Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

From sold-out amphitheater nights to casino showrooms and intimate theaters, country music draws some of the biggest crowds in Upstate New York. Nashville headliners and red-dirt favorites roll through the lawn at SPAC, the sheds at Darien Lake and CMAC, and resort stages like del Lago in the Finger Lakes and Turning Stone in Central NY — with plenty of rising songwriters and Americana acts filling the rooms in between.

This page tracks every country concert we’re following across the region, sorted with the next show first. Mainstream country, outlaw and red-dirt, bluegrass-leaning bills, and crossover Americana all live here in one place.

Coverage spans the Capital Region, Western NY, the Hudson Valley, Central NY, the Finger Lakes, and beyond. Tour routings through Upstate NY fill in fast each spring and summer — we update this guide the moment new dates are announced and include presale and ticket details so you can plan the drive and grab seats early.

More guides: Rock Concerts in Upstate New York  ·  Comedy Shows in Upstate New York  ·  Hip-Hop Concerts in Upstate New York

By region: Country Concerts in Albany & the Capital Region  ·  Country Concerts in Buffalo & Western NY  ·  Country Concerts in the Hudson Valley  ·  Country Concerts in Syracuse & Central NY  ·  Country Concerts in the Finger Lakes

Devendra Banhart at MASS MoCA | October 9, 2026

Devendra Banhart in a theatrical studio portrait, draped in a blue satin gown with chest tattoos

Devendra Banhart joins Gyan Riley and Noah Georgeson as the trio HUG for a seated show at MASS MoCA in North Adams on Friday, October 9. Their self-titled debut on Luaka Bop blends folk, ambient, and experimental music. Tickets from 6.

Chris Janson at Penn’s Peak | February 12, 2027

Chris Janson playing guitar outdoors, wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, in a rural hillside setting

Chris Janson brings Wild Horses to Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe on Friday, February 12, 2027. Grand Ole Opry member, five number-one hits, one of the most engaging live performers in country music. Tickets $46–$56, on sale September 11.

Terri Clark at del Lago Resort & Casino | December 4, 2026

Terri Clark in red blazer and black cowboy hat, official promotional photo

Terri Clark brings her It’s Christmas…Cheers! holiday tour to The Vine Showroom at del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo on December 4, 2026. The show features familiar hits and holiday material from her 2020 Christmas album. Must be 21+; tickets go on sale September 4.

Redd Volkaert at Colony Woodstock | September 27, 2026

Redd Volkaert laughing with a blonde Telecaster guitar at a music venue

Grammy-nominated Telecaster legend Redd Volkaert brings an all-star honky tonk ensemble — including Cindy Cashdollar on steel guitar — to Colony Woodstock on September 27, with the Hudson Valley Flyers opening and dance instruction starting at 6 p.m. Tickets $23–$29.

Ambush at The Port Theatre | November 7, 2026

Ambush trio — Mark McDonell, Kris Lafontaine, and Danny Derue — official band promo photo

Ambush plays The Port Theatre in Cornwall, ON on Saturday, November 7, with a four-hour country and rockabilly show running from 7 to 11 p.m. The Kingston, Ontario trio has spent three decades building a following called the Ambush Army. Tickets are $25.

Hunter Flynn at Empire Underground | October 22, 2026

Hunter Flynn in a golden sunlit field at dusk, smiling — Back to My Roots Tour 2026

Hunter Flynn’s latest single, “You, Not Me,” released this month on Big Machine Records, opens with the kind of swamp-bottom blues that sounds like it was recorded somewhere south of anywhere in particular — cottonmouth imagery, murky water, an antagonist with a concealed knife. Flynn, a Pulaski County, Kentucky singer-songwriter who calls his work “Appalachian […]

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