road
Jam Fest in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Fall Out
Boy will curate and headline a benefit concert for the “March For Our Lives”
anti-assault weapons ban protest!
The concert takes place on 3/23, the night before the march, on
3/24, in
---Ringo
Starr & His All-Star Band just booked a one-timer in the
---David Johansen of the New York Dolls dons his
Buster Poindexter persona
again for a one-off in
---The New
Stylistics ft. Russell Thompkins have booked a one-time-only show in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---
---Southside
Johnny & The Asbury Jukes add
---St.
Vincent adds
---Steve
Forbert adds
---The Devon
Allman Project w/ Duane Betts
has added…
---Umphrey’s
McGee (whose national tour so far has been all south and west of
here) finally adds a regional date…
---Dark Star
Orchestra adds
---Howie Day
adds
---David Byrne, former lead singer of Talking Heads, continues to add on to his huge 2018 tour with new shows in…Queens NY on 9/15…and Brooklyn NY on 9/17!
---Lost 80’s Live w/ A Flock Of Seagulls/ Wang Chung/ When In Rome/ Animotion/ Naked Eyes/ Bow Wow Wow adds…New Brunswick NJ on 9/20…Washington DC on 9/21…and Baltimore MD on 9/22!
---Peter
Yarrow, formerly of Peter, Paul & Mary; adds…
---Shaggy
adds
---War
adds
---Maxi-Priest finally adds dates in our region…aside from tonight in Uncasville CT (3/9)…Dewey Beach DE on 7/1…Washington DC on 7/3…and NYC on 7/5!
---
---Tommy
Castro & The Painkillers add
---Blue
October adds
---NRBQ
adds Piermont NY on 5/5…
---Saxon
will play a solo show on an off night from the Judas Priest tour at
The Chance in
---Roger
Hodgson, of Supertramp, adds
---Nothing
More plays a tune up before jumping on the Papa Roach tour with a
solo show at the Theatre of
Living Arts in
---
---Cold War
Kids add
---Max
Weinberg’s Jukebox adds
---Scott
Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox finally adds some domestic dates…
---Tommy
James & The Shondells add
---Todd
Rundgren’s Utopia tour date on 4/18 appears to have moved from
---Kip
Winger, former lead singer of 80’s band Winger, adds
---Alice
Cooper adds NYC on 9/6…and
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Al Jardine (3)
---Alice Cooper (2)
---
---Beach House (6)
---Black Dahlia Murder/ Whitechapel/ Fleshgod Apocalypse/ Aversions Crown/ Shadow Of Intent (6)
---Blast Furnace Blues Festival (3)
---Blue October (2)
---Bobby McFerrin (11)
---Booker T. (3)
---Buster Poindexter (1)
---Cold War Kids (3)
---Dark Star Orchestra (1)
---David Byrne (2)
---
---Eric Clapton (3)
---The Front Bottoms (6)
---
---Howie Day (1)
---I Love The 90’s Tour (1)
---Indigo Girls (8)
---Ja Rule (2)
---
---Josh Groban/ Idina Menzel (6)
---
---Kip Winger (2)
---Lost 80’s Live (3)
---
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (3)
---Maxi-Priest (4)
---Melissa Etheridge (4)
---Michael Bolton (5)
---Nothing More (1)
---NRBQ (5)
---Paramore/ Foster The People (6)
---Paul Simon (6)
---Peter Yarrow (1)
---Playboi Carti (6)
---Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (1)
---Road Jam Festival (2)
---Robert Cray Band (9)
---Robyn Hitchcock (3)
---Roger Hodgson (1)
---Ruben Studdard (9)
---Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (3)
---Shaggy (2)
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (2)
---
---Steve Forbert (3)
---T-Pain (1)
---Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (6)
---The Fabulous Thunderbirds (8)
---The New Stylistics
---The Used (4)
---Tommy Castro & The Painkillers (1)
---Tommy James & The Shondells (1)
---Tricky (3)
---Umphrey’s McGee (1)
---Voodoo Threauxdown Tour (10)
---War (3)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 030918:
---A week-and-a-half after closing their doors it
appears that the Blind Tiger Pub
in
---Shelter
Slam has been set for 2018 and will raise money for local animal
shelters at Endwell Greens in
---Notes from the road with
Donna The Buffalo, posted by
Bess Greenberg on facebook…”
what a phenomenal
experience to join Donna
the Buffalo on their journey to Sonic Ranch
Recording Studio to create their latest album with master
producer/engineer Rob Fraboni. it was two weeks ago we all arrived
here—at the Mexican border, in Tornillo, Texas—surrounded by 3500 acres
of pecan groves, which at its heart holds gorgeous recording studios
with top-notch equipment and colorful living quarters filled with
beautiful books and art — a truly unique place created with an authentic
passion and genius for creating music. thank you Donna the
---Brian Wolff is coming home to the GBA (greater Binghamton area) with his new band, Fair City Fire on their “Shake Your Bones,” tour with a show scheduled at the Ransome Steele Tavern in Apalachin NY on 4/27…as well as other regional stops, including…Washington DC on 4/23…Philadelphia PA on 4/25…NYC on 4/26…Albany NY on 4/28…and Buffalo NY on 4/29! The tour is designed to support their newest CD, “Shake Your Bones,” due to be released on 4/13!
---Jeff Howell has a new band called “Tears” posted on 3/2…”Hello
to those that see this post. 2018, and I’m hard at work with a new cd!
10 new ideas that I felt compelled to bring to full fruit. This is
musically where I’m at at this point. True to the bone. I am using
Richie Roccisano on guitars and engineering and Bob Maslin on drums.
Now,I start building!! AND,,,I’m starting a band called TEARS! The name
of the cd as well hmmmmm. Members are true to form for this
project,heavy drivin boogie rockin blues. Yeah baby. Richie R is playing
guitar for this as well as my cd. ALSO, appearing will be Greg Meisner
on shared vocal duties and guitars, as well as Jeff Rembecki brutally on
drums! This band will showcase my past 30 plus years in National and
there songs as well as songs from my new cd, to be out by fall. Dates
already booked will be posted in the near future.”
Since Jeff
created that post, he has also created a web page for his new band!
Here’s a link:
https://www.facebook.com/jeffhowell.org/?fref=nf&pnref=story.unseen-section
---Devinne
Meyers revealed on facebook this week that she’s almost ready to
release her first album since her debut with her original band, East
Coast Bigfoot! Meyers
posted, “I will be in the studio this weekend to begin laying down tracks for
'Silver Line,' my long anticipated first full length studio album. In
the last year, so many changes have taken place - in the music,
professionally and personally. This transformation has leaked into this
album, and I'm so ready to share it with you.
Why? Because
it's a story of Pain. Pain in our everyday lives. Loss. Humility.
Mistakes. Betrayal. Tragic events... And the process of coping and
healing through all of it. And I want to share with everyone, that as
much as it can get excruciating, there is healing, and there is love.
There is a silver lining, something to gain. And yes, we may hate the
process. But in this world, nothing remains constant.
Silver Line
is the brush I chose to paint with... an ugly, ugly brush. The stuff
nightmares are made of... sad stories, depression, mania. But my silver
lining is the music. Through my experiences, I created. And through my
creation, I hope to bring healing to those that need it.
I am so
excited to share this with you, and so incredibly grateful for the team
of people both personally and professionally that have believed in me,
and continue to encourage me through adversity. You all are my Silver
linings.”
Well let ya know as soon as we hear what the release date is!
---Randy McStine has released another experimental, improvisational “album” made up of the soundscapes that defined his “Monday 2:45 pm.” McStine describes the work as “improvised layers of apocalyptic soundscapes, slippery bass lines and household percussion.” Judge for yourself by clicking the link below and steaming it for yourself…or you can buy it for $1.00! Such a deal… Btw, this also continues McStine’s latest improve idea, turning moments into song, that began with his last release, “Sunday 8:12 pm.” https://randymcstine.bandcamp.com/album/monday-2-45pm
---Carbon Leaf has added the Center For The Arts in Homer NY onto their latest tour with a new show set for April 28th! They’ve also added new shows in…Wilmington DE on 3/16…Shirley MA on 4/19…Rockport MA on 4/21…Albany NY on 4/23…Rochester NY on 4/27…Bethlehem PA on 5/10…North Conway NH on 7/26…and Natick MA on 7/28!
---Punk rock fans have a new way to get the entertainment they want in a very personal way…a new series of shows called Campfire Punkrock! The first four shows take place from 7/30 thru 8/2 featuring Frank Turner at Big Indian Resort in Big Indian NY!
---The iconic rockin’ blues band, The Yardbirds, are coming to Turning Stone Casino in Verona NY on 5/4…Westbury NY on 5/6…Philadelphia PA on 5/8…Collinsville CT on 5/11…Uncasville CT on 5/12…and Greenfield MA on 5/13! Of course they don’t have Clapton, Page or Beck anymore, but still…Jim McCarty is the lone member of the original core, and they have veteran musician, Kenny Aaronson on bass!
---Beatles tribute production,
Rain is coming to the
---The Slayer, Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Testament and Napalm Death tour has expanded to include a couple of local-ish dates…in Scranton PA at Montage Mountain on 7/31…and Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 8/4…as well as…Gilford NH on 7/26…Wantagh NY on 7/29…Albany NY on 8/1…and Darien Center NY on 8/3!
---Wednesday night’s
Blues Traveler show, set for
the Kirby Center in
---Folk singer, Ray LaMontague has announced a show at the Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown NY on 7/4 and he’ll be making the rounds in other regional towns, including…Columbia MD on 6/20…Philadelphia PA on 6/22…Boston MA on 6/23 & 6/24…Wallingford CT on 6/26…North Adams MA on 6/29…and Pittsburgh PA on 7/3! Neko Case will open on the entire tour!
---Huey Lewis & The News continues their one-show-at-a-time tour announcement schedule with another show revealed at Turning Stone in Verona (near Utica NY) on 6/30!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Robert Plant and The Sensational Space-Shifters have announced a new Summertime leg for 2018 (presumably to take advantage of Led Zeppelins 50th anniversary), but out of the 13-announced dates…only three land in our region, so far…Columbia MD on 6/12…Forest Hills NY on 6/13…and Toronto ON on 6/15! Sheryl Crow will open for all three.
---Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie team-up summer romp thru the U.S. with nine regional stops, including…Bristow VA on 7/21…Holmdel NJ on 7/24…Burgettstown PA on 7/25…Toronto ON on 7/26…Wantagh NY on 8/7…Mansfield MA on 8/8…Camden NJ on 8/9…Hartford CT on 8/11…and Darien Center NY on 8/12!
---Former Crosby, Stills, Nash (and sometimes) Young and The Byrds member, David Crosby has announced tour dates for 2018, which have regional ramifications…Glenside PA on 6/2…Gettysburg PA on 6/3…Vienna VA on 6/6…West Long Branch NJ on 6/7…Westhampton Beach NY on 6/9…Hartford CT on 6/10…Ridgefield CT on 6/12…Lowell MA on 6/14…Lenox MA on 6/16…and Morristown NJ on 6/17!
---Alt-pop singer, Sofi Tukker, has announced a modest world tour with regional ramifications…Washington DC on 4/18…Philadelphia PA on 4/19…Brooklyn NY on 4/21…Pawtucket RI on 4/23…Cambridge MA on 4/25 & 4/26…Montreal QC on 4/27…and Toronto ON on 4/28!
---Former female heart throb, Tom Jones still has ambition! He just announced a more than 30 date world tour that is coming into our region, so ladies, guard your undies…Poughkeepsie NY on 5/1…Bethlehem PA on 5/2…Englewood NJ on 5/4…Mashantucket CT on 5/5…Oxon Hill MD on 5/6…and Baltimore MD on 5/9!
---Blues Travelers lead singer, John Popper (remember when we used to call him Johnny?) has announced another small (six dates) solo tour that will bring him around to our region…South Burlington VT on 4/16…Warrendale PA on 4/24…and Buffalo NY on 4/29!
---Modern rockers, Lake Street Dive are back with a late Spring into Summer 2018 tour that’s starts in our region in…Cambridge MA on 5/4…Kingston NY on 5/6…South Burlington VT on 5/8…New Haven CT on 5/9…Brooklyn NY on 5/10…Philadelphia PA on 5/12…Pittsburgh PA on 5/13…Toronto ON on 6/25…Rochester NY on 6/28…and Marshfield MA on 7/8!
---Little Steven (or Miami Steve from Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band) is undertaking a five-date solo tour that takes place entirely within our regional confines…New Brunswick NJ on 4/29…Ridgefield CT on 5/1…NYC on 5/2…Albany NY on 5/4…and Morristown NJ on 5/5! Well, he’s gotta do something while Bruce plays Broadway, right?
---Pop singer,
Mikky Ekko will headline a
package tour with Mansionair
and NoMBe and it’s set to
play…NYC on 4/10…
---Bush has announced a 16-date tour that has a few stops planned for our region, including…Washington DC on 4/6…Atlantic City NJ on 4/7…and as close as the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg PA (two hours away in an intimate setting) on 4/11!
---Florida Metalcore band, Underoath has booked a Spring tour that spend the first full week of May in our region…Bethlehem PA on 5/6…Baltimore MD on 5/8…Wallingford CT on 5/9…Providence RI on 5/11…and Niagara Falls NY on 5/12!
---Alt-pop band, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack has booked a modest tour of mostly East Coast venues…Falls Church VA on 5/18…Callaway MD on 5/19…Lancaster PA on 6/16…Ocean City MD on 6/21…Mount Airy MD on 6/23…and then they join Sponge for shows in Reading PA on 7/21…and Amityville NY on 7/22!
---Swedish heavy metal band, Ghost has booked a Spring American tour…Port Chester NY on 5/15…Syracuse NY on 5/16…Pittsburgh PA on 518…Camden NJ on 5/19 (with STP & Alice In Chains)…and Washington DC on 5/20!
---Woodstock-era rockers,
Canned Heat will undertake a small
---Sevendust & Madame Mayhem will take a 18-city jaunt across America this Spring with only two dates in our region…Lancaster PA on 5/6…and Clifton Park NY on 5/9!
---Rockers,
Powerman 5000 have announced Spring 2018 dates and they’ll be
passing thru our region starting with…
---Psychedelic-folk rockers, The Low Anthem have booked a sizeable tour including at least eight dates in our region…Northampton MA on 3/2…Burlington VT on 3/4…Hamden CT on 3/7…Philadelphia PA on 3/8…NYC on 3/9…Washington DC on 3/10…Freehold NJ on 3/11…Pittsburgh PA on 3/23…Toronto ON on 4/5…Montreal QC on 4/6…and Kingston NY on 4/7!
---Folk singer (…and James Taylor’s brother) Livingston Taylor has booked 2018 dates…Newburyport MA on 3/9 & 3/10…Mamaroneck NY on 3/24…Wrentham MA on 4/6…Harrisburg PA on 4/14…Ridgefield CT on 4/28…Madison CT on 6/9…Roslyn NY on 6/30…and Edgartown MA on 7/6!
---Dark Star Orchestra (a grateful dead tribute band) has just announced new dates…Boston MA on 5/10…Port Chester NY on 5/11…Princeton NJ on 5/14…Wilmington DE on 5/14…Red Bank NJ on 5/17…Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak on 5/19…Baldwinsville NY on 5/20…and Buffalo NY on 5/22!
---Led Zeppelin tribute band, Get The Led Out just added a slew of shows…Providence RI on 4/20…Hampton Beach NH on 4/21…Englewood NJ on 4/27…Mashantucket CT on 4/28…Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak on 5/4…Tarrytown NY on 5/11…Red Bank NJ on 5/18…Red Bank NJ on 5/18…Baldwinsville NY at Paper Mill Amphitheatre on 5/19…Ocean City NJ on 6/25…Huntington NY on 6/29…State College PA on 7/8…Webster MA on 7/13…Strausstown PA on 7/14…Plymouth MA on 8/17…Sunbury PA on 9/8…Port Chester NY on 11/3…and Worcester MA on 11/10!
---The Warped Tour, which is coming to Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on Thursday, July 26th, has announced it’s line-up for it’s final cross country tour and it includes…3Oh!3, The Amity Affliction, As It Is, Assuming We Survive, Broadside, Capstan, Chase Atlantic, Chelsea Grin, Crown The Empire, Dayseeker, Dead Girls Academy, Deez Nuts, Doll Skin, Don Broco, Every Time I Die, Farewell Winters, Grayscale, Hail The Sun, Harm’s Way, Ice Nine Kills, In Hearts Wake, Issues, Knuckle Puck, Kublai Khan, Lighterburns, The Maine, Makeout, Mayday Parade, Motionless In White, Movements, Mychildren Mybride, Nekrogoblikon, Palaye Royale, Phinehas, Picturesque, Real Friends, Real Big Fish, Sharptooth, Simple Plan, Sleep On It, State Champs, Story Untold, This Wild Life, Tonight Alive, Trash Boat, Twiztid, Unearth, Wage War, Waterparks, We The King and With Confidence!
On top of that, special guests for select dates include: All Time Low, Asking Alexandria, August Burns Red, Beartooth, Bowling For Soup, Falling In Reverse, Four Year Strong, Frank Turner, The Interrupters, Knocked Loose, Less Than Jake, Silverstein, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, Underoath and The Used! That’s 67 bands in one day! Don’t blink!
---Childish Gambino (aka actor Donald Glover) has announced a Fall 2018 tour, which may well be his last as Glover has vowed to abandon his Childish Gambino alter ego after his next album…he’s also bringing along hip-hop duo, Rae Sremmurd, and five of the tours 13 dates will fall into our region…Toronto ON on 9/10…Boston MA on 9/12…NYC on 9/14…Philadelphia PA on 9/18…and Washington DC on 9/19!
---The Punk In Drublic Craft Beer Music Festival is a mobile punk fest, coming to…Philadelphia PA on 5/13…Brockton MA on 5/19…and Pittsburgh PA on 5/20, featuring…NOFX, Bad Religion, The Interrupters and Mad Caddies!
---R&B act, Ledisi have announced a Summer tour of America…four dates of which will be in our region…Columbia MD on 6/1…Atlantic City NJ on 6/2…Montclair NJ on 6/3…and Boston MA on 6/4!
---The Kills
have announced two American dates before heading overseas…
---Fitz &
The Tantrums have booked a small tour and are taking
X-Ambassadors & Mikky Ekko
along to open up! Stops on
the tour so far include…
---The Sadies have announced a tiny three-date tour that includes two dates in our region…Philadelphia PA on 6/28…and Jersey City NJ on 6/29!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Kiss tribute band,
Mini Kiss have booked, what
is so far, a one-off in
---The NYC Pride Festival is set for two days on 6/23 & 6/24 at the Hudson RiverStage on Pier 97…with a variety of stars set to perform! Headliners include Tove Lo on 6/23…and Kylie Minogue on 6/24!
---Outside of their festival appearances at Boston Calling on 5/26…and the Governors Ball in NYC on 6/2…Manchester Orchestra plan only one headlining stop…in Stroudsburg PA at the Sherman Theatre on 6/5!
---
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Senses
Fail add
---Night
Ranger adds
---Stephen
Stills & Judy Collins add
---Kid Rock
moves his 3/10 show from
---Burt
Bacharach adds
---Ana
Popovich adds
---Paula
Cole adds
---Indigo
Girls add
---Bleachers
take a night off from the P!nk tour to play a headlining date in
---The Glenn
Miller Orchestra is doing a small tour (four dates nationally) with
one regional date just added…
---Jazz artist,
Jean-Luc Ponty adds
---Kimbra
adds
---Beck
adds a second night at Anthem
in
---Frank
Turner adds four more nights in
---Judy Collins added a few solo dates in July after her run of shows with Stephen Stills…on Edgartown MA on 7/18…and Nantucket MA on 7/20!
---Ambrosia
adds
---Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness adds a second night in Philadelphia PA on 4/25…a second night in NYC, but not in Manhattan, where the first night is…in Brooklyn instead at Warsaw, on 4/28…Toronto ON on 5/31…Rochester NY on 6/5…Asbury Park NJ on 6/6…Hartford CT on 6/9…and Baltimore MD on 6/10!
---Marshall
Crenshaw (“Someday, Someway”) adds
---Matt & Gunnar Nelson’s Ricky Nelson Remembered tour adds Sellersville PA on 6/2!
---Michael
McDonald adds
---Of
---Stephen
Malkmus & The Jicks add a second night in
---Taylor
Dayne adds Great Neck NY on 7/21…and
---The Eagles add a second night in NYC on 10/10!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Ambrosia (2)
---Ana Popovich (1)
---Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness/ Zac Clarke/ Allen Stone/ Bob Oxblood (7)
---Beck (1)
---Bleachers/ Charly Bliss (1)
---Burt Bacharach (1)
---Bush (3)
---Canned Heat (2)
---Carbon Leaf (9)
---Childish Gambino/ Rae Sremmurd (5)
---Dark Star Orchestra (8)
---David Crosby (10)
---
---Fitz & The Tantrums (3)
---Frank Turner (5)
---Get The Led Out (18)
---Ghost (4)
---Glenn Miller Orchestra (1)
---Hall & Oates/ Train/ Fitz & The Tantrums/ Tommy Conwell (1)
---Huey Lewis & The News (1)
---Indigo Girls (1)
---Jean-Luc Ponty (1)
---John Popper (3)
---Judy Collins (2)
---Kid Rock (+/-0)
---Kimbra (1)
---Kylie Minogue/ Grind/ Ralphi Rosario (1)
---
---Little Steven (5)
---Livingston Taylor (9)
---
---Marshall Crenshaw (3)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Mikki Ekko/ Mansionair/ NoMBe (3)
---Mini Kiss (1)
---Night Ranger (1)
---NOFX/ Bad Religion/ The Interrupters/ Mad Caddies (1)
---Of
---Paula Cole (1)
---Powerman 5000 (4)
---Punk In Drublic Craft Beer & Music Fest (3)
---Ray LaMontagne/ Neko Case (8)
---Ricky Nelson Remembered (1)
---Robert Plant & The Sensational Space-Shifters/ Sheryl Crow (3)
---Senses Fail (1)
---Sevendust/ Madame Mayhem (2)
---Slayer/ Testament/ Lamb Of God/ Behemoth/ Anthrax (6)
---Sofi Tukker (8)
---Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (1)
---Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins (3)
---Taylor Dayne (2)
---The Kills (2)
---The Low Anthem (11)
---The Sadies (2)
---Tove Lo/ Big Freedia/ Lizzo/ Simon Dunmore (1)
---Tom Jones (6)
---Underoath (5)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 030318:
---A broadcast report on Tuesday night says that
The Blind Tiger Pub, in
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---The announcement we’ve all been waiting for finally happened on Monday…Phish have announced their CurveBall festival at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen NY set for August 17th thru the 19th and tickets go on sale today! They range anywhere from $60.00 to $1,050.00 depending on how many days you’ll be attending and whether or not you’ll be camping out there! For more details click on this link: http://phish.com
---Another sign of Spring…Cans N’ Clams has announced their return, but the Summer time Weekend kick-off party is moving to a new location…Endwell Greens, instead of The Holiday Inn Arena in downtown Binghamton NY! No details yet on the musical line-up, but the very first Cans N’ Clams for 2018 is set for Memorial Day weekend, 5/25!
---Congrats to the “other” source of local music news in the twin tiers, as Triple Cities Carousel celebrates five years in business this week, with a special cover art showcase at Atomic Tom’s on State Street in Binghamton NY for First Friday, followed on 3/24 with a full fledged celebration, also at Atomic Tom’s featuring Lutheran Skirts, Milkweed and Bess & The Magic Ring! Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door!
