Photographs by Michael Seinberg
Downtown Albany was throbbing to the beat on Wednesday night as the Club Life College Invasion Tour took over the Times Union Center in Albany for a marathon bash headlined by Tiesto, with support from the likes of Quintino and Tommy Trash.
Santa arrives
Photographs by Michael Seinberg
The Village of Altamont hosted the 11th annual Victorian Holiday Celebration on Sunday (December 9). The event, which is sponsored by the Altamont Community Tradition (ACT) featured the Victorian Holiday House Tour, the Festival of Trees and a Living Nativity at the Altamont Reformed Church.
One of the highlights is when upwards of 30 Scottish pipe bands march together for the massed bands.
Photographs by Michael Seinberg
The annual Capital District Scottish Games took over the Altamont Fairgrounds in Altamont last weekend, and there was plenty going on – everything from the traditional caber toss to the highland dance competition, from the Celtic Canine Capers to the Northeastern United States Pipe Band Championship.
A young admirer tries to get a baby goat to smile prior to going before the judges.
Photographs by Michael Seinberg
The sights…
The sounds…
The smells…
Ah, those hot August days and fun-filled nights at the Altamont Fair…
The annual fair’s slogan is “Summer. Fun. Tradition.” And that pretty much sums up what it’s all about – from cotton candy and corndogs to racing pigs and Frisbee-catching dogs.
The power chords. The heavy metal shredding. The prog-rock grandiosity. The lights, the lights, the lights… You get the idea, right?
The Dropkick Murphys
Boston-based, working class, punk band Dropkick Murphys’ inaugural Shamrock-N-Roll Festival barreled into the Altamont Fairgrounds last Sunday (September 11) for the second date of the tour, and the band brought with them a cavalcade of high-energy Celtic-rock performers; Stiff Little Fingers, Street Dogs, Chuck Ragan, the Mahones, Big Bad Bollocks and the Parkington Sisters, in what promised to be a rowdy Guinness-soaked, musical free-for-all.
It turned out to be the perfect day for the event. Cool temperatures, mostly sunny skies, the spacious fairgrounds and a cool vibe all combined to make for a top-notch festival filled with great music and a lot of camaraderie amongst the crowd and performers. The bands alternated between two stages that were setup side-by-side which gave the second stage acts even more exposure as the crowd stayed focused in one area rather than having to dash back and forth between distanced setups and really kept things moving with virtually non-stop live music.
A competitor winds up during the stone throw event of the Highland Games athletic competition.
As they used to say in the old “Saturday Night Live” skit, “Welcome to All Things Scottish – if it’s not Scottish, it’s craaaapp!!”
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