Whassup in the 518? – Weekend Shows

Whassup in the 518.

Friday, June 20^th

>*-The Egg

The Egg Presents: Dionne Warwick, The Egg, Albany, 8pm

The Egg welcomes living legend Dionne Warwick to celebrate a truly momentous occasion: the last chance to enjoy The Egg in its current state before we temporarily close for renovations in July 2025. 

An icon performing in an iconic space, marking a defining moment in our history.

Make the night even more special by joining us for a pre-show celebration toast from 6PM–7PM (available as a ticket add-on at checkout). 

Enjoy photo opportunities, light refreshments and the energy of a space on the brink of its next chapter. We invite you to take part in this once-in-a-lifetime moment, surrounded by fellow fans and supporters, as we reflect on the decades of memories made here, honor The Egg’s legacy, and toast to the exciting future ahead.

Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show, MVP Arena, Albany, 7:30pm

Chris Stapleton will continue his “All-American Road Show” tour through this summer with a newly confirmed show at MVP Arena on Friday, June 20 with special guest Maggie Rose!

Opera Saratoga Presents: La Vie Parisienne, Universal Presentation Hall, Saratoga Springs

Offenbach, Meilhac & Halévy’s sparkling, witty, and electric “La Vie Parisienne” takes us to the heart of the demi-monde in 1860s Paris where two bachelors play tour guide to a Swedish Baron and Baroness. They showcase the Paris of their imagination, complete with visits to dives that they claim are fancy palaces and meetings with friends who are disguised as aristocrats. La Vie Parisienne is social critique at its most hilarious. You will leave the theater humming catchy patter songs and raucous party numbers.

Nicotine Dolls – an Attempt at Romantic, Empire Live, Albany, 8pm Top of FormBottom of FormTop of Form

Trevor Collins, Rustic Barn Pub, Troy, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Don’t miss singer, songwriter Trevor Collins live—bluesy, soulful, and seriously skilled on guitar.

TV Doctors at The Eleven at Lark Hall (FREE show), Lark Hall, Albany, 6pm-8pm

TV Doctors operates as a trio of experienced professional musicians from Upstate NY who have come together with a shared desire to cure musical boredom wherever it exists, with surgical precision. They are, in essence, a psychedelic jazz trio, based in improvisation; fearlessly surfing across genres to create a heavy and unique blend of funk, reggae, progressive rock, and contemporary jazz.

65th Anniversary Folk Heritage Series: Dom Flemons, Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, 8pm-10pm

A GRAMMY Award winner, four-time GRAMMY nominee, two-time EMMY nominee, and United States Artists Fellow, Dom Flemons is one of America’s most celebrated musicians and historians of American roots music. His performances span more than a century of American song, weaving together country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and early Americana traditions with heart, soul, and masterful musicianship.

A founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and an acclaimed solo artist, Flemons is known for his dynamic live shows, deep musical scholarship, and ability to bring the past vividly to life. He is a virtuoso on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, fife, bones, and quills, and his storytelling bridges history, culture, and song in unforgettable ways.

Bimbo Night Rave – Pride Night Out, No Fun, Troy, 8pm-11pm

From “Bar People.”

6/20 5:00 PM Another Cover- S&S farm Brewery

6/20 5:00 PM Frankie Lessard- Bootleggers

6/20 5:00 PM Russ Kennedy- Wheatfields Clifton Park

6/20 5:30 PM Yankee Holler- Back Barn Brewing Co.

6/20 5:30 PM Yankee Holler- Back Barn Brewing Co.

