The 10 Greatest Concerts in Woodstock History
Everyone knows that Woodstock happened in Woodstock. Everyone is wrong. The most famous concert in the history of the world — the four days in August 1969 that gave a generation its name — did not take place in the town of Woodstock, New York. It happened on a dairy farm in Bethel, sixty miles […]
Dolly Parton Played Upstate New York for 48 Years. She Never Really Left.
Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80. From the 1968 State Fair in Syracuse to her final tour stop at Artpark in 2016, she played upstate New York for forty-eight years – and through the Imagination Library, she is still arriving in the same counties every month.
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Utica/Rome History
For four days in July of 1999, the eyes of the entire music world were fixed on a decommissioned Air Force base in Rome, New York — and then they watched it burn. They came by the hundreds of thousands, somewhere between 200,000 and a quarter-million people at its peak, to the old runways of […]
Selling Fast: Upstate NY Concerts Where the Good Seats Are Going (Late August 2026)
August is the shortest month on the Upstate concert calendar — not on the clock, but in the way it vanishes. The amphitheater season hits its peak, the marquee names stack three and four deep across a single weekend, and the tickets that looked wide open in June quietly turn into obstructed-view, upper-terrace, singles-only. The […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Saratoga Springs History
On the last Thursday in June of 1985, the traffic on the Northway stopped moving. It stopped because 40,231 people were trying to reach the same lawn at the same time — the largest crowd the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had ever held, or has held since. They came for the Grateful Dead, and they […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in North Country History
From Phish’s 70,000-strong Clifford Ball to the night Frampton Comes Alive! was recorded at SUNY Plattsburgh, a young Bob Dylan in Canton, and the Grateful Dead in the Miracle on Ice rink — the 10 greatest concerts in North Country history, ranked.
The 50 Greatest Music Festivals in Upstate New York History
From Watkins Glen’s 600,000 and the Woodstock trilogy to the Clifford Ball, Camp Bisco, GrassRoots, and beyond — the 50 greatest music festivals in upstate New York history, ranked.
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Poughkeepsie History
From The Police playing to four people at The Chance in 1978 to Metallica, David Bowie, and Bruce Springsteen — the 10 greatest concerts in Poughkeepsie and Mid-Hudson history, ranked.
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Ithaca History
From the Grateful Dead’s legendary 1977 Barton Hall show — a Library of Congress treasure — to Springsteen, Dylan, and Janis Joplin at Cornell, the 10 greatest concerts in Ithaca history, ranked.
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Rochester History
From Elvis’s haunting final-year show to Chuck Mangione’s hometown homecoming and the night the Rolling Stones nearly caused a riot — the 10 greatest concerts in Rochester history, ranked.