It’s the 49th Annual Saratoga Jazz Festival presented by GE Vernova! 2 days, 2 stages, and 22 electrifying artists from jazz to roots, funk, blues, soul, rock, indie, and beyond.
Kick off summer with good times and great vibes — enjoy craft beer, a local food vendor village, a fine arts and crafts fair, family fun, and more! Pack the cooler, lawn chairs, pop-up tent, and any of your favorite festival essentials for an unforgettable weekend celebrating art, nature, and community on SPAC’s idyllic grounds.
This year’s headliners are R&B legend and “Godmother of Soul” Patti LaBelle and the New Orleans rock collective known for their triple-platinum hit “Wish I Knew You,” The Revivalists.
The 2026 lineup bridges legacy and discovery, presenting iconic arts alongside the next generation. The festival will bring together a dynamic mix of genre-defying artists, including blues guitar virtuoso Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Afro-Cuban funk phenomenon Cimafunk, and hip, soul-inflected rhythm and blues band The Dip. They’ll be joined by jazz powerhouse vocalists Dianne Reeves and Cécile McLorin Salvant, contemporary and cutting-edge jazz leaders Terri Lyne Carrington and Lakecia Benjamin, Cuban piano master Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and many more!
The festival will also mark the 100th birthdays of jazz legends with two special performances: Miles Electric Band: Celebrating Miles Davis’s Centennial and Skidmore Jazz Institute Faculty All-Stars Celebrate John Coltrane’s Centennial.
For the full lineup, please visit the event website.
All e-tickets for Saratoga Jazz Festival will be sent one week prior to the performance date. Please contact the Box Office with any questions at 518-584-9330.
*Please note that web & phone ticket purchases will incur a $7 service fee; no fees are applied for in-person ticket purchases at our Box Office.
It’s the 49th Annual Saratoga Jazz Festival presented by GE Vernova! 2 days, 2 stages, and 22 electrifying artists from jazz to roots, funk, blues, soul, rock, indie, and beyond.
Kick off summer with good times and great vibes — enjoy craft beer, a local food vendor village, a fine arts and crafts fair, family fun, and more! Pack the cooler, lawn chairs, pop-up tent, and any of your favorite festival essentials for an unforgettable weekend celebrating art, nature, and community on SPAC’s idyllic grounds.
This year’s headliners are R&B legend and “Godmother of Soul” Patti LaBelle and the New Orleans rock collective known for their triple-platinum hit “Wish I Knew You,” The Revivalists.
The 2026 lineup bridges legacy and discovery, presenting iconic arts alongside the next generation. The festival will bring together a dynamic mix of genre-defying artists, including blues guitar virtuoso Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Afro-Cuban funk phenomenon Cimafunk, and hip, soul-inflected rhythm and blues band The Dip. They’ll be joined by jazz powerhouse vocalists Dianne Reeves and Cécile McLorin Salvant, contemporary and cutting-edge jazz leaders Terri Lyne Carrington and Lakecia Benjamin, Cuban piano master Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and many more!
The festival will also mark the 100th birthdays of jazz legends with two special performances: Miles Electric Band: Celebrating Miles Davis’s Centennial and Skidmore Jazz Institute Faculty All-Stars Celebrate John Coltrane’s Centennial.
For the full lineup, please visit the event website.
All e-tickets for Saratoga Jazz Festival will be sent one week prior to the performance date. Please contact the Box Office with any questions at 518-584-9330.
*Please note that web & phone ticket purchases will incur a $7 service fee; no fees are applied for in-person ticket purchases at our Box Office.
– Approximately 100,000+ Tulips can be admired this spring in Washington Park leading up to the Tulip Festival, planted by Jena DiTonno & DGS
– 2026 Tulip Queen Coronation on Saturday May 9 at 11:30am on the 518 Stage at the Washington Park Lakehouse
200+ Vendors (We have more vendors than last year)
o 80+ Craft Vendors
o 40+ Food Vendors
o 40+ Public Information
o 25+ Art Vendors
o 20+ Wellness Vendors
Fully expanded Wellness Area
o 20+ Wellness Vendors
o FREE dance & wellness classes from 11am – 5pm
o Classes & Performances: Stretch, Hip-Hop, Zumba, AfroBeats, Yoga, Bellydancing
o Sustainability Tent
SATURDAY MAIN STAGE LINEUP presented by ParkAlbany & WEQX 102.7
o The E-Block (1:30pm): R&B, Funk, Soul & Jazz band from Capital Region
o Grace Bowers (3:00pm): A rising Rock n Funk star from Nashville known for her amazing Guitar skills. She became famous on social media and has been playing with legends ever since, including a performance at the 67th Grammy Awards.
o Joywave (4:30pm): A WEQX favorite, get ready to DANCE with music influenced by Dance Pop, Disco, Electronic & Hip-Hop.