6/20 6:00 PM Bronte Roman- Hilton Garden Inn,,, 30Park

6/20 6:00 PM Dan Sherwin- Colonie Golf Country Club

6/20 6:00 PM Frank Murray- Indian Ladder Farms

6/20 6:00 PM Harmony Rocks- Carsons Woodside Tavern

6/20 6:00 PM Joanna Feuer- The Scarlet Knife

6/20 6:00 PM Off The Record- Vice & Virtue

6/20 6:00 PM Off The Record- Vice & Virtue

6/20 6:00 PM Pepper Shakers- Emma Jaynes

6/20 6:00 PM Peter Pashoukos- Bulls Head Inn

6/20 6:00 PM Ryan & Jon- Dancing Grain Farm Brewery

6/20 6:00 PM Thom Powers- Powers Pub

6/20 6:30 PM BJ Fitzgerald- Peddlers Bar & Bistro

6/20 6:30 PM Brad Wescott- Other One Brewery

6/20 7:00 PM Ain’t No Stangers- Hometown Pub & Grub

6/20 7:00 PM Ain’t No Stangers- Hometown Pub & Grub

6/20 7:00 PM Derrick Foget- Druthers Clifton Park

6/20 7:00 PM Earth To Joe- Albany Distilling

6/20 7:00 PM Joe.Are.Sham.Bow- Signal 30 BBQ

6/20 7:00 PM Joes Boys- Bunker Clifton Park

6/20 7:00 PM Scott & Company Acoustic- O’Slattery’s

6/20 7:00 PM Sugar Pill- The Bunker North Greenbush

6/20 7:00 PM Will Pedicone- Sand Bar

6/20 8:00 PM Big Radio- Nanola

6/20 8:00 PM Brian Kane & The Beginning- Wicked Eatery

6/20 8:00 PM Karaoke- September’s Too

6/20 9:00 PM Tame The Rooster- Centre St Pub

6/20 9:00 PM Tame The Rooster- Centre St Pub

Saturday, June 21^st

Make Music Day Troy, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, 9am

The third annual Make Music Troy, a wonderful mix of free, public musical events, will make its return on Saturday, June 21. Make Music Troy is part of Make Music Day, a global music celebration that takes place on the summer solstice each year and brings people of all ages and skill levels together to make music. This year, over 100 U.S. cities will host thousands of Make Music performances across the country as part of the world’s largest annual music event.

Troy Samba, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, 6pm

The Summer Square Concert Series is a free, outdoor event at 6 PM Saturday nights June -September in front of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

Mumford & Sons, SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 7pm

with support from Gigi Perez

Through four albums, Mumford & Sons have accumulated various awards for their work, notably two BRIT Awards, two Grammy Awards (including the prestigious Album of the Year), multiple chart-topping, multi-platinum album successes right across the globe, a string of festival headlining performances (including Glastonbury), and selling out arenas tour after tour (including their biggest numbers to date in the U.S. in conclusion of the Delta tour back in 2019). A distinctively Mumford & Sons sound has since influenced and inspired recent artists to find huge success in their own right. You’d be hard pressed to find too many acts that follow a similar career trajectory.

Opera Saratoga Presents: La Vie Parisienne, Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs

Offenbach, Meilhac & Halévy’s sparkling, witty, and electric “La Vie Parisienne” takes us to the heart of the demi-monde in 1860s Paris where two bachelors play tour guide to a Swedish Baron and Baroness. They showcase the Paris of their imagination, complete with visits to dives that they claim are fancy palaces and meetings with friends who are disguised as aristocrats. La Vie Parisienne is social critique at its most hilarious. You will leave the theater humming catchy patter songs and raucous party numbers.

Opera Saratoga Presents: She Loves Me, Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs

An intimate production of Bock, Harnick and Masteroff’s jewel-box musical “She Loves Me.” Famous for tunes like “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “She Loves Me” and “It’s Been Grand Knowing You,” this sweet story focuses on two employees in a Budapest parfumerie who are sworn enemies during the day but unsuspecting lonely hearts penpals at night. “After the success of ‘Guys and Dolls’ last summer,” said Birnbaum, “it was clear to me that young singers have something important to say within the canon of musical theater, and our audiences loved that new energy was infused into these timeless pieces.”