---Joan
Baez, long a voice of social and political activism, with hits songs
like “Diamonds & Rust,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and a
great rendition of “We Shall Overcome,” and a performer at
---The popularity of the a capella pop band, Pentatonix, has been growing with the success of their holiday albums…now they are ready to parlay that success into a Summertime tour! See Pentatonix in 2018 as close as Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 8/23…and Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on 8/25 …as well as…Bristow VA on 8/12…Camden NJ on 8/14…Wantagh NY on 8/15…Holmdel NJ on 8/20…Saratoga Springs NY on 8/22…Hartford CT on 8/26…Mansfield MA on 8/28…Burgettstown PA on 9/1…Hershey PA on 9/2…and Toronto ON on 9/6!
---Happy Together Tour has been confirmed for Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 6/21…and has also announced the rest of the tour dates, so you can now look for them in…Tarrytown NY on 6/14…New Brunswick NJ on 6/15…Lynn MA on 6/16…Northampton MA on 6/17…Englewood NJ on 6/19…Glenside PA on 6/20…Westbury NY on 6/22 (was Lynn MA)…Lancaster PA on 6/23…Hampton Beach NH on 6/24…Hyannis MA on 6/27…Morristown NJ on 6/28…Brooklyn NY on 6/29…and Asbury Park NJ on 6/30!
The line-up this year is
The Turtles
---The
Christopher Cross tour has announced that they will afterall, make a
stop at the periphery of our local-ish region…when they play
Turning Stone Casino in
---The popular Stephen Stills & Judy Collins tour from last year is coming back around for 2018 and it will be as close as Geneva NY at the Smith Opera House on 6/26…as well as…Lenox MA on 6/17…Ridgefield CT on 6/18…Lynn MA on 6/21…Englewood NJ on 6/24…and Staten Island NY on 6/29!
---Huey
Lewis & The News have been confirmed for
Mount Airy Casino in Mount
Pocono PA on 7/14, which was previously leaked by the venue…they also
added a show in
---Hot Tuna
make a local addition…Bethel
Woods in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Metallica has announced a new leg of their “World Wired” tour and it will slam into our regional area this Fall with shows set for…Pittsburgh PA on 10/18…State College PA on 10/20…Buffalo NY on 10/27…and Albany NY on 10/29! Tickets go on sale today!
---John Fogerty and Z.Z. Top have joined forces for a massive Spring into Summer 2018 tour that will impact our regional area as soon as Memorial Day weekend! The other good news about this tour is that it seems the health problems that limited Z.Z. Top from touring beyond Las Vegas have been addressed…see them in…Atlantic City NJ on 5/25…Holmdel NJ on 5/26…Uncasville CT on 5/27…Vienna VA on 5/29 & 5/30…Wantagh NY on 6/20…Gilford NH on 6/22…Canandaigua NY at CMAC (the former Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center) on 6/23…and Camden NJ on 6/24!
---Radiohead has announced a mammoth tour that is coming into our area in a major way…three nights in NYC on 7/10, 7/11 & 7/13…two nights in Montreal QC on 7/16 & 7/17…two nights in Toronto ON on 7/19 & 7/20…Pittsburgh PA on 7/26…two nights in Boston MA on 7/28 & 7/29…and concluding with two nights in Philadelphia PA on 7/31 & 8/1…at least so far…
---Modern metal is regrouping with a powerful pairing…Shinedown and Godsmack are stepping out together with a big tour set to impact our region more than a half dozen times…Bristow VA on 8/19…Hartford CT on 8/24…Mansfield MA on 8/25…Camden NJ on 8/26…Burgettstown PA on 8/28…Holmdel NJ on 9/1…and Wantagh NY on 9/2!
---Australian pop band, 5 Seconds Of Summer return with five new dates in intimate, theatre-sized venues, which is sure to please their fans, and in our region…Boston MA on 4/8…Philadelphia PA on 4/9…Silver Spring MD on 4/10…NYC on 4/12…and Toronto ON on 4/13!
---Heavy Montreal has announced their festival dates (7/28-29) and also that acts that will be involved, which is quite lengthy…Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Gojira, Underoath, Hollywood Undead, Trivium, Asking Alexandria, Ratt, I Prevail, Between The Buried And Me, WitchCraft, Red Fang, Black Dahlia Murder, Helix, Napalm Death and more! The festival is set for Parc Jean-Drapeau and we’ll post the daily line-up once we get ahold of it!
---Todd Rundgren’s Utopia has returned and he’s taking them on a two-month tour that will encompass our entire region…Philadelphia PA on 4/18…Englewood NJ on 4/20…Huntington NY on 5/1…Washington DC on 5/2…NYC on 5/3…Upper Darby PA on 5/5…Boston MA on 5/6…Ridgefield CT on 5/7…and Toronto ON on 5/16!
---Coheed &
---Australian singer/ songwriter,
Courtney Barnett has booked Summer dates for the
---Blues man, Keb’ Mo’ has announced a late Spring 2018 tour that is set to intersect with our region…Bensalem PA on 5/18…Westhampton Beach NY on 5/19…Derry NH on 5/22…Boston MA on 5/24…Tarrytown NY on 5/25…and Hartford CT on 5/26!
---Monkees duo Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith have confirmed some tour dates for Summer 2018…but so far only four of them fall inside of our regional coverage area…Toronto ON on 6/18…Glenside PA on 6/21…NYC on 6/22…and Red Bank NJ on 6/25!
---Carbon
Leaf have fleshed out more of their Spring tour plans and that means
a lot more shows for our region…NYC on 4/18…Plymouth NH on 4/20…Toronto
ON on 4/25…and Baltimore MD on 5/11!
That’s on top of the previously announced
---Belly
is back, with a new album (finally, after more than a decade) and a
fresh tour that is headed for our region…two nights in
---Joan Armatrading has booked a five nonconsecutive-night stand at the City Winery in NYC and this will be her only regional stop! Armatrading will play on 5/29, 5/30, 6/29, 7/1 & 7/2!
---Pop singer Dua Lipa has announced her first world tour, including dates in America, but so far only one (out of 13 dates in the U.S.) in our region…in Wallingford CT on 6/20!
---Curtis Stigers (anyone else remember his “I Wonder Why,” a top ten hit in 1991?) has just booked a week long residency at Birdland in NYC from 4/17 thru 4/21!
---Slightly Stoopid is back with a new tour (including Pepper and Stick Figure) but so far only two dates in our region…Baltimore MD on 7/26…and Asbury Park NJ on 7/29!
---Dates have been set for the
Newport Jazz Festival!
The annual iconic folk music fest takes place at
Fort Adams State Park in
---The Heavy Pets are hitting the road in a big way this Spring! See one of their regional stops in…Washington DC on 4/25…Philadelphia PA on 4/26…Providence RI on 4/27…New Haven CT on 4/28…Allston MA on 4/29…Brooklyn NY on 5/2…Manchester NH on 5/3…Norwalk CT on 5/4…and Albany NY on 5/5!
---Martin Barre, guitarist of Jethro Tull, has announced new legs to his previously announced Fall 2018 dates, including…Teaneck NJ on 9/19…NYC on 9/20…Bay Shore NY on 9/21…Niagara Falls ON on 9/27…Hamilton ON on 9/28…Buffalo NY on 9/30…Sellersville PA on 10/5…Old Saybrook CT on 10/7…Beverly MA on 10/19…and Hartford CT on 10/21!
---Veteran bluesman, Taj Mahal has finally announced some tour dates (not that he’s had many this year) in our region, so here they are…Alexandria VA on 5/30…Hartford CT on 6/1…Beverly MA on 6/2…and Augusta NJ on 6/3!
--Foreigner has booked a small three-date Canadian leg, with Chilliwack…only two dates near us…Toronto ON on 3/22…and Kingston ON on 3/24!
---Chaka Khan has booked a smattering of tour dates for 2018 so far, but two of them fall within our regional confines…Lincoln RI on 3/9…and Upper Darby PA on 3/11!
---Bruce Hornsby has booked a three night stand in NYC at the City Winery on 5/26, 5/27 & 5/28!
---Pop singer, Charlie XCX is back, but has only posted two tour dates so far…one our of our area (Los Angeles) and another one in Brooklyn NY on 3/18!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---A one-shot festival-style show, X-Fest, has been booked for Star Lake Ampihtheatre in Burgettstown PA on 6/2 with a great line-up…Jack White, Cold War Kids, AWOLNATION and Sir Sly.
---Here’s an interesting one-shot…Jon Pousette-Dart, Jonathan Edwards and
Aztec Two-Step…they’re set for the Mitchell Farm in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Eddie
Money adds
---Greta Van
Fleet adds
---
---Three Dog
Night adds
---the
Asking Alexandria & Black
Veil Brides tour adds
---Aztec
Two-Step adds…
---Roger
McGuinn adds
---Willie Nile adds NYC on 4/28!
---Brewer &
Shipley add
---Marshall
Crenshaw adds
---The
Eagles add NYC on 10/9…and
---Spyro
Gyra adds
---John
Waite adds
---10,000 Maniacs add a two-night stand in NYC at the City Winery on 5/24 & 5/25!
---David
Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads, adds…
---Billy
Joel adds
---Howie Day
adds
---Michael McDonald adds Red Bank NJ on 5/13!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Asking
---Aztec Two-Step (8)
---Belly (4)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Brewery & Shipley (1)
---Bruce Hornsby (3)
---Carbon Leaf (4)
---Chaka Khan (2)
---Charlie XCX (1)
---Christopher Cross (1)
---Coheed &
---Curtis Stigers (5)
---Dua Lipa (1)
---Eddie Money (1)
---Foreigner/
---Greta Van Fleet (3)
---Happy Together Tour (13)
---Hot Tuna (2)
---Howie Day (1)
---Huey Lewis & The News (1)
---Jack White/ Cold War Kids/ AWOLNATION/ Sir Sly (1)
---Joan Baez (10)
---John Fogerty/ Z.Z. Top (9)
---John Waite (1)
---Jon Pousette-Dart/ Jonathan Edwards/ Aztec Two-Step (1)
---Keb’ Mo’ (6)
---Marshall Crenshaw (1)
---Martin Barre (10)
---Metallica (4)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Micky Dolenz/ Michael Nesmith (4)
---
---Pentatonix (12)
---Radiohead (12)
---Roger McGuinn (4)
---Shinedown/ Godsmack (7)
---Spyro Gyra (1)
---Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins (6)
---Taj Mahal (1)
---The Eagles (2)
---The Heavy Pets (9)
---Three Dog Night (6)
---
---Willie Nelson (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 022318:
---The City
of Binghamton is thinking of expanding their reputation as a
regional “center for the arts,” by upgrading local government owned
venues, like the Forum Theatre
and adding other upgrades to sidewalks, parks and plaza space, creating
an “arts district” that would extend from
The Arena, and up State
Street to the railroad tracks, also extending to Washington Street
between Lewis Street and the Metro Center.
This project would be boon to the local music scene to be sure
and also bring more national touring acts, that normally pass
---Pat
Metheny with James Francies & Anwar Marshall, has just added a
second show at the Hangar Theatre
in
---Tags
in Big Flats NY (west of
---Trumansburg zydeco/reggae/folk-rockers, Donna The Buffalo, continue to shore up their summer plans. According to the tour page of their website, (http://donnathebuffalo.com/on-the-road) the band is set to play a broad swath of shows both nationally, regionally and locally…NYC on 3/16…Apalachin NY (at the Ransom Steele Tavern) on 3/17…before heading to Florida in April…Stuart FL on 4/6…Punta Gorda FL on 4/7…Hendersonville NC on 4/14…then two nights in Tilmon TX on 4/19 & 4/20…Lafayette LA on 4/21…Wilkesboro NC on 4/26 thru 4/29 for MerleFest…before coming home to The Dock in Ithaca NY on 5/11…Fall River MA on 5/12…Norfolk CT on 5/13…Falls Church VA on 5/19…Delton MI on 6/16…all four nights at GrassRoots (7/19 thru 7/22), followed by stops at Pawling NY at Daryl’s House on 8/16…Manchester Center VT for the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival on 8/17…Wellsboro PA at Stony Fork Creek Campsite on 8/18…Evanston IL on 8/24…Ontonagon MI on 8/25…and Harwich MA for the Cranberry Arts & Music Festival on 9/15!
---Art Garfunkel is set to play twin local show…at the State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 5/6…and the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 5/8…Garfunkel is also set to play a half-dozen additional dates in…Northampton MA on 5/5…Concord NH on 5/10…two nights in Boston MA on 5/11 & 5/12…and a night in Tarrytown NY on 5/17!
---Imagine
Dragons are coming to
Lakeview Amphitheatre in
---Congrats to Tommy Szedlock, of local
---Also congrats to
Beer Thirty on Upper Court
Street in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Bruno Mars & Cardi B have announced their plans for the Fall! They’re not only going out together, they’re double-teaming cities all across America…Philadelphia PA on 9/19 & 9/20…Toronto ON on 9/22 & 9/23…Boston MA on 9/27 & 9/28…Newark NJ on 10/1 & 10/2…Brooklyn NY on 10/4 & 10/5!
---As well learned late last week, the Smashing Pumpkins “reunion” tour (without D’Arcy Wretsky) is on, as well as a new album bring produced by Rick Rubin! Tour dates have already been announced and the Pumpkins will smash thru our region no less than eight times…Baltimore MD on 7/27…Philadelphia PA on 7/28…Uncasville CT on 7/29…Boston MA on 7/31…NYC on 8/1…Pittsburgh PA on 8/4…Montreal QC on 8/7…and Toronto ON on 8/8!
---Pop singer,
Camila Cabello (formerly of
Fifth Harmony) is stepping out with her first solo headlining tour!
Cabello’s “Never Be The Same,” tour plans regional stops in…
---Halestorm is teaming-up with In This Moment, New Years Day and Stitched Up Heart for a national package tour that will stop in our region at least four times…Pittsburgh PA on 5/7…Reading PA on 5/10…Lowell MA on 5/11…and Asbury Park NJ on 5/12!
---Tommy Stinson, (of The Replacements and more recently, Guns N’
Roses) is going on a solo tour this Spring!
See him in…
---The line-up for the annual
M3 Rock Festival is set!
The fest is scheduled for the first weekend in May and features
something a bit new this year…Southern Rock Sunday, officially known as
the Southern Rock Classic!
Tickets are being sold for the Friday/ Saturday rock combo, with
Sunday separate. Here’s the
full breakdown:
Day #1 Friday
(5/4): Kix, Tom Keifer (of
Cinderella), Y&T, Faster
Pussycat, Nelson
Day #2 Saturday
(5/5): Queensryche, Night Ranger,
Ace Frehley,
Day #3 Sunday
(5/6): Marshall Tucker Band,
Blackberry Smoke, The Outlaws, Pure Prairie
---Pat Travers continues to milk “Boom
Boom Out Go The Lights,” with another tour…the notorious blues
man is coming to…
---Orleans has booked a couple of 2018 shows so far, for this Spring,
but the band has been largely inactive in recent years, so see them now
before they go away again…Bay Shore NY on 3/9…and Woonsocket RI on 3/10!
---A few scattered Fall
dates for Martin Barre is
starting to morph into a tour…just announced are…Natick MA on 10/11…Fall
River MA on 10/18…and Plymouth NH on 10/20!
Add those to the previously announced two nights in
---Bullet For My Valentine books one regional show (nearly local) in
Stroudsburg PA at the Sherman
Theatre with Trivium &
Toothgrinder opening on 5/18!
---Post Malone has added a Summer leg that has plenty of regional
stops…Baltimore MD on 5/19…Philadelphia PA on 5/23…Mansfield MA on
5/24…Darien Center NY on 5/26…Toronto ON on 5/27…NYC (at The Governors
Ball) on 6/1!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Hip hop star,
Rakim, books an one-off in
---Blind Melon books a one-time-only show at Jergel’s Rhythm Grill in Warrendale PA on 5/6!
---It’s a one-night stand for
John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Steely
Dan & The Doobie Brothers
add
---BulletBoys
& Enuff Z’Nuff add
---Lost 80’s
Live is adding some more shows…
---Ann
Wilson, of Heart, adds
---Marco
Benevento adds
---Deer Tick
add
---Lynch Mob
adds
---Richie
Ramone adds
---Rick
Astley adds
---Godspeed
You! Black Emperor adds
---Big
K.R.I.T. adds
---Shawn
Colvin & Lyle Lovett add
---Robyn
Hitchcock adds
---Ricky
Nelson Remembered is coming around again…the project featuring
Nelson’s sons, Matthew and Gunnar will play
---The Heavy
Pets add
---Billy Joel books his 57th MSG residency show in NYC on 9/30!
---Update on the Thirty Seconds To Mars tour…opening acts for the tour as it travels thru our region include…Joywave, WALK THE MOON and Misterwives!
---David
Lindley adds
---Jefferson
Starship adds…Riverhead NY on 5/19…
---Jimmy
Buffett adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Ann Wilson (1)
---Art Garfunkel (7)
---Big K.R.I.T. (1)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Blind Melon (1)
---Bruno Mars/ Cardi B (10)
---Bullet For My Valentine/ Trivium/ Toothgrinder (1)
---BulletBoys/ Enuff Z’nuff (1)
---Camila Cabello (5)
---David Lindley (3)
---Deer Tick (1)
---Donna The
---Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1)
---Halestorm/ In This Moment/ New Years Day/ Stitched Up Heart (4)
---Imagine Dragons/ Grace VanderWaal (9)
---
---Jimmy Buffett (1)
---John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band (1)
---Lost 80’s Live (2)
---Lynch Mob (2)
---Martin Barre (3)
---M3 Music Festival (3)
---Marco Benevento (1)
---
---Pat Metheny (1)
---Pat Travers (3)
---Post Malone (6)
---Queensryche/ Great White/ Autograph (1)
---Rakim (1)
---Richie Ramone (1)
---Rick Astley (1)
---Ricky Nelson Remembered
---Robyn Hitchcock (1)
---Shawn Colvin/ Lyle Lovett (1)
---Smashing Pumpkins (8)
---Steely Dan/ The Doobie Brothers (1)
---The Heavy Pets (1)
---Tommy Stinson (4)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 021618:
---Not only has
Driftwood’s Winter tour grown
in size, it’s already leading to Spring dates!
After the previously reported three January dates, the tour
resumed in February at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs NY on 2/1…followed
by stops in Nashua NH on 2/2…and Boston MA on 2/3!
This weekend finds Driftwood in Beacon NY at the
Towne Crier Café on 2/9…The
Oswego Music Hall in Oswego
NY on 2/10…then Vienna VA for the famous
Jammin’ Java on 2/15…Easton
MD on 2/16 at the Avalon Theatre…Frostburg
MD on 2/17…Durham NC on 2/22…Asheville NJ on 2/23…and Harrisonburg VA on
2/24! Now Spring dates are
popping up with new shows at the
Knitting Factory in NYC on 3/8…
---Not only is Gov’t Mule playing the Peach Festival in Scranton PA, again this year, but Warren Haynes band has also announced their 2018 tour dates and they will be coming thru our region playing theatre styled venues, with a righteous fury, including yet another local stop, in Syracuse NY at the Landmark Theatre on 4/20, as well as…Bethlehem PA on 4/18…Erie PA on 4/19…Baltimore MD on 4/21…Westbury NY on 4/25…Albany NY on 4/26…two nights at Port Chester NY on 4/27 & 4/28…and Asbury Park NJ on 4/29! Most shows will be opened by Black Stone Cherry!
---Looking for a triple bill tour of classic rockers to get more rock for your buck, this summer…try Styx, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Tesla…the trio will play 27 dates across the U.S. and nine in our region alone, plus a local-ish stop…Boston MA on 6/27…Syracuse NY (at Lakeview Amphitheatre) on 6/28…Wantagh NY on 6/29…Hershey PA on 6/30…Montreal QC on 7/3…Toronto ON on 7/4…Bristow VA on 7/13…Pittsburgh PA on 7/14…and Holmdel NJ on 7/15!
---Former Sweet guitarist, Andy Scott has formed a new version of the band that is playing a local date with Quiet Riot and House of Lords at The Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 6/29…as well as NYC on 4/26…and New Hope PA on 4/27!
---Here’s another festival that intersects with
both GrassRoots and The Peach Festival, (although I suspect The Peach
Festival will affect it more) The
Grey Goose Blue Grass Festival at the
Walsh Farm in
---Huey
Lewis & The News may be about to announce a tour…lately a few key
dates have leaked out…
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Thirty
Seconds To Mars have announced “The Monolith” tour, in support of
their new yet-to-be-named album, which is due out 4/6!
The tour starts in
---The Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton are teaming-up for another great summer double-bill and there are a dozen regional stops on the 38-date tour, so climb on the 70’s nostalgia train and follow the tour starting in…Burgettstown PA on 6/20…Erie PA on 6/22…Baltimore MD on 6/24…Oxon Hill MD on 6/26…NYC on 6/27…Bethel NY on 6/29…Watertown NY on 6/30…Lenox MA on 7/2…Lewiston NY on 7/3…Boston MA on 7/6…Mashantucket CT on 7/14…and Bensalem PA on 7/15!
---Jason Mraz just announced his summer plans…he’ll be touring North America extensively and coming into our region at least nine times, starting with…Toronto ON on 7/29…Boston MA on 8/2…Gilford NH on 8/3…Uncasville CT on 8/4…Brooklyn NY on 8/7…NYC on 8/9…Columbia MD on 8/10…Philadelphia PA on 8/11…and Bethlehem PA on 8/12!
---Vance Joy
has finally booked
---Myles
Kennedy, formerly of Slash’s Conspirators and
booked a small solo tour, set for theatre-sized venues, to support his new solo album, “Year Of The Tiger” with stops in our region at…Baltimore MD on 5/16…Asbury Park NJ on 5/17…Lancaster PA on 5/19…Boston MA on 5/21…and NYC on 5/22!
---Rapper Big Sean is set to hit the road with six regional tour dates starting in Mid-May…Washington DC on 5/15…Brooklyn NY on 5/18…Uncasville CT on 5/19…Philadelphia PA on 5/20…Boston MA on 5/22…and Toronto ON on 6/3!
---The Outlaws keep building a very cool tour schedule in 2018…East Greenwich RI on 2/15…Derry NH on 2/17…two nights in Irwin PA on 4/20 & 4/21…Englewood NJ (with Kansas) on 4/26…Columbia MD ( with Marshall Tucker Band/ Blackberry Smoke, Pure Prairie League, Georgia Satellites and Atlanta Rhythm Section) on 5/6…before joining Lynyrd Skynyrd on their farewell tour…then, Augusta NJ on 6/23…Webster MA on 6/24…Gilford NH (with CDB & MTB) on 7/8…and Erie PA on 7/25!
---Singer/ guitarist, James Bay has a new single out, “Wild Love,” and a small nine-date tour in support as well, but no new album yet…Washington DC on 4/2…Brooklyn NY on 4/3…Boston MA on 4/5…Philadelphia PA o 4/6…and Toronto ON on 4/8!
---Symphonic Thrash band Apocalyptica return with a theatre-sized tour in May the scratches and claws thru our region…Buffalo NY on 5/23…Philadelphia PA on 5/24…Uncasville CT on 5/26…Albany NY on 5/27…Ridgefield CT on 5/29…Montclair NJ on 5/30…and the tour ender…Westbury NY on 5/31!
