Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

Grateful Dead at Onondaga War Memorial — April 8, 1982

Grateful Dead — On This Day

The Dead brought their spring 1982 East Coast tour to the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse — a mid-sized arena that fit the band’s early-’80s circuit perfectly. This was the Garcia-in-transition era: between studio albums, keeping the flame alive through live performance. The second set opened with a Playin’ in the Band, wove through Uncle […]

Goose at Putnam Place — March 30, 2018

Goose at Putnam Place in Saratoga Springs — before they became one of the biggest jam bands in the country. In 2018, Goose was still a club act building a…