Don McLean at Caffe Lena — April 5, 1968
Gordon Lightfoot at Palace Theatre — April 5, 2002
Ani DiFranco at Eighth Step Coffee House — March 31, 1995
Ani DiFranco at the Eighth Step Coffee House — Buffalo’s fiercely independent songwriter in one of Albany’s most intimate folk venues.
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…