Holly & Evan (photo by Joel Patterson)
There’s no better cure for the blues than the blues… So shake off those mid-winter blues with a double-barrelled blast of the blues at Albany’s Steamer No. 10 Theatre this Saturday evening (February 23).
“Blues for the Steamer” is a benefit concert for the theater, and the dynamic double-bill features some of the finest talents on the Capital Region blues scene.
Holly & Evan (photo by Andrzej Pilarczyk)
Story by Wanda Callagy
Photographs by Robin Murray, Andrzej Pilarczyk and Wanda Callagy
Holly & Evan, Joe Lowry & the Second Mile Blues Band and Tas Cru and his band Tortured Souls are on the road – all the way to Memphis…
The folks at the 29th annual International Blues Challenge will hear more than 200 blues acts – bands, duos and solo bluesmen and women – from around the globe throughout the week-long competition, and these talented Local 518 musicians will be part of it all.
Video by Joel Patterson
Who was the best dressed blues duo in the Capital District last Saturday night? It had to be Holly & Evan at the Albany Sunspot Cafe. Here they warm up the crowd with their own take on the classic Temptations tune…
Video by Joel Patterson
There were far too many exciting performers at the recent Saratoga First Night in Saratoga Springs to mention… but people who wandered into the Arts Center on Broadway got a rare treat. Here is a 13-minute medley of “Me & the Devil” / “Too Little” / “Shoe Song,” served up by Holly & Evan, with a special boost from Ted Hennessy:
Additional photographs from First Night Saratoga, 12/31/11
Photographs by Andrzej Pilarczyk, Nippertown chief photographer
Welcome to 2012!
New Year’s Eve in Saratoga Springs has become quite the Nippertown tradition, and for music fans, there’s certainly no shortage of things to do. It’s a non-stop cavalcade of some of our finest homegrown musical talent – jazz, rock, Celtic, country, blues, zydeco, folk, bluegrass and more. Just about every kind of musical style was in the air somewhere around town during the annual First Night Saratoga celebration. All total, there were more than 70 performances and happenings taking place at nearly three dozen different performance venues.
Obviously, we couldn’t get to all of them, but here’s a sampling of what Nippertown chief photographer Andrzej Pilarczyk saw during his trek through the final moments of 2011:
Holly & Evan ease their way through a smokey, sublime rendition of “123″ with some help from special guest blues harpist Ted Hennessey of the Doornails.
Video by Joel Patterson of Mountaintop Studios
Chandler Travis (right) with his singing valet Fred Boak
Last week, the Chandler Travis Philharmonic was on a blitzkreig mission, strafing Nippertown with their Spike Jones-meets-Ringling Brothers riotous rock-and-jazz hybrid sound. They tore it up at Zaika in Clifton Park last Thursday, threw it down at Peint O’Grw in Chatham on Friday and wrapped up the big lost weekend at the Lion’s Den at the Red Lion in Stockbridge on Sunday.
On Saturday evening, however, they kicked off the official launch of the 2011 Riverlink Park Concert Series in Amsterdam with a night of pure magical, musical mayhem. Hometown acoustic blues duo Holly & Evan shared the stage.
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