Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

The Police at Carrier Dome, Syracuse — April 16, 1982

The Police — On This Day

The Police brought the Ghost in the Machine Tour to the Carrier Dome with staggering numbers: 32,396 tickets sold for a gross of $320,970 — the highest single-show gross of that entire tour leg. Black Uhuru opened. The band brought a horn section called The Chops to replicate the brass-heavy sound of Ghost in the […]

Aretha Franklin at SUNY Albany — April 15, 1972

Aretha Franklin — On This Day

The Queen of Soul was riding one of the most creatively fertile stretches of her career. Three months earlier, she had recorded Amazing Grace over two nights in Los Angeles — a live gospel album that would sell over two million copies and become the best-selling gospel record ever. By the time she hit SUNY […]

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