Joan Baez at The Egg — March 21, 2008
Joan Baez at The Egg — the voice of a generation, the queen of protest folk, still performing with clarity and conviction decades after Woodstock.
Tom Paxton at San Remo Coffee House — March 24, 1962
Tom Paxton at the San Remo Coffee House in Schenectady — one of the great folk songwriters of the ’60s in a tiny coffeehouse.
Livingston Taylor / Aztec Two-Step at Campus Center Ballroom (SUNYA) — March 16, 1975
Livingston Taylor (James Taylor’s brother) and local favorites Aztec Two-Step at the SUNYA Campus Center Ballroom.
Richie Havens at Proctor’s Theatre — March 16, 2010
Richie Havens — the man who opened Woodstock — at Proctor’s Theatre.
Loggins & Messina / Delaney & Bonnie / Billy Preston at University Gym, SUNY-Albany — March 17, 1972
A stacked triple bill at SUNY-Albany: Loggins & Messina, Delaney & Bonnie, and Billy Preston.
Indigo Girls at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall — March 17, 2019
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — the Indigo Girls — at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Their harmonies in that acoustically perfect room were a natural fit. The Indigo Girls…
Paul Simon at Knickerbocker Arena — March 18, 1991
On this day in 1991, Paul Simon brought the Born at the Right Time tour to the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany. Fresh off “The Rhythm of the Saints,” Simon was…
Richard Thompson / Roger McGuinn at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall — March 20, 1992
Two folk-rock legends at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall: Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention) and Roger McGuinn (The Byrds). Together in Troy’s acoustically perfect hall — a folk-rock fan’s dream.
Ani DiFranco at Palace Theatre — March 14, 1997
Buffalo’s own Ani DiFranco at the Palace Theatre — the fiercely independent artist who built Righteous Babe Records from nothing was one of upstate New York’s most important musical exports….
Pete Seeger at University Gym, SUNY-Albany — March 12, 1969
Pete Seeger at SUNY-Albany — the folk legend and activist who gave the world “If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!” Seeger was a Hudson Valley institution, and…