---Electronic Dance band, Depeche Mode has added a Spring leg to their 2018 tour, which finally adds dates in our region…Philadelphia PA on 6/3…Brooklyn NY on 6/6…Boston MA on 6/9…and Toronto ON on 6/11!
---O.A.R. and Matt Nathanson have linked together to for a long 2018 tour that will bring them into our region at least eight times…NYC on 8/13…Boston MA on 8/14…Hampton Beach NH on 8/16…East Providence RI on 8/17…Middletown PA on 8/18…Bethel NY on 8/19…Philadelphia PA on 8/21…and Lewiston NY on 8/22!
---Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials are still going, after all this time, and they’re still going thru our region too…Woonsocket RI on 3/2…Hartford CT on 3/3…Wilmington DE on 3/4…Lima NY (Rochester area) on 3/6…Buffalo NY on 3/8…and Lancaster PA on 3/10!
---Jeff
Tweedy, of Wilco, has booked a Spring world tour that plays
---The Pretenders have returned to the road with a small, theatre-sized tour, in between tours warming up for Phil Collins Central American leg and Simple Minds UK leg! The band will tour the U.S. in Red Bank NJ on 3/30…Upper Darby PA on 3/31…Boston MA on 4/1…and Morristown NJ on 4/2!
---
---Stephen Malkmus, lead singer and guitarist for Pavement, is going out with his solo band, The Jicks, this Spring with regional stops in…Pittsburgh PA on 6/6…Toronto ON on 6/9…Montreal QC on 6/11…Cambridge MA on 6/12…Brooklyn NY on 6/14…Philadelphia PA on 6/16…and Washington DC on 6/17!
---Rascal Flatts has added a Summer leg to their 2018 tour, including new regional dates…Bristow VA on 6/30…Camden NJ on 7/26…Burgettstown PA on 7/27…and Toronto ON on 8/16!
---Tommy Castro & The Painkillers have announced an extensive tour which includes a large amount of regional shows…Pawling NY on 4/4…Collinsville CT on 4/5…Bay Shore NY on 4/6…Teaneck NJ on 4/7…Boston MA on 4/8…Northampton MA on 4/9…..Woonsocket RI on 4/10…Tuckerton NJ on 4/12…Washington DC on 4/14…and Blawnox PA on 4/19!
---Gordon Lightfoot has started announcing Spring and Summer dates and so far there are three show in our region…Greensburg PA on 6/15…University Park PA on 6/16…and Geneva NY on 6/17!
---Alternative rockers L7 have returned, but so far only for a small six-date tour which includes just two dates for our region…the tour opener in Boston MA on 4/11…and Philadelphia PA on 4/13!
---Canadian punk-rockers, Sum 41, have announced a huge Spring tour that somehow overlooks most of our region…with three exceptions…NYC on 5/12…Philadelphia PA on 5/14…and Boston MA on 5/15!
---Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot will follow up his Stray Cats reunion show in Las Vegas, but so far only two stops in our region for this band…Atlantic City NJ on 6/22…and Lowell MA on 6/24!
---Midge Ure
of Ultravox has booked a huge world tour, with only five
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The
Johnny Winter All-Star ft.
Paul Nelson, has booked something of a one-off in
---Kenny Rogers touring days may be over, but he can still schedule the random one-off…which he did, for 6/2 in NYC at the Beacon Theatre!
---Pat
Metheny has booked a one-off in
---Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett, of Little Feat, are booking shows, but so far, just two…and for anyone east of The Rockies, just one…Newton NJ on 6/15!
---Roger
Hodgson of Supertramp, is playing a one-timer in
---Tavares and The Stylistics have booked a double-bill, one-shot in Lynn MA on 5/12!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Jaimo’s
Jasssz Band adds
---Dark Star
Orchestra adds
---Don
McLean adds
---Gary Lewis & The Playboys add Hershey PA on 4/28!
---Tim
Reynolds adds
---Arrested
Development adds
---Dance/ Electronic band,
Marshmello has added a show in our region…5/12 in
---Robyn
Hitchcock adds
---Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats add NYC on 3/8!
---The
Indigo Girls add Red Bank NJ on 3/14…and
---Warrant
adds
---Patty
Smyth & Scandal add
---The
Yardbirds add
---Southside
Johnny & The Asbury Jukes add
---NRBQ
officially moves it’s cancelled
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds Stroudsburg PA on 4/14…
---Blue
Oyster Cult and Loverboy
add
---Insane
Clown Posse adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Apocalyptica (8)
---Arrested Development (1)
---Big Sean (6)
---Blue Oyster Cult/ Loverboy (1)
---Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot (2)
---Dark Star Orchestra (1)
---Depeche Mode (4)
---Don McLean (2)
---Gary Lewis & The Playboys (1)
---Gordon Lightfoot (3)
---Gov’t Mule (9)
---Huey Lewis & The News (2)
---Indigo Girls (2)
---Insane Clown Posse (4)
---Jaimo’s Jasssz Band (1)
---
---Jason Mraz (9)
---Jeff Tweedy (4)
---Johnny Winter All-Star Band
---Kenny Rogers (1)
---L7 (2)
---Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials (6)
---Marshmello (1)
---Midge Ure (1)
---Myles Kennedy (5)
---Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (1)
---O.A.R./ Matt Nathanson (8)
---Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett (1)
---Patty Smyth & Scandal (1)
---Puddle Of Mudd (4)
---Rascal Flatts (4)
---Robyn Hitchcock (1)
---Roger Hodgson (1)
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1)
---Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (7)
---Steve Miller Band/ Peter Frampton (12)
---Sum 41 (3)
---Tavares/ The Stylistics (1)
---The Johnny Winter Band ft. Paul Nelson (1)
---The Pretenders (4)
---The Yardbirds (1)
---Thirty Seconds To Mars (10)
---Tim Reynolds (1)
---Tommy Castro & The Painkillers (10)
---Vance Joy (10)
---Warrant (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 020918:
---The Busy
Bird Bluegrass Festival has announced their 2018 festival dates in
what will be a very special year for them…their 15th
Anniversary! The festival
will be held at their Festival Grounds at
---
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---A local all-star band will be on display this
weekend at EPAC, in
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---An undercover investigation targeting businesses
that serve or sell alcohol in the Town of
---Frank
Turner is coming to the State
Theatre in
---Native New Yorker, Ani DiFranco is coming back around and will be as close as Wilkes-Barre PA, at the Kirby Center, on 5/11…as well as…Washington DC on 5/5…Tarrytown NY on 5/6…Wilmington DE on 5/8…and NYC on 5/10!
---Ithaca’s favorite sons, X Ambassadors have just announced a new leg on their 2018 tour that will add one more show in our region…Pittsburgh PA at Stage AE on 4/21, with Son Little and The Aces warming-up! No word yet whether they will curate a 2018 Cayuga Sound Festival, (this new leg of the tour will only bring them to June 29th,) but we expect them to.
---Ozzy
Osbornes “No More Tours 2” his farewell tour, resumes, now that his
Black Sabbath farewell tour has wrapped up!
Osborne has announced dates…and there will be one local-ish
stop…in
---Chicago & REO Speedwagon have team-up yet again, for a Summer tour! This year they’ll make at least one local stop…Syracuse NY at Lakeview Amphitheatre on 7/27, plus…Bristow VA on 7/25…Pittsburgh PA on 7/28…Holmdel NJ on 7/29…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/31…Camden NJ on 8/1…Wantagh NY on 8/3…Boston MA on 8/5…Darien Center NY on 8/7…and Toronto ON on 8/8!
---Poison,
Cheap Trick and Pop Evil
have joined forces for a 25-date tour of
---One of the pillars of Rock N Roll, the 78-year-old Dion, of Dion & The Belmonts, is going out on tour this summer! The entire tour is ten dates, spread out over a month and it is entirely within our regional area…Uncasville CT on 7/12…Englewood NJ on 7/15…Staten Island NY on 7/20…Westbury NY on 7/21…Wilkes-Barre PA, at The Kirby Center, on 7/27…Lancaster PA on 7/29…Morristown NJ on 8/3…and Asbury Park NJ on 8/5!
---Jonathan Edwards…the folk singer with the 70’s hit, “Sunshine,”…not the psychic…has announced regional dates…Northampton MA on 4/14…Fairfield CT on 4/26…Kingston RI on 4/28…Natick MA on 5/4…Willimantic CT on 5/6…Pawling NY on 5/17…The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca NY on 5/18…Alexandria VA on 7/8…and Wolfeboro NH on 9/22!
---The Great
Blue Heron Festival has announced their line-up…in video form at
least…Donna The Buffalo…Giant
Panda Guerilla Dub Squad…The Felice Brothers…The Suitcase Junket…The
Gunpoets…The Town Pants…Driftwood…Bobby Henrie & The Goners …The
Probables…Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People…The Hindu Cowboys…The
Blind Spots…Cats On Holiday…Smackdab!
These acts will all be on the main stages, but thre will be many
others! The fest is set for
July 6th thru the 8th in
---Looks like there will be a new restaurant/ bar
in downtown
---Congrats to
Chris Merkley who has joined
Molly & The Badly Bent
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Ed
Sheeran has announced his full 2018 tour schedule, and it’s a doozy
(does anyone say that anymore?)!
See him in…
---Justin Timberlake is already announcing another leg on his “Man Of The Woods” tour! New dates on the Fall leg of the tour include…Pittsburgh PA on 9/25…Toronto ON on 10/9…Boston MA on 10/18…NYC on 10/24…Buffalo NY on 10/28…Philadelphia PA on 12/17…and Washington DC on 1/4/2019!
---Another week, another farewell tour…Paul Simon has announced a North American farewell tour that lands in our region only four times…Toronto ON on 6/12…Montreal QC on 6/13…Boston MA on 6/15…and Philadelphia PA on 6/16!
---Blue October has booked a major world tour that is coming in April to our happy regional zone…Toronto ON on 4/26…the previously leaked, Sayreville NJ on 4/27…Wilmington DE on 4/29…along with previously dates in Pittsburgh PA on 5/17…Stroudsburg PA on 5/19…and Baltimore MD on 5/20! This is all to support a forthcoming new album, that has yet to be named or have a set release date!
---Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes, is going on a solo headlining tour that is coming into our region next month…Washington DC on 3/27…Brooklyn NY on 3/28…Philadelphia PA on 3/30…Cambridge MA on 4/1…Montreal QC on 4/2…and Toronto ON on 4/3!
---The day-to-day line-up has been released for the Panorama Festival at Randalls Island Park in NYC on July 27th -29th! Daily highlights include:
Day #1: The War On Drugs, The Weeknd, Migos, Dua Lipa, Father John Misty and Jhene Aiko!
Day #2:
Janet Jackson,
Day #3: The Killers, David Byrne, Fleet Foxes, The xx, Greta Van Fleet and Robert DeLong!
Tickets go on sale as of 2/2 at 10am!
---Aaron Carter (Nick from 98 degrees little bro and former teen heart throb) is back on tour (I thought he was still on his previous tour!) and will be making plenty of regional stops…Teaneck NJ on 2/22…Easton PA on 2/23…Pittsburgh PA on 2/25…Vienna VA on 2/26…Philadelphia PA on 2/27…Pawtucket RI on 2/28…Lawrence MA on 3/2…Seabrook NH on 3/3…Pawling NY on 3/4…Albany NY on 3/6…Rochester NY on 3/7…and the previously reported, Niagara Falls NY on 3/8!
---Jukebox
The Ghost have announced their full 2018 tour filling in the gaps
left by a few previously released show dates!
New stops include…
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is bringing their 90’s alt-swing sound back to North America with new regional dates for us, in…NYC on 2/20…Albany NY on 2/21…Plymouth NH on 2/22…Patchogue NY on 2/23…and Newton NJ on 2/24!
---Andrew WK is back on the road in May with regional stops planned in…Rochester NY on 5/15…Toronto ON on 5/16…Boston MA on 5/17…NYC on 5/18…Washington DC on 5/20…Philadelphia PA on 5/21…and Pittsburgh PA on 5/22!
---Broken Social Scene has announced a new Spring batch of tour dates, including three intrusions into our regional area…Baltimore MD on 4/6…Huntington NY on 4/7…and Montclair NJ on 4/8!
---
---Rochesters break out electronic band, Joywave, (remember their alt-pop hit collab with Big Data called, “Dangerous”, from back in 2015?) are headed back into our region with three new dates…Washington DC on 3/3…Toronto ON on 3/6…and Buffalo NY on 3/7!
---Michael Schenker Fest (the newest name for the Michael Schenker Group or MSG.) is now on tour and coming to our region…Silver Spring MD on 3/6…Munhall PA on 3/7…Boston Ma on 3/9…NYC on 3/10…Philadelphia PA on 3/11…and Montreal QC on 3/12! The tour is in support of their new album, “Resurrection,” which is coming out on 3/2 and features four different singers, three of whom sang for the band in the past…Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley and current vocalist, Doogie White!
---The Flaming Lips have announced a six-date March 2018 tour, but unfortunately there’s only one show on the docket set for our area…Bensalem PA (just outside of philly) on 3/11!
---alt-J have announced more tour dates on what is, so far, a very confusing trek. They will play Pittsburgh PA on 6/12…Forest Hills NY on 6/15…and Toronto ON on 6/20…but they also claim to be playing both the Firefly Festival in Dover DE (which runs 6/14-17) and Mountain Jam in Hunter NY (which runs 6/15-6/17) and both are the same weekend as the Forest Hills show, so there are some issues to work out. Stay tuned.
---Alternative rock band,
Misterwives will embark on a headlining tour in support of their
sophomore album, “Connect The Dots,” this spring!
The 14-date trek will have three regional stops…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The original line-up of
The Misfits is playing a one-off on 5/19 at
The Rock (otherwise known as the prudential center) in
---Marc
Anthony schedules what is essentially, for us, a one-off in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Ambrosia
adds
---Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are adding more dates, both with and without opening bands…Washington DC (solo) on 5/16…Toronto ON (solo) on 5/18…Montreal QC (solo) on 5/19…and with The Head & The Heart in…Boston MA on 6/8!
---Barenaked
Ladies, KT Tunstall and
Better Than Ezra add
---Kool &
The Gang add…NYC on 3/2…NYC also on 8/25…and
---Carbon
Leaf adds
---Graham
Parker adds
---Zoso
(led zeppelin tribute band) adds two nights in
---…and
Donna The Buffalo adds
---k.flay
adds
---Lee Ann
Womack adds
---U2 adds a third night in NYC as MSG on 7/1!
---Rascal
Flatts adds
---Papa
Roach adds
---Wynton
Marsalis has added Chick
Corea to his three April dates at the
---Puddle Of
Mudd add
---Sponge
pushes back their show in
---PnB Rock
adds
---Dennis
DeYoung adds
---Buddy Guy
also adds
---Renaissance
adds
---Roger Daltrey adds another performance of Tommy with the NY Pops Orchestra in Queens NY on 6/17!
---Erasure
adds two nights in NYC on 7/13 & 7/14…and a second night in
---Keb’ Mo’ adds Bensalem PA on 5/19!
---Brian
Wilson (of the Beach Boys, remember)…adds
---
---Elton
John adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aaron Carter (11)
---Albert Hammond Jr. (6)
---alt-J (3)
---Ambrosia (2)
---Andrew WK (7)
---Ani DiFranco (4)
---Barenaked Ladies/ KT Tunstall/ Better Than Ezra (1)
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (5)
---Blue October (2)
---Brian Wilson (2)
---Broken Social Scene (3)
---Buddy Guy (1)
---Busy Bird
---Carbon Leaf (1)
---Chicago/ REO Speedwagon (10)
---Dennis DeYoung (1)
---Dion (8)
---Donna The
---Ed Sheeran (8)
---Elton John (4)
---Erasure (3)
---Frank Turner (10)
---
---Graham Parker (1)
---Great Blue Heron Music Festival (3)
---Jonathan Edwards (9)
---Joywave/ Sasha Sloan (3)
---Jukebox The Ghost (4)
---Justin Timberlake (7)
---k.flay (1)
---Keb’ Mo’ (1)
---Kool & the Gang (3)
---Lee Ann Womack (2)
---Marc Anthony (1)
---Michael Schenker Fest (6)
---Misterwives (3)
---Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (3)
---Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats/ The Head & The Heart (1)
---Ozzy Osborne/ Stone Sour (8)
---Panorama Fest (3)
---Papa Roach/ Nothing More/ Escape The Fate (1)
---Paul Simon (4)
---PnB Rock (1)
---Poison/ Cheap Trick (9)
---
---Puddle Of Mudd (2)
---Rascal Flatts (2)
---Renaissance (1)
---Rock Project: The Beatles (3)
---Roger Daltrey (1)
---Sponge (+/-2)
---The Flaming Lips (1)
---The Misfits/ Suicidal Tendencies/ Murphy’s Law (1)
---U2 (1)
---Wynton Marsalis/ Chick Corea (3)
---X Ambassadors/ Son Little/ The Aces (1)
---Zoso (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 020318:
---Work is underway to rebuilding The Brackney Inn! According to various local broadcast reports The Brackney’s owner, Greg MacBlane, is hoping to have it open for business by March! The iconic venue has posted video and pictures of work being done on the roofing, on their facebook page this week, dated 1/27. See for yourself by clicking on this link: https://www.facebook.com/Brackney-Inn-170878836960/
---The website Bands That Jam is reporting that PhishPhest 11 will take place at Watkins Glen International Speedway in Watkins Glen NY this summer on August 17th thru the 19th for a 3-day festival, citing “independent sources” at the racetrack. The website indicated that contracts should be signed in February and that an official announcement would follow in March or April. Read the article for yourself at this link: http://www.bandsthatjam.com/bands-that-jam-jam-bands/phish/phish-to-return-to-watkins-glen-ny-for-3-day-festival-august-17-19-2018
---90’s hip hop and R&B fans take note:
Naughty By Nature and
SWV are coming to
The Arena in
---Southern Culture On The Skids is migrating North this Spring for a series of shows as close as…Ithaca NY at The Dock on 6/30…as well as Sellersville PA on 6/22…Brooklyn NY on 6/23…Pawling NY on 6/24…Cambridge MA on 6/26…and Lake George NY on 6/29!
---Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced their farewell tour, entitled, “The Last Of A Dying Breed Tour,” which will rotate various opening bands, including, Kid Rock, Hank Williams Jr, Bad Company, Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker Band, .38 Special (with the other Van Zant brother, Donnie), Blackberry Smoke and Blackfoot! Whew. Regional stops include…Holmdel NJ on 6/22…Wantagh NY on 6/23…Bristow VA (outside of Washington dc)…Darien Center NY on 7/13…Hartford CT on 7/14…Mansfield MA on 7/20…Bethel NY at Bethel Woods, on 7/21…Hershey PA on 7/28…Toronto ON on 8/11…another local stop at the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 8/24…and Burgettstown PA on 8/25!
---Randy McStine has posted a new “album” that is 44 minutes and 12 seconds of what appears to be a depiction of his mood on a “Sunday evening 8:12pm.” It is delicate and nuanced, like a Pink Floyd album on 15 rpm, but pitched up so the tone is preserved. Think of it as a private jam session or rehearsal that morphs into a continuous song…just McStine’s guitar and a keyboard (he plays both btw) and some natural sound, but no vocals. It is however, much less industrial and dark than “Anachronism,” more organic and hopeful. It’s obviously recorded at his NYC apartment. McStine has been in an experimental mood in recent years and this is one of his most thoughtful, yet at the same time, improvisational and wonderful experiments. Stream it for yourself here: https://randymcstine.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-8-12pm
---Another area Prog-rock band,
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Lynyrd Skynyrd and Slayer won’t be the only bands on a farewell tour this Summer as Elton John has also announced a “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” last week with an ambitious North American tour beginning…on 9/8 in Allentown PA…9/11 & 9/12 in Philadelphia PA…9/16 in University Park PA…9/19 in Hartford CT…9/21 & 9/22 in Washington DC…9/25 & 9/26 in Toronto ON…Montreal QC on 10/4…Boston MA on 10/6…Pittsburgh PA on 10/10…NYC on 10/18, 10/19 & 11/8…Albany NY on 3/1/2019…and back to NYC at The B.C. in Brooklyn on 3/8! …and btw, that’s not even the European dates, which start in May 2019! Projections are that Elton will play 300 shows over three years!
---Former Genesis guitarist (during Peter Gabriel’s tenure), Steve Hackett is headed back out on tour and he’ll be playing plenty of venues in our regional coverage area…Montreal QC on 2/11…Toronto ON on 2/12…Staten Island NY on 2/15…Collingswood NJ on 2/16 & 2/17…and Tarrytown NY on 2/18! Hackett played on early Genesis faves like, “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway,” “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe),” “Squonk,” “The Carpet Crawlers,” and “A Firth Of Fifth!”
---The last of the “Seattle Grunge bands,” (think
about it…Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains are all pretty much done,
after the deaths of their lead singers.)
Pearl Jam has announced a
limited run of baseball stadium tours, but so far only one such
appearance in our region…two nights at
Fenway Park in
---Jeff Beck, Paul Rodgers, Ann Wilson and John Bonhams little sister, Deborah Bonham have aligned for nearly twenty dates this summer! The “Stars Align” tour is coming to five nearby regional markets…Toronto ON on 8/1…Boston MA on 8/3…Camden NJ on 8/4…Holmdel NJ on 8/12…and Wantagh NY on 8/14!
---Mastodon
and Primus are uniting for a
North American tour that will trample our region under it’s feet!
Stops include…
---Of Montreal has announced regional dates in support of their new album, but it’s an awfully small tour…ten dates overall and only three in our larger area…Washington DC on 3/25…Boston MA on 3/26…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/29! More dates expected. Stay tuned.
---Buckcherry is touring the Northeast this Spring with a few dates…four out of six, in all…Kingston MA on 3/7…Huntington NY on 3/9…Montclair NJ on 3/10…and Stroudsburg PA on 4/13!
---Circa Survive seem to be undertaking a headlining tour this Spring that will take them through our region…Huntington NY on 3/24…Stroudsburg PA on 4/20…Wilmington DE on 4/21…and Baltimore MD on 4/22!
---Minus The Bear is bringing The Coathangers along (…by their coattails?) for a Spring tour that impacts our region nearly every night for a week…Boston MA on 4/24…Asbury Park NJ on 4/25…Brooklyn NY on 4/26…Manhattan NY on 4/27…Philadelphia PA on 4/28…Washington DC on 4/29…and Buffalo NY on 5/1!
---Jonathan Davis of Korn has booked a 25-date solo North American tour, yet somehow only three shows have been posted for our region so far…NYC on 5/12…Silver Spring MD on 5/17…and Boston MA on 5/18!
---The hot new Alternative artist-of-the-week,
Greta Van Fleet has booked a
small tour to leverage some album sales out of her increasing radio
airplay! Dates include…
---Well, we have Manneheim Steamroller and
Trans-Siberian Orchestra…now there’s
Christmas With The Celts!
It’s a show like Riverdance, but with a band that plays
---Former Motley Crue singer John Corabi, has booked a solo tour that’s coming this-a way…Elmhurst NY on 2/21…Derby CT on 2/22…Southbridge MA on 2/23…and New Bedford MA on 2/25!
---Former Stryper singer,
Michael Sweet is playing a few terrestrial dates (aside from the
Monsters Of Rock cruise)…
---The Gaslight Anthem are doing a 10th Anniversary tour for their sophomore album, “The ’59 Sound,” coming up in late Spring and Summer 2018…on their ten-date worldwide itinerary are just three dates in our region…Washington DC on 5/27…NYC on 6/2 (at The Governors Ball)…and Toronto ON on 8/10!
