Top Tips for Live Music (for the week beginning December 21st)
An expectedly quiet Christmas Week, after a good ol’ fashioned Nor’easter guaranteed it will be a snowy one. If you celebrate, I hope you have a safe and happy Christmas.

Best bet: The Linda brings us a (livestreamed) rockabilly Holiday Extravaganza with the Lustre Kings on Monday. And if Mark and the boys aren’t enough for you (but really, how could they not be?), Renaissance woman and local fav Erin Harkes opens the show. Get your week started off right..
Live this week:
Monday, December 21
- Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: Rick’s Picks Local Showcase: Carolyn Shapiro / Lucas Garrett (7:00)
- The 8th Step presents {online}: Magpie & Reggie Harris (8:00)
- The Linda Open for Take-Out {online}: The Lustre Kings / Erin Harkes (8:00)
Wednesday, December 23
- Nanola: Timbre Coup (6:30)
- Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: Saratoga Acoustic Blues Society (7:00)
- Troy Music Hall presents {online}: Blind Boys of Alabama (9:00)
Saturday, December 26
- Nanola: Legend (6:30)
- Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: The Racquette River Rounders (8:00)
- New York Rock ‘n Roots presents {online}: Hope for the Holidays with The Charlie Smith Blues Band (8:00)
Sunday, December 27
- Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}: Amy Helm (7:00)
Just announced:
New York Rock ‘n Roots presents {online}:
- {January 2} Hope for the Holidays with Wild Adriatic / Let’s Be Leonard (8:00)
Caffe Lena Live Stream {online}:
- {January 2} Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen (8:00)
- {January 3} Bernice & Mariah Lewis (7:00)
- {January 4} Rick’s Picks Local Showcase: Andy Iorio / George Krakat (7:00)
- {January 8} Maswick & Brown (8:00)
- {January 10} North Country Jazz Collective (7:00)
- {January 11} Rick’s Picks Local Showcase: Phil Henry / Kate McDonald (7:00)
- {January 14} presents Mark Erelli from the Me&Thee Coffeehouse in Marblehead, MA (7:00)
- {January 15} Hayley Reordan (8:00)
The Linda Open for Take-Out {online}:
- {January 11} Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones (8:00)
- {January 18} Mirk (8:00)
- {January 25} Beargrass (8:00)
Did you miss last week’s concert announcements? Find them here.