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Lucky Chops: New Day, New Tour
Friday, January 27, 2023
WORKS Entertainment Presents
LUCKY CHOPS
NEW DAY, NEW TOUR
Universal Preservation Hall
Friday, January 27
Doors 7:00 PM
Lucky Chops comes at you with every hue on the rainbow.
Lucky Chops is big, brassy, and unapologetically bold. The six piece band has united audiences in more than 30 countries in thousands of shows, hard driving grooves and potent singable melodies. The irresistible groove that is Lucky Chops is led by co-founder Josh Holcomb’s soulful trombone, Daro Behroozi’s soaring sax and Joshua Gawel’s powerful trumpet.
Born in the streets of New York City’s multicultural melting pot the band pays homage to America’s New Orleans brass band tradition while fusing their sound with eclectic rock, Caribbean, Arabic, Eastern European, funk, jazz, ska, gospel, and EDM.
“Our strength is having individual members who get to express themselves as part of a whole that is more than the sum of its parts,” says Behroozi, a Brooklyn native whose polyglot Iranian/Dutch/French/German background has led to his interest in everything from Middle Eastern sounds to the tradition of the Balkan brass bands.
Starting in the underground halls of New York City’s subway stations, Lucky Chops first learned to entertain by busking for crowds from all over the world. Their talent did not go unnoticed, as a video of their mash-up of Lipps, Inc.’s “Funkytown” and James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” which has amassed hundreds of millions of views across social media and led to an online subscriber base almost two million strong.
The band returns to the road for the first time since the end of 2019, and on the heels of the release of their second full-length album, New Day, planned for release this fall.
LUCKY CHOPS VIP EXPERIENCE
It’s a New Day. Join us.
Lucky Chops is hosting VIP events prior to the show, giving a chance for their fans to get together and celebrate good music in a small setting.
VIP attendees will be treated to an exclusive performance, story telling, a question and answer session with the band, photo and autograph sessions and everyone will walk away with exclusive merchandise only available to VIPs at each show.
VIP Experiences include:
- Early entrance and crowd-free merchandise shopping
- A commemorative VIP show pass laminate and lanyard
- Individual photo opportunity with the members of Lucky Chops
- Autograph session with Lucky Chops
- Group question and answer session with Lucky Chops — ask your most burning question to the band!
- Private performance by Lucky Chops
The VIP Experience is an additional $45 on top of your ticket price. Quantities are limited, first come first serve.
VIP PRE-SALE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 @ 11AM
PUBLIC ON SALE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 @ 11AM
Billy Bragg
It was thirty-seven years ago when the Saturday boy from Essex became the UK’s foremost political singer-songwriter. He released his first record, Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy, bashed out on a punk rock electric guitar. It charted at number 30. Billy Bragg had arrived. He’d ‘risen from obscurity to semi-obscurity.’
Politicised by a Tory government, Billy bought himself out of the British Army in 1981 (‘the best £175 I ever spent’), and blazed his own modest trail. His ‘difficult third album’ Talking with The Taxman About Poetry took on additional guitar, piano and flugelhorn. Between the Wars EP landed him on Top of the Pops. He even made a jaunty video, but went back to basics for William Bloke, reflecting a changing geopolitical world after the Berlin Wall. Nora Guthrie, daughter of the folk legend Woody, blessed him with Woody’s unsung lyrics; Mermaid Avenue (with Wilco) was Grammy-nominated.
Tooth and Nail was recorded in five days in acclaimed songwriter/producer Joe Henry’s basement studio in Pasadena, Billy Bragg said: ‘I did it my way.’ It was his highest charting LP in the UK since Don’t Try This at Home in 1991. Shine a Light, his collaborative eleventh reunited him with Joe Henry; guided by the lights of myth, they boarded at Chicago’s Union Station and ‘looked to reconnect with the culture of American railroad travel. The Observer called it ‘a muscular chronicle’, and it cracked America for him.
The intervening three-and-a-half decades have been marked by numerous milestones and waystations, political and personal, topping the singles chart, having a street named after him, being mentioned in Dylan’s memoir, being invited to deliver a seminar on accountability at the Bank of England and meeting the Queen.