---Former Bad Company singer,
Brian Howe, is back on the road in a limited fashion with two dates
in our region…New Hope PA on 4/6…and Irwin PA on 4/7!
Howe has recovered from a recent heart attack and also was
evacuated from his home last year in
---Lynch Mob will play some terrestrial dates once they’re done with the Monsters of Rock cruise…Uncasville CT on 3/15…Manchester NH on 3/16…Teaneck NJ on 3/17…and New Bedford MA on 3/18!
---Modern rockers,
---Modest Mouse return to the road, but so far, only book one date in our region…Washington DC at Anthem on 4/30!
---Beck
has just announced a modest tour…little more than a handful of dates and
only one in our region at all…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Sheena
Easton has booked a one-time only show at the
Mohegan Sun Arena in
---Chief
Keef has booked a one-off at the
Music Hall in
---Story Of The Year have also booked a one-shot show…in NYC at The Gramercy on 3/16!
---Baauer
(of “Harlem Shake” fame) has booked what appears to be a
one-time-only show in
---An interesting and varied bill for the Washington DC Shamrock Fest at RFK Stadium on 3/17, including…Sum 41, Less Than Jake, Shaggy, Reel Big Fish, Carbon Leaf and more!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
---Foghat
adds
---J. Roddy
Walston & The Business add
---Sponge
adds
---Insane
Clown Posse adds
---Trey
Anastasio of Phish Phame, adds
---The Dixie
Dregs show in
---Ambrosia
adds NYC on 2/1…and
---PnB
Rock add
---Saving
Abel adds
---Tony
Bennett adds
---Dave
Davies moves his show on 4/7 from The Cabot in Beverly MA to
---Oleta
Adams adds
---David
Lindley adds
---Blood
Sweat & Tears ft. Bo Bice (of American Idol, remember?) adds
---Finally
Ruben Studdard (american idol season 2 winner) adds a date to his
2018 tour inside our regional area…
---Beach
Boys add
---Air Supply added on some pretty random dates this week…Worcester MA on 3/9…Lancaster PA on 3/22…Plymouth MA on 5/10…and Keene NH on 5/12!
---Buckethead
adds
---The Less Than Jake/ Four Year Strong tour adds Wilmington DE on 2/16…New Haven CT on 2/17…and Sayreville NJ on 2/18!
---Stryper
adds
---Indigo
Girls add
---The Ben
Harper/ Charlie Musselwhite tour adds
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone add
---Kix
adds
---Dark Star Orchestra is adding regional shows onto it’s national tour including…Baltimore MD on 3/31…Washington DC on 4/3…and Westbury NY on 5/18!
---Jukebox
The Ghost is adding regional dates finally to, what is now, a seven
date tour! Just two shows
for our region…
---Stone Temple Pilots finally add some dates in our greater region…Wallingford CT on 5/6…Stroudsburg PA on 5/8…and Buffalo NY on 5/9!
---STP
has also been added to a festival style date with
Alice In Chains and
Ghost in
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Air Supply (4)
---
---Ambrosia (2)
---Baauer (1)
---Beach Boys (1)
---Beck (1)
---Ben Harper/ Charlie Musselwhite (2)
---Blood Sweat & Tears
---Brian Howe (2)
---Buckcherry (4)
---Buckethead (2)
---Chief Keef (1)
---Christmas With The Celts (5)
---Circa Survive (4)
---Dark Star Orchestra (3)
---David Lindley (1)
---Elton John (17)
---Foghat (1)
---Greta Van Fleet (3)
---Herman’s Hermits
---Indigo Girls (1)
---Insane Clown Posse (1)
---J. Roddy Walston & The Business (2)
---Jeff Beck/ Paul Rodgers/ Ann Wilson/ Deborah Bonham (5)
---John Corabi (4)
---Jonathan Davis (3)
---Jukebox The Ghost (2)
---Kix (1)
---Less Than Jake/ Four Year Strong (3)
---Lynch Mob (4)
---Mastodon/ Primus (10)
---Michael Sweet (2)
---Minus The Bear/ The Coathangers (7)
---Modest Mouse (1)
---Of
---Oleta Adams (2)
---Pearl Jam (2)
---
---PnB Rock (1)
---Puddle Of Mudd (1)
---Ruben Studdard (1)
---Saving Abel (2)
---Sheena Easton (1)
---Southern Culture On The Skids (6)
---Sponge (2)
---Steve Hackett (6)
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---Story Of The Year (1)
---Stryper (2)
---Tony Bennett (1)
---Trey Anastasio (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 012718:
---American Idol, season 5 winner, Chris Daughtry is coming to the Forum Theatre right here in Binghamton NY on 3/30 at 8pm, and he’s bringing his band, Daughtry with him! Tickets went on sale for the general public on Friday 1/26 at 8pm, preceeded by a presale event that began on Wednesday for his fan club followers. Daughtry’s appearance is part of a larger tour that already has 16 other shows scheduled, just in our coverage region. The only other show that falls into our local region include a date at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 3/25! For all the dates see our Regional Concert Page, elsewhere on this site!
---Trumansburg Zydeco rockers,
Donna The Buffalo are coming back around again, at one of their
favorite local venues…The Ransom
Steele Tavern in
---Prog-rockers,
Renaissance, have booked a
symphonic show at the Hangar
Theatre in
---Congrats to the
Nate Gross Band who will be
opening up for Simo at
The Westcott Theatre in
---Phish dates have been announced, but the rumors of another Summer multi-night festival in Watkins Glen have not yet materialized…although the word of mouth continues to persist that there will be a three-night festival at Watkins Glen International Raceway, specifically the weekend of August 17th thru the 19th. Meanwhile, out of the 21 dates announced only four are even within our regional area…two nights in Camden NJ, just outside of Philadelphia PA on 8/7 & 8/8…and two more nights in Columbia MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 8/11 & 8/12, which is actually a good argument in favor of a Watkins Glen show. No shows in the northeast, which is where they’re from? Really? I doubt that will continue. Plus, it’s been three years since their last show at Watkins Glen.
---Seeing keyboard player Mike Melnick a lot? He certainly is everywhere lately. The Ultra Vibe member (formerly in Badweather Blues) also subs in a lot of other bands fronted by Mike Davis (The Laughing Buddha Episodes), Terry Burke (formerly of No Compromise) and others, “…up to thirteen total (bands),” says Melnick, so it shouldn’t be any surprise if he’s making you paranoid, because you really are seeing him a lot. Melnick says of all the attention, “It’s flattering.”
---Squirrel Nut Zippers will not only play the Center For The Arts in Homer NY on 3/25…but have other regional stops as part of their Spring tour…Alexandria VA on 3/22…Warrendale PA on 3/23…Williamsport PA on 3/24…Philadelphia PA on 3/27…NYC on 3/28…Hamden CT on 3/29…Fall River MA on 3/30…and Plymouth NH on 3/31!
---Hatebreed
is back, with a new tour that includes
The Acacia Strain, Crowbar
and Twitching Tongues.
The tour comes into our region on…3/16 in
---Former GNR guitarist,
Buckethead, has announced a couple of new dates this week…one in
nearby Syracuse NY at The
Westcott Theatre on 4/4…as well as Buffalo NY on 4/2!
So far he’s only booked three dates in the
---Blackberry Smoke has confirmed that they’ll play the Peach Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on Saturday 7/21, and a number of other regional dates as well…Providence RI on 5/4…Boston MA on 5/5…Asbury Park NJ on 5/11…Westbury NY on 5/17…Port Chester NY on 5/18…and Clifton Park NY on 5/19!
---George Clinton & P-Funk, as well as The Decemberists were, this week, the first artists confirmed to be appearing at Mountain Jam, at Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in Hunter NY! Both bands will appear on Saturday 6/16!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---In support of their new album, “Mania,” Fall Out Boy have booked a late Summer tour of America with a half-dozen dates in regional area, including…Uniondale NY on 8/29…Uncasville CT on 8/31…Hershey PA on 9/1…Buffalo NY on 9/2…Newark NJ on 9/4…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/5!
---As rumored, Journey & Def Leppard have team-up to tour America, and they’re coming into our region at least a dozen times…Hartford CT on 5/21…Albany NY on 5/23…Hershey PA on 5/25…Buffalo NY on 5/26…Toronto ON on 6/1…Pittsburgh PA on 6/2…Bristow VA on 6//8…Philadelphia PA on 6/11…NYC on 6/13…Newark NJ on 6/15…Baltimore MD on 6/16…and Boston MA on 8/11!
---Kendrick Lamar is joining label-mates SZA, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, AB-Soul, SiR and Lance Skiiwalker for a North American tour that will bring the R&B/ Hip-hop rising force to no less than eleven regional venues…NYC on 5/28…Wantagh NY on 5/30…Bristow VA on 6/1…Hershey PA on 6/2…Buffalo NY on 6/3…Boston MA on 6/5…Hartford CT on 6/7…Philadelphia PA on 6/8…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/9…Toronto ON on 6/12…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/16!
---Pop rockers, Hall & Oates, have joined forces with alt-pop band, Train for a big summertime tour that includes a bunch of regional stops…Philadelphia PA on 5/26…Toronto ON on 6/5…Boston MA on 6/7…Pittsburgh PA on 6/9…Washington DC on 6/11…NYC on 6/14…and Montreal QC on 7/13! Sounds like a tour you can take the whole family to.
---Alt-pop balladeer
George Ezra, has returned
with a new album, “Staying
At Tamara’s,” due 3/23…and a new tour that will bring the singer
into our region at least a half dozen times…Toronto ON on 4/20…Montreal
QC on 4/21…Boston MA on 4/22…NYC on 4/24…Philadelphia PA on 4/25…and
Washington DC on 4/26!
Erza’s break thru hit was last year’s “
---Well, if you were waiting for Britney Spears to take her Las Vegas tour on the road, your wait is over…Spears has launched an eleven date tour that will spend most of it’s time on the East Coast, with eight dates in our regional area…Oxon Hill MD (just outside of washington dc) on 7/12 & 7/13…Uncasville CT on 7/15…Bethlehem PA on 7/17…Atlantic City NJ on 7/19 & 7/20…and NYC on 7/23 & 7/24!
---Dead & Company have started adding shows again, as the John Mayer led outfit stalled due to Mayers emergency surgery last fall…Mansfield MA on 5/30…two nights in Camden NJ on 6/1 & 6/2…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/11…Hartford CT on 6/13…NYC on 6/15 & 6/16…and Darien Center NY on 6/19!
---MGMT are not only prepping a new album, but a new tour as well, coming into our region in…Washington DC on 3/15…Boston MA on 3/16…Montreal QC on 3/17…Toronto ON on 3/20…two nights in Brooklyn NY on 3/24 & 3/25…and night #1 of The Firefly Festival in Dover DE on 6/14!
---Former Talking Heads lead singer, David Byrne, has added a second leg to his current North American tour, that includes…Washington DC on 5/12…Pittsburgh PA on 5/13…Camden NJ on 7/27…Boston MA on 7/31…Toronto ON on 8/3…and Canandaigua NY at CMAC (the old Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center) on 8/5!
---Erasure has announced a Summer North American leg on their latest tour…NYC on 7/15…Boston MA on 7/17…Philadelphia PA on 7/18…Washington DC on 7/20…Pittsburgh PA on 7/22…and Toronto ON on 7/24!
---Keith Urban is taking Kelsea Ballerini on the road for a huge tour that includes a ton of stops in our region…Burgettstown PA on 6/23…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/27…two nights in Toronto ON on 6/29 & 6/30…two nights in Gilford NH on 7/5 & 7/6…Canandaigua NY at CMAC on 7/8…Camden NJ on 8/3…Mansfield MA on 8/4…Bristow VA (just outside Washington dc) on 8/11…three nights in Uncasville CT on 9/7, 9/8 & 9/9…Hershey PA on 10/25…and NYC on 10/27!
---Built To
Spill is back with a package tour that also includes
Afghan Whigs and Rituals Of
Mine! The itinerary
includes…
---Blue Oyster Cult have announced the bulk of their 2018 schedule including plenty of regional stops…Riverhead NY on 3/2…Keene NH on 3/30…Fall River NY on 3/31…Batavia NY on 7/6…Meadow Lands PA on 7/7…Dover DE on 9/7…and King of Prussia PA on 10/27!
---The Neighbourhood have announced regular touring dates following shows in South America and Coachella…only two stops effect our region…New Haven CT on 6/22…and Clifton Park NY on 6/23!
---Between The Buried And Me are on the road with a small package tour that includes The Dear Hunter and Leprous and regional stops are…Pittsburgh PA on 3/30…Philadelphia PA on 3/31…Clifton Park NY on 4/2…Boston MA on 4/3…NYC on 4/4…and Silver Spring MD on 4/5.
---Bishop Briggs is on tour in our region starting in May…Toronto ON on 5/15…Montreal QC on 5/16…Philadelphia PA on 5/18…Boston MA on 5/19…Brooklyn NY on 5/22…and Washington DC on 5/23!
---American Idol season seven winner (beating David Archuleta, remember?), David Cook, has a new EP coming out next month, (“Chromance” on 2/16) and a small tour set to promote it, that includes stops in…New Hope PA on 2/21…NYC on 2/22…Washington DC on 2/23…and back to Washington DC on 5/6!
---Alternative band, Haim has announced dates for a small, new tour to support their new album…Washington DC on 5/1…Boston MA on 5/3…NYC on 5/4…and Toronto ON on 5/7!
---Cross-over band, Rascal Flatts have booked a couple regional shows on their 2018 tour…Hartford CT on 6/8…Mansfield MA on 6/9…and Saratoga Springs NY on 7/7!
---The Eels have booked a tiny U.S. tour as part of a larger worldwide tour…Boston MA on 6/8…Brooklyn NY on 6/9…Philadelphia PA on 6/10…and Washington DC on 6/11!
---Meanwhile The Indigo Girls have launched a 15-date tour with only two shows in our region…Tarrytown NY on 3/15…and South Orange NJ on 3/19!
---The Dandy
Warhols will be playing a two night tour in NYC…one night in
---Hip Hop star, Joe Budden will play two non-consecutive nights at the HighLine Ballroom in NYC on 2/21…and 3/15!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band will play, what is so far, a one-off at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 9/14! Chances are that this is simply a venue website posting ahead of a more official tour announcement of a tour.
---Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley has booked a one-off in NYC at the Theatre at Times Square on 2/22!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Carbon
Leaf adds
---Marc Cohn
adds
---
---James Taylor adds two nights in Lenox MA on 7/3 & 7/4!
---Fleet Foxes have added some new shows to their current tour…Pittsburgh PA on 5/17…Washington DC on 5/18…Shelburne VT on 5/26…Allston MA (part of Boston Calling) on 5/27…and Toronto ON on 7/24!
---Justin Timberlake is adding second nights on his “Man Of The Woods” tour in…Toronto ON on 3/15…NYC on 3/22…Boston MA on 4/5…Montreal QC on 4/9…and also bringing the tour to two additional markets…Pittsburgh PA on 6/1…and Philadelphia PA on 6/2!
---Robyn
Hitchcock adds
---J. Roddy
Walston & The Business add
---Blue
October adds
---Jimmy Eat
World adds a second night in
---Candlebox
adds
---Mike
Gordon of Phish phame, finally adds a solo date east of the
---The Happy Together Tour has added another two stops…in Glenside PA on 6/20…and Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak, on 6/21!
---Billy
Joel adds
---Lita Ford & Firehouse add Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 4/6! Could this be an indicator of more shows? Hmmm.
---Kix & Autograph also add Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 4/28!
---.38 Special adds Penn’s Peak too, in Jim Thorpe PA on 7/13!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---.38 Special (1)
---Between The Buried And Me/ The Dear Hunter/ Leprous (6)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Bishop Briggs (6)
---Blackberry Smoke (6)
---Blue October (1)
---Blue Oyster Cult (7)
---Britney Spears (8)
---Buckethead (2)
---Built To Spill (8)
---Candlebox (2)
---Carbon Leaf (1)
---Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley (1)
---Dandy Warhols (2)
---Daughtry (1)
---David Byrne (6)
---David Cook (4)
---Dead & Company (8)
---Fall Out Boy (6)
---George Ezra (6)
---Haim (4)
---Hall & Oates/ Train (7)
---Happy Together Tour (2)
---Indigo Girls (2)
---J. Roddy Walston & The Business (4)
---James Taylor (2)
---Joe Budden (2)
---John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band (1)
---Journey/ Def Leppard (12)
---Justin Timberlake (6)
---Keith Urban/ Kelsea Ballerini (13)
---Kendrick Lamar/ SZA/ ScHoolboy Q/ Lance Skiiwalker (11)
---Kix/ Autograph (1)
---Lita Ford/ Firehouse (1)
---Marc Cohn (1)
---Mike Gordon (1)
---Muse (6)
---Phish (4)
---Rascal Flatts (3)
---Renaissance (3)
---Robyn Hitchcock (1)
---Squirrel Nut Zippers (9)
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---The Eels (4)
---The Neighbourhood (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 012018:
---EPAC Idol may be gone, but EPAC’s Got Talent is here! EPAC’s Got Talent begins on Saturday, January 20th with auditions…a second semi-final round of auditions on Friday January 26th, then finals the day after, on Saturday January 27th! There is a registration fee of $5.00 for kids (up to age 15) and adults (16 and over) of $10.00…and of course, it’s being held at the Endicott Performing Arts Center (EPAC) in Endicott NY! Good lu…er, break a leg, everybody! For more info, click here: https://www.endicottarts.com/single-post/2017/11/18/EPACs-Got-Talent-Audition-Announcement
---The Ithaca area afrobeat band, Big Mean Sound Machine is expanding their Winter 2018 tour with Florida leg…Cleveland OH on 1/18…Jacksonville FL on 2/17…Dunedin FL on 2/18…five nights in Miami FL on 2/21 thru 2/25…Charleston SC on 2/28…Savannah GA on 3/1…Wilmington NC on 3/2…Raleigh NC on 3/3…and closing out with two nights, at home in Ithaca NY, on 3/23 & 3/24 at the Finger Lakes Thaw festival!
---Seems like Matt & Kim always stop in Ithaca NY when they tour and this year is no exception….because that’s where they’ll start…at The Haunt on 3/7…followed by, Albany NY on 3/8…Sayreville NJ on 3/23…Pittsburgh PA on 4/21…Philadelphia PA on 4/22…South Burlington VT on 4/23…Boston MA on 4/26…New Haven CT on 4/27…Brooklyn NY on 4/28…and Washington DC on 5/2!
---Howard
Jones has announced that his 2018 Winter tour will also stop in
---Another sure sign of Spring…the
Brewery Ommegang in
---The other cool show coming to
---It’s not much, but it’s certainly something!
The New York State Fair
in Syracuse NY has announced the first concert of it’s 2018 season…Herman’s
Hermits ft.
---The Peach
Festival 2018 at Montage
Mountain in
---Speaking of
Devon Allman & Duane Betts,
the pair will perform together (one warming up for the other) in Homer
NY on 4/22 at the Center For The
Arts in Homer NY! It
will be the debut tour of
---The
Decemberists have announced a new tour, in support of their
forthcoming album, and it will bring them to a ton of regional
venues…and at least one local one…The
Smith Opera House in
---Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers are teaming-up for a huge North American tour, the first since the death of co-founding Steely Dan member, Walter Becker…and yes there are not only regional show…there are two on the fringe of our generous local area…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/30…Toronto ON on 7/2…Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 7/3…Holmdel NJ on 7/6…Mansfield MA on 7/7…Bristow VA on 7/10…Camden NJ on 7/11…Gilford NH on 7/13…and the wrap-up at Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 7/14!
---The Dave Matthews Band is revving up a monstrous tour that will have at least 15 regional dates, including a local stop at Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 6/5, as well as…Burgettstown PA on 6/1…Bristow VA on 6/9…Gilford NH on 6/12 & 6/13…Camden NJ on 6/15 & 6/16…Mansfield MA on 6/22…Hartford CT on 6/23…Darien Center NY on 6/27…Toronto ON on 7/10…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/13 & 7/14…Wantagh NY on 7/17…and Holmdel NJ on 7/18!
---Zac Brown Band has announced Summer 2018 tour dates and there will be plenty of regional stops and even one in our generous local coverage area…Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 6/23…as well as two nights in Boston MA on 6/14 & 6/15…Hershey PA on 6/22…Darien Center NY on 6/24…Toronto ON on 7/13…Camden NJ on 7/19 & 7/20…Washington DC on 7/27…and two nights in NYC on 7//28 & 7/29! The last three dates include OneRepublic as warm up band.
---Sugarland (featuring pop singer, Jennifer Nettles…remember that duet with Bon Jovi?) has announced a huge 48-date world tour, that includes eight regional stops…and one local date…Niagara Falls ON on 7/6 & 7/7…Verona NY on 7/8 at Turning Stone Casino…Uncasville CT on 8/30…Allentown PA on 8/31…Gilford NH on 9/1…Worcester MA on 9/7…and Newark NJ on 9/8! Opening acts will vary.
---Congrats to Bess Greenberg, who not only played a Thursday night set (1/11/18) at iconic NYC venue, The Bitter End, but also live streamed it! Hope somebody archieved it!
---Amber Martin has also posted a demo styled version of a song she’s “been working on,” called “Treat Me Like A Child.” Hope that means a new release is on it’s way, but either way, you can hear it for yourself by clicking on this link:
https://www.facebook.com/amber.lynn.martin104/videos/1411501815528953
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---BREAKING REGIONAL MUSIC NEWS: The Journey/ Def Leppard tour was announced on Friday 1/19. All twelve regional dates are on the REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE, on this website, so check there for info. More will be written on next weeks column.
---Justin
Timberlake has announced a tour to coincide with his new album, “Man
Of The Woods,” due out next month!
The 27-date trek has regional ramifications…
---In light of their upcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Bon Jovi have announced tour dates, and there will be a ton in our greater region…Boston MA on 4/2…Montreal QC on 4/4…two nights in Newark NJ on 4/7 & 4/8…Allentown PA on 5/2…Philadelphia PA on 5/3…Uncasville CT on 5/5…two nights in NYC on 5/9 & 5/10…Toronto ON on 5/12…and Washington D.C. on 5/14!
---The
Tedeschi Trucks Band have announced a new leg of their 2018 tour, as
well as a few additions! New
dates on the Winter tour are…three nights in
---The 80’s are back!
The “Lost 80’s Live”
tour which features some great 80’s bands, including…Wang Chung, The Romantics, Naked Eyes, Nu Shooz, Animotion, When In
---Rod
Stewart and Cyndi Lauper
are teaming-up again for another nationwide tour!
In 2018 they will play 18 dates and regional stops include…
---Tom Jones
is returning to North America and he begins his trek in
---Not only have the dates been announced for this years Governors Ball, on Randalls Islands Park in NYC, but the line up, has been announced as well! The annual festival will be held from Friday June 1st thru Sunday June 3rd and will include performances by Eminem, Jack White, Travis Scott, The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, A Perfect Circle, N.E.R.D, Diplo, Mark Ronson, Halsey, Khalid, Chvrches, Post Malone, Lil Uzi Vert, 2 Chainz, Vic Mensa, Cut Copy, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Dirty Projectors, Third Eye Blind and a bunch of others! Can wait for bands to be assigned to specific days!
