Where to See the Grammy Award Winners in Concert Around Greater Nippertown

By Greg Haymes
Photograph by Rudy Lu

OK, the golden gramophones have all been handed out, and the Grammy Awards have come and gone for another year. So the question is, “Where can I see the Grammy winners in concert around Greater Nippertown?”

Well, here’s the answer:

PUNCH BROTHERS
Best Folk Album
All Ashore
@ MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center, North Adams
Saturday, March 16; $39 in advance; $49 at the door

ARIANA GRANDE
Best Pop Vocal Album
Sweetener
@ the Times Union Center, Albany
Monday, March 18; $34.95, $49.95, $64.95, $79.95, $99.95, $144.95, $179.95, $199.95 & $224.95

CECILE McLORIN SALVANT
Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Window
@ Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy
Saturday, March 19; $32 & $39

LAURIE ANDERSON (and Kronos Quartet)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Landfall
@ Skidmore College’s Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs
Wednesday, April 17; FREE (this is a talk, not a concert)

WILLIE NELSON
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
My Way
@ Mountain Jam at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel
Date TBA

ANDRIS NELSONS & BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Best Orchestral Performance
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11
@ Tanglewood, Lenox
Various summer dates

BECK
Best Alternative Music Album
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Colors
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs
Monday, August 12, $29.50-$99.50

And our congrats go out to 1993 Skidmore College alum Emily Lazar, who won a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for her work on Beck’s Colors, becoming the first woman to win in the engineering category.

GO HERE to see the complete list of Grammy Award winners announced on Sunday (February 10)…