As part of the ongoing sesquicentennial celebration of the Civil War, The Earlville Opera House and Smithfield Community Association have teemed up to offer two concerts this spring. The first one is Saturday May 19th and is called John Brown's Ghost. It will take place at historic Madison Hall in Morrisville. The second concert is part of the annual Civil War Weekend in Peterboro. It will take place on Friday June 8th, at the Earlville Opera House in Earlville. 
Add Comment The Barge, 37 Lebanon St., Hamilton is pleased to be hosting the 2nd Annual “Treasures in the Heart of New York” Benefit on Saturday, March 31st from 8-12pm.  Come join rising local talent Joe Mettler (folk/roots) opening for the Brooklyn based duo Courtesy Tier (blues/rock/jazz) fresh from playing SXSW in Austin Texas. Both these talents can be found on the new album "Treasures in the Heart of NY Volume II." Hard copies of the CD will be available for purchase. 100% of proceeds go to the Food Cupboards of Upstate NY. There will also be a raffle of local and baked goods during the evening. We will also be accepting donations of canned goods, non perishables, laundry soap, diapers, un-opened tooth-brushes, toothpaste etc... "Treasures in the Heart of NY Volume II" includes 21 original or traditional tracks. The album consists of many local artists, musicians formerly from CNY and bands with ties to the area. Included this year are; Fetish Lane, Chris Joyce, Lady Clown (featuring Geoff Kraly), Pamme Swan, McMule, Jason Lefevre, The Sapphire Trio (featuring John Murphy), Courtesy Tier, Nate Gross, Chris "Isto" White, Edwin Vollmer, The Easy Ramblers, Blaine Holcomlb, James Wunderlich, Williams Road, Ryan Hoopes, Flyinfisch', Matthew Hinsley, Lost Limber and Crooning Buffalo (featuring Joe Mettler and Brendan O'Connor). These artists represent everything from Country, Bluegrass, Jazz, Americana, Reggae, Singer/Songwriter, Classical Guitar, Folk, Blues and Rock. Purchase of the hard copy of the CD will give a link to the website containing bonus tracks by Zachary Fleitz and Son Bully (formerly Same Blood Folk Band). With large cuts in CNY's Food Cupboard/Pantries funding, it is important now more than ever to help the 1 in 6 families that are food insecure. The rise in prices of basic groceries and the rise of job insecurity are two major reasons why we need to keep supporting our local Food Cupboards/Pantries. Not only does this project help families, but it also helps spread the great music we have locally an regionally. Please donate with dignity and support local and live music! For more information please contact Sean Nevison: csnevison@gmail.com Opera singer Elizabeth Bouk (mezzo-soprano) performs music of Gershwin, Porter & Weill with pianist Dianne McDowell on Friday March 30 from 7 to 9 pm at The Barge, 37 Lebanon St., Hamilton. Come and enjoy an evening of toe-tapping classics from the Golden Age of Musical Theater that are sure to make you smile! The performance at the Barge is free and open to the public. Elizabeth recently appeared in Syracuse Opera's La Traviata (Flora) and in The Society for New Music's Eleanor (French Woman). Upcoming engagements include Syracuse Opera's Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton), Sackets Harbor Vocal Arts Ensemble's Elijah (Soloist), and The Catskill Choral Society's Messiah (Soloist). For more details visit elizabethbouk.com. The Barge is pleased to announce that Indie Accoustic Rock Artist of the Year Mike Mizwinski will be performing on Sat March 24th @ 8 pm. MiZ is a soulful, Rock-Americana artist from Northeast Pennsylvania USA who is known as an acoustic and electric guitar virtuoso. His sound is directly impacted by the coal mining region of PA and the songs evoke the rustic tones and imagery you would expect from the region and it's cultural heritage. The singer / songwriter / guitarist Mike Mizwinski’s solo work is his heart and soul-- poured into the words and his guitar-- that drives it all forward. In the last year MiZ has opened for Bob Dylan, Derek Trucks Band, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Blues Traveler, Shawn Colvin, Leon Russell, Railroad Earth and many more. Mike has played over 450 shows since 2010 spanning from Germany - Northern Canada - Los Angeles - Austin, Texas - New York City and everywhere in between. Come see Mike solo acoustic at the Barge, 37 Lebanon St., Hamilton on March 24 @ 8pm. As always the show is free and open to the public The Barge, 37 Lebanon St., Hamilton is pleased and excited to announce that Chris White will be returning on Sat Feb 18th. Showtime is 8 pm and is free and open to the public.  