‘Ruggedly handsome’ (according to one Facebook fan), there ain’t no stopping him now. For every protest song (‘There Is Power in A Union’), there’s a declaration of love (‘I Will Be Your Shield). Orator, published author, entertainer, rabble-rouser, negotiator, pamphleteer, the fabled ‘big-nosed bard from Barking’ is many things.
Lockdown couldn’t keep him down. Instead, he looked inwardly as well as outwardly, and joined the two together, stronger. A new set, The Million Things That Never Happened emerged, blinking back into the light.
Please visit our Health & Safety Guide for more information regarding Masks & Vaccination requirements.
Clint Roberts & Helena Rose
Clint Roberts and Helena Rose are a western NC-based duo formed from Clint Roberts & The Holler Choir. Described as Contemporary Appalachian, the pair sing songs characterized by tight harmonies and complex rhythms. Helena and Clint both grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina and seek to preserve the presentation of traditional musicality while simultaneously playing songs that are of the times. This sound is presented clearly in Clint’s most recent EP, Holler Choir, which Helena is featured heavily on. Fans of Watch House and Tyler Childers should see this show!
The Silks
Join Village Garage Distillery as they welcome The Silks to christen their outdoor stage, “The Green” on Sunday, September 18th from 4-6pm.
BBQ Style food
Local logs from neighboring brewers like:
Brown’s Brewing
Madisons
Farmroad
Harvest
5th Annual SAM Fund Unicorn Rodeo
For the full list of events, musical performers, and more details, please visit: https://1000acres.com/samfund/
The Southern Adirondack Musicians (SAM) Fund is a not for profit (501 C 3) corporation dedicated to providing emergency financial assistance to musicians and their families who are facing serious, catastrophic health issues, injuries and death. A volunteer and locally oriented charity (serving Saratoga, Washington and Warren Counties), the S.A.M Fund’s mission is to keep the “wolf from the door” for those in need.
Our area is richer by far because of the incredible amount of talented musicians and artists who make their home here. Please help support them by supporting the SAM Fund.
Peter Mulvey
Mulvey is an iconoclast within the singer/songwriter world.
About this event
Peter Mulvey is a veteran singer and songwriter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mulvey is an iconoclast within the singer/songwriter world. Restless and inventive, he has made 20 records, spanning rock and roll, folk, Jazz, spoken word, and Americana. Mulvey continues to tour, playing over a hundred shows a year as he has for the past 25 years. This is the core of what he does: music, in a room, performed for a live audience. Check him out at petermulvey.com.
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur, and almost-poet since before he can remember. In 1989 he spent a year in Ireland, busking on the streets of Dublin and hitchhiking to whatever gigs he could find. Back stateside, he spent a couple years gigging through the bars of his native Midwest before taking off for Boston, where he returned to subway busking and coffeehouses. Small shows led to larger shows, which eventually led to regional and then national touring. The wheels have not stopped since.
Twenty albums, one illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDx talk, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp, opening tours and gigs for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, Emmylou Harris and Chuck Prophet, appearances on NPR, an annual autumn tour by bicycle, emceeing festivals, hosting his own Lamplighter Sessions for years in Boston and in Wisconsin… he has built his life’s work on collaboration, on an instinct for the eclectic and the vital.
With his eighteenth record, “There Is Another World,” Mulvey delves into the winter of things. Divorce and death, loss and renewal are all present in a collection of songs that range from terse, haiku-like intensity to warm, evocative poetry. And the poets are littered throughout the record; references to Naomi Shihab Nye, Lorine Niedecker, Ted Kooser, Jim Harrison, Mary Oliver, Rilke, Yeats, and Beckett nestle alongside his musical influences of Greg Brown, Anais Mitchell, and Paul Simon.
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Lost & Found Five Year Anniversary With Glen David Andrews
Come celebrate Lost & Found’s Fifth Anniversary with The Glen David Andrews Band on tour from New Orleans!!!
