EQX is proud to welcome Of The Atlas, Prince Daddy & The Hyena, and The Front Bottoms to Washington Park in downtown Albany as a part of the 76th Tulip Fest!

In addition to live music, all these other great events can be experienced at this year’s Tulip Fest:

– Vendors: 180+ Food, Craft, Art and Public Information vendors

– Kidzone sponsored by Price Chopper/Market 32 with rock climbing wall, bounce house & pony rides

– 2024 Tulip Queen Coronation: Sat May 11 at noon at Lakehouse 518 Stage

– 2024 Capital Region Best Mom: Sun May 12 at 11am at Lakehouse 518 Stage

– 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 Ave. FREE CDTA shuttle service to and from the park from Eagle Street Garage and Elk Street Parking Lot.

– 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 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m

– Tulips: We have over 300 gardens throughout the entire city of Albany, 60 of which are the formal gardens in Washington Park where the Tulip Festival is held. Of the 250,000 spring bulbs, 172,000 bulbs are tulips. Of the 172,000 tulips, approximately 100,000 tulips can be admired this spring in Washington Park leading up to the Tulip Festival.

Dr.Jah and The Love Prophets are known around the region as the best reggae party band. They have become a mainstay in the jam band scene for over 30 years. The Love Prophets are pioneers in the legalization of marijuana singing anthems such as “Free The Herb” and ” Legalize it”. Their love of music with a positive message has enlightened so many and reflects upon their fan base. DJ & TLP have been a staple at the RyeBread Fest since the very beginning touting themselves as “Original Rye Bread”. Original members Dave Geoghan and Pete Ahearn were also regulars at The Rustic Barn back in the day and were known to practice upstairs in the party room! So, “Come Down From The Mountain”, We’re “Smokin’ Up a Big One Tonight”. This is the “PARTY LIFE” RFB!

Goose take the Broadview Stage at the Saratoga Performing Arts center for the second of two back to back nights on Saturday, September 7th.

Catch a show with Goose as they take the Broadview stage at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center for the first of two back to back shows on Friday, September 6th.

Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival returns to Mass MoCA in downtown North Adams, Massachusetts for the final, third day on Sunday, June 30th.

For the full festival lineup, lodging and travel details, FAQ, and more visit the Solid Sound website HERE

Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival returns to Mass MoCA in downtown North Adams, Massachusetts for the second of three days on Saturday, June 29th.

For the full festival lineup, lodging and travel details, FAQ, and more visit the Solid Sound website HERE

Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival returns to Mass MoCA in downtown North Adams, Massachusetts for the first of three days on Friday, June 28th.

For the full festival lineup, lodging and travel details, FAQ, and more visit the Solid Sound website HERE

Brown Eyed Women return to Putnam Place to rock some Dead tunes!

Brown Eyed Women, the world’s only all female Grateful Dead tribute ensemble, features musicians from popular bands around the country. They celebrate the music of the Grateful Dead with a unique spin.

Members hail from Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. Their high-caliber musicianship and shared love of the Dead drew them together. This band is decidedly different in a field brimming with tribute acts. BEW brings authentic jams and a soulful new approach to the familiar Grateful Dead catalog.

Head out to Cooperstown, New York to catch Cake’s return to Brewery Ommegang on Saturday, June 22nd.

Multi instrumentalist Max Wareham brings his bluegrass sound to The Coffee Bar in downtown Bennington, Vermont on Saturday, May 4th.

Bowling For Soup bring their A Hangover You Don’t Deserve 20th Anniversary Tour to Empire Live in downtown Albany along with special guests Wheatus and Don’t Panic on Friday, September 20th.

Catch an ensemble tribute to the music of The Band with Professor Louie & The Crowmatix along with The Woodstock Horns on Friday, April 5th at The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls, New York.

Upstate veteran musicians Fortunate Sons play the music that started the roots rock movement. Catch their tribute to John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival at The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls, New York on Saturday, March 30th.

Members of Beatles tribute band Across The Pond and guest vocalists and instrumentalists perform the music of the ‘Quiet Beatle’ from his Beatle days through his solo career. Catch their show is honor of the late Harrison on Friday, March 29th at The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls, New York.

Head to The Egg in downtown Albany on Monday, May 20th as Amos Lee and special guest Julia Pratt take the stage at the Hart Theatre.

Join Dweezil Zappa as he celebrates the 50th anniversary of his father’s records “Apostrophe (‘)” and “Roxy & Elsewhere” at The Palace Theatre in downtown Albany on Friday, August 23rd.

After a dizzying five-year span that saw the release of two stunning, eclectic albums (Hard Won and Vanity, which drew praise from the likes of Billboard and Rolling Stone) – followed by appearances at AmericanaFest, the Newport Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and SXSW, and tours with Iron and Wine, Son Little, and Adia Victoria – Lizzie No found herself at the forefront of a new vanguard of genre-defying artists. Her new album, Halfsies, finds No situated among her peers while still searching for freedom – freedom from the constraints of categorization, sure, but more importantly, freedom from the depths of her own personal despair and from an increasingly violent and nightmarish American cultural and political landscape.

“Some albums are stories, some are films. This album is a video game,” No says of Halfsies, which traces the journey of Miss Freedomland (a character that represents No herself and her audience), from a place of both internal and external exile to liberation. The album, No says, is meant to be immersive – these songs are to be inhabited, not just by the singer but by those who receive them. “If you’re in these songs with me, what seems at first like a journey of self-analysis becomes a journey to get free, and get your people free, as well.” No returns to the video game analogy. “I think of the character as being chased by what I can only describe as Pac-Man ghosts of white supremacy, moving through the levels of this game.”

On Halfsies, No’s writing is beautifully intricate, the personal and the political folding into each other as naturally as the patchwork of influences that inform the album’s eleven tracks. It serves as a living conversation with her influences – not just musical but literary – reflecting her reverence for a host of the great voices who came before her, from Lucinda Williams to Toni Morrison, and her search for a connection between them. “The album begins with a kind of personal and political isolation that seems impossible to break free from,” No says, “but as Miss Freedomland moves through the levels, I wanted to surround her with community, whether spiritual or corporeal.”

The exploration of the relationship between individuality and belonging that informs Halfsies likewise informs No’s work as co-host of the Basic Folk podcast, where she has interviewed artists from Ben Harper to Valerie June about their places within the lineage of those who came before them, as musicians, activists and community members. That synthesis of personal and political courses through No’s songs, her identity as a writer owing as much to her musical influences as it does to her activism (an outspoken activist and civil rights advocate, No was recently named President of the Abortion Care of Tennessee Board of Directors).

“Toni Cade Bambara said, ‘the role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible,’” No says, recalling the writer, filmmaker and activist, whose work loomed large over the writing of Halfsies. “I think about those words all the time. Make revolution irresistible.” With Halfsies, Lizzie No aims to do just that.

Opening for Lizzie No is singer songwriter Eliza Edens, who takes inspiration from folk luminaries such as Nick Drake, Karen Dalton and Elizabeth Cotten, sowing her compositions with introspection born from her own grief. What emerges is a glowing collection of songs that serve as a map through tumult, toward hope.