Welcome back! Come celebrate live audiences returning The Linda at the Open for Business Concert Series. OFB features the home-grown outstanding performers of the Capital Region, special guests and you. Let’s do this.

Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys make one feel as if they’re traveling in time, maybe back to Louisiana in 1963. Mel Guarino of The Bluebillies said, “There is no other band that I know that can sound so modern and yet so classic and nostalgic. It’s at once, “Old Timey” and “Timeless”, echoing the sound and feel of maybe Hank Williams or the Stanley Brothers, with a “hill-billy” edge.”

Opening for The Railroad boys will be special guest spoken word w/guitar artist Mike Jurkovic.

Mike Jurkovic: Poetry, prose and music reviews have been published globally but with little reportable income. Full length collections include AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020) Blue Fan Whirring, (Nirala Press, 2018); smitten by harpies & shiny banjo catfish (Lion Autumn Press, 2016) Chapbook, Eve’s Venom (Post Traumatic Press, 2014) Anthologies: Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology, (CAPS Press); Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018); Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose (Bright Hill Press, 2018) among others. 2016 Pushcart nominee, he is President of Calling All Poets, now in its 22nd year, in Poughkeepsie, New Paltz, & Beacon, NY. CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz and Lightwood. Featured poet: London, San Francisco, NYC, Albany, Baltimore, Philadelphia. New Jazz Excursions can be heard every second Saturday 10am-12pm on WIOX 91.3FM, Roxbury, NY. He hopes to again host his Tuesday night Jazz Sanctuary, 7-10pm WOOC 105.3 FM, Troy, NY.

He loves Emily most of all.