The 10 Greatest Concerts in Cooperstown/Oneonta History
On a snowy December night in 1977, in a cold college gymnasium in Oneonta, Jerry Garcia played a concert so obscure that for decades it barely existed. The Jerry Garcia Band came to Hartwick College’s Binder Gym on December 3, 1977 — Garcia moonlighting from the Grateful Dead with the side project that let him […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Binghamton History
On April 9, 1987, every last one of the 7,200 seats in the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena was sold, and Bon Jovi walked out in front of a hometown-loud crowd at the exact moment they were becoming the biggest band in America. Slippery When Wet had turned them into superstars — “Livin’ on a […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Glens Falls History
On the night of June 21, 1989, one of the biggest bands in the history of rock and roll walked back onto a stage for the first time in seven years — and they did it in Glens Falls. The Who had been off the road since their 1982 farewell. When they decided to reunite […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Jamestown/Chautauqua History
In June of 1981, it rained inside the Palace Theatre while Harry Chapin sang — and that leak may be the most important thing that ever happened to live music in Jamestown. Chapin, the folk-storyteller behind “Cat’s in the Cradle” and one of the most tireless benefit performers in American music, had come to the […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Woodstock History
Everyone knows that Woodstock happened in Woodstock. Everyone is wrong. The most famous concert in the history of the world — the four days in August 1969 that gave a generation its name — did not take place in the town of Woodstock, New York. It happened on a dairy farm in Bethel, sixty miles […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Utica/Rome History
For four days in July of 1999, the eyes of the entire music world were fixed on a decommissioned Air Force base in Rome, New York — and then they watched it burn. They came by the hundreds of thousands, somewhere between 200,000 and a quarter-million people at its peak, to the old runways of […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Saratoga Springs History
On the last Thursday in June of 1985, the traffic on the Northway stopped moving. It stopped because 40,231 people were trying to reach the same lawn at the same time — the largest crowd the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had ever held, or has held since. They came for the Grateful Dead, and they […]
The 10 Greatest Concerts in North Country History
From Phish’s 70,000-strong Clifford Ball to the night Frampton Comes Alive! was recorded at SUNY Plattsburgh, a young Bob Dylan in Canton, and the Grateful Dead in the Miracle on Ice rink — the 10 greatest concerts in North Country history, ranked.
The 50 Greatest Music Festivals in Upstate New York History
From Watkins Glen’s 600,000 and the Woodstock trilogy to the Clifford Ball, Camp Bisco, GrassRoots, and beyond — the 50 greatest music festivals in upstate New York history, ranked.
The 10 Greatest Concerts in Poughkeepsie History
From The Police playing to four people at The Chance in 1978 to Metallica, David Bowie, and Bruce Springsteen — the 10 greatest concerts in Poughkeepsie and Mid-Hudson history, ranked.