The Linda: WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio to host free, outdoor “Summer on Central” music series Saturdays in AugustThe Linda: WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio is bringing live entertainment outside with the inaugural “Summer on Central” music series, taking place Saturdays in August in The Linda’s parking lot at 339 Central Avenue. Free and open to the […]
“Feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor’s edge...his eloquence dazzles...he achieves pyrotechnics that rival early Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.” –Rolling Stone “One of modern blues’ greatest guitarists and performers.” –Vintage Guitar “Rugged, burning and riveting...Tinsley Ellis is a powerful and commanding presence, both on guitar and as a gruff, full-throated […]
The Linda: WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio to host free, outdoor “Summer on Central” music series Saturdays in AugustThe Linda: WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio is bringing live entertainment outside with the inaugural “Summer on Central” music series, taking place Saturdays in August in The Linda’s parking lot at 339 Central Avenue. Free and open to the […]
A Jazz Open House free-to-all celebrating Labor Day Weekend. Cliff and Friends ft. Kaitlyn Fay & The Dylan Canterbury Quintet Cliff and Friends Feat. Kaitlyn Fay is a quintet made up of players from the BWC Jazz Orchestra. Drummer and bandleader Cliff Brucker and singer and baritone sax player Kaitlyn Fay have been honing their […]
Every Wednesday Night in September and October 2022 we kick up our heels with a swing and blues dance with LIVE MUSIC and a lesson to kick you off! "Wednesday Night Swing and Blues Dance at The Linda" is an in-person dance featuring a rotating cast of the Capital Districts' best Swing and Blues bands […]
Doctor Baker returns to The Linda to celebrate the release of their new album TRESPASSERS. Driving back to Albany with Chris Gockley (bass player/guitarist/singer-songwriter extraordinaire) after an awesome Jeff Tweedy show, we got a little turned around and found ourselves in a desolate spot where there were a lot of threatening NO TRESPASSING signs. "We're […]
On Thursday, September 22, The Rochmon Record Club will converge to listen and learn about John Cougar Mellencamp's 'Scarecrow"The Listening Party begins at 7pm with a live audio & video presentation by Chuck Vosganian aka “Rochmon”. A Rochmon Record Club Listening Party is meant to inform and deepen our understanding of the history of the […]
"Tony Trischka is known as the father of modern bluegrass" - NY Times. Tony was born in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1949, and raised in a home filled with music. There were Broadway scores and a sweeping range of classical music, from Stravinsky to Beethoven. (The first thing Trischka learned to play on the banjo, in […]
On-Sale Friday, July 22 at 10am. When I was out in L.A., I had the sensation that I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing,” Ali McGuirk says of recording her stunning Signature Sounds debut, Til It’s Gone. “That’s such an elusive feeling to capture.” On the recommendation of producer Jonah Tolchin […]
WAMC Program to Mark Four Decades on the Air: Wanda Fischer’s Folk Music Show Celebrates with Live Show in October Now, after four decades, the show still runs. With the same host. Albany, NY – On September 18, 1982—three days after the first edition of USA Today came off the presses—WAMC debuted “The Hudson […]
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