Chris White is a guitarist/singer/composer originally from Hamilton, NY. He currently lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches guitar and performs under the stage name “Isto”. Although he has written hundreds of songs and plays in a large variety of different styles, he is most well known for his interpretations of jazz and pop standards and for his silly original songs. He performs regularly at the Roots and Ruckus Showcase in Brooklyn, where he performs songs by people whose birthday it is. It is not uncommon for him to sing in strange voices. If you haven’t experienced one of Chris’ shows yet you’re sure to be amazed! If you have seen him before you know that this is a show you won’t want to miss. Live Space Entertainment, in association with Cazenovia College, presents SAMMY award-winning acoustic guitar standouts Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb live on stage at Catherine Cummings Theatre, 16 Lincklaen St., in Cazenovia, on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m.Cazenovia-based band The Unstoppables will open the show.  Doors open at 7 p.m., and a cash bar is available. General admission is $15, Students, $5. Tickets are available at the door, by calling 315-655-STAR, at Cazenovia Jewelry and at Sound Garden in Armory Square. Barrigar, a native of Central New York, and Mazengarb, from New Zealand, have teamed up to form an incredibly dynamic finger-picking guitar duo, winning the hearts of music fans across Upstate New York.They have now gotten the attention of fans and festivals around the globe.After their Cazenovia "Bon Voyage" show, they head to the International Folk Alliance Music Conference in Memphis, Tenn., and then to the Cordes Sensibles Guitar Festival in Bordeaux, France. They follow that with a concert in Kaisersesch, Germany. Later this summer they will again headline at the Chet Atkins Festival in Nashville. Both Barrigar and Mazengarb have been heavily influenced by the finger-style picking style of guitar greats such as Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles.For more information about the artists, visit their Website: www.lorenandmark.com. Their show is produced by Live Space Entertainment, www.livespaceentertainment.com.Visit www.cazenovia.edu/theatre for more information about events at the Catherine Cummings Theatre at Cazenovia College. Every so often, just when you think the well is dry and the tradition is dead, you are gratefully reminded that there is still water down there and that the tradition was only sleeping. Morgan O’Kane from Charlottesville, Virginia is one of those reminders. A virtuoso banjo player, shouter and activist now based in New York City, Morgan recalls two other transplanted legendary southern artists; Reverend Gary Davis and Aunt Molly Jackson. Like the reverend, Morgan honed his skills making a living as a busking street artist. Like Aunt Molly, he has kept his connection to his Appalachian home and its issues, taking part in the campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining, which destroys the land and the people who live on it.  “If Jimi Hendrix played the banjo, he might resemble O’Kane, a high-intensity musician who looks like a mechanic in a rural gas station, sings like a man possessed and plays mountain music like it was an avalanche” - Robert Reid, The Record While Morgan O’kane clearly knows his way around the old tunes, he is more interested in creating his own. That’s how the tradition survives – new songs being created on old foundations. This ain’t no revival; this is a contemporary artist who knows where he comes from. Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM Tix $18 Jazz in Caz begins tonight in Cazenovia with performances at the Brae Loch Inn. Colleen Pratt and Friends will take the stage at 8pm. Here is the full schedule of music over the next three days: Thursday September 22nd 8:00 p.m. Colleen Pratt & Friends – outside on the Brae Loch lawn (Brubeck Brothers & Henry Butler will be in attendance) Friday September 23rd 7:30 p.m. Brubeck Brothers Quartet – Chris Brubeck bass, Dan Brubeck drums, Mike DeMicco guitar, Chuck Lamb piano 9:15 p.m. Henry Butler 11:00 p.m. JAZZ AFTER HOURS Seven Stone Steps/Lincklaen House with house band (New this year!) Evan Knight sax, Karl Sterling drums and Tom Witkowski piano. Finger foods and cash bar and all musicians are welcome to jump in. Saturday September 24th 7:30 p.m. Gap Mangione and the New Big Band 8:30 p.m. Jimmy Van Heusen tribute with musical selections of Van Heusen’s performed by the Cazenovia College Singers ‘Swinging on A Star’, David Lowenstein ‘Tender Trap’& ‘Love and Marriage’ and Colleen Prossner ‘Imagination’, audience singing ‘High Hopes’ 9:15 p.m. Gap Mangione and the New Big Band second set 11:00 p.m. JAZZ AFTER HOURS Seven Stone Steps/Lincklaen House with Jazz ‘N Caz house band (New this year!) Evan Knight sax, Ricki