Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

Cindy Cashdollar

Cindy Cashdollar, slide guitarist from Woodstock, New York

Cindy Cashdollar is one of the most accomplished and versatile string players in American roots music — a Woodstock, New York, native whose mastery of the Dobro, lap steel, and steel guitar has made her the go-to collaborator for artists ranging from Bob Dylan to Asleep at the Wheel. With five Grammy Awards and a […]

Tom Hambridge

Tom Hambridge, Grammy-winning blues producer from Hamburg NY

Tom Hambridge has done more to shape modern blues from behind the console than perhaps any other living producer, and his story starts in Buffalo, New York. Born on December 20, 1960, in Hamburg — a Buffalo suburb — Hambridge was playing drums by age five and landed his first paying gig — a bar […]

Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa, blues guitarist from Utica, New York

Joe Bonamassa picked up a guitar at age four in Utica, New York, and never looked back. By 12, he was opening for B.B. King. By his twenties, he was being called the best blues guitarist of his generation. Today, Bonamassa holds the record for the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard Blues chart […]

Son House

Son House, Delta blues legend who settled in Rochester, New York

Son House is one of the founding voices of the Delta blues, and for the final four decades of his life, he was a Rochester man. Born Eddie James House Jr. on March 21, 1902, in Lyon, Mississippi, near Clarksdale, House spent his early years as a preacher before picking up the guitar at age […]

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