---New Found Glory will undertake their 20th Anniversary tour in 2018 and also celebrate the anniversary of their debut album with a “Makes Me Sick” Deluxe Edition! Regional dates on the tour, which includes warm-up band Bayside, are…Silver Spring MD on 5/22…Philadelphia PA on 5/23…Pittsburgh PA on 5/25…Toronto ON on 5/26…Asbury Park NJ on 5/27…NYC on 5/29…and Boston MA on 5/30!
---Michael Glabicki, of Rusted Root, must never sleep. Even when this band, which tours relentlessly, is taking time off, he is not. Glabicki just announced and eight date tour which includes…Lake George NY on 2/18…North Bethesda MD on 2/23…and Bethlehem PA on 2/24!
---80’s rocker, Marshall Crenshaw has added a new leg for his 2018 jaunt and five dates have regional impact…Rockaway Park NY on 2/10…Brooklyn NY on 3/28…Sellersville PA on 3/29…Alexandria VA on 3/30…and Stanhope NJ on 3/31!
---Alt-rockers, The Breeders have announced their comeback tour and it will visit our region at least a handful of times…NYC on 4/30…Port Chester NY on 5/2…Boston MA on 5/4…Montreal QC on 5/5…and Toronto ON on 5/6!
---Ace Frehley, formerly of Kiss, announces three shows for Winter 2018…and they’re all within our regional area…Millville NJ on 2/1…Staten Island NY on 2/2…and Englewood NJ on 3/3!
---Tom Cochrane, formerly of the Canadian rock band, Red Rider; is taking a solo tour of Canada, which will actually bring him barely within our regional contour…Kingston ON on 3/23 (just north of Watertown NY)…and Saint Catherines ON (just west of Buffalo NY) on 3/31!
---Canadian pop band, Chilliwack is also doing a small Canadian tour, with two of their three shows in our regional zone…Toronto ON on 3/22…and Kingston ON on 3/24!
---Motionless
In White have added a new leg with March 2018 dates, in…
---The Dean
Ween Group will tour the
---Kip
Winger (former lead singer of Winger) has announced a smattering of
shows…
---James
Taylor and Bonnie Raitt
will team-up again for a joint tour this Spring…so far, however…only one
date in our region…in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Former teen heartthrob,
Aaron Carter has booked a one-off in
---Third Eye Blind books a one-shot show in Bensalem PA (just outside of Philly) on 2/10!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Franz
Ferdinand adds a second night in
---As we guessed in an earlier report, the
Uriah Heep dates were
definitely a prelude to a full fledged tour!
New dates include…
---Jackson Browne guitarist,
David Lindley adds
---Dave Mason adds NYC on 3/11!
---Peter
Wolf adds
---Fetty Wap
adds
---Changes in the
NRBQ tour…add
---Former Jefferson Airplane guitarist,
Jorma Kaukonen adds…
---Dave
Davies (Kinks guitarist) has moved his 4/6 show from
---Dennis
Tufano, formerly of The Buckinghams, adds
---Rascal Flatts add Bensalem PA on 3/3!
---Drive-By
Truckers add a second night in
---Hot Tuna
adds Phoenixville PA on 4/2…
---The Isley Brothers add Bensalem PA on 4/6!
---Firehouse
adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aaron Carter (1)
---Ace Frehley (3)
---Big Mean Sound Machine (14)
---Bon Jovi (11)
---
---Dave Davies (+1/-1)
---Dave Mason (1)
---Dave Matthews Band (15)
---David Lindley (2)
---Dean Ween Group (5)
---Dennis Tufano (1)
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---Drive-By Truckers (5)
---Fetty Wap (1)
---Firehouse (1)
---Franz Ferdinand (1)
---Governors Ball (4)
---Hot Tuna (4)
---Howard Jones (9)
---Isley Brothers (1)
---Jack White (6)
---James Taylor/ Bonnie Raitt (1)
---Jorman Kaukonen (2)
---Justin Timberlake (6)
---Kip Winger (3)
---Lost 80’s Live (2)
---Marshall Crenshaw (5)
---Matt & Kim (10)
---Michael Glabicki (3)
---Motionless In White (4)
---Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats/ The Head & The Heart (4)
---New Found Glory/ Bayside (7)
---NRBQ (4)
---NYS Fair (13)
---Peter Wolf (4)
---Rascal Flatts (1)
---Rod Stewart/ Cyndi Lauper (4)
---Steely Dan/ The Doobie Brothers (9)
---Sugarland (8)
---The Breeders (5)
---The Decemberists (12)
---Tedeschi Trucks Band (12)
---Third Eye Blind (1)
---Tom Cochrane (2)
---Tom Jones (6)
---Uriah Heep (6)
---Zac Brown Band (11)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 011318:
---V.A.P.E. recently played their last show, but that is not the end of the collaboration of singer Sonny Weeks, guitarist James Christopher, drummer Bob Alan Bricks and bass player Dano Voodie continues as the band now calls themselves KREATURE! Meanwhile Christopher has written an obit for V.A.P.E. See it in full at the end of this report!
---The
Winter Blues Jam returns for a fourth year in 2018!
There are changes planned for this years festival…for example it
will again be FREE for both musicians and spectators, but donations are
encouraged as this is a benefit for Traci’s Hope.
No word yet on what local musicians will be donating their time,
but the format is fascinating as the festival pledges to be totally
random pairing mixed up sets, bringing musicians who don’t normally play
together to do exactly that.
The 4th Annual Winter Blues Party & Jam will be Saturday
1/27 at Touch Of Texas (the
former
---Making plans for next weekend? Brian Wolff is in town and the former leader of the Brian Wolff Band (now a member of Austin’s “Fair City Fire,”) will play at least two shows…1/18 at McGirks in Chenango Bridge NY…and the second at Ransom Steele Tavern in Apalachin NY warming-up for Next To Kin!
---What is going on with
Mobday? The modern rock
band that once ruled
…and here’s a link to the Aviera facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/avieraband/?fref=mentions
…and a link to an Aviera song, “Sane Retreat,” as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCjBcDAFwWA
---The Peach
Festival has announced that they will return in 2018!
The fest…originally curated by the Allman Brother Band (who will
curate now?)…is offering $99.00 (plus fees) tickets over the holidays
(that went on sale on 12/21)!
Dates for the 2018 Peach Festival at
---We Came
As Romans will bring a Spring package tour to
Lost Horizon in Syracuse NY
on 4/6, that also brings Tempting Fate, Currents, The Plot In You and
Oceans Ate Alaska along with them.
The tour will also stop in
---There will be a new Kansas date on the fringe of our local area this year…Verona NY at Turning Stone Casino on 4/29…as well as two other regional stops so far…Atlantic City NJ on 3/9…and Englewood NJ on 4/26!
---Christopher Cross (…of “Sailing,” “Arthurs Theme” and “Ride Like The Wind” fame, remember?) has announced tour dates for Spring, including a local stop and at least eight regional stops…Warrendale PA on 4/2…Wilkes-Barre PA at the Kirby Center on 4/4…Peekskill NY on 4/5…NYC on 4/6…Uncasville CT on 4/7…Patchogue NY on 4/8…Wilmington DE on 4/9…Alexandria VA on 4/11…Phoenixville PA on 4/13!
---Just in case you missed it, Ithaca’s premiere alt-rockers, X Ambassadors scored two songs on Billboard magazines Hot Rock Songs of 2017 list…#8 as a guest artist on “Sucker For Pain” with Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons w/ Logic & Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors, as well as their own “Unsteady” at #9! They also scored song #40 on Billboards Best Alternative Songs of 2017 list with “Ahead Of Myself!” Pretty cool!
---Congrats to the
Unknown Woodsmen, out of
---Has anybody else noticed that Marv Williams of Elixir, Vermont Cheddar, L’Ectric Brew, Acoustic Brew, etc. is losing weight? At least 25 pounds by the holidays. The secret? Walking everyday! How does he do it in this weather? Walk on, dude!
---While Marv was losing pounds, local singer/ songwriter, Stephen Lawrenson gained a few, in the form of his first grandchild! Enjoy and congrats!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Charlie Puth has announced dates to support his latest CD, “Voicenotes!” His tour, with Hailee Steinfeld warming-up, is also his first as a headliner and includes…Toronto ON on 7/11…Boston MA on 7/13…NYC on 7/16…Uncasville CT on 7/19…Gilford NH on 7/21…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/22…Camden NJ on 7/24…Vienna VA on 7/25!
---The 90’s Block Party has announced their line-up and itinerary for 2018 with Guy, Teddy Riley, Jagged Edge, Next, 112, Dru Hill, Monica and others, some who may rotate in and out of the tour, which is coming to Pittsburgh PA on 3/8…Washington DC on 3/9…NYC on 3/10…and Boston MA on 4/12!
---Rod
Stewart has confirmed a Spring 2018 North American tour that
includes…
---K. Michelle has announced a Winter 2018 tour that includes regional stops in…Providence RI on 2/9…Wallingford CT on 2/10…Rochester NY @ 2/17…Philadelphia PA on 2/20…and Silver Spring MD on 2/21!
---Less Than Jake are joining forces with Four Year Strong, Bearings and Direct Hit for a Winter tour with regional destinations…the previously leaked Sayreville NJ on 2/18…Montreal QC on 2/20…Toronto ON on 2/21…Pittsburgh PA on 2/23…and Buffalo NY on 2/25!
---Sara Evans has booked a Winter/Spring 2018 tour that will perform in…NYC on 2/12…Concord NH on 2/14…Albany NY on 2/15…Verona NY on 2/16…and Medford MA on 2/17!
---Martin
Barre, guitar player for Jethro Tull has booked a two-night stand in
---Getting a glimpse of
Chuck Negron (formerly of
Three Dog Night) and his 2018 schedule.
Just one headlining date so far…
---…But Negron’s schedule also includes a slot on the Happy Together Tour, which is also apparently returning, with a line-up similar to recent years…The Turtles, Mark Lindsey, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Association and The Cowsills…not to mention Chuck Negron! So far, just one show on the tour has been leaked…Lynn MA on 6/16, but I would bet that there will be more!
---Ana
Popovic has filled out more of her tour and new dates
include…Uncasville CT on 4/12…
---Folk rockers, Deer Tick have posted a smattering of dates in the North America following a UK tour…Toronto ON on 2/24…Pittsburgh PA on 2/28…and Baltimore MD on 3/9!
---Legendary crooner,
Johnny Mathis, is not only
still alive, he’s is still playing shows…
---Michelle Branch will apparently reconvene The Wreckers with Jessica Harp at Bar Louie in Commack NY on 2/3…and then again on 4/21, also at Bar Louie.
---Traffic’s guitarist, Dave Mason is playing some terrestrial dates after the Moody Blues Cruise this Winter…Glenside PA on 3/9…and Ridgefield CT on 3/10!
---70’s crooner, Tony Orlando has announced his 2018 itinerary…ten dates in all, scattered thru the year…but only two in our region…Bayside NY on 4/22…and Atlantic City NJ on 12/31!
---DJ/ Performer, Moby has booked two nights at Rough Trade in NYC (to usher in Spring perhaps?) on 3/20 & 3/21. He has no other booked appearances at this time.
---Iconic folk band, The Kingston Trio return in 2018 with a new tour, but only two regional shows…in Tarrytown NY on 9/21…and Wrentham MA on 9/22!
---Gino
Vannelli has announced a worldwide tour that includes only one date
in the northeast so far…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Frankie
Valli & The Four Seasons will play a one-off in
---Magic
Dick, the harmonica player from the J. Geils Band (whodja think I
met? Getcher mind outta the
gutter! Sheesh!) will play
one show only at Daryl’s House
in
---Before joining the Malt Shop Memories Cruise,
Little Anthony & The Imperials
will play a one-off at the Wolf
Den @ Mohegan Sun Casino, in
---Robert
Randolph & the Family Band adds a terrestrial date between cruises…
---Herb
Alpert books a one-off in
---Norma
Jean is back with a two date tour (so far) and one show in our
region…
---Buckcherry
plays a one-shot show on 3/9 at
the
---Peter
Asher has booked a one-off in
---The Yardbirds have also booked a one-shot in Pawling at Daryl’s House on 5/3!
---Insane
Clown Posse is playing a one-off in
---Maxi-Priest
will play some terrestrial dates following the Soul Train Cruise, but
only one in our region…
---Patty Smyth & Scandal will play a one-off in NYC at the City Winery on /1/14!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Greg Kihn
Band adds
---The
Ventures also add
---The
Outlaws add
---David
Archuleta (of American Idol fame) finally adds a date, east of
---Mark
Farner, formerly of Grand Funk Railroad adds
---Michael
McDonald, formerly of The Doobie Brothers adds
---Former Motley Crue lead singer,
Vince Neil adds
---Delbert
McClinton adds
---David
Lindley adds
---Sponge
adds
---The
Timeflies add
---Blue
October adds
---The
Zombies ft. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent add
---Foreigner adds some extra headlining dates…before they join the Whitesnake tour as a warm-up act…Lancaster PA on 3/11…and Bethlehem PA on 3/12!
---Firehouse adds a lone date in Warrendale PA on 9/21…six months after it’s last show on it’s current tour…could this be the first date of a full-fledged Fall tour or just a one-shot? Hmmm.
---There is now a second
Billy Squire show date…not a one-off, but not exactly a world tour
either…
---Led Zeppelin tribute band, Zoso adds Stroudsburg PA on 3/30!
---Willie
Nile adds
---Fetty Wap adds a second night in NYC on 1/21!
---Big
K.R.I.T. adds
---Michael
Bolton adds
---Exile
adds
---Air
Supply adds
---Edwin
McCain’s 2018 itinerary continues to reveal itself one date at a
time…over the last few weeks…
---Canned
Heat add
---Gin
Blossoms add
---Drive-By
Truckers add
---Taylor Swift has added a bunch of secondary and tertiary shows…second nights in…second nights in Washington DC on 7/11…and in Philadelphia on 7/13…and third nights in East Rutherford NJ on 7/22…and Foxboro MA on 7/26!
---Cracker adds NYC on 1/14! Camper Van Beethoven will warm-up.
---The
Eagles add a second night in
---Robin
Hitchcock adds
---Billy Joel adds NYC on 6/2! That’s MSG show #54!
---Shakira has suffered a vocal chord hemorrhage and has pushed her January 2018 shows back until August. See the Regional Concert Calendar for specific dates.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---90’s Block Party (4)
---Air Supply (3)
---Ana Popovic (10)
---Billy Squire (1)
---Blue October (1)
---Buckcherry (1)
---Canned Heat (1)
---Charlie Puth/ Hailee Steinfeld (8)
---Christopher Cross (9)
---Chuck Negron (1)
---Dave Mason (2)
---David Archuleta (1)
---David Lindley (1)
---Deer Tick (3)
---Delbert McClinton (2)
---Drive-By Truckers (2)
---Edwin McCain (2)
---Exile (1)
---Fetty Wap (1)
---Firehouse (1)
---Foreigner (2)
---Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (3)
---Gin Blossoms (1)
---Gino Vannelli (1)
---Greg Kihn Band (1)
---Happy Together Tour (1)
---Herb Alpert/ Lani Hall (1)
---Insane Clown Posse (1)
---Johnny Mathis (3)
---K. Michelle (5)
---
---Less Than Jake/ Four Year Strong/ Bearings/ Direct Hit! (4)
---Little Anthony & The Imperials (1)
---Magic Dick (1)
---Mark Farner (2)
---Martin Barre (2)
---Maxi-Priest (1)
---Michael Bolton (1)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Moby (2)
---Norma Jean (1)
---Patty Smyth & Scandal (1)
---Robert Randolph & The Family Band (1)
---Robin Hitchcock (1)
---Rod Stewart (3)
---Sara Evans (5)
---Sponge (2)
---Taylor Swift (4)
---The Eagles (1)
---The
---The Outlaws (1)
---The Timeflies (3)
---The Ventures (1)
---The Wreckers (2)
---The Zombies
---Tony Orlando (2)
---Vince Neil (1)
---We Came As Romans/ Tempting Fate/ Currents/ The
Plot In You/ Oceans Ate
---Willie Nile (1)
---Zoso (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
Regarding V.A.P.E. (Vice and Perpetual Excess)
"An Obituary"
In late August of 2015 due to unforeseen events, I was rendered
“a basket case”. No amount of booze, drugs, one night stands, or sane
advice from friends/ family could ease my low state. Never in my life
was I such a wreck.
Then one morning, after yet another sleepless night, punctuated by
pitiful bouts of profuse weeping, in a ghastly fog, I said "Fuck it" and
plugged my ’84 Japanese Squier into a hand-me-down Raven amp, turned it
up as loud as it could go,…lo and behold, It was an exorcism. Loud
distorted guitar emanating music I never heard or played before poured
effortlessly into the air. From that point on, it was the only means of
easing the pain. Within a month, ten songs emerged, as if they wrote
themselves. It was obvious to me that the songs required more than just
me to "learn to walk". Soon thereafter, I posted an add on a FB group
page, “Bassist and Drummer needed for all-original hard rock band, no
covers”
The first two guys to answer the add, ... the only guys to answer the
add, were Dano Voodie and Bryan Vallese They showed up, I played them the songs. They did
not complain once, question the arrangements or 2nd guess anything I
presented. They just played. After one rehearsal, it was clear these
were the right guys, thus Vice and Perpetual Excess was hatched.
We could have remained a trio, many urged us to. But to me, it wasn’t
quite there. I believe the best music requires what is best for “the
songs’, not
for the players and their collective egos. And this name kept floating
around my mind.
On a whim, I asked Dano if he knew this Sonny Weeks character. I had never met him, or seen him
perform. His reputation preceded him as the saying goes. Literally
within 2 weeks, we "auditioned each other" (as dirty as it sounds).
After running through 3 or 4 songs, it was a lock. V.A.P.E. was fully
realized. From out of nowhere, here was my dream band.
Now after two awesome years, we are laying V.A.P.E. to rest., but we do
not despair. Creation comes from destruction. Someone will “carry the
fire”.
SO....I want to thank Bryan Vallese and Bob Alan Bricks for their service and contributions. What pure
fucking joy it is to play with two of the best drummers i’ve ever seen.
When I get fitted for my hearing aid in the not too distant future,
there will be no regrets. Also, I thank Robert Sprague for busting his ass to learn the material,
(which aint no walk in the park) and helping us to lay our beast to rest
as “gracefully” as we can. (this Friday, 12/22 at Toppers in Endicott)
Most of all, I want to express my eternal gratitude, friendship and
brotherly love for Dano Voodie and Sonny Weeks. These two men are
warriors to the end. They conduct themselves with an honesty and work
ethic that is rare in these dark days. And they have had my back since
day one. The core we have formed is living proof that 3 alpha dogs can
stow their egos and operate as one, for the good of the music. "Ductus
exemplo"
Finally, thank you to all our fellow musicians and fans who have
followed our short saga, treated us with great respect, immersed
themselves in our songs and continue to wish us the best. I am honored
to have met you all and thank you for support. We hope to see you at our
final performance with Vice and Perpetual Excess. “Hail Hail Rock and
Roll”
JCO
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Music News for 121617:
---This will be our final report of 2017 and our next to last post as we finish prepping our Top 20 list for the year! We will however add to our concert pages quietly in the background, as new shows are announced! Enjoy! Happy Holidays! Peace, love and Rock & Roll!
---Shout At
The Robots have announced that their new CD, “Fail Better” has been finished (produced and mixed by Michael J.
Micha) and was actually released for both digital download and CD on
12/10! The band has an album
release party booked with both
Hillcrest and Nameless
Children at Avenue D.I.Y.
in
---So here I thought last weeks
Dweezil Zappa dates were just a couple ad on’s for his world tour
following Australia...imagine my surprise to find out that they were
only advanced or leaked dates and that a whole new American tour would
be announced this week!
…much less that it would include a local stop…State
Theatre in
---Brandi
Carlile is also filling in open spots on her tour with additional
dates in big cities and stops in smaller ones…like
---As I’m writing this (on 12/11) I’m reading that
Randy McStine has just come
off the road after a North American tour both with the Simon & Garfunkel
Story, followed by a stretch with
Vinnie Moore of UFO’s “Gunslingers” tour (or as Randy posted on his
facebook page, “92 days…62 performances..”) …no sooner does he get off
the road then he books a gig with
John Kanazawich at the Ransom
Steele Tavern in
---Alice In Chains have announced Spring 2018 tour dates, a small dozen shows, but six of them will play in our region; and one locally…Boston MA on 4/28…Syracuse NY at the Landmark Theatre on 4/30…Toronto ON on 5/1…Washington DC on 5/3…NYC on 5/7…and Philadelphia PA on 5/19! All shows are Theatre-sized and very intimate as compared to the Arena sized venues. So why just a dozen? Hope they book more.
---David Byrne of the Talking Heads is taking a six-date tour thru our region before heading to South America, and he’ll be as close as The Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 3/4, as well as…Red Bank NJ on 3/3…Buffalo NY on 3/6…Hershey PA on 3/7…Waterbury CT on 3/9…and Kingston NY on 3/10!
---The man known by many as “The Hispanic Bob Dylan,” Rodriguez is going back on the road and will be playing as close as State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 4/20…NYC on 4/7…Red Bank NJ on 4/9…New London CT on 4/13…Boston MA on 4/15…and Glenside (philly) PA on 4/22!
---Remember The Verve Pipe and their grunge era, one-hit wonder, “Bittersweet Symphony?” They’ve booked a tour that will bring them thru our local and regional areas! The tour actually kicks off in…Homer NY at the Center For The Arts on 1/11…Asbury Park NJ on 1/12…NYC on 1/13…Boston MA on 1/14…Fairfield CT on 1/17…Ardmore PA on 1/18…and Vienna VA on 1/19!
---Guided By Voices is being guided right into our local and regional area as well, this Spring as they’ll play The Haunt in Ithaca NY on 4/20 (the penultimate night on their tour), as well as…Philadelphia PA on 4/17…and Jersey City NJ on 4/18!
---Congrats to the
Black Oak Tavern in
“Get well,” wishes for local musician Terry Burke, who had a bad bout of A-fib that put him in the hospital last week. He is home recovering now.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Bob Weir
& Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead will team-up for a six-date tour
that will feature the full range of Grateful Dead material, and
according to Phil Lesh” …maybe some new stuff too.” This short tour will
make three stops…NYC at Radio
City Music Hall on 3/2 & 3/3…
---Macklemore and Kesha will combine their musical might for a major 30-date tour with eight stops in our region, starting in…Toronto ON on 7/16…Hershey PA on 7/21…Darien Center NY on 7/22…Mansfield MA on 7/24…Camden NJ on 7/25…Holmdel NJ on 7/27…Bristow VA on 7/28…and Wantagh NY on 7/30!
---Shawn Colvin & Lyle Lovett will pair-up for an extremely large national tour that launches in mid-winter and extends into early spring…Bensalem PA on 3/1…Torrington CT on 3/2…New London CT on 3/3…Peekskill NY on 3/4…Troy NY on 3/8…Portsmouth NH on 3/9…Burlington VT on 3/10…Huntington NY on 3/11…Geneva NY on 3/14…York PA on 3/17…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/18!
---Theory Of A Deadman is playing a Canadian tour that will stop at the periphery of our regional area…Niagara Falls ON on 5/2…Toronto ON on 5/3…and Montreal QC on 5/8!
---British metal band, Ministry is coming back to America this Spring with at least seven shows in our region…Toronto ON on 4/14…Montreal QC on 4/15…Boston MA on 4/17…Huntington NY on 4/19…Montclair NJ on 4/21…Buffalo NY on 4/22…and Baltimore MD on 4/23!