Montalbano drums, Andy Carroll piano. Finger foods and cash bar and all musicians welcome to jump in! One of the hottest and most recognized western swing acts will take to the Catherine Cummings Stage in Cazenovia on October 2nd at 8pm. Live Space Entertainment in association with Cazenovia College presents the Austin-based Western Swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown live on stage at Catherine Cummings Theater in Cazenovia Sunday October 2nd at 8:00 PM. Central New York singer/guitarist Loren Barrigar will open the show. Since their debut in 1998, the Hot Club of Cowtown has grown to be the most globe-trotting, hardest swinging western swing trio on the planet. The first American band to tour Azerbaijan, they have opened stadiums for Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson and continue to bring their brand of western swing to audiences around the world. But for guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler/vocalist Elana James, and bassist Jake Erwin it has always been about staying true to their roots. Neil Strauss in the New York Times wrote:”…..conscious always that above all else, the music is for dancing and an old-fashioned good time.” In addition to touring and recording, the Hot Club of Cowtown has been heard often on national radio programs such as Mountain Stage, World Café, A Prairie Home Companion, All things Considered and BBC Live (UK). Multi-SAMMY Award winner Loren Barrigar will bring his fan-friendly show featuring his special brand of song-writing and exceptional guitar work to the concert. He is the youngest instrumentalist to appear on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. Loren was just six years old when he performed with Jim Ed Brown and Minnie Pearl in 1968. He has since produced and recorded a number of critically- acclaimed CD’s, and has had his tunes appear on TV shows such as “ER,” “Young and the Restless,” and on CD’s featuring BB King and Patti Labelle. He recently completed a tour and CD with New Zealander Mark Mazengarb. He has also performed many times with Australian guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel. Hot Club of Cowtown with very special guest Loren Barrigar Sunday, October 2, 2011 Showtime: 8:00 PM Doors 7:00 PM. Catherine Cummings Theatre, 16 Lincklaen St. Cazenovia, NY 13035. Cash bar available. Tickets: General admission $25. Available: www.brownpapertickets.com 800-838-3006 315-655-STAR Cazenovia Jewelry Sound Garden in Armory Sq. Jazz –N-Caz celebrates its 10th year with a tribute to Syracuse native Jimmy Van Heusen, and performances by local and nationally-known jazz and blues artists, Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Brae Loch Inn; Friday, Sept. 23 and Saturday, Sept. 24., at the Catherine Cummings Theatre at Cazenovia College and Seven Stone Steps at the Lincklaen House. Jazz-N-Caz events are free and open to the public. The Catherine Cummings Theatre at Cazenovia College is at 16 Lincklaen Street in Cazenovia. The Jazz-N-Caz schedule may be found on the web at www.cazenovia.edu/jazz. For more information call Colleen Prossner, theatre manager, at 315.655.7238. The weekend kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 22 with Colleen Pratt & Friends at the annual kick-off party on the lawn at the Brae Loch Inn at 8 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., the Brubeck Brothers Quartet returns to Cazenovia, along with Henry Butler, followed by Jazz after Hours at Seven Stone Steps at 11 p.m. The Saturday, Sept. 24 Jazz-N-Caz performances begin at 4 p.m. with the Cazenovia High School Vocal and Jazz ensembles and the Cazenovia College Singers. The evening begins at 7:30 p.m., with Gap Mangione and the New Big Band, and a tribute to the late Jimmy Van Heusen, featuring Van Heusen favorites performed by special guests. At 11 p.m., the weekend winds down with another Jazz after Hours Jam Session at Seven Stone Steps. Cazenovia College, founded in 1824, is an independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college near Syracuse, N.Y., offering a comprehensive liberal arts education in an exceptional community environment, with academic and co-curricular programs devoted to developing leaders in their professional fields. Cazenovia, named one of "America’s Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, is also a national College of Distinction. For more information, visit www.cazenovia.edu. | WelcomeYou've found the official blog for Madison County Tourism, We are located in the heart of Central New York State just minutes from Syracuse and Utica. Stop back often and visit us soon!    Blog RollErie Canalway National Heritage Corridor CategoriesAll ArchivesApril 2012 |
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