Top Tips for Live Music (for the week beginning September 14th)

Best bet:  For the first time, we’re going virtual for the Best Bet this week.  But it’s worth it.  In better times we’d all be downtown for Pearlpalooza this Saturday, enjoying one of the year’s best street parties.  Covid makes that impossible this year, but WEQX, The Hollow, Downtown Albany, and several others have managed to put on a virtual edition anyway.  Featuring Eastbound Jesus, Wild Adriatic, Victory Soul Orchestra, and MIRK, it’s still the week’s can’t miss event.  Watch from the comfort of your home.  Or better yet, head downtown and support (safely) one of the venues livestreaming this event in person.  But please…do find a way to support.  The entertainment industry is getting absolutely rocked by this pandemic, and the casualties are starting to mount.  Save Our Stages…I wouldn’t count on anybody else to do it.

Live this week:

Monday, September 14

• Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: Rick’s Picks Local Showcase: Tim Wechgalear, Chris Carey & Mike O’Donnell (7:00)
• The Linda Open for Take-Out {online}: Glass Pony (8:00)

Tuesday, September 15

• Brunswick Community Center: Blue Hand Luke (6:30)

Wednesday, September 16

• Palace Sessions {online}: The Amico-Barady Quartet (7:00)
• Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: The Pandemic Pickers (7:00)

Thursday, September 17

• Jazz on Jay (Jay Street, Schenectady): Tarik Shah Trio (12:00)

Friday, September 18

• Jericho Drive-In: Pink Talking Fish (6:30)

Saturday, September 19

• Virtual Pearlpalooza {online}: MIRK (1:00) / Victory Soul Orchestra (2:15) / Wild Adriatic (3:30) / Eastbound Jesus (4:45)
• Pint Sized (Toga) (Busking on Broadway series): Safety Meeting / Ugly Muppets (6:00)
• The Madison Theatre: Ampevene (7:00)
• The 8th Step {online}: Tom Paxton and the Don Juans (7:00)
• Putnam Place: Celebration for Brian Lang (2:00) / Wild Adriatic / Let’s Be Leonard (8:00)

Just announced:

Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: 

• {September 27} Don Armstrong (7:00)

The Linda Open for Take-Out {online}: Yesterday Once More (was 10/29) postponed to May 7.

• {October 5} Sophia Subbayya Vastek (8:00)

The Madison Theatre: 

• {October 10} Gay Tastee Ex Machina (7:00)

Chrome: Riff Rock 2020 (was 10/3) canceled.

The Egg: Robin Trower (was 10/3) postponed (no new date yet).

The Hollow: Kalbells (was 10/9) canceled.

Did you miss last week’s concert announcements? Find them here.