Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

Great Blue Heron Music Festival

Great Blue Heron Music Festival aerial view in Sherman NY

For over 30 years, the Great Blue Heron Music Festival has gathered roots music lovers on a 200-acre family farm in Sherman, NY for a Fourth of July weekend of Americana, jam bands, camping, and community unlike any other festival in the state.

Estival Festival

Estival Festival main gates at Sugar Mountain Caneadea NY

Tucked into the rolling hills of Allegany County, about an hour south of Rochester and a world away from everything else, Sugar Mountain is the kind of place that feels like it was built specifically for a music festival.

Neighbor at Putnam Place | March 28, 2026

Neighbor performing live

The room is small enough that there’s not a bad spot in the house — which matters for a band like Neighbor, where the conversation between players is half the show. Catch them at Putnam Place on March 28, 2026. Don’t miss it.

Grateful Dub at Putnam Place | April 24, 2026

Roots of Creation performing live

Performed by the band Roots of Creation — veterans of the reggae-jam crossover world — the project pulls in rotating guest musicians from the broader jam scene to keep things loose and alive. Grateful Dub is live at Putnam Place on April 24, 2026. Tickets are moving.

Weird Phishes at Putnam Place | May 15, 2026

Weird Phishes performing live

Weird Phishes — the Cambridge band that plays Radiohead songs in the style of Phish and Phish songs in the style of Radiohead — brings their mind-bending mashup to Putnam Place in Saratoga Springs on Friday, May 15. Support from Strange Machines. Doors 7 PM, show 8 PM. 18+. Advance tickets $18.

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