Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Announces Two Great Shows in October

TROY, NEW YORK:     The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall is excited to welcome two incredible shows this October! Pre-sale tickets for Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Members are available Wednesday July 10^th at 10am!  Single tickets will go on-sale at 10am to the public this Friday July 12^th!  Learn more below about Kennedy and Rick Wakeman!

 SLP Presents

Kennedy – October 5^th

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (Kennedy) joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as a contributor in 2012 and is the host of the primetime program Kennedy (Monday- Thursday 7-BPM/ET.) She also appears frequently as a panelist on FOX News Channel’s (FN C) Outnumbered program (weekdays 12- 1 PM/ET). Prior to joining FBN, Kennedy hosted a nightly political talk show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, and served as the host of Fox Reality Channel’s Reality Remix, a daily news and reality talk show. In 2002, she hosted Game Show Network’s Friend or Foe, and also hosted Who Wants To Be Governor Of California in 2003. Previously, she was a correspondent for MTV News covering events such as the Grammys and Video Music Awards. While at MTV she hosted a series of specials entitled How-To With Kennedy. She got her start in television as an MTV VJ in 1992. Kennedy is the author of two books, The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses and Hey Ladies! Tales and Tips for Curious Girls. A graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.

Rick Wakeman – Final Solo Tour– October 6^th

As a much sought after session musician in the late sixties and early seventies, he played on more than 2,000 records, including such hits as Cat Stevens’ Morning Has Broken and David Bowie’s Space Oddity and Life on Mars, and worked with a real eclectic mixture of other notable artistes, such as Donovan, Cilla Black, Marc Bolan, Black Sabbath, Lou Reed, Mary Hopkin, Dana, Al Stewart, Elton John and John Williams.

He joined YES in August of 1971 and has been in and out of that band on quite a few occasions! (One journalist likened the relationship to that of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, in as much as they can’t live with each other, but in the same breath, can’t live without each other! Rick told the journalist he didn’t disagree as long as it was accepted that he was ‘Richard Burton’!) Both as a solo artist and with YES, he has sold more than 50,000,000 albums, although he says that only past management would be able to tell you where the royalties went! 

In January 2017, Rick made UK chart history when his album Piano Portraits, inspired by the unprecedented public reaction to his cover of Life On Mars, performed live on BBC Radio 2 following the news of David Bowie’s death a year earlier, became the first solo piano album to enter the Top 10 on release, eventually reaching No. 6. It was a feat he repeated in 2018 with the follow-up album, Piano Odyssey.  

Rick had an additional special reason to celebrate the easing of Covid restrictions in June 2021 when his outstanding career in music was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II, who named him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to music.  

At the start of 2023, Rick released a new album, The Gallery of The Imagination, and also performed with the English Rock Ensemble and the English Chamber Choir at the prestigious London Palladium theatre over two nights: The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Weds 22 Feb) and Classic YES and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (Thur 23 Feb). The works were performed in brand new concert arrangements for band and choir, and captured for his Live At The London Palladium 4-CD set. The album and sold-out concerts were so well-received that the band toured the UK in February 2024, reprising the second concert, and Rick hopes to do the same with the first night repertoire in 2025. 

Tickets are on sale at 10am Wednesday to Music Hall Members.  Anyone can become a member and gain access to the pre-sale.  Single tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, July 12^th, at 10am via phone, (518) 273-0038, in person, or online at www.troymusichall.org.   More information on the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and upcoming programs is available on the website at www.troymusichall.org.