Make Music Albany, Lark Hall, Albany, 7:30pm

12:30-1: Caity Gallagher

1:15pm: Lovella

2:00pm: Sabrina Trueheart

2:45pm: Kristian Montgomery

3:30pm: Josh Casano

4:15pm: Frankie Cavone

5:00pm: Shannon Tehya

5:45pm: Laura Leigh

6:30pm: Ky Mcclinton

Caity Gallagher: https://www.caitygallaghermusic.com/

Lovella: lovella.hearnow.com

Sabrina Trueheart: https://sabrinatrueheart.bandcamp.com/

Kristian Montgomery: https://kmwkb.com/

Josh Casano: https://joshcasanothefam.bandcamp.com/

Frankie Cavone: https://youtu.be/7YOwRmI4mho?si=zm5A_ZeIG0i_LZvJ

Shannon Tehya: https://www.youtube.com/@shannontehyaandthetroupe

Laura Leigh: https://lauraleighmusic.com/

Ky Mcclinton: https://youtu.be/R1G244EE9zY?si=FkASfvP1NEL7IhHA

PRIDE.54 ft: Robbie Leslie, Daya Betty & More, Putnam Place, Saratoga Springs

It’s time to show your pride and break out those dancing shoes, as we bring you PRIDE.54, featuring the original Studio 54 maestro, Robbie Leslie, Daya Betty (Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 14 and All Stars Season 10 Contestant), Synes, and King Bully (on the patio). This Saratoga Pride event will be hosted by Starling Silver and Stella Progress.

Hot Club of Cowtown, Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs,8pm-10pm

The Hot Club of Cowtown play High-energy Western swing and hot jazz, “at that crossroads where country meets jazz and chases the blues away” –- The Independent

For over 25 years, Hot Club of Cowtown has wowed audiences around the world with their weaving together of a combination of seemingly disparate styles to its own magical effect. They are known for their virtuosity, irresistible rhythms, and joyful live shows. Called “a pretty much perfect country trio at the very top of their game” — The Belfast Telegraph, this Texas-based band weaves together the spirit of Django Reinhardt’s hot jazz with the soul of Bob Wills’ Western swing, creating a musical experience that’s timeless, exhilarating, and impossible not to dance to.

Honky Tonk Record Club w/ Texas Headphones / DJ Tex & Steve Hammond, No Fun, Troy, 2pm-7pm

From “Bar People.”

6/21 1:00 PM Mark Rust- Clinton Market Collective

6/21 12:00 PM Josh Clvenstine- Dancing Grain Farm Brewery

6/21 12:00 PM Ruth Pelham- Clinton Market Collective

6/21 12:00 PM Vibes For Veterans- Lansingburgh Veterans Club

6/21 12:30 PM Make Musiic Albany- Eleven at Lark Hall

6/21 12:30 PM The Sugar Hold- Quackenbush Square

6/21 2:00 PM Albany Rock Pit- Clinton Market Collective

6/21 2:00 PM Lucid Street- Quackenbush Square

6/21 4:00 PM Mr Days Band- Helderberg Mountain Brewing

6/21 4:30 PM The E-Block- Quackenbush Square

6/21 5:00 PM Keller & McGowan- S&S farm Brewery

6/21 6:00 PM Frankie Lessard- Ravenswood

6/21 6:00 PM Justin Joyner- Hilton Garden Inn,,, 30Park

6/21 6:00 PM Matt Cosgrove- The Scarlet Knife

6/21 6:00 PM Ryan Clark- Speckled Pig

6/21 6:00 PM Take 2- Powers Pub

6/21 6:00 PM Tame The Rooster- Carsons Woodside Tavern

6/21 6:30 PM 3 Philosophers- Peddlers Bar & Bistro

6/21 6:30 PM Travis Rockenstire- Other One Brewery

6/21 7:00 PM Alan Goldberg- Emack & Bolios

6/21 7:00 PM Dude Abides- Sun Retreats at Adirondack Gateway

6/21 7:00 PM Harmonic Duo- Trestle Restaurant & Pub

6/21 7:00 PM Neon Avenue- Unihog

6/21 7:00 PM Out Of Office- Stillwater American Legion

6/21 7:00 PM POGO- O’Slattery’s

6/21 7:00 PM The Wallies- Druthers Clifton Park

6/21 8:00 PM Dark Side Skinny Dippers- Nanola

6/21 8:00 PM Hot Cousin- Swifty’s in Delmar

6/21 8:00 PM Midnight Radio- September’s Too

Sunday, June 22^nd

Great Sonatas: Beethoven, Brahms, ​and Mozart, SPAC, Saratoga Springs

Mozart’s Sonata for Piano, Four-hands, in B-flat Major opens the program, a lively and elegant work from his early Salzburg years. Its playful dialogue and sparkling melodies epitomize Mozart’s charm and precision. It is followed by Brahms’ Sonata No. 1 in E minor for Cello and Piano, a deeply emotional piece inspired by Bach that blends contrapuntal textures with dramatic interplay, highlighting the cello’s rich, expressive voice. The program concludes with Beethoven’s iconic “Kreutzer” Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, a virtuosic masterpiece that redefined the violin-piano duo. Dedicated to violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, the sonata is celebrated for its fiery intensity, technical brilliance, and emotional power.