Glen David Andrews Live @ Lost & Found
September 9th @ 9 pm
942 Broadway Albany NY
September 9th @ 9 pm
942 Broadway Albany NY
Leonardo Suarez Paz – Cuartetango
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
8 P.M.
Tickets: $35 – 65
Arkell Pavilion
Born and raised in Argentina, Leonardo Suarez Paz is known for his uncommon talent as a singer, tango dancer and choreographer. Leonardo Suarez Paz leads his Latin GRAMMY® Award nominated CUARTETANGO string quartet with bandoneon and tango dance. The group “personifies and embodies the authentic spirit of Tango” (Latin GRAMMY®), while making a “serious pitch to the black-tie segment” (LA Times) in a show that has been hailed as an “ingenious musical concept: classic tango music of the 1940s and ‘50s is fused with the harmonic and rhythmic construct of contemporary nuevo tango – and it’s performed by a classically trained quartet. Throw in dance, poetry, and visuals – and the whole thing is a Force 5 sensorial explosion.” (The Day, CT)
Enjoy dinner at SVAC’s curATE café before the performance. Visit OpenTable for reservations or call 802-362-9100.
Dylan’s Birthday Bash – A Benefit Concert for Dylan McDonnell
A family friendly fundraiser event to support our friend, Dylan McDonnell and his journey with Fredrick’s Ataxia (FA).
Live music by:
The East End Boys
Margo Macero
Dirt Cheap
The Brain Darts Duo
Bobby Dick
Many more!
$10 at the door
We are lifelong friends of Dylan McDonnell. As you may know, Dylan is diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia or FA, a debilitating, life-shortening, degenerative neuro-muscular disorder. In years past, the McDonnell family has organized the McDonnell Music Festival notably raising more than one-hundred thousand dollars, graciously donating all monies directly to the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.
FA has no cure. Dylan suffers the progressive loss of coordination and muscle strength. Dylan’s already limited movement is adversely impacted and he relies on the use of a wheelchair. The time has come as the need has never been greater for Dylan to realize the benefit of community fundraising efforts. With your help, we seek to offset costs living with FA, purposefully:
- to promote freedom of mobility and prevalent well-being;
- to maintain and insure an accessible van, to procure its longevity; and
- to produce a night of music and friendly camaraderie featuring local musicians and celebration event to be held at The Queensbury Hotel on Friday, September 30th— Dylan’s 45th Birthday.
As you may relate, our hometown swells with pride. It is important that we recognize one of our own; aptly all together—undeniably—nobody is more deserving than Dylan. We are grateful to be a part of this tight-knit and giving community. Your contribution will absolutely make Dylan’s birthday shine brightest knowing that our fabric is peacefully laced and spiritedly interwoven.
Please join in our celebration. Your gift is certainly appreciated. We applaud your generosity. Thank you!
Respectfully yours,
Jeremy Carner
Eric Hammer
Gin Blossoms
Come enjoy the band that are no strangers to a great performance and an even better time when the Gin Blossoms come to Stratton on Saturday, September 3rd for an outdoor show like no other as part of the 2022 Mountain Music Series.
Doors open at 5:30PM with the opening set from 6PM to 7PM. The Gin Blossoms are set to hit the stage at 7:30PM.
Bacchanalia Arts & Music Festival
Bacchanalia Arts & Music Festival is a brand new showcase of talent from around the state and around the globe. From September 30th to October 2nd, 2022, the streets of Troy, NY will be filled with vibrance and volume as the inaugural year of Bacchanalia transforms the city into an entertainment paradise. That means:
- Live performances in more than 10 venues across the city
- Outdoor main stage with national headliners
- Food trucks and pop-ups
- Retail vendors
- Art exhibits + live art
Each festival ticket comes with a wristband that gets you into all events for the entire three day festival! Come and go freely between any venue and catch artists in all of the city’s amazing entertainment spaces. Tickets for individual events can also be purchased at the door of each event – availability will be limited and wristband holders will receive priority access. Prices for tickets sold at the door will vary.
Participating Venues:
Whiskey Pickle (Main Stage Location)
No Fun
Rare Form Brewing
The Ruck
Brown’s Brewing Company
Slidin’ Dirty
El Dorado
Franklin Alley Social Club
The Bradley
Bacchanalia Arts & Music Festival
Bacchanalia Arts & Music Festival is a brand new showcase of talent from around the state and around the globe. From September 30th to October 2nd, 2022, the streets of Troy, NY will be filled with vibrance and volume as the inaugural year of Bacchanalia transforms the city into an entertainment paradise. That means:
- Live performances in more than 10 venues across the city
- Outdoor main stage with national headliners
- Food trucks and pop-ups
- Retail vendors
- Art exhibits + live art
Each festival ticket comes with a wristband that gets you into all events for the entire three day festival! Come and go freely between any venue and catch artists in all of the city’s amazing entertainment spaces. Tickets for individual events can also be purchased at the door of each event – availability will be limited and wristband holders will receive priority access. Prices for tickets sold at the door will vary.