---G-Eazy will support his new album, “The Beautiful & Damned,” with a tour that will bring him into our region at least a half-dozen times! See the rapper, along with Trippie Redd, Phora & Anthony Russo at…Toronto ON on 3/13 & 3/14…Atlantic City NJ on 3/16…Washington DC on 3/17…Boston MA on 3/18…and NYC on 3/20! Tickets went on sale on 12/15, as did the album!
---Chris Daughtry, who was a fourth round finisher in the fifth season of American Idol, has booked a major theatre-sized tour with his band, Daughtry, that will blanket the country…16 dates in our region alone (nearly three weeks), including…Staten Island NY on 3/17…Baltimore MD on 3/18…Greensburg PA on 3/20…Lancaster PA on 3/21…Atlantic City NJ on 3/23…Westbury NY on 3/24…Jim Thorpe PA on 3/25…Englewood NJ on 3/27…Utica NY on 3/29…Worcester MA on 3/31…Morristown NJ on 4/3…Port Chester NY on 4/4…Uncasville CT on 4/6…Albany NY on 4/7…Concord NH on 4/8…and Niagara Falls NY on 4/10! Whew!
---Hip hop star Jeezy has booked a major 31-date tour across the country…but only a paltry handful of shows for our region, oh well…Boston MA on 2/28…Providence RI on 3/1…NYC on 3/2…Philadelphia PA on 3/3…and Washington DC on 3/4!
---Modern rockers, Ice Nine Kills, have booked a Winter 2018 tour that will bring them back into our region…Huntington NY on 3/2…Sayreville NJ on 3/3…Providence RI on 3/4…and Clifton Park NY on 3/7!
---Two of the lesser 80’s hair bands have joined forces for what is actually a very cool double bill! The BulletBoys and Enuff Z’Nuff will visit four cities on their Spring tour…Amityville NY on 5/17…Manchester NH on 5/18…New Bedford MA on 5/19…and Toronto ON on 5/24!
---Bill Pinkney’s Original Drifters have booked two shows so far in 2018 in our greater region…Baltimore MD on 5/19…and Niagara Falls NY on 12/11!
---Blue
October has booked two shows in
---The
Southern Uprising Tour has announced only two dates…but one is in
our greater region…in
---Cowboy Junkies are returning to our region…Kingston ON on 2/2…Fairfield CT on 4/5…Westhampton Beach NY on 4/6…Northampton MA on 4/8…Geneva NY on 5/3…Toronto ON on 5/24…and Montreal QC on 5/26!
---Max
Weinberg’s Jukebox has posted eight dates nationwide and four in our
region…
---Chris
Barron of Spin Doctors has confirmed three shows, but the dates are
scattered and hardly indicative of a tour…NYC on 12/30…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Arrested
Development have booked a one-off at the
World Café Live in
---Oteil
Burbridge (formerly of the Allman Brothers) has booked a one-off at
Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on 1/15 that includes
Melvin Seals,
---Songwriter Chip Taylor (Wild Thing and Angel Of The Morning) has booked a one shot show next December…on Monday 12/17!
---Very cool one-off with Raheem DeVaughn, Doug E. Fresh, Beanie Sigel and others on 12/22 in NYC at the HighLine Ballroom!
---David
Guetta is taking off on another whirlwind world tour of dance halls,
but only three stops in the
TOUR TWEAKING:
---moe.
adds two shows in
---Three Dog
Night adds
---The
Marshall Tucker Band adds…
---War
adds
---Aztec
Two-Step adds
---Blues
Traveler adds
---NRBQ
adds
---Graham
Parker adds
---John
Oates of Hall & Oates, adds
---Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens died at age 62 on Tuesday 12/12. No word has yet been given as to the cause of death, but one also has to wonder if the band plans to fulfill the outstanding dates on their upcoming tour or if they will all just be cancelled.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---
---Arrested Development (1)
---Bill Pinkney’s Original Drifters (2)
---Blue October (2)
---Blues Traveler (3)
---Bob Weir & Phil Lesh (4)
---Brandi Carlile (6)
---BulletBoys/ Enuff Z’Nuff (4)
---Chip
---Cowboy Junkies (7)
---Daughtry (16)
---David Byrne (6)
---David Guetta (1)
---Dweezil Zappa (14)
---G-Eazy/ Trippie Redd/ Phora/ Anthony Russo (6)
---Graham Parker (1)
---Guided By Voices (3)
---Jeezy (5)
---John Oates (2)
---Macklemore/ Kesha (8)
---Marshall Tucker Band (3)
---Marshall Tucker Band/ The Outlaws/ Charlie Daniels Band/ Travis Tritt (2)
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (4)
---Ministry (7)
---moe. (2)
---NRBQ (1)
---Oteil Burbridge/ Melvin Seals/
---Raheem DeVaughn/ Doug E Fresh/ Beanie Sigel (1)
---Rodriguez (5)
---Shawn Colvin/ Lyle Lovett (11)
---The Verve Pipe (7)
---Theory Of A Deadman (3)
---Three Dog Night (3)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 120917:
---Ya know, I really thought this was going to be a slow week. Man was I wrong!
---Santa
Jam is back! The annual
fund raiser for Broome County Toys For Tots will be held at
The Pub @ North & Main in
---The touring version of the Broadway play that tells the story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons is coming to the Broome County Forum in March! Jersey Boys will play the Forum for four nights-in-a-row…Monday March 19th, Tuesday March 20th, Wednesday March 21st and Thursday March 22nd!
---As many great musicians as we have in our
area…did you know that one of them is considered a treasure?
A performance of Jamie
Willard at the Blind Tiger
in
---Prog rockers from
---Speaking of new local music links check out this lyric video for Deveroe’s “What’s Become,” by clicking on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MA8w16mck4
---Steve Forbert is returning to The Dock in Ithaca NY on 6/2…as well as some other regional venues as he fills out his 2018 schedule…Rockaway Park NY on 3/10…Hopewell NJ on 3/16…Washington Township NJ on 3/17…Mifflinburg PA on 5/4…Scranton PA at the Scranton Cultural Center on 6/1…and NYC on 6/17!
---Foreigner
is reviving it’s “Juke Box Heroes,” tour from last year, for 2018, but
not only with Jason Bonham’s Led
Zeppelin Evening, but also with
Whitesnake!
It should be a huge ticket and it will have a ton of regional
dates…and a local one too!
The tour will play…
---The
Outbreak Tour has released his it’s line-up and itinerary…and it’s
not only coming to the Westcott
Theatre in Syracuse NY on 2/1…it’s starting there!
Following opening night in the ‘Cuse, it moves on to…
---How about a heavy metal Happy Valentine with John 5 of Rob Zombie? His solo tour has now blossomed from a single date into a full fledged tour that includes the announcement of an entire schedule that now includes…College Park MD…Stanhope NJ on 2/11…NYC on 2/12…Cambridge MA on 2/13…Syracuse NY (the only local stop) at the Lost Horizon on 2/14…and Pittsburgh PA on 2/15!
---Jackson
Browne has confirmed a theatre-styled tour that will make at least
one local stop, in
---Canadian folk singer,
Bruce Cockburn is coming
into our local coverage area again, when he stops at the
Auburn Public Library in
---It was just announced that tickets for Mountain Jam 2018, running from June 15th thru 17th (although they usually add some warm-up acts on the Thursday before the main events, which in this case would 6/14) at Hunter Mountain Ski Lodge in Hunter NY, will go on presale on 12/14! This will be the 13th annual Mountain Jam! Let’s hope it’s a lucky number.
---Is Mallory Evans, lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Next to Kin expecting? It sure sounds like it based on a recent posting on her facebook page…no exact due date yet, but June 2018 is the rough estimate…This will be Mal and her husband, Preston’s second child. Congrats to all!
---Fans of
Louie G are in mourning as
---Condolences to friends and family of
Bobby Baker.
The
Baker is also the man in the middle in this old promo shot of Leather & Lace below, copied from a shot posted on facebook by Kathy Sarachinsky. Also Thanks to John Stark for contributing his memories and time to this story.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Hip hop star, Ty Dolla $ign has announced a Winter/ Spring trek across the country including a few regional dates…Montreal QC on 12/30…Toronto ON on 3/14…Reading PA on 3/16…Boston MA on 3/17…Clifton Park NY on 3/18…NYC on 3/20…Philadelphia PA on 3/21!
---Kinks guitarist, Dave Davies has announced yet another solo tour across America that will include seven regional performances, including…Peekskill NY on 3/29…Riverhead NY on 3/30…two nights in NYC on 4/2 & 4/3…New Hope PA on 4/5…Hartford CT on 4/6…and Beverly MA on 4/7! So again, this means that Ray and Dave Davies still can’t agree on a Kinks reunion tour. C’mon guys!
---Modern rockers, New Politics (who broke thru a few years ago with the hit song, “Harlem.”) have confirmed a Spring 2018 tour with Dreamers and The Wrecks, that will impact out region more than a half-dozen times…Philadelphia PA on 3/23…Silver Spring MD on 3/26…NYC on 3/27…South Burlington VT on 3/28…Boston MA on 3/30…Rochester NY on 3/31…and Toronto ON on 4/1!
---Veteran rock innovator, Steve Winwood (spencer davis group/ blind faith/ traffic) has booked a small 13-date “Greatest Hits” tour that will come into our region on 3/8 in Newark NJ…Upper Darby PA on 3/9…Port Chester NY on 3/13…and Bethlehem PA on 3/15!
---A$AP Ferg hits the road with IDK & Denzel Curry for a North American trek that includes Philadelphia PA on 2/28…Silver Spring MD on 3/1…Toronto ON on 4/9…Montreal QC on 4/10…Clifton Park NY on 4/11…Boston MA on 4/12…and NYC on 4/14!
---The Dropkick Murphy’s have announced their U.S. tour dates for 2018, with Agnostic Front and Bim Skala Bim opening up…and the tour will make several regional stops, including…Uncasville CT on 2/24…Albany NY on 2/25…Niagara Falls NY on 2/27…Washington DC on 3/10…Stroudsburg PA on 3/12…and finally a four-night stand in Boston MA on 3/15-18
---Senses
Fail will tour this Spring in support of their new CD (“If
There Is A Light, It Will Find You” due 2/16) with a package tour
that also includes Reggie & the
Full Effect, Have Mercy and
Household! Catch them
in…
---The
---Music producer, musician and a hell of a piano player, David Foster is going on tour and he’ll be playing regional dates this Spring…Ridgefield CT on 4/5…Morristown NJ on 4/6…Red Bank NJ on 4/7…Glenside PA on 4/8…NYC on 4/10…Boston MA on 4/11…Montreal QC on 4/13…and Washington DC on 4/17!
---Jimmy Eat World have announced a tour to support their new EP, “Integrity Blues Acoustic” even if the small, 12-date, tour lags behind the EP by five months…Pittsburgh PA on 5/6…Boston MA on 6/11…and Brooklyn NY on 6/14!
---The Queen Of Soul is back, but on a limited
schedule!
Aretha Franklin has
announced two shows for 2018…
---NRBQ is announcing both 2017 and 2018 tour dates with upcoming shows this month in…Troy NY on 12/29…and Harrisburg PA on 12/30…as well as next year (ok, next month)…in NYC on 1/2…Washington DC on 2/24…and Lancaster PA on 3/10!
---Cindy Wilson of The B-52’s, is undertaking a mostly international solo tour to promote her new solo album and yes, the tour will stop in our region…but only three times…Washington DC on 12/4…Fairfield CT on 12/5…and Brooklyn NY on 12/6!
---k.d. lang has announced a North American tour that will wrap up with six regional shows…Red Bank NJ on 3/19…Lancaster PA on 3/20…Boston MA on 3/22…Glenside PA on 3/23…North Bethesda MD on 3/25…and, the tour closer in NYC on 3/26!
---Bone Thugs N Harmony are on the road this month on the West Coast, but only have two planned Festival styled shows scheduled for 2018 so far…one in Newark NJ on 2/23…the other, not until 11/10 in Boston MA! Much of the bill at both shows will include some old school hip-hop acts. More to come we hope.
---Modern metal band, Cradle Of Filth has announced tour dates that include a number of regional shows…Philadelphia PA on 4/5…Baltimore MD on 4/6…NYC on 4/7…Worcester MA on 4/8…Montreal QC on 4/10…and Toronto ON on 4/11!
---Following their warm-up spot on the Queens Of The Stone Age tour, Royal Blood will headline their own 11-date tour, but they’ll only make two stops in our region…Brooklyn NY on 5/28…and Pittsburgh PA on 5/31! Three if you count the fact that they’ll be opening the Queens Of The Stone Age at the Dome Arena in Rochester NY on 5/25!
---Richie Kotzen of Poison, Mr. Big and Winery Dogs; is undertaking a solo tour in Spring 2018 with stops in…Pittsburgh PA on 4/10…Buffalo NY on 4/12…Ridgefield CT on 4/18…NYC on 4/19…and New Hope PA on 4/20!
---The Gin Blossoms will go back on the road in Winter 2018, with regional shows at…Peekskill NY on 2/21…Hartford CT on 2/22…Mount Pocono PA on 2/23…and Hanover MD on 2/24!
---Robin Thicke appears to be building a casino tour, first by announcing a show in Uncasville CT at the Mohegan Sun Casino on 12/31…followed by a Niagara Falls NY show at the Seneca Niagara Casino on 1/6. We think there will be more to follow.
---70’s pop singer Rickie Lee Jones announces a US tour that includes a handful of dates in our region…Harrisburg PA on 3/21…Toms River NJ on 3/22…Chappaqua NY on 3/23…Salisbury MA on 3/25…and Boston MA on 3/27!
---Thursday just announced a holiday mini-tour with Pup and Frank Iero & the Patience, and every single stop is within our regional area…Baltimore MD on 12/27…Huntington NY on 12/28…Worcester MA on 12/29…and Sayreville NJ on 12/30!
---Slaughter has announced a ten-date tour, with just two stops near us…Cumberland MD on 5/19…and Warrendale PA on 5/20!
---Close out 2017 with two nights of the
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
at Anthology in
---Talib
Kweli just booked a four night stand in NYC at the Blue Note from
1/25 thru 1/28…plus a date on 3/31 in
---Vonda Shepard has announced a handful of dates, mostly in 2018…and only two in our region…both in NYC on 1/12…then again on 7/19, both at 54 below.
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Dave
Matthews and Trey Anastasio
have teamed-up for a Concert For Island Relief to benefit Puerto Rico,
Southern Florida and the
---There will be a veritable who’s who of rock stars gathered at Carnegie Hall in NYC on 3/7 for “The Music of Led Zeppelin at Carnegie Hall” tribute show. Expected to appear…The Zombies, Richie Sambora (formerly of Bon Jovi), Orianthi, Living Colour, Tesla bass player, Brian Wheat; J Mascis (dinosaur jr), O.A.R., Bettye LaVette and Erika Wennerstrom (heartless bastards), guided by Tony Shanahan (patti smith band) who will be in charge of the house band. Proceeds will go to music programs for underprivileged children.
---Chaka
Khan will play a one-shot show at the
Seneca Niagara Casino in
---Former New Edition singer,
Johnny Gill is teaming up
with All-4-One for a
one-time-only bill, also at Seneca Niagara Casino in
---Jay &
the Americans will play one-show-only, at least so far in 2018…at
The Ridgefield Playhouse in
---John
Oates books the World Café
Live in
---Arrested
Development has booked a one-off in
---Rita
Coolidge books a one-shot show tour on 4/15, downstairs at the
World Café Live in
---Here’s an odd one-off,
Less Than Jake with
Four Year Strong!
It’ll be at the Starland Ballroom in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---U2 is adding second nights to their existing “Songs of Innocence/ Songs Of Experience” tour with additional dates in…Montreal QC on 6/6…Philadelphia PA on 6/14…Washington DC on 6/18…Boston MA on 6/22…and NYC on 6/26!
---Lil Uzi Vert adds two nights in NYC on 12/17 & 12/18! Playboi Carti and SOB x RBE are also on the bill!
---Speaking of
Playboi Carti, he added two
solo dates this week…
---Dillinger Escape Plan adds a third night (which is actually before the other two nights on 12/28 & 12/29, so technically it’s the first night) at Terminal 5 in NYC, for what is at this point, a three-night residency, not a tour. The bill is different however, and interesting, featuring Mike Patton (of Faith No More) and God Mother.
---Marc
Cohn adds
---Billy Joel adds residency show #52 at MSG in NYC on 4/13!
---The
Kooks add a second night in NYC, this time in
---The modern day version of Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne’s ELO add a second night in NYC on 8/22!
---Queensryche and Lynch Mob add Jim Thorpe PA on 5/6!
---Dashboard
Confessional adds
---Jonny
Lang adds
---The Zombies ft. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent, add Niagara Falls ON on 3/23…and State College PA on 3/25!
---The
Eagles add
---Godspeed
You! Black Emperor adds…
---Railroad
Earth adds
---The English Beat finally add a show east of the Rocky Mountains, (after more than a dozen shows in Cali before that) in…Ridgefield CT on 3/21 (not that we’re jealous or anything—just sayin’.).
---Air
Supply finally return to the East Coast on 5/11 at
---The Karla Bonoff show in
---Kix
adds
---Henry
Rollins added a second night in
---Jon
Secada adds
---Dweezil
Zappa adds Glenside PA on 4/21…and
---Bishop
Briggs adds
---Jeff Lynne’s ELO adds a second night at MSG on 8/22!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Air Supply (1)
---Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness (6)
---Aretha Franklin (2)
---Arrested Development (1)
---A$AP Ferg/ IDK/ Denzel Curry (7)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Bishop Briggs (1)
---Bone Thugs N Harmony (2)
---Bruce Cockburn (7)
---Chaka Khan (1)
---Cindy Wilson (3)
---Cradle Of Filth (6)
---Dashboard Confessional (5)
---Dave Davies (7)
---Dave Matthews/ Trey Anastasio (1)
---David Foster (8)
---Dillenger Escape Plan (1)
---
---Dropkick Murphys (9)
---Dweezil Zappa (2)
---Foreigner/ Whitesnake/ Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening (8)
---Fozzy/
---Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (2)
---Gin Blossoms (4)
---Godspeed You! Black Emperor (3)
---Jackson Browne (11)
---Jay & the Americans (1)
---Jeff Lynne’s ELO (1)
---
---Jimmy Eat World (3)
---John 5 (6)
---John Oates (1)
---Johnny Gill/ All-4-One (1)
---Jon Secada (1)
---Jonny Lang (1)
---k.d. lang (6)
---Kix (3)
---Less Than Jake/ Four Year Strong (1)
---Lil Uzi Vert/ Playboi Carti/ SOB x RBE (2)
---Livingston Taylor (2)
---Outbreak Tour w/ Kayzo/ 4B/ Dubloadz/ DJ Gammer/ Jstjr (6)
---Marc Cohn (1)
---Mountain Jam (4)
---New Politics (7)
---NRBQ (5)
---Queensryche/ Lynch Mob (1)
---Railroad Earth (1)
---Richie Kotzen (5)
---Rickie Lee Jones (5)
---Rita Coolidge (1)
---Robin Thicke (2)
---Royal Blood (2)
---Santa Jam (1)
---Senses Fail/ Reggie & the Full Effect/ Have Mercy/ Household (6)
---Slaughter (2)
---Steve Forbert (7)
---Steve Winwood (4)
---Talib Kweli (5)
---The Eagles (3)
---The English Beat (1)
---The Kooks (1)
---The Zombies
---Thursday (4)
---Ty Dolla $ign (7)
---U2 (5)
---Vonda Shepard (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 120217:
---Drummer Victory Lay, formerly of “The Tomahawks,” has now left his most recent regular band, “Black Apple Current” and is now focusing on his new former side-project, band, “The Dude & The Damned!” The news came in a facebook post on Friday 11/17: “So yeah, a few weeks ago I decided to leave my main band BAC and spend more time on other projects. This Sat night, Nov 18 at the Belmar from 10-2, you can check out one of them: The Dude & The Damned, Energetic Acoustic Music! Coty Rick on the 6 string and vox, Jeff Starley on 12 string guitar and vox w yours truly on percussion and vox. We do modern stuff by groups like Mumford & Sons, Avett Bros and others, along w some choice oldies and a few originals. We're having a blast, so we hope you'll join us in that joyful pursuit.” Rock on, Victor! Rock on!
---It was announced on Black Friday 11/24, that
four-day admission tickets for the
Grassroots Festival were now
available at Wegman’s!
…which is great, but no camping passes?
The annual four-day music festival is held in
---Nationally touring local folk band, Driftwood, has announced some additional Winter tour dates that are, so far, at least mostly regional…Pittsburgh PA on 1/12…two nights in Thomas WV on 1/13 & 1/14…and Harrisburg PA on 1/19. Driftwood is very popular and has an ever-expanding fan base, so expect the itinerary to grow.
---SUNY Broome held it’s 2nd annual Solo Sound Music Showcase yesterday! The now annual festival, affectionately called Solo Sound 2, was hosted by Diverse Cultural Xcellence at the Little Theatre and the Student Center Lobby! No word yet on attendance or who played, but the show was free to attend, however it was also pay-to-play, although a minimal fee to be sure…$3.00 for five minutes and $5.00 for ten minutes!
---Phish phrontman, Trey Anastasio is set to play State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 2/9…and a few other stops in our region…Morristown NJ on 2/8…Cambridge MA on 2/10…Pittsburgh PA on 2/12…Wilmington DE on 2/13…and Washington DC on 2/14!
---G. Love & Special Sauce return to Ithaca at The Haunt on 1/24, as well as other regional dates…Toronto ON on 1/21…Niagara Falls NY on 1/25…two nights in Brooklyn NY on 1/26 & 1/27…Hartford CT on 1/28…Washington DC on 1/31…and Philadelphia PA on 2/3!
---
---Regional jam-band fave,
moe. have announced a two night stand in
---Who knew there were actual Trans-Siberian
Orchestra cover bands? Ornament
is set to play Tioga Downs Casino
in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The revitalized new version of The Eagles, now featuring Deacon Frey (son of Glenn Frey) and Vince Gill, to replace the late Glenn Frey, have announced a small Summer 2018 tour, a total of 12 dates, with just four impacting our greater region…however they are (for the most part) well spaced out and we expect additional shows will be added depending on demand for tickets which should be huge…tickets go on sale on 12/1 or 12/2 depending on the venue…presale will be 11/28 or 11/30 also depending on the venue! Price range for regular tickets is $99.50-$349.50. That’s not even the VIP tickets, which haven’t been announced yet.
---Hip hop star, Fetty Wap has announced a Winter 2018 tour that will bring him to Silver Spring MD on 1/13…Philadelphia PA on 1/15…Boston MA on 1/16…Huntington NY on 1/18…Montclair NJ on 1/19…and NYC on 1/20!
---Alternative band, Passion Pit, has booked a Winter 2018 tour, with nearby stops including…Washington DC on 1/10…Boston MA on 1/12…NYC on 1/13…and Philadelphia PA on 1/14!
---Mariah Carey has re-juggled her her X-mas world tour, after having to initially cancel her first few dates due to a respiratory infection…new dates now for the 11-date tour include three nights in NYC at the famed Beacon Theatre on Saturday12/2…Sunday 12/4…and Monday 12/5!
---A Day To Remember is headlining a strong package tour that includes fan faves like Papa Roach, The Devil Wears Prada and Falling In Reverse and it’s coming to our region…NYC on 3/12…Baltimore MD on 3/13…Lowell MA on 3/15…Allentown PA on 3/16…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/17!
