Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

The Tragically Hip at Northern Lights — April 18, 2007

By 2000, Elton John had been a superstar for three decades and showed no signs of slowing down. The show at Syracuse’s War Memorial at OnCenter came during a stretch where Elton was at peak workload — fresh off an Academy Award for The Lion King, his Aida collaboration headed for Broadway, and still playing […]

Elton John at War Memorial at OnCenter — April 18, 2000

Elton John Medusa Tour 2000 concert poster

Elton John brought his solo piano show to the War Memorial at OnCenter — just Elton and the keys, no band. The setlist drew from across his catalog: “Your Song,” “Daniel,” “Candle in the Wind,” “Bennie and the Jets,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” A soundboard recording of this Syracuse performance survives and circulates […]

Bob Dylan at SUNY Albany — April 18, 1997

Deep in the Never Ending Tour, and critically, five months before Time Out of Mind would drop — the album that won Album of the Year at the Grammys and revived Dylan’s commercial relevance. At the RACC on the SUNY Albany campus, Dylan opened with “Down in the Flood” and closed the encore with “Rainy […]