Participating Venues:
Whiskey Pickle (Main Stage Location)
No Fun
Rare Form Brewing
The Ruck
Brown’s Brewing Company
Slidin’ Dirty
El Dorado
Franklin Alley Social Club
The Bradley
Bacchanalia Arts & Music Festival
Bacchanalia Arts & Music Festival is a brand new showcase of talent from around the state and around the globe. From September 30th to October 2nd, 2022, the streets of Troy, NY will be filled with vibrance and volume as the inaugural year of Bacchanalia transforms the city into an entertainment paradise. That means:
- Live performances in more than 10 venues across the city
- Outdoor main stage with national headliners
- Food trucks and pop-ups
- Retail vendors
- Art exhibits + live art
Each festival ticket comes with a wristband that gets you into all events for the entire three day festival! Come and go freely between any venue and catch artists in all of the city’s amazing entertainment spaces. Tickets for individual events can also be purchased at the door of each event – availability will be limited and wristband holders will receive priority access. Prices for tickets sold at the door will vary.
Participating Venues:
Whiskey Pickle (Main Stage Location)
No Fun
Rare Form Brewing
The Ruck
Brown’s Brewing Company
Slidin’ Dirty
El Dorado
Franklin Alley Social Club
The Bradley
Stone Temple Pilots w/s/g Robot Monster
The 2022 Summer Concert Series at Frog Alley Brewing continues with Stone Temple Pilots and special guests Robot Monster stopping by for an evening of music on Saturday, September 10th.
THIS IS A 21+ SHOW
PearlPalooza After Party w/ The Luka State ***FREE***
THIS IS A FREE SHOW
After Pearlpalooza wraps up, keep the party going right next door at Empire Underground. The Luka State and special guest Mickey James play the official Pearlpalooza after party!
7pm doors * 7:30pm show
PearlPalooza 2022
Remarkable Liquids presents, Pearlpalooza 2022! A FREE event on Saturday, September 17th, 2022. Join us on North Pearl Street (between Sheridan & Pine Streets) for a day packed full of incredible live music and awesome events!
Starting at 11:00am MVP Health Care presents YogaPalooza! The Capital Region’s only street-wide mass yoga gathering returns for its sixth year! Instructors from the Hot Yoga Spot lead a free, one-hour, all-levels yoga class from the stage. YogaPalooza is presented by MVP Health Care, in association with The Hot Yoga Spot, The Hollow Bar + Kitchen, Best Fitness, and the Renaissance Albany Hotel. Register to participate at thehotyogaspot.com.
Then, the music gets going!
At 12:00pm – BattleaXXX – BattleaXXX is a hard-rocking trio of ladies from Albany, New York, who take their fun very, very seriously. As Nippertown.com puts it: “BattleaXXX will surprise, shock and delight you; the sassy, catchy tunes and over-the-top clever lyrics will follow you for days after, making you come back again and again…” – Nippertown.com
At 1:30pm – Precious Metals – Precious Metals is a solo endeavor led by Troy, NY singer-songwriter J Lee White, featuring a rolling cast of contributors. The band’s high energy alt-rock sound pulls from the early 2000s emo explosion and 2010s indie rock revival.
At 3:00pm – The Kaleidoscope Kid – Arizona newcomer The Kaleidoscope Kid is here with his self-titled Suburban Noize Records album debut. Blending counter-culture music with his broad musical and personal appeal, The Kaleidoscope Kid is a gifted songwriter, artist, and designer.
At 4:30pm – Whole Damn Mess – Packing a punch with their unbridled energy and songcraft, the Los Angeles band – Don Miggs, C.Todd Nielsen, Lawrence Katz, and Greg Hansen – forge an instant connection through familiar rock and roll sounds and anthems.
And at 6:00pm – A DJ set from Phantogram –
Since the arrival of 2010’s debut release, Eyelid Movies, the duo has amassed over a billion streams, achieved one platinum-certified single, two gold-certified singles, collaborated with legends such as Tom Morello, Billy Corgan, The Flaming Lips, and Miley Cyrus, partnered with Big Boi of Outkast to form supergroup Big Grams, headlined sold out shows worldwide, become a festival staple and toured with artists including Arcade Fire, The xx, Muse, M83, alt-J, and more. The duo will spin a mix of their songs and influences as part of this special DJ set.
