Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band Coming to Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

TROY, NEW YORK:     Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band will be joining us on Tuesday, July 14^th at 8pm!  Pre-sale for the show starts Wednesday, March 18th at 10am and tickets will go on-sale to the public on Friday March 20th at 10am.  Learn more below about the show:

Taj Mahal doesn’t wait for permission. If a sound intrigues him, he sets out to make it. If origins mystify him, he moves to trace them. If rules get in his way, he unapologetically breaks them. To Taj, convention means nothing, but traditions are holy. He has pushed music and culture forward, all while looking lovingly back. “I just want to be able to make the music that I’m hearing come to me — and that’s what I did,” Taj says. The 82-year-old is home in Berkeley, reflecting on six + decades of music making. “When I say, ‘I did,’ I’m not coming from the ego. The music comes from somewhere. You’re just the conduit it comes through. You’re there to receive the gift.” Taj is a towering musical figure — a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind, but by revealing their magnificent scope to the world. “The blues is bigger than most people think,” he says. “You could hear Mozart play the blues. It might be more like a lament. It might be more melancholy. But I’m going to tell you: the blues is in there.” If anyone knows where to find the blues, it’s Taj.

Tickets are on sale at 10am, March 18th to Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Members.  Anyone can become a member and gain access to the pre-sale.  Single tickets go on sale the general public Friday  March 20th at 10am  via phone, (518) 273-0038, in person, or online at  TroyMusicHall.org.  More information on the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and upcoming programs is also available on the website at www.troymusichall.org.