The eighth annual festival returns August 28-29 with more than 30 musical acts, three stages, camping, healing arts and family-friendly activities in Newfield.
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Festival season Lineups, set times and what the upstate festivals are putting on this year.
GrassRoots Announces Its 34th Year: Rhiannon Giddens, Taj Mahal, Del McCoury Band
Four days and four stages return to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 16-19, with more than 80 acts.
Ithaca Reggae Fest Returns to Stewart Park With Third World and The Skatalites
The 8th annual festival lands June 26-28 at Stewart Park, with a free Friday welcome party to open it.
Adirondack Independence Turns 10 With moe. Back on Top of the Bill
The Lake George festival's 10th anniversary edition runs August 29-31 at Charles R. Wood Park, with moe. headlining for a fifth straight year alongside Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Robert Randolph.
GrassRoots Reveals a 33rd Lineup Led by Lukas Nelson and Lucius
The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance returns to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 17-20 with Lukas Nelson, Lucius, Cimafunk, Sierra Hull and more than 80 additional bands.
moe. Takes Four Sets as Adirondack Independence Reveals Its 2024 Lineup
The ninth Adirondack Independence Music Festival announced a Labor Day weekend bill for Lake George, with moe. headlining four sets over two nights and nearly two dozen bands on two stages.
On the road Routing, run announcements and the rooms worth driving to.
Fall at the State: Marcus King, Trampled by Turtles, Punch Brothers, Béla Fleck
The State Theatre of Ithaca has stacked its autumn calendar, starting the second week of September.
UMBowl XII Is Headed to Milwaukee's Pabst Theatre
Two nights, three sets each, and a setlist largely handed over to the audience.
Phish Announce an Eight-Show Fall Tour, Including a 32-Year Return to Richmond
Three nights in Atlantic City open a run that goes back to Richmond for the first time since 1994.
Gov't Mule Bring the Summer Run Back to Artpark
The Kicking In Your Stall tour swings back through Western New York for an outdoor night at Lewiston.
Gov't Mule Announce the Kicking In Your Stall Summer Tour
Ten headlining dates wrapped around an eight-show co-headline run with Joe Bonamassa.
On record New albums, archival releases and live audio worth the download.
Billy Strings' 'So Much for Goodbyes' Lands This Friday
Sixteen tracks, T Bone Burnett at the desk, and the most personal record of his career arrives August 28.
Billy Strings Announces 'So Much for Goodbyes,' With Cover Art by His Late Mother
The fifth studio album arrives August 28. T Bone Burnett co-produced, and the artwork is Debra Apostol's.
Phish Are Releasing the 2025 SPAC Run as a 55-Track Box Set
All three nights from Saratoga last July, remixed and mastered, out June 26.
New Planets Follow 'Blood Diamonds' With Ten-Track 'Guillotine'
The Ithaca band's second album arrives on Angry Mom Records with ten tracks, ten credited players and two drummers, recorded and mixed by Angelo Paradiso at Black Bear Recording.
Umphrey's McGee Build a Record Out of Their Own Jams on 'Blueprints'
The band's 15th studio album takes six fan-chosen improv moments and finishes them into actual songs.
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Phish Are Releasing the 2025 SPAC Run as a 55-Track Box Set
All three nights from Saratoga last July, remixed and mastered, out June 26.
Festival
GrassRoots Announces Its 34th Year: Rhiannon Giddens, Taj Mahal, Del McCoury Band
Four days and four stages return to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 16-19, with more than 80 acts.
Album
New Planets Follow 'Blood Diamonds' With Ten-Track 'Guillotine'
The Ithaca band's second album arrives on Angry Mom Records with ten tracks, ten credited players and two drummers, recorded and mixed by Angelo Paradiso at Black Bear Recording.
Festival
Ithaca Reggae Fest Returns to Stewart Park With Third World and The Skatalites
The 8th annual festival lands June 26-28 at Stewart Park, with a free Friday welcome party to open it.
Tour News
Gov't Mule Announce the Kicking In Your Stall Summer Tour
Ten headlining dates wrapped around an eight-show co-headline run with Joe Bonamassa.
Tour News
Gov't Mule Line Up Spring Dates, Warren Haynes Books a Solo Run
A 'Mile High Mule' show in Denver anchors the spring, and Haynes goes out solo in February with two sets a night.
Tour News
Phish Are Going Back to the Sphere for Nine Nights
Three three-night runs in Las Vegas across April and into May, more than doubling the 2024 residency.
Tour News
The Disco Biscuits Part Ways With Drummer Allen Aucoin After 20 Years
The band confirmed on October 26 that Allen Aucoin, who had played more than 1,000 shows since winning the seat in a 2005 drum off, is out, with Marlon B. Lewis taking over.
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