8/7/16: Today’s Top Tips: Sunday
MUSIC: DakhaBrakha @ Music Haven in Central Park, Schenectady. This is gonna be one wild night of mesmerizing Ukrainian folk-punk. With Tavche Gravche. 7pm. FREE. GO HERE for more info and the complete concert series schedule…
FESTIVAL/MUSIC: Speed of Sound Festival @ Dutchess County Airport, Wappingers Falls. The day-long fest features Fiction of the Future, Nicole Atkins, Swear & Shake, Rayland Baxter, Simone Felice and headliners the Lumineers. 1:30pm. $55. GO HERE for more info and the complete schedule of bands…
MUSIC: Anders Osborne Band @ Club Helsinki, Hudson. Born in Sweden, the roots-rock singer-songwriter relocated to New Orleans in 1985 and has become a Crescent City fave, recently named the Big Easy’s best guitarist in Offbeat Magazine’s readers’poll for the third year in a row. And, oh yeah, his songs have been covered by everyone from Tim McGraw to Keb’ Mo’ to Brad Paisley. With southern folk-rock singer-songwriter Oliver John-Rodgers. 8pm.
MUSIC: The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma @ Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox. 8pm. $22-$101.
MUSIC: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. It’s the High Road Tour,,, and we do mean “high.” With DJ Drama (6:30pm), Casey Veggies (7:15pm), Jhene Aiko (7:45pm) and Kevin Gates (8:25pm). $40.75, $60.75 & $70.75; lawn $26.
MUSIC: Loren Schoenberg @ the Otesaga Hotel Ballroom, Cooperstown. The saxman is joined by pianist John di Martino, bassist Michael Karn, trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso and drummer Aaron Kimmel for an instrumental tribute to Frank Sinatra as part of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival. 7:30pm. $25: $15 students.
FESTIVAL/MUSIC: Falcon Ridge Folk Festival @ Dodds Farm, Hillsdale. Day Three of the folk fest features Tom Rush, the Felice Brothers, Brother Sun, the Gaslight Tinkers, Heather Maloney, the Mike + Ruthy Band, Professor Louie & the Crowmatix, the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, SONiA disappear fear, Vance Gilbert and lots more. 10am. GO HERE for more info and the daily schedule of performers…
MUSIC: Kelli O’Hara @ the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington. One of Broadway’s great leading ladies landed a Tony Award for her starring performance in the revival of “The King and I.” 7pm. $35-$100.
MUSIC: Red Tail Ring @ the Cock ‘N Bull, Galway. Old time roots with new time sounds… 8pm. $10.
MUSIC: The Tichy Boys @ Town Hall Park, Wynantskill. 6pm. FREE. GO HERE for more info and the complete concert series schedule…
THEATER: “A Night With Janis Joplin” @ Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany. Last chance! Kelly McIntyre stars as the electrifying blues-rock singer in the play written and directed by Randy Johnson. 2pm. GO HERE to read review…
MUSIC: The Spiritual Bat @ the Low Beat, Albany. Italian goth/death-rock. With Antidote for Annie, Forever Autumn, Transdusk and Destroy Eleven. 8pm.
FESTIVAL/MUSIC/FUNDRAISER: S.A.V.E. the Lake Festival @ Shepard Park, Lake George. Day Three of the fourth annual fundraising fest features music by the Jonathan Newell Band and the Audiostars, 12noon. $10; free for ages 16 & under. GO HERE for more info and the complete performance schedule…
MUSIC: Big Creek @ Lyons Lake, Nassau. 4pm.
MUSIC: Sirsy @ Gaffney’s, Saratoga Springs. 8pm. FREE.
MUSIC: Storm Front @ Clifton Common, Clifton Park. Billy Joel tribute band. 7pm. FREE. GO HERE for more info and the complete concert series schedule…
MUSIC: Imani Winds @ Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. Performing Jeff Scott’s “Startin’ Sumthin’,” Frederic Rzewski’s “Sometimes,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Suite from Scheherazade,” Cage’s “Music for Wind Instruments” and Ravel’s “Suite from Le Tombeau de Couperin.” 4pm.
THEATER: “Comedy of Errors” @ the Ten Broeck Mansion Garden, Albany. Confetti Stage presents the Shakespeare classic directed by John A. Nickles. 2pm. FREE. Through Sunday, August 14.
MUSIC: The Wister Quartet @ Freedom Park, Scotia. Classical foursome. 7pm. FREE. GO HERE for more info and the complete concert series schedule…
MUSIC: Barbora Kolarova @ the Hudson River Music Hall, Hudson Falls. The Lake George Music Festival Artistic Director performs a solo violin recital featuring works by Bach, Paganini, Slavicky and Schnittke. 3pm. $10.
FILM: “Muppets from Space” @ Proctors’ GE Theatre, Schenectady. 10:30am & 1pm. FREE.
FILM: “Playtime” @ PS21, Chatham. In his acclaimed 1967 comedy, Jacques Tati attempts to answer the question, “In the midst of an increasingly impersonal world, how do we keep our humanity?” 8:30pm. FREE.
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