$5 event parking is available at ParkAlbany’s Riverfront, Quackenbush, and Green-Hudson Garages, just a few blocks from the action! Find more at downtownalbany.org/parking.
PearlPalooza 2022 is presented by Remarkable Liquids, in association with WEQX, Sugar Productions, the Downtown Albany BID, O’Connell & Aronowitz, Silver Therapeutics, Albany Parking Authority, MVP Health Care, Albany Distilling Company, Best Fitness, The Renaissance Albany Hotel, The Hollow Bar + Kitchen, Hampton Inn & Suites Albany-Downtown, Empire Live, The Hot Yoga Spot, and The City of Albany.
Magic City Hippies w/s/g Willis
Magic City Hippies make their way to The Hollow Bar & Kitchen on Saturday, August 27th along with special guests Willis for an evening of music.
More on Magic City Hippies via THEIR WEBSITE
The Garcia Project
MUSIC HALL ARTS ALLIANCE PRESENTS THE RETURN OF…
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 AT 10:00AM
OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT 518-434-0776 TO SAVE ON PROCESSING FEES
The Garcia Project’s performances are based on actual set lists performed by The Jerry Garcia Band. All of their shows are classic recreations of a Jerry Garcia Band set list from 1976 to 1995. For anyone that never had a chance to experience the Jerry Garcia Band or for fans that want to relive a classic show, The Garcia Project delivers.
With precise arrangements and the proper instrumentation and feel for the various eras, The Garcia Project faithfully channels and projects the feelings, emotions and music that propelled the Jerry Garcia Band and the fans through many years of musical bliss.
Praised by Dennis McNally, the press, and fans, The Garcia Project has been recreating classic Jerry Garcia Band set lists with stunning accuracy and detail. They recently finished their new album called “Spirit: a tribute to Jerry Garcia and the spiritual songs he performed”, produced by Maria Muldaur and featuring Jerry Garcia’s bandmates Peter Rowan, Jacklyn LaBranch, Buzz Buchanan and Maria Muldaur.
“I spent a lot of nights in a lot of places with the Jerry Garcia Band, and I’m here to say that I really enjoy what The Garcia Project does with those memories. Mik’s guitar and his and Kat’s vocals stir up some very sweet vibes…sometimes they almost make me feel like I’m back in, say, 1992 at the Warfield. Check ‘em out.” — Dennis McNally, former publicist for the Jerry Garcia Band
“For those of us who crave late 70’s (and through the 80’s and 90’s) Jerry Garcia Band, The Garcia Project scratches that itch for hearing live renditions of Jerry Garcia Band shows from that period.”— Bob Minkin, legendary Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band rock photographer
“I became an official member of The Garcia Band in 1977 through 1979…. Recently, I was asked to sit in with a wonderful band called The Garcia Project, who lovingly and reverently recreate different specific sets of the Garcia Band in their hayday. They don’t merely recreate Jerry’s music, they are channeling it. The Garcia Project brings us all back to that special time and I’m excited and blessed to participate in giving new and old audiences alike, the chance to relive the Spirit & Magic of the Jerry Garcia Band.”— Maria Muldaur
“…it was hard to tell that it wasn’t Jerry signing on “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down…The Garcia Project’s attention to detail on intonation and performance structure does set them apart as an authority on Jerry Garcia.” – NYS Music
“In order for a tribute band to be successful, fans need to look at them as the authority on the artist they are emulating. The Garcia Project pulls it off effortlessly. Go see them live …The Garcia Project is the whole package.”– Jim Gilbert, Upstate Live
“The Garcia Project was on point with the whole experience and it didn’t seem like a cover band more like a mirrored band…they are just as real as the Jerry Garcia Band. “– Buffalo FM Review
“”Deadicated“ to carrying on the music and vibe of Jerry that so many still carry in their hearts.”– Albany Times Union
Ray LaMontagne – ***POSTPONED***
*THIS SHOW HAS BEEN POSTPONED – A MAKE UP DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE FUTURE*
Musician Ray LaMontagne plays a show at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, New York on Sunday, November 6th.
