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LIVE: Dirty Projectors / Delicate Steve @ Skidmore College’s Williamson Sports Center, 4/13/13

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Dirty Projectors / Delicate Steve @ Skidmore College's Williamson Sports Center, 4/13/13 (photo by Martin Benjamin)

Photographs by Martin Benjamin

David Longstreth led Dirty Projectors into the Skidmore gymnasium earlier this month, marking only the band’s second Nippertown appearance, following an EMPAC-sponsored performance at RPI in Troy back in January 2007. That’s a long wait between shows for the band’s Local 518 fans, and while DP’s sound has grown in the ensuing years, it appears that their audience hasn’t quite matched that growth. Even with opening act Delicate Steve – who headlined at MASS MoCA just a year ago – Skidmore’s annual spring concert didn’t quite even half-fill the gym…

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Skidmore College Announces Spring Rock Concert

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

There was a time not too long ago when nearly all of the Local 518 colleges kept the concert calendar jam packed with a wide variety of top notch national bands and musicians. Those days are over, however, and Skidmore College and RPI (thanks to EMPAC) have emerged as the most adventurous universities on the concert front. Unquestionably.

Now, Skidmore has announced a big spring concert – the Dirty Projectors are headed into Skidmore’s Williamson Sports Center on Saturday, April 13. To the best of my recollection, it will be the band’s first Capital Region concert since playing a free EMPAC-sponsored show at RPI in Troy back in January, 2007.

WHO: Dirty Projectors
WHERE: Skidmore College’s Williamson Sports Center, Saratoga Springs
WHEN: Saturday, April 13, doors open at 8pm; opening act TBA at 9pm; Dirty Projectors at 10pm.
HOW MUCH: $20 in advance ($21.69 with service fee); $25 at the door

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Win FREE TICKETS to Howard Fishman at Skidmore College on Friday!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Howard Fishman

Howard Fishman


Critically acclaimed Brooklyn singer-songwriter Howard Fishman is certainly an ambitious guy. During the course of his impressive musical career, he’s racked up a big batch of rave coast-to-coast reviews from The New York Times (“transcends time and idiom”) to The Los Angeles Times (“At a time when performers in virtually every genre are trying to stretch their stylistic boundaries, Fishman refuses to acknowledge that boundaries exist”).

He’s written “We Are Destroyed,” a jazz opera about the Donner Party (performed at Joe’s Pub in New York City, the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and the Pasadena Playhouse in California) and delved deep into the Big Pink collaborations of Bob Dylan and the Band (“The Basement Tapes Project”).

Then in 2010, the omnivorous music master outdid himself with the simultaneous release of three CDs that each headed off in different directions – both sonically and musically.

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Win FREE TIX to Caffe Lena’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert @ Caffe Lena on Saturday

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Butch Hancock

Butch Hancock

Saturday night (May 19) is gonna be one serious, extra special, double-barrelled celebration at Skidmore College’s Filene Recital Hall in Saratoga Springs. UPDATE: The venue for the concert has changed. The show will now take place at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs.

First off, it’s the 52nd anniversary celebration of the Spa City’s internationally renowned coffeehouse, Caffe Lena.

Secondly, it’s a centennial celebration for the godfather of American folk music, Woody Guthrie, who penned such classic songs as “Pretty Boy Floyd,” “Pastures of Plenty,” “Hard Travelin’,” “Deportees,” “Roll On Columbia,” “Vigilante Man” and one of the best-known American songs of all time, “This Land Is Your Land,” in addition to his countless Dust Bowl ballads.

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Festival Fever: Earth Day Festival @ Skidmore College, 4/21/12

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012


Ava Luna “Calculus”.

Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs will host its third annual Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 21. There will be plenty of Earth Day-themed activities throughout the day including tree planting, clothing swapping, painting (knowing Skidmore, likely body painting) and lots of live music.

Did we mention that it’s free? Not only that, but the fest will also offer free food – from cookies to burgers. You can’t beat that…

Here’s the schedule of music for Skidmore’s Earth Day Festival 2012:

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LIVE: Salmagundi Salon @ Skidmore College, 2/1/12

Thursday, March 15th, 2012
William Kennedy

William Kennedy reading.

Rreview by Kirsten Ferguson
Photographs by Sophie Brill

“Never in the history of publishing has anything like this happened. Writers shouldn’t get accustomed to this,” said author William Kennedy as he stood up to read a pivotal passage from his latest novel, “Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes” at Skidmore College’s first-ever “Salmagundi Salon.”

Dressed in a white summer tux befitting the evening’s tropical theme, Kennedy was clearly moved by the amount of preparation it had taken to transform Skidmore’s Surrey-Williamson Inn into a circa-1958 recreation of “La Floridita” – Ernest Hemingway’s favorite Havana bar.

Musicians and authors – and actors from New York City’s National Theater Company of the United States of America – had been enlisted to recreate bits of Kennedy’s music-centric novel, which takes place in both Cuba and Albany.

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LIVE: TV On the Radio @ Skidmore College, 10/7/11

Thursday, October 13th, 2011
TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio first played in Saratoga Springs in 2007, on a side stage at a WEQX-sponsored festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, at a time when the Brooklyn art rock band was just breaking out beyond college radio and getting more mainstream play with their “Wolf Like Me” single.

It was a sweltering July afternoon, and the band found itself – somewhat ironically – staring straight into the sun as they played their groundbreaking first single, “Staring at the Sun.” But singer Tunde Adebimpe was a whirlwind, bounding around the stage as the band cut through the stupor of the heat with a searing energy.

Four years later, TV on the Radio returned to the area on Friday night to play Skidmore College’s major concert event of the fall semester, and the group is now one of the most acclaimed indie rock bands of the past decade.

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Writers Read @ the New York State Summer Writers Institute

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
(from left) Russell Banks, Francine Prose and William Kennedy

(from left) Russell Banks, Francine Prose and William Kennedy

The New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs celebrates its 25th year of offering classes to students of fiction, non-fiction prose and poetry throughout the month of July. In addition, the Summer Writers Institute also offers a rich schedule of free readings and discussions by a wide variety of acclaimed guest writers.

All readings begin at 8 p.m. in the Davis Auditorium of Palamountain Hall on the Skidmore campus, except where noted. All of the readings are free and open to the public.

Here’s the complete schedule of readings for the 2011 season:

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