Weekend Roundup

What a weekend. You’re gonna need to wind-down (or maybe kick out the jams) sometime this weekend, so here are some suggestions of where you might wanna be:

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11
The Jerry Douglas Band with Maura O’Connell and John Oates @ The Egg, Albany
Flame @ The Linda, Albany
The Figgs‘ release party with Scientific Maps, Kitty @ Valentine’s Music Hall, Albany
Gwar with Job for a Cowboy and the Red Chord @ Northern Lights, Clifton Park
Mirk & the New Familiars with Flakjacket, Eric Margan & the Red Lions, more @ Red Square, Albany
Mother Fletcher with Disposable Rocket Band @ Basilica Industria, Hudson

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12
Phil Drum @ Virgil’s House, Saratoga Springs (FREE)
Matthew Loiacono @ Wallabee’s Jazz Bar, Glens Falls
Seth Rogovoy @ the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Mass. (FREE)
“Sinatra Christmas” with the Joey Thomas Big Band @ The Egg, Albany
The Lustre Kings @ Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany
Danielle Gaudin & Friends @ Revolution Hall, Troy
Nowell Sing We Clear @ St. John’s Lutheran Church, Altamont
Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers with Duryee AME Zion Church Men’s Chorus, Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church Men’s Chorus @ the Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy
David Allan Coe @ Northern Lights, Clifton Park
The Wholesale Klezmer Band @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs
David Mallett @ The Linda, Albany
“Mountain Snow and Misteltoe” with Chris Shaw and Bridget Ball @ The Egg, Albany (also Sunday afternoon)
Jim Gaffigan @ the Palace Theatre, Albany

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13
Tom Winslow @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs
Chris Rush @ The Linda, Albany
The Derek Trucks Band with Shannon McNally @ The Egg, Albany
Hot Tuna @ the Bearsville Theater, Woodstock
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ the Times Union Center, Albany