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!
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to see Altan @ The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Friday and we’re choosing the winner this afternoon!
Congratulations to Lorre S, who won a pair of free tickets to see Altan tomorrow (Friday) at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
We still have a contest running to see Sisters in Soul, featuring Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette and Maria Muldaur at the Music Hall on Sunday. And we’ll have more contests next week, so be sure to stop back.
Bettye Lavette at the Freihofer’s Jazz Festival in 2009 (photo by Andrzej Pilarczyk)
“‘Rockin’ Robin.’ I thought that was the best-sounding song I’d ever heard in my entire life. I guess I was 11.
It’s interesting that you say ‘bought,’ because we had a jukebox in our house, so for many years I didn’t have to buy any records. All the popular records were on the jukebox. It was so pretty. My family didn’t know that everything old was going to be new again, so it just went by the way.”
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has a triple-powerhouse show rolling in this Sunday, with Sisters In Soul featuring Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette and Maria Muldaur, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky Nippertown reader.
To enter the drawing, simply send an email to sisters@nippertown.com. We’ll pick a name at random on Friday afternoon. Good luck!
Happy Monday! It’s time for a another ticket giveaway! Just in time to celebrate an early St. Patrick’s day, we have a pair of tickets to see Celtic legends Altan on Friday at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, and we’re giving them away to a lucky Nippertown reader. To enter the drawing, send an email to altan@nippertown.com. We’ll draw a name at random on Thursday afternoon. Good luck!
Full disclosure: I first fell in love with Danny Barnes‘ music years ago at the long-defunct Pauly’s Hotel when he was tearing up Metallica covers on clawhammer banjo.
That was back when he was leading his neo-old-timey band the Bad Livers (still one of the all-time great band names).
With his brand new album, Barnes is still rooted in the Americana trenches, but he fearlessly mashes up his roots sound with, well, whaddaya got?
What becomes a legend most? Well, if we’re talking about one of the world’s foremost purveyors of acoustic music, then the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall was just what the doctor ordered for mandolin master David Grisman, who brought his quintet “plus…” to the acoustic marvel on Saturday night.
Troy is the place to be for the adventurous music fan on Wednesday with three free intriguing events:
First, head on over to EMPAC between 12noon-6pm to see Chris Salter: Just Noticeable Difference (JND): Sensory Reduction Environment, an installation that explores the aesthetic experience at the threshold of sensory perception. Visitors enter an environment of almost total darkness and silence but once inside find that the chamber emits micro-levels of visual, auditory, and tactile feedback that changes in response to their movements. (The exhibit continues through Saturday with a panel discussion with the artist and RPI faculty at 7pm on Thursday.)
Next, head on down the street to West Hall, where the White Light Ensemble is reprising White Light, a 20-minute interactive light and sound performance, followed by a reception and refreshments. 6pm.
And then it’s off to the Gasholder Building for Blair Neal’s thesis performance, Overflow, a one-hour show that uses multiple projectors and a wide range of instruments to explore relationships between music and live interactive visuals, all in a wonderfully resonant space. You are requested to bring a flashlight. And don’t forget to dress warmly. 7pm.
SOLOS^2 is a series of events designed to explore the acoustics of the concert hall. To kick off the series, EMPAC is presenting Sopranos + Piano featuring Gaudeamus Prize winning soprano Tony Arnold, soprano Haleh Abghari and pianist Jacob Greenberg from the New York City and Chicago-based International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).
But it’s a concert with a twist: the EMPAC director Johannes Goebel and music curator Micah Silver will be leading and/or encouraging folks to move around the space while the performance is happening in order to draw attention to the acoustics of the concert hall and its part in this (and any) performance. It’s a fantastic opportunity for any music lover to gain a deeper appreciation of musical timbre and directionality and to get a closer peek at the acoustical considerations that went into the design of EMPAC’s main hall.
We’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway to one lucky Nippertown reader – simply send an email to solos@nippertown.com. We’ll draw a name at random and announce the winner on Thursday afternoon. Good luck!
Sometimes a name is bantered around in certain small circles, but few in the mainstream really know who that is because they’ve really only heard it or saw it in print somewhere. Mention premier Australian acoustic guitarist Tommy Emmanuel to most people, and you’ll get a blank stare. Mention him to most guitar players of any style of music, however, and their eyes light up as they say things like, “Didn’t he play with Chet Atkins?” or “Aren’t the late Les Paul, Eric Clapton and Joe Satriani big fans of his?” or “Wow, that guy is truly amazing!”
All these things are true.
And if you were lucky enough to be in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall last Saturday night among the devoted fans who filled the hall right up past the balcony and into the second tier of box seats – you know without a doubt it’s all true.
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has a triple-powerhouse show rolling in this Sunday, with Sisters In Soul featuring Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette and Maria Muldaur, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky Nippertown reader. 
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