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Be Here Now: Sisters in Soul @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 3/14/10

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Oh boy!

Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball and Bettye LaVette – all in one concert at 7pm on Sunday and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

We here at Nippertown.com are very excited about this concert, and we’re giving away a pair of tix for the show. Just go here for details. We’ll be picking a winner later today, so enter now.

And we were going to write this big, long story about what an incredible soul singer Ms. LaVette is. We were going to rave about previous performances of her’s that we’ve seen at the Iron Horse Music Hall and the Freihofer’s Jazz Festival. But then we realized that we didn’t have to. All we really need to do is give you the opportunity to hear her sing. So here you go, Bettye LaVette singing the Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors:

We’ll see you at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Sunday!

Vaudeville Ain’t Dead…

Friday, November 27th, 2009

…it just smells that way!

Here’s a charming little vaudeville routine as performed by the Gallus Brothers (Devin Champlin and Lucas Hicks), who were half of Maria Muldaur’s Garden of Joy Jug Band when they rolled through town recently making stops at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock and the Van Dyck in Schenectady.

Enjoy!

LIVE: Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy Jug Band @ the Van Dyck, 11/6/09

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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From the start, these guys blew the hat right off of my head. And I mean that in the very best way possible.

Opening with W.C. Handy’s nugget “Memphis Blues,” they were ragged, but oh-so-right. Kit Stovepipe on lead vocals and resonator guitar. Devin Champlin on tenor banjo. And the mighty mighty Lucas Hicks on all things percussive.

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Maria Muldaur, What Was the First Album You Ever Bought?

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

MariaMuldaur“I remember that when I was 13 years old, my Aunt Olympia bought me Elvis Presley’s first album on Sun Records – the one with ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ and ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky.’

I found it years later, and there were these little pink lipstick marks all over the album cover where I had kissed my hero. It just cracked me up.

But I’ve got to admit that I just loved Elvis, and he can still make me swoon. I think he’s so sexy and such a great singer, too.”

Maria Muldaur sashays into the Van Dyck in Schenectady on Friday for two shows (7 & 9:30pm) in support of her brand new back-to-her-jug-band-roots album, “Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy.”

Comin’ up @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has announced a dozen performances for its 2009-2010 concert season. It’s got everything from bluegrass (Rhonda Vincent & the Rage) to Celtic sounds (Altan) to swing (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s tribute to the great Cab Calloway).

Best of the batch? No question about it – knockout soul singer Bettye LaVette teams up with piano pounder Marcia Ball and Maria Muldaur for the “Sisters in Soul” concert on Sunday, March 14.

Here’s the line-up of shows:

Saturday, October 24: Robert Earl Keen, Bruce Robison and Todd Snider
Friday, October 30: Rhonda Vincent & the Rage
Sunday, November 1: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
Friday, November 6: 1964 The Tribute
Friday, November 20: Frank Sinatra, Jr.: “Sinatra Sings Sinatra”
Friday, December 11: “Scrooge,” In Concert
Sunday, December 20: The Vienna Choir Boys
Friday, February 12: Jim Brickman
Saturday, February 20: Tommy Emmanuel
Friday, March 12: Altan
Sunday, March 14: “Sisters in Soul” featuring Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette and Maria Muldaur
Friday, March 19: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: A Tribute to Cab Calloway

Tickets are available to Music Hall members now, and they’ll go on sale to the general public on Thursday, August 6.

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