Market 32 Cares Kid Zone
o Highlight: Brand new playground in Washington Park
o Kid Zone Stage with Magician, Park Playhouse 2026 preview & children’s sing-a-longs
o Rock Climbing, Pony Rides, Face Painting (NOT FREE)
– Free Tulip Festival Parking locations: Elk Street parking lot, located behind the State Education Building & Eagle Street parking lot, located at the corner of Eagle Street and Madison Avenue. FREE CDTA shuttle service to and from the park from Eagle Street Garage and Elk Street Parking Lot from 10am – 6:00pm
– Free Handicap Parking is located at Albany Medical Center at Robin & Morris St. FREE accessible CDTA shuttle to and from handicap parking will run continuously from 10:00 am – 6:00 p.m
– 518 Stage at the Lakehouse features local artists like Keegan James, The Sugar Hold, The Belle Curves & 97otis
– American Cancer Society is volunteering in the Beer Garden and 100% of tips go to their cause.
The New Pornographers bring their tour to Empire Live Albany on Friday, October 2nd!
Out on tour in support of their new album, “The Former Site Of”
A portion of the proceeds from presale tickets will be donated to People’s Place.
Emo Orchestra with The Spill Canvas – An Evening of Emo
Presented by Mammoth Inc. and SLP Concerts
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MusicTuesday, April 14 2026 • 7:00pm
Part of the Guest Presentation Series
For emo music lovers and orchestra aficionados alike, Emo Orchestra is a new live experience that brings some of the most beloved emo songs of your youth to the theater stage with a full orchestra arrangement. This Spring, Emo Orchestra welcomes THE SPILL CANVAS as the featured guest. Fans will hear THE SPILL CANVAS perform their own hits as well as songs by Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, A Day to Remember, The Used and many more.
A musical endeavor born on the Great Plains of South Dakota, The Spill Canvas has endured for over two decades because of the fans who provide the lifeblood to keep this machine running. Listing more accolades and successes here feels lame and overdone. At its heart, the purpose of the band remains the same as when it began – to write songs that move people and to connect with them via the powerful universal language of music.
Alice Frost perform the music of YES, along with special guest and prog rock powerhouse Progeny, at The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls, New York on Friday, April 10th.
For us. For you. For a lot of people who needed to hear those songs and didn’t even know it yet.
Written alone in an apartment in Los Angeles during one of the most intensely personal periods of Justin’s life, Foiled went platinum and gave a voice to millions navigating things they didn’t know how to talk about. Twenty years later, people are still discovering this album and feeling like it was written just for them.
This fall, Blue October is bringing the highly anticipated Foiled 20th Anniversary World Tour to North America — the full album, front to back, every night — with more dates continuing into 2027.
“Hate Me.” “Into the Ocean.” “18th Floor Balcony.” “She’s My Ride Home.” “X Amount of Words.” All of it. The way it was meant to be heard. And after all that, we’re gonna keep playing into the night.
RIDING HIGH INTO ITS SECOND DECADE, THE ICONIC OUTLAW TOUR CELEBRATES A LIVING LEGEND WITH A POWERHOUSE LINEUP FEATURING WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY THE AVETT BROTHERS, SHERYL CROW, STEPHEN WILSON, JR., ROBERT RANDOLPH, AND DON WAS AND THE PAN-DETROIT ENSEMBLE ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM AT SPAC – SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY AUGUST 30, 2026
The Rock the Dock Music Festival returns to The Lake George Steamboat Company in Lake George, New York on Saturday, July 11th, 2026. This festival is for all ages and will feature live music on the pier, surrounded by the beautiful Adirondack mountains. Enjoy the sounds of several well-known jam bands from the dock or aboard the steamboats that surround the stage. This truly is one of the most unique experiences you will get from a live concert.
Lucy Dacus makes her way to Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, along with special guest Smidley, for a show in Courtyard C on Thursday, July 23rd.
Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on The Green series brings Greensky Bluegrass to the Shelburne Museum on Wednesday, June 10th, for an all ages show. Children 12 and under are admitted for free!
Fishbone are so excited and pleased to announce the 40 Year Anniversary Album Play tour of In Your Face… That’s right, they’ll be out there in April and May playing In Your Face front to back, followed by another set of your favorites… this will be the first time they’ve done anything like this (and if all goes well, won’t be the last), so they want to see you there, at Empire Underground on April 22nd!