Opera Saratoga Presents: Mass (For Women in Bathrooms), Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs

A work-in-progress showing of award-winning Irish composer Emma O’Halloran and librettist Naomi O’Connell’s “A Mass for Women in Bathrooms.” This opera-theater work for three singers, an actress and electronic sound design by Alex Dowling reframes the structure of the Irish Catholic Mass to tell an intimate family story of three sisters and their mother. A story born from personal experience, A Mass for Women in Bathrooms examines themes of infertility, reproductive rights and dementia, while reclaiming bodily autonomy for women in a historically violent space. This project is funded in part by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Opera Saratoga Presents: She Loves Me, Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs

An intimate production of Bock, Harnick and Masteroff’s jewel-box musical “She Loves Me.” Famous for tunes like “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “She Loves Me” and “It’s Been Grand Knowing You,” this sweet story focuses on two employees in a Budapest parfumerie who are sworn enemies during the day but unsuspecting lonely hearts penpals at night. “After the success of ‘Guys and Dolls’ last summer,” said Birnbaum, “it was clear to me that young singers have something important to say within the canon of musical theater, and our audiences loved that new energy was infused into these timeless pieces.”

Latin Night w/ BoyBoy, Putnam Place, Saratoga Springs, 7pm-1am

Join us for Latin Night every Sunday at Putnam Place and get down to the hottest Latin beats by BoyBoy!

Want to learn Latin dancing?  Our friends from Tango Fusion Dance Company will be here from 7pm – 8pm (every Sunday) offering free dance lessons.  No partner or experience necessary!

Enjoy a hookah on the patio, provided by our friends at Hookah Mami’s.

Sue Foley VIP Upgrade, Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, 6pm-6:30pm

You’ve Got Tickets—Now Take the Experience Further!

Here’s a special opportunity being offered by Sue and her team.

They’re offering a limited VIP upgrade that includes:

• A pre-show meet & greet with Sue Foley
• An official signed tour poster
• VIP laminate & sticker
• A stylish tote bag
• Member-level seating access through Caffè Lena

This enhanced experience with one of the most electrifying guitarists in modern blues is perfect for fans—and we can’t wait to welcome you for an unforgettable night.

*Please to be sure to arrive at Caffè Lena at 5:30 PM as the Meet & Greet starts promptly at 6:00 PM.

Sue Foley, Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, 7pm-8:30pm

Grammy® nominated guitarist & singer brings her spellbinding One Guitar Woman show to life, a solo acoustic tribute to female guitar pioneers.

Prepare for a captivating musical journey with One Guitar Woman, from Sue Foley’s Grammy® nominated solo acoustic tribute to female pioneers of guitar. Foley’s much-anticipated album on Stony Plain Records was released on March 29, 2024. “The kind of album that will live forever.“ — Americana Highways

One Guitar Woman is more than a tribute show. Foley doesn’t merely cover these artists’ songs; she absorbs their style and inhabits the soul of the music. Her guitar work is so deep and natural that it seems to rise from the same roots that gave birth to the originals, while her vibrant vocals bring new life to the lyrics and make the songs her own.

Delicate Steve / Front Biz / Russel The Leaf (Early Show!), No Fun, Troy, 4pm-10pm

From “Bar People.”

6/22 12:00 PM Dan Sherwin- Frog Alley Brewing

6/22 12:00 PM Dan Sherwin- Frog Alley Brewing

6/22 2:00 PM The Hawthornes- Lark Tavern

6/22 3:00 PM Jimmi Justin- Basin Grill

6/22 3:00 PM Joes Boys Druthers- Clifton Park

6/22 3:00 PM Refrigerator’s- Wicked Eatery

6/22 4:00 PM The Ultimates- Carsons Woodside Tavern

6/22 5:00 PM Eric Erickson- Yanni’s Too

6/22 5:00 PM Masters Of Nostalgia- Cock & Bull

6/22 6:30 PM Keri Alonzo & Jay Yager- Peddlers Bar & Bistro