---Miguel is touring in Winter & Spring 2018 with Nonchalant Savant and SiR (sic) and they will make several regional stops…London ON on 3/13…Clifton Park (Albany) NY on 3/15…New Haven CT on 3/16…Providence RI on 3/17…Boston MA on 3/19…Philadelphia PA on 3/20…Baltimore MD on 3/21…NYC on 3/23…and Brooklyn NY on 3/24!
---Rapper Khalid is expanding his 2018 tour with a Summer leg that includes…Philadelphia PA on 5/25…Wallingford CT on 5/26…Toronto ON on 5/30…and Baltimore MD on 6/4…and also adds a date on its Winter leg…NYC on 1/27!
---Pop singer, Mat Kearney has announced tour dates for Spring 2018 that include at least a half-dozen stops in our region…Boston MA on 3/12…New Haven CT on 3/13…NYC on 3/15…Silver Spring MD on 3/16…Philadelphia PA on 3/17…and Toronto ON on 3/28!
---Former Grand Funk Railroad singer, Mark Farner has announced Winter into Fall 2018 tour dates, that start in December 2017…New Haven CT on 12/15…Ridgefield CT on 3/22…Natick MA on 3/24…and North Tonawanda NY on 11/3! In total Farner will play ten shows over a year, with just four in our region. We hope there are more to come.
---k.flay, who rocked the Cayuga Sound Festival in Ithaca NY on 9/23…and was also recently featured on “Thunder” by Imagine Dragons…is returning to our region in March, this time headlining her own theatre-sized tour, which is coming to…Washington DC on 3/12…Buffalo NY on 3/13…Toronto ON on 3/15…Montreal QC on 3/16…Philadelphia PA on 3/18…NYC on 3/19…and Boston MA on 3/21!
---Rock guitarist, Robin Trower has announced his expected full tour this week, with stops in Alexandria VA on 3/21…Glenside PA (previously announced) on 3/22…NYC on 3/23…Montclair NJ on 3/24…Huntington NY on 3/25…Albany NY on 3/28…Ridgefield CT on 3/29…Northampton MA on 3/30…Jim Thorpe PA on 4/4…and Greensburg PA on 4/5!
---In This Moment are joining forces with P.O.D. for a short headlining tour, but it will play only once in our region…Niagara Falls NY on 2/10…before In This Moment jump on the Stone Sour tour, as it visits…Montreal QC on 2/13…and Toronto ON on 2/14!
---Soulfly
is back and some extensive touring to happen starting in Spring
2018…Baltimore MD on 4/18…NYC on 4/19…Poughkeepsie NY on
4/21…Philadelphia PA on 4/22…Pittsburgh PA on 5/1…and Rochester NY on
5/2!
---Iced Earth’s “Incorruptible” North American tour will arrive in late Winter/ early Spring 2018 and make a half dozen stops in our region…Baltimore MD on 3/19…Wilmington DE on 3/21…NYC on 3/22…Boston MA on 3/23…Montreal QC on 3/25…and Toronto ON on 3/26!
---The Pointer Sisters are playing two regional dates before sailing off on the “Soul Train Cruise”…NYC on 12/30…and Atlantic City NJ on 12/31!
---Of Mice And Men announce a new tour in support of their forthcoming album, “Defy” due 1/19…tour dates include…Toronto ON on 2/13…Montreal QC on 2/14…Boston MA on 2/16…NYC on 2/17…Asbury Park NJ on 2/18…and Philadelphia PA on 2/19!
---Don McLean has announced more 2018 show dates, starting with a new addition in December on 12/9…NYC on 3/23…East Greenwich RI on 4/13…Ridgefield CT on 7/21…Westbury NY on 9/8…and Londonderry NH on 9/22!
---Foreigner has announced a globe spanning 2018 tour, but so far it has only two stops in our greater region…Greensburg PA on 3/8…and Atlantic City NJ on 3/10! Will there be more shows? Stay tuned!
---The Greg
Kihn Band have booked two shows in January 2018…NYC on 1/11…and
---Marco
Benevento has announced a
short Winter 2018 tour, but so far there’s only one regional stop…
---Cowboy Mouth has also booked a Winter 2018 tour (which includes a stint on the “Rock Boat” cruise.), but features only one stop in our region so far…at B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 1/18!
---Rascal
Flatts have announced a tiny five-date tour that will bring them to
our region, but once…Bensalem (
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Former member of The Moody Blues and Wings, Denny Laine will play a one-off in NYC at B.B. Kings Blues Club on 1/9!
---The Drifters ft. Rick Sheppard will also play a one-off at B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 1/10!
---DMX will also play a one-shot show at B.B. Kings in NYC on 1/25!
---Drake
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Bruce Springsteen’s one man show at the Kerr Theatre in NYC is extended thru June 30th! No word yet on specific days or exactly how many shows.
---Add Vince Staples to Tyler The Creator tour!
---Tommy
James & The Shondells add
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone add Sellersville PA on 11/26…Quakertown PA
on 8/16…
---Howie Day
adds
---Steve Augeri, formerly of Journey, adds Quakertown PA on 7/19!
---Rachel
Platten adds Silver Spring MD on 11/30…and
---Al Stewart adds Sellersville PA on 2/13!
---Dokken
adds
---Tom Cochrane, formerly of Red Rider, adds NYC on 1/8!
---Billy Squire adds City Winery in NYC on 1/9 with G.E. Smith warming-up!
---Weird Al
Yankovic adds a second night in
---Candlebox adds two nights in NYC on 4/8 & 4/9 at the City Winery!
---Tantric
adds
---Dan
Auerbach, of The Black Keys, on a solo tour, adds
---Todd
Snider adds
---Former One Direction singer, Harry Styles, adds Hershey PA on 6/14!
---American Idol star,
Fantasia adds NYC on
12/13…and
---Television
adds
---
---Joan Osborne adds NYC on 2/10!
---British post modern rocker,
Robyn Hitchcock adds two nights in
---Ja Rule
adds
---Ana
Popovic finally adds some dates in our region…
---As expected, demand for Taylor Swift tickets has prompted additional nights in several cities…East Rutherford NJ on 7/20…Foxboro MA on 7/27…and Toronto ON on 8/3! Stay tuned for more!
---Paul Anka
adds Beverly MA on 5/2…and
---Xscape
adds
---The
O’Jays add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A Day To Remember/ Papa Roach/ The Devil Wears Prada/ Falling In Reverse (5)
---Al Stewart (1)
---
---Ana Popovic (3)
---Billy Squire (1)
---Candlebox (2)
---Dan Auerbach (1)
---DMX (1)
---Dokken (4)
---Don McLean (5)
---Drake
---Driftwood (4)
---Fantasia (1)
---Fetty Wap (6)
---Foreigner (2)
---G. Love & Special Sauce (8)
---Greg Kihn Band (2)
---Harry Styles (1)
---Herman’s Hermits
---Howie Day (1)
---Iced Earth (6)
---In This Moment/ P.O.D./ New Years Day/ Ded (1)
---Ja Rule (2)
---Joan Osborne/ Jackie Greene/ Amy Helm (1)
---k.flay/ Yungblud (7)
---Khalid (5)
---Marco Benevento (1)
---Mariah Carey (3)
---Mark Farner (4)
---Mat
---Miguel/ Nonchalant Savant/ SiR (9)
---moe. (2)
---Of Mice And Men (6)
---Passion Pit (4)
---Paul Anka (2)
---Pointer Sisters (2)
---Rachel Platten (2)
---Rascal Flatts (1)
---Robin Trower (9)
---Robyn Hitchcock (2)
---Soulfly/
---Steve Augeri (1)
---Stone Sour/ In This Moment/ The Dead Deads (2)
---Tantric (2)
---Taylor Swift (3)
---Television (1)
---The Eagles (4)
---The O’Jays (1)
---Todd Snider (1)
---Tom Cochrane (1)
---Tommy James & The Shondells (2)
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---Trey Anastasio (6)
---Weird Al Yankovic (2)
---Xscape/ Monica/ Tamar Braxton (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 111817:
---Not only has it now been confirmed that the Cyber Café West in Binghamton up for sale, but owner, Jeff Kahn is also considering an alternative to selling outright…a business partner! Kahn outlined his plan in an e-mail letter to the café’s closest fans and friends, which I have copied and pasted below:
Dear Friends,
As many of you know, Cyber Café West is for sale. This is
something I never wanted to do, and I thought of an alternative:
I would search for a partner.
If anyone of you, or someone you know, is fair and has some money
to invest (150k), one can own half of a twenty-year-old established café
including the building and apartment. This investment would allow the
café to pay-off all outstanding debts (except mortgage) and instantly
have a positive cash-flow. There are many details to work out, but I
thought I would start looking among the Cafe's friends.
Any serious inquiries, please feel free to email me at
jeff@cybercafewest.com
Best,
Jeff
While $150,000 rules me out, perhaps one of you, my loyal readers, may consider this partnership. Until you do, the question remains, who, if any, will step up and help save this iconic venue?
---I became aware this week of two simultaneous fund-raisers for The Brackney Inn! The first is a help rebuilt fund-raiser that will help secure the money that insurance won’t cover. If you want to help out, please click here:
https://www.facebook.com/donate/137134390343244/10154887238391891
The second fund raiser is for the employees of The Brackney Inn who are out of work while funds are secured for the rebuild, and until the rebuild is complete! If you want to donated to that fund, please click here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/527892754210552/10154887230386891
Meanwhile, The Brackney Inn posted this on their facebook page on 11/12: “We had our first meeting today to discuss ideas for benefits & fund raising projects. It was uplifting to have so many people attend & contribute with ideas and enthusiasm!!! Next step, I'll pull together the info from the meeting and share in a group format so that everyone is keyed in to what is going on and who will be doing what. Thanks so much to everyone that attended!!!”
Also, fire
---Chris
Cannone posted about last gig before he left town, playing the live
album session with Ultra Vibe
at NewClear Studios…“Couldn’t have asked for a better send off to
---Colorado Hip-hop band,
Flobots are coming to The
Haunt, in
---The Ithaca NY band, who became a national sensation, X Ambassadors, have announced a small (eight dates) Winter 2018 tour that will play our region at least five times…Montreal QC on 2/13…Philadelphia PA on 2/15…Brooklyn NY on 2/16…Boston MA on 2/18…and Washington DC on 2/19…although no forays into our local area are on the docket, we are hopeful that they will revisit for the Cayuga Sound Festival in September 2018. We’ll see. Now Now will open.
---Pop Evil is coming to Syracuse NY on their Winter/ Spring “The Music Over The Words” tour in support of their new self-titled album…the band will stop at the Westcott Theatre in Syracuse NY on 3/25, as well as…Baltimore MD on 3/16…Clifton Park NY on 3/17…Lancaster PA on 3/18…NYC on 3/20…Philadelphia PA on 3/22…Sayreville NJ on 3/24…and Buffalo NY on 3/27! Palaye Royale and Black Map will open.
---Former American Idol, Season 10 winner, Scotty McCreery is coming to the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 2/10, as well as…Clifton Park NY on 12/14…Rutland VT on 12/15…York PA on 12/16…Rochester NY on 2/11…Torrington CT on 3/15…and Warrendale PA on 3/16!
---Badfish,
the premiere Sublime tribute band, will play the
Westcott Theatre in
---On the heels of his announcement that he is retiring from performing, former Yolk and The Falconers singer, JimmyJohn McCabe has posted an accapella performance of Paul Simon’s “American Tune,” on facebook. Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0IAE-awyw&feature=youtu.be
---The date has been set for
Shelter Slam 2018! No
bands have been announced yet, but the venue will be
Endwell Greens in
---Modern rock band, AJR is coming to the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 1/28 for the “Snow Show” (headlined by Dashboard Confessional, if you are sorting by “Artist” on the Concert Pages on this site)…as well as Buffalo NY on 12/17…Silver Spring MD on 4/19…NYC on 4/21…Toronto ON on 5/9…Montreal QC on 5/10…and Boston MA on 5/12!
---The Warped Tour is saying goodbye with a final trek in 2018 stopping at…Camden NJ on 7/13…Holmdel NJ on 7/14…Hartford CT on 7/15…Pittsburgh PA on 7/16…Toronto ON on 7/17…Darien Center NY on 7/25…Scranton PA at Montage Mountain, on 7/26…Mansfield MA on 7/27…Wantagh NY on 7/28…and Columbia MD on 7/29! No word yet on the specifie venues (although we can probably guess at a few), or what bands and/or acts will be participating, bet we’ll stay on top of it! BTW, even though 2018 will be the tours last trek, they are promising something big in 2019 to mark the tours 25th Anniversary! Stay tuned!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Progressive rockers, Jethro Tull have announced their 50th Anniversary tour for Summer 2018, but so far, they only have five dates in our greater region, out of a total of 21…Toronto ON on 7/3…Vienna VA (just outside of Washington DC) on 9/7…Philadelphia PA on 9/8…Boston MA on 9/9…and NYC on 9/11! Some concert sites are listing this show as Ian Anderson, and not Jethro Tull, so be aware as you buy tickets!
---For the first time in 35 years, Jeff Lynne is
taking the Electric Light Orchestra (these days called
Jeff Lynne’s ELO) on tour!
Landing points for starship ELO include…
---Taylor
Swift has announced 2018 tour dates and she will make at least a
half-dozen stops in our region, and probably more!
Swift tour dates include…
---Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, is playing some solo dates while “The Keys” are taking a break…Philadelphia PA on 3/24…Boston MA on 3/25…Brooklyn NY on 3/27…and Toronto ON on 3/29! Warming up on the tour will be Shannon & The Clams and Robert Finley!
---Remember Kimbra? The singer was catapulted to fame thanks to Gotye’s chart topping 2011 song (which broke out worldwide in 2013 and won a Grammy.), “Somebody That I Used To Know,” on which she was a guest vocalist. Now she is releasing a solo album (“Primal Heart” due 1/19) and undertaking a solo tour, which will bring her into our regional area…Boston MA on 1/28…Brooklyn NY on 1/29…Washington DC on 1/30…Philadelphia PA on 1/31…and Toronto ON on 2/2!
---Halestorm and Stone Sour have announced a joint tour for Winter 2018…but only 13 dates (half of them in Canada)…and even worse, just one in our region…2/11 in Rochester NY at The Armory! Not sure if they’ll add more dates, but it would be welcome.
---Tyler The
Creator has announced a new tour in support of his latest album,
Flower Boy.” Dates so far
include…
---Barenaked Ladies have announced another leg on their 2018 tour that will impact our region…Philadelphia PA on 6/26…Brooklyn NY on 6/27…Uncasville CT on 6/29…Gilford NH on 6/30…Boston MA on 7/1…Vienna VA on 7/2…Baltimore MD on 7/9…and Lewiston NY on 7/10…K.T. Tunstall and Better Than Ezra will open!
---Simple Plan has announced a tiny, four-date tour…three of which are within our region…Huntington NY on 12/5…Silver Spring MD on 12/6…and Niagara Falls NY on 12/8!
---The Commodores have announced a handful of national tour dates for 2018 that include some regional stops such as….Schenectady NY on 1/31…and Bensalem PA on 2/17!
---Rochester Techno band, Joywave have announced a Spring leg on their current tour that will wrap up in our region…Washington DC on 3/3…Toronto ON on 3/6…and Buffalo NY on 3/7!
---Experimental Post-Rock Canadian band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor has announced Winter 2018 tour dates that include…South Burlington VT on 3/5…two nights in Cambridge MA at two different venues, on 3/7 & 3/8…Providence RI on 3/9…and two nights in Brooklyn NY on 3/12 & 3/13!
---Clap Your
Hands Say Yeah! has booked a Fall 2017 and a 2018 schedule that will
carry them into Fall next years and across the world!
Regional dates include…
---The Dixie Dregs are returning to the road in 2018 with only a half dozen dates announced but some will fall into our region…NYC on 3/16…Woodstock NY on 3/17…and Boston MA on 3/19!
---One of the last of the Southern rockers,
Charlie Daniels, is back on
the road this weekend with a new regional date…
---Brandi Carlile has announced nine new dates that spread over five months, including regional stops in…NYC on 4/5 & 4/6…and Boston MA on 5/4!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Kool &
The Gang has booked (what is so far) a one-off in
---Paul
Rodgers of Bad Company has booked a one-shot show in Bensalem PA on
1/20 at the new
---John 5,
of Rob Zombie’s band, is really playing a one-off for our region on his
solo tour…as the other three dates on his extremely short world trek are
either in
---Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer will play what appears to be a one-off in Sellersville PA on 2/15, also at the Sellersville Theatre!
---Jaimoes Jasssz Band, featuring the famed Allman Brothers Band percussionist, has posted a terrestrial one-off (following their six dates on the Southern Rock Cruise) in Sellersville PA on 2/24!
---The
Whispers will play a one-off in
---Jazz musician, David Sanborn, will play a land based one-off at B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 1/12, before departing on the Blue Note At Sea, Jazz Cruise
---The Verve Pipe adds what is effectively a one-off in NYC on 1/13! There are so far only three dates booked for the band in the world in 2018, so perhaps they will expand on this!
---After a residency in
---Roger
McGuinn of The Byrds, has announced one show in our region, out of
just a few in the entire country…
TOUR TWEAKING:
---The
National adds
---Winger
adds
---Monster
Magnet adds
---Billy Joel adds NYC on 3/28! That will be his 51st show at MSG!
---Eddie Money adds Bensalem PA on 2/24!
---Petula Clark has added more shows to her short itinerary, which is great news…Northampton MA on 12/22…South Orange NJ on 12/23…Sellersville PA on 12/24…and NYC on 12/26! Hopefully more is coming.
---
---The
Wailers add
---Crystal Bowersox (of american idol fame) adds 3/24!
---Steve
Forbert adds Mifflinburg PA near
---Tim Reynolds, who was already touring the country with his band TR3, is also playing some solo dates…two nights in Washington DC on 12/19 & 12/20…and Ardmore PA on 12/21!
---Television
is finally expanding their two night stand in NYC beyond the “Big
Apple”, but so far, only to
---Uriah Heep adds Sellersville PA on 2/21!
---Ja Rule adds NYC on 1/4!
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone adds NYC on 1/6…and
---Aztec
Two-Step adds NYC on 2/18…
---Monster
Magnet adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---AJR (6)
---Aztec Two-Step (2)
---Badfish (1)
---Barenaked Ladies (8)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Brandi Carlile (3)
---Charlie Daniels Band (1)
---Charlie Daniels Band/ Marshall Tucker Band/ The Outlaws (1)
---
---Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (5)
---Crystal Bowersox (1)
---Dan Auerbach (4)
---
---Eddie Money (1)
---Flobots (6)
---Godspeed You! Black Emperor (6)
---Halestorm/ Stone Sour (1)
---Herman’s Hermits
---Jaimoes Jasssz Band (1)
---Ja Rule (1)
---Jeff Lynne’s ELO (3)
---Jethro Tull (5)
---John 5 (1)
---Joywave (3)
---Kool & The Gang (1)
---Monster Magnet (1)
---Paul Rodgers (1)
---Petula Clark (4)
---Poi Dog Pondering (1)
---Pop Evil (8)
---Monster Magnet (2)
---Roger McGuinn (1)
---Scotty McCreery (7)
---Simple Plan (3)
---Steve Forbert (1)
---Taylor Swift (6)
---Television (1)
---The Commodores (2)
---The National (1)
---The Verve Pipe (1)
---The Wailers (1)
---
---Uriah Heep (1)
---Warped Tour (10)
---Winger (3)
---X Ambassadors/ Now Now (5)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 111117:
--Congratulations to Sonny On The Causeway, who won Battle Of The Bands Finale, Friday 11/3 at Touch of Texas! Sponsored by Equinox Broadcasting radio station, 100.5 The Drive, Sonny On The Causeway beat She’s A Spy, Molina and Deveroe to win the Grand prize, which included a $500 dollar Music City gift certificate, a photo session with Patti Loves Bing, a gift certificate for sound and light services from Shark Audio Productions, a $250 gift certificate to Muckles Ink, a band press kit to be prepared and produced by Curcio Printing, as well as a paid performance at WingFest 2018 and air play on 100.5 The Drive! The panel of judges included some interesting guests this year: Benny Fiacco of Frostbit Blue, Parts Unknown and of course, best known as owner of local music store Music City, as well as Bess Greenberg, formerly of the 2014 BOTB winner, The Falconers; Alex Walker of the 2015 BOTB winner Kites & Powerlines and John Minoia from the 2016 BOTB winners Like Astronauts!
---Support for The
Brackney Inn is certainly
growing, with many local bars and pubs posting signs urging the iconic
venue to rebuild (especially since Dillingers seemed to disparage them
with the “hot deals” sign in their bar) as evidenced by the twitter
handle #staystrongbrackneyrebuild surfacing. The
Brackney Inn was damaged by a fire and declared a total loss (inspite
of the fact that much of the outside of the venue seems to be intact.)
on October 20th.
In the meantime, the
---Randy
McStine has picked up another new project, this time he will be the
lead guitarist for UFO’s Vinnie
Moore! McStine posted: “I'm honored to announce that I will be joining Vinnie
Moore for a run of
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---Former Yolk and The Falconers frontman,
JimmyJohn McCabe has
reportedly announced his retirement from performing music!
McCabe said on his facebook page to say, “ I am no longer making music. But! I'm glad those of you who do are able
to keep that fire burning. I was successful in lifting myself out of my
most recent battle with depression... and that was only possible due to
the support I received from some angels in my life. As for now, I've
been fortunate enough to be working with opiate addicts as a Peer
Advocate/Recovery Coach in
---Weezer
And The Pixies are coming to
Lakeview Amphitheatre in
---George Thorogood & The Destroyers have announced Spring tour dates that will bring him as close as Turning Stone Casino in Verona NY…as well as…Lincoln RI on 4/13…Hampton Beach NH on 4/14…Bethlehem PA on 4/15…Peekskill NY 4/17…New Brunswick NJ on 4/19…Huntington NY on 4/20…Toronto ON on 4/26…and Niagara Falls ON on 4/27!
---The Veer
Union on tour in support of their new 6-album boxette “History Of Our Evolution,” which is a collection of all the songs
and bands that influenced them!
See them as close as the
Irish Wolf in
---Dashboard
Confessional will play, what seems to be a one-off in
---Happy 36th Birthday to
Music City this week!
Benny Fiacco opened the
fledgling music store on
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---U2 returns to the road in 2018 with new music and a new round of tour dates! The “eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE” tour will make more than a half dozen stops in our region…Montreal QC on 6/5…Uniondale NY on 6/9…Philadelphia PA on 6/13…Washington DC on 6/17…Boston MA on 6/21…NYC on 6/25…and Newark NJ on 6/29!
---Season 11 American Idol winner,
Phillip Phillips is getting back on the road in 2018 and also
releasing a new album! See
Phil in
---Confusion over the
Lil Uzi Vert tour has been
resolved! Vert’s
announcement that he was not going on tour with Cardi B was merely a
correction…he is actually touring with
Playboi Cardi! The tour
is back on…and has added a second night in
---AWOLNATION and Nothing But Thieves have announced a Winter 2018 American tour that will come to our region at least a half-dozen times…Toronto ON on 2/11…Rochester NY on 2/18…Boston MA on 2/20…NYC on 2/22…Philadelphia PA on 2/23…and Silver Spring MD on 2/24!
---Break out Pop act, Clean Bandit is now headlining their own tour (as opposed to what was previously just a smattering of random dates) with regional stops in…New Haven CT on 4/14…NYC on 4/17…and Washington DC on 4/19…in addition to the previously announced Pittsburgh PA on 4/13…and Philadelphia PA on 4/20!
---Former
---Lee Ann Womack has announced a Winter/ Spring 2018 tour which includes…Toronto ON on 1/24…Auburn NY on 1/25…Rutland VT on 3/17…Sellersville PA on 3/22…and Alexandria VA on 3/23!
---They Might Be Giants have announced a Spring 2018 tour to follow up the two year-end shows they announced last week…New Haven CT on 4/13…Washington DC on 4/14…Pittsburgh PA on 4/15…Rochester NY on 4/19…South Burlington VT on 4/20…Albany NY on 4/22…Northampton MA on 4/26…Boston MA on 4/27…and Philadelphia PA on 4/28!
---Andy Grammer makes a Fall 2017 few additions…plus announces Spring 2018 dates this week…adding Newark DE on 11/10…Shippensburg PA on 11/12…and announcing Toronto ON on 4/2…Boston MA no 4/13…NYC on 4/14…and Philadelphia PA on 4/15!
---George
Clinton is taking P-Funk about for another ride in 2018…
---Rising pop star, KYGO has set tour dates with another rising star, Blackbear, that include…Toronto ON on 5/2…Washington DC on 5/8…NYC on 5/11…and Boston MA on 5/12!
---Mavis Staples has announced a five-night residency at The Beacon Theatre in NYC set for later this month! It begins on 11/20 thru 11/22, taking 11/23 off for Thanksgiving, then concluding with dates on 11/24 & 11/25!
---
---Graham Parker will play a half dozen dates in 2018, with half of them in our region…Boston MA on 5/5…NYC on 5/7…and Washington DC on 5/8…all of the six shows btw, are only at City Winery locations in every city on the tour!
---There will be more Tim McGraw/ Faith Hill “Soul2Soul” dates in 2018…Baltimore MD on 6/5…Hershey PA on 6/12…Uniondale NY on 6/14…Uncasville CT on 6/15…Manchester NH on 6/16…and Hamilton ON on 6/18!
---Tom Hamilton of Amerian Babies is playing some solo dates, totally within our region, over the next month…Port Chester NY on 11/16…Albany NY on 12/1 (with Donna The Buffalo)…12/2 in Somerville MA…Philadelphia PA on 12/14…and NYC on 12/15!
---Former member of both the Swinging Blue Jeans and The Hollies, Terry Sylvester (who played in Binghamton a few years ago) has announced a three-date tour, all shows within our region…Tarrytown NY on 12/8…Rahway NJ on 12/9…and West Kingston RI on 12/15!
---Mewithoutyou has finally announced shows in their Fall 2018 tour that will bring them to our region later this month…Baltimore MD on 11/21…Brooklyn NY on 11/24…Cambridge MA on 11/25…and Philadelphia PA on 11/26! Pianos Become The Teeth and Slow Mass will open!
---Head East will go back out on the road in 2018, but have only booked three gigs so far, and only one in our region…North Tonawanda NY on 2/3!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The Let
It Snow Festival in
---A Similar line-up for the “Not So Silent Night
Fest” on 12/9 at The Chance
in
---Another holiday festival at Beacon Theatre in NYC will be headlined by Cyndi Lauper and include Jackson Browne and Peaches on the bill, which is pretty lengthy. Check out the Regional Concert Page on this site, for more info!
---Vicki
Lawrence (remember “The Night
The Lights Went Out In Georgia”?) will play a one-off in Glenside PA
(just outside of
TOUR TWEAKING:
---
---Marc Cohn
adds
---After passing out there due to heat exhaustion,
Tom Keifer, has already
rescheduled his missed show for
Jergel’s Rhythm Grille in
---Tim
Reynolds & TR3 add
---The Avett Brothers add NYC on 11/16!
---Tantric
adds
---Enuff
Z’Nuff adds
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
---Buddy Guy
adds
---
---The
Wizards Of Winter add
---Southside
Johnny & The Asbury Jukes add…
---Arlo Guthrie’s itinerary expands into 2018 and even further, into our region with additional dates in…Millville NJ on 5/9…Morristown NJ on 5/11…Tarrytown NY on 5/13…and Lebanon NH on 5/16!
---The Subdudes have added on with some one new show coming up as soon as next week…Fairfield CT on 11/16…Rutland VT on 3/1…Beacon NY on 3/2…and Londonderry NH on 3/3!
---The
English Beat add…
---Queens Of
The Stone Age & Royal Blood
add
---Al
Stewart adds
---Paul Anka
adds
---Carbon
Leaf adds
---Nothing
More adds
---Marshall Crenshaw adds NYC on 11/19!
---Rich
Robinson (guitarist for the Black Crowes) adds
---Steve
Earle & The Dukes add
---Peter Yarrow formerly of Peter, Paul & Mary adds two more shows at the City Vineyard at Pier 26 on 1/8 & 1/9!
---Justin Townes Earle adds two nights in NYC on 1/29 & 1/30!
---Michael
McDonald adds
---We now know more about the
Michael Schenker Fest in NYC on 3/10!
The Graham Bonnet Band
and Robin McAuley have been
announced as participating in the show at
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Al Stewart (3)
---Andy Grammar (6)
---Arlo Guthrie (4)
---AWOLNATION/ Nothing But Thieves (6)
---Buddy Guy (1)
---Carbon Leaf (1)
---Clean Bandit (3)
---Dashboard Confessional/ AJR/ Tigers Jaw/ Syml (1)
---Dennis DeYoung (4)
---Enuff Z’Nuff (1)
---
---George Thorogood & The Destroyers (8)
---Graham Parker (3)
---Head East (1)
---Justin Townes Earle (2)
---
---Lee Ann Womack (5)
---Let It Snow Festival (1)
---Lil Uzi Vert/ Playboi Cardi (5)
---KYGO/ Blackbear (4)
---Marc Cohn (3)
---Marshall Crenshaw (1)
---Mavis Staples (5)
---Mewithoutyou/ Pianos Become The Teeth/ Slow Mass (4)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Not So Silent Night Fest (1)
---Nothing More (1)
---Paul Anka (3)
---Peter Yarrow (2)
---Phillip Phillips (7)
---Puddle Of Mudd (1)
---
---
---Rich Robinson (1)
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (6)
---Steve Earle (4)
---Steve Earle & The Dukes (1)
---Steve Earle & The Dukes/ Lucinda Williams/ Emmylou Harris (2)
---Tantric (1)
---Terry Sylvester (3)
---The Avett Brothers (1)
---The English Beat (1)
---The Subdudes (4)
---The Veer
---The Wizards Of Winter (1)
---They Might Be Giants (9)
---Tim McGraw/ Faith Hill (6)
---Tom Hamilton (5)
---Tom Keifer (1)
---U2 (7)
---Vicki Lawrence (1)
---Weezer/ The Pixies (8)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 102817:
---Battle
Of The Bands update #4: Congratulations to
Deveroe, who scored a win in
the final regular round of local Alternative station,
100.5 The Drive’s,
---Maine-Endwell grad,
Taina Asili, sister of Ayana
D, who now lives near
To purchase a copy of ¡Viva
All proceeds from this Bandcamp album will go directly to
MariaFund.org where one hundred percent of monies raised will be
used to support immediate relief, recovery, and equitable rebuilding in
---Here’s a very cool idea…on the 40th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s appearance at the Broome County Arena in Binghamton NY (on 11/6/77) local band, Voodoo Highway will play the Cyber Café West in Binghamton playing Grateful Dead songs, with a special guest, former Jerry Garcia Band bass player, Rob Wenig! Admission is $5.00 and the show start at 9pm!
---Local jam-band superstars, Raibred are recording their first full album! Lead singer and lead guitarist, Nate Calzetoni says the band have a producer (Honkers Tim Linkroum) and a studio (Linkroum’s TLK studios) and that the songs are all written (Calzetoni says about twenty songs in total) and that the band has begun laying down drums to a click track. The final product should be ready by late February, according to Calzetoni! We’ll be waiting!
---Meanwhile, former Raibred, Parts Unknown, Devon Frank and unofficial Ultra Vibe member, guitarist Chris Cannone, who is moving to Nashville TN to find his claim to fame is having a going away party thrown for him at Enfields in Endwell NY, on Sunday 11/5 at 2pm! Not sure if it’s open to the public or invitation only, but be sure to wish Chris good luck (…or is it break a leg?) before he leaves town.
---The Mad Moose/
---After a recent two night stand at
McGirks in
---The
Pennsylvania Cannabis Fest has already announced one of their Monday
bands for the annual multi-day event at
Nay Aug Park in
---Dillinger’s
in
---Meanwhile word is that the Brackney Inn has been declared a total loss from the fire, so there will be no saving the 168-year-old, iconic structure. Will the current owners rebuild?
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Pop band, Maroon 5 has announced a nationwide tour that comes into our zone in late September and early October next year…Toronto ON on 9/27…Pittsburgh PA on 9/29…Washington DC on 10/2…Newark NJ on 10/6…Boston MA on 10/7…Hartford CT on 10/10…Philadelphia PA on 10/12…and two nights in NYC to close out the tour on 10/14 & 10/15! Maroon 5 lead singer, Adam Levine is also one of the coaches on the NBC-TV show, “The Voice.”
---Foo Fighters, coming off a “family emergency” on their current tour that forced them to cancel two shows, have announced 2018 dates that will return them to our region at least eight times…Philadelphia PA on 7/7…Toronto ON on 7/12…Wantagh NY on 7/14…two nights in NYC on 7/16 & 7/17…Pittsburgh PA on 7/19…and two nights in Boston MA on 7/21 & 7/22!
---Pop singer, Demi Lovato has announced a Spring 2018 tour that will bring her into our zone at least a half dozen times…Brooklyn NY on 3/16…Montreal QC on 3/17…Toronto ON on 3/19…Newark NJ on 3/21…Philadelphia PA on 3/23…and Washington DC on 3/24!
---Judas
Priest will tour in 2018 behind a forthcoming album, “Firepower” and the tour is
set to begin in
---In this age of political arguments being made
about disrespect for the flag, it seems a perfect setting for
Anti-Flag to hit the road.
See them in
---Lil Uzi
Vert cancels tour with
Playboi Carti, just one day after announcing it!
The was to have been named “16*29”
for a mix tape the pair were allegedly working on.
No reason for the cancellation was given, just a tweet from
Lil Uzi Vert declaring “Not
going on tour wit carti need 2 focus.”
Focus on what? That
remains to be seen! Effected
regional dates include…
---Indie rocker, Brian Fallon (lead singer of Gaslight Anthem) has announced a tour that starts in the U.S. before heading to the UK and Europe, before looping back to America…it starts in NYC on 11/1…then returns to North America next Spring...in Toronto ON on 4/24…Rochester NY on 4/25…Pittsburgh PA on 4/26…Philadelphia PA on 4/27…Washington DC on 4/28…Sayreville NJ on 4/29…Boston MA on 5/1…and finally Brooklyn NY on 5/2, to wrap the tour up!
---Rock guitar virtuoso, Eric Johnson, will tour the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic in March 2018 and drop into our region at least nine times…Silver Spring MD on 3/2…Glenside PA on 3/3…NYC on 3/4…Baltimore MD on 3/6…Cohoes NY on 3/7…Boston MA on 3/8…Londonderry NH on 3/9…Norfolk CT on 3/10…and Lancaster PA on 3/11!
---If anyone still cares, Kid Rock is set to tour in 2018, with stops in…Toronto ON on 2/16…Philadelphia PA on 2/23…Uncasville CT on 3/2…Baltimore MD on 3/3…Newark NJ on 3/9…and Uniondale NY on 3/10!
---Grunge-era, alternative band Nada Surf (anyone remember their one hit wonder song, “Popular”?) has booked a seven-date Spring tour that falls into our region at least a handful of times…Washington DC on 3/7…Brooklyn NY on 3/8…Philadelphia PA on 3/9…Boston MA on 3/10…and Toronto ON on 3/11!
---Franz Ferdinand is taking a long road to us…thru Canada, Japan, the UK and finally Europe…then Toronto ON on 4/8…Boston MA on 4/10…Washington DC on 4/11…Philadelphia PA on 4/13…and Brooklyn NY on 4/16!
---Pop singer, Rachel Platten (she sang her break thru hit, “Fight Song,” at a recent Spiedie Fest) has book a smattering of tour dates…just four in total…and only two that will bring her into our region…Cambridge MA on 11/6…and NYC on 11/7!
---Here’s one that made me sit up and take notice…influential rockers, Television, who helped shape both punk and alternative bands, are playing a two-night, year-end stand at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on 12/30 & 12/31! Don’t delay! Get your tickets now because this will sell out fast!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Chic ft.
Nile Rodgers (Rodgers Chic co-collaborator, Bernie Edwards died in
1996) will play a one-time-only show in
---The Temptations & The Four Tops team-up for a one-off in Glenside PA, just outside of Philly, at the Keswick Theatre on 5/12!
---Murali
Coryell has book a one-timer in
---Alt-indie darling,
Brandi Carlile will play a
one-shot performance, in
---One hit wonder,
Robbie Dupree books a one-off
in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Billy Joel adds NYC (MSG show #49) on 1/11!
---Pentatonix
adds a second night in
---Beach
Boys add
---MISSIO
adds
---The singer who almost got the gig with Led
Zeppelin, Terry Reid, adds
---War
adds
---Tommy
James & The Shondells adds
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes adds Glenside PA on 5/18!
---Gladys
Knight adds…
---King
Crimson adds
---Justin
Townes Earle adds
---Culture
Club adds a second night in
---Emo
Philips is added to the Weird Al Yankovic tour in
---Billy Joel has been busy this week…at the beginning of this section he ‘s listed as having announced his 49th MSG show…and now (several days later) his 50th show at MSG on 2/21 in NYC!
---Local (
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Anti-Flag (3)
---Beach Boys (1)
---Billy Joel (2)
---Brandi Carlile (1)
---Brian Fallon (9)
---Chic
---Culture Club (2)
---Demi Lovato (6)
---Driftwood (1)
---Eric Johnson (9)
---Foo Fighters (8)
---Franz Ferdinand (5)
---Gladys Knight (3)
---Judas Priest (5)
---Justin Townes Earle (1)
---Kid Rock (6)
---King Crimson (1)
---Lil Uzi Vert/ Cardi B (-3)
---Maroon 5 (9)
---MISSIO/ Nothing/ Nowhere (1)
---Murali Coryell (1)
---Nada Surf (5)
---Pentatonix (1)
---Rachel Platten (2)
---Robbie Dupree (1)
---Ryan Montbleau (9)
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1)
---Television (2)
---Terry Reid (1)
---The Temptations/ The Four Tops (1)
---Tommy James & The Shondells (2)
---War (3)
---Weird Al Yankovic/ Emo Philips (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 102117:
---Sad news yesterday, as an apartment fire broke out above the bar area in the Brackney Inn in nearby Brackney PA! The building which is 168 years old, is an area landmark, not to mention a popular watering hole at which many local bands have played. The Fox 40 newsteam filed a report on their 6pm and 10pm newscasts we well as their website. Here’s a link for more info:
http://www.wicz.com/story/36647990/suspected-apartment-fire-sets-brackney-inn-ablaze
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---There is a new venue in the Southern Tier with the Grand Opening of the Beer Tree Brewing Company this afternoon (10/21)! The “small farm brewery” in Port Crane NY (just off Route 369, on the left, as you head out of town) opens with a blow out party starting on Saturday10/21 @ 1pm with Hummel’s Jug @ 1p and The Look @ 5p, followed by Adam Ate The Apple on Sunday 10/22 @2p! Admission is only $5.00
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---Randy
McStine has been a busy guitar god over the last year, but the death of his dad,
put at least one project on the back burner.
In a recent facebook post McStine expressing his gratitude for
the acknowledgment of his contributions to songs by other artists (Adam
Holzman, Craig Blundell, Theo Travis, Nick D’Virgilio, Colin Edwin, Dave
Kerzner, Fernando Perdomo and Joe Deninzon, to name a few) and to quote
McStine, “Seeing all of these
projects on the horizon reminded me of something I had been preparing to
release back in the summer. It was an instrumental recording called,
Anachronism. I had a PledgeMusic campaign for it, but after my dad's
death became a reality, I abandoned it entirely and let the funding fall
away.” Thankfully,
McStine decided it was time to revisit the project, “Over
a few days off in various hotels, I have tidied up the loose ends, and
Anachronism is now available as a digital download through Bandcamp.”
Wanna hear it for yourself?
Click the link below:
https://randymcstine.bandcamp.com/album/anachronism
---Ultra
Vibe announced on a live facebook post this week that they will pack
a recording studio with twenty of their biggest fans and play both of
their two albums, in full, for a special intimate performance at
NewClear Studios in
---Out of nowhere…Foster
The People have booked two impromptu shows, both of which are
regional…one is local! They
aren’t on tour...in fact they fall in between a random weekend
appearance in
---Congrats to
Frostbit Blue, who were
inducted into the Oswego County
Music Hall of Fame, at
American Foundry in
---Chris Cannone, formerly of
Parts Unknown and most recently with
Devon Frank, may be getting
ready to move to Nashville TN, but he’s still wrapping up with some of
his guitar students and posted this on facebook this week, “Due
to some unfortunate circumstances, I am no longer teaching at Music City
in Vestal for my duration left here in NY. But I am still teaching until
I leave town, out of where I'm currently living, and figuring out some
webcam lessons ideas while I'm in
---The Henry
Rollins tour is coming to
State Theatre in
---Weird Al Yankovic has announced a Winter/Spring 2018 tour that will play our regional…and even our local area! “Weird Al” will bring his twisted pop parodies as close as State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 3/14…and also to Poughkeepsie NY on 2/27…Tarrytown NY on 3/1…Mashantucket CT on 3/2…Portsmouth NH on 3/3…Boston MA on 3/4…Montreal QC on 3/7…Toronto ON on 3/9…Buffalo NY on 3/13…Atlantic City NJ on 3/16…Huntington NY on 3/17…Lancaster PA on 3/18…North Bethesda MD on 3/20…NYC on 3/23…and Greensburg PA on 3/24!
---The 2018
Grassroots Festival, in
---Steve Forbert has announced more shows to replace the ones that were postponed for the Fall of 2017! The replacement additions include a show at The Dock in Ithaca NY on 6/2, in addition to…Beacon NY on 1/6…Pawling NY on 6/3…and Shirley MA on 6/9!
---Finally, fans of
The Vogues (My Special Angel
and Five O’Clock World) and Ron Dante (who sang Sugar Sugar, Jingle Jangle and Bang Shang-a-Lang
for The Archies) mark your calendars for December 1st!
Both bands will be coming to
Touch Of Texas (the old
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Lil Uzi Vert and Cardi B have teamed-up for a tour that just doesn’t impact our region enough…only three times…Pittsburgh PA on 12/13…Washington DC on 12/15…and Boston MA on 12/21!
---Killswitch Engage and Anthrax have announced Winter/ Spring 2018 dates that will bring them into our region more than a few times…Montreal QC on 1/25…Stroudsburg PA on 1/27…Baltimore MD on 3/1…and Worcester MA on 3/3!
---Marilyn Manson has announced Winter 2018 that will bring the “Anti-Christ Superstar” into our region at least a half-dozen times…Niagara Falls NY on 2/9…Toronto ON on 2/11…Boston MA on 2/12…Baltimore MD on 2/13…Huntington NY on 2/15…and Sayreville NJ on 2/16! These shows are rescheduling dates that were postponed when a prop fell on Manson during a show in NYC on 9/30!
---Former Mott The Hoople singer, Ian Hunter, has posted a four-date tour entirely within our regional boundaries…Montclair NJ on 11/17…Boston MA on 11/18…Fairfield CT on 11/24…and Londonderry NH on 11/25!
---Umphrey’s McGee has booked a Winter 2018 tour that will bring them into our region…a second night in Port Chester NY on 10/21…Brooklyn NY on 10/22…Pittsburgh PA on 1/11…three nights in NYC on 1/19, 1/20 & 1/21…New Haven CT on 1/25…Philadelphia PA on 1/26 & 1/27…Jim Thorpe PA on 1/28…and Washington DC on 2/15!
---Following her tour with Stephen Stills, Judy Collins will headline a solo tour and includes Lexington MA on 12/15…Sellersville PA on 12/17…Harwich MA on 12/19 and an eight night residency at Joe’s Pub in NYC scheduled for the second half of November…beginning on Tuesday 11/21, then continuing on Wednesday 11/22, Friday & Saturday, 11/24-25, and finally Monday thru Thursday, 11/27-30.
---Howard Jones has announced a late Winter/ early Spring tour that will come into our region in late February…Bay Shore NY on 2/24…Pawling NY on 2/25…Sellersville PA on 2/26…Boston MA on 2/28…Rockport MA on 3/1...and NYC on 3/2 & 3/3!
---Silverstein takes to the road with a four-band package tour that also includes Broadside, Tonight Alive and Picturesque that will directly impact our region…Philadelphia PA on 2/18…Asbury Park NJ on 2/19…Baltimore MD on 2/20…Buffalo NY on 2/26…NYC on 2/28…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/1!
---Up and coming pop singer, Jhene Aiko is going on tour with Willow Smith for the Fall of 2017…Philadelphia PA on 11/17…Toronto ON on 11/19…NYC on 11/20…and Silver Spring MD on 11/21…before hooking up with the Lana del Rey tour.
---Rising modern rocker, Barns Courtney announces fall dates for…Allston MA on 11/6…Albany NY on 11/8…Philadelphia PA on 11/13…and Washington DC on 11/29!
---Carol Kings daughter, Louise Goffin, has booked a next week only tour…Vienna VA on 10/24…Philadelphia PA on 10/25…and NYC on 10/26!
---John Doe of X, will make a two night stand at the City Vineyard @ Pier 26 in NYC on 12/12 & 12/13!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Red Hot Chili Peppers will be the musical headliner for the “Stand Up For Heroes” benefit on Madison Square Garden in NYC on 11/7! The rest of the bill so far is a buncha comedians…John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Conan O’Brien, etc.
---Robin Trower will head out on an eight night worldwide tour, from November thru March with only one date anywhere near our region…Glenside PA on 3/22!
---The rest of
David Allan Coe’s tour is
playing either
---Ingrid Michaelson and A Great Big World have booked a one-shot show at Terminal 5, in NYC on 12/14!
---Tickets for the
Plain White T’s show in
TOUR TWEAKING:
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---Sophie B. Hawkins adds Sellersville PA on 10/27!
---The
---Enter The Haggis adds Sellersville PA on 12/27!
---Darlene
Love adds
---The Zombies ft. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent add…two nights in Boston MA on 3/3 & 3/4…East Greenwich RI on 3/8…and Woodstock NY on 3/9!
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---Dave Mason of Traffic adds Glenside PA on 3/9!
---Clean
Bandit adds
---Tyga
adds
---Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary adds NYC on 11/20 & 11/21!
---Matisyahu adds NYC on 12/28!
---P!nk
adds second nights in
---Harry Styles of One Direction, adds a second night in NYC on 6/22!
---Z.Z. Top have cancelled the rest of their 2017 tour because Dusty Hill has a
“tummy issue” so you’ll have to get your money back at point of purchase.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Barns Courtney (4)
---Clean Bandit (1)
---Darlene Love (1)
---Dave Mason (1)
---David Allan Coe (1)
---Driftwood (2)
---Enter The Haggis (1)
---Foster The People (2)
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