Items tagged with 'The Egg'
"The Bandleader Who Changed America" at The Egg
That clip embedded above is a segment about James Reese Europe from (we think) the Jazz documentary by Ken Burns. It's a quick overview of Europe's life and his music.
The Egg is hosting a multimedia talk this Thursday, October 4 about the great jazz bandleader and composer James Reese Europe. It's connected to the Harlem Hellfighters exhibit that's on display in the Abrams Building at the ESP. Blurbage:
Through the use of photos, film, and live music, this multimedia presentation will focus on the life and music of James Reese Europe (1880-1919), an extraordinary individual who was not only instrumental in the success of the Harlem Hellfighters, an African-American military regiment from New York that was dispatched to fight for France in World War I, but had a major influence in the development of jazz, swing, and contemporary dance music.
Featuring special guests Michael Dinwiddie, associate professor at New York University's Gallatin School and William Meckley, founder and music director of the Empire Jazz Orchestra, this special evening will also include a musical demonstration and performance by jazz pianist and composer David Gleason, highlighting the history of early jazz music and Europe's profound impact as a bandleader.
The presentation starts at 6:30 pm Thursday and it's free.
The Glory Can Never Fade
There are still a few months to catch the The Glory Can Never Fade: The Legacy of the Harlem Hellfighters exhibit at the Empire State Plaza. It's in the Vietnam Memorial Gallery in the Abrams Building just off State Street.
The 369th Infantry Regiment -- "the Harlem Hellfighters" -- was the regiment in which Henry Johnson served. The exhibit covers of the history of the group and its impact. It's on display through next February.
(Also, while you're there, go around the corner and take a minute to see the Fritz Glarner mural.)
Jackson Galaxy "Total Cat Mojo Live" at The Egg
The host of Animal Planet's My Cat From Hell -- Jackson Galaxy -- will be at The Egg November 23 for what's billed as "Total Cat Mojo Live." Tickets go on sale this Saturday, September 8* -- they're $39.50 and up.
Show blurbage:
Popularly known as the "Cat Daddy," Jackson is on a mission to educate people about cats and deepen the human and cat bond, while reducing the number of animals that end up in shelters. Over time, Jackson has developed and honed his philosophy known as "Cat Mojo," which teaches cat guardians the skills to help their feline friends build confidence within their environment. Jackson has written extensively about his work and philosophy in his two New York Times best-selling books, "Catify to Satisfy" and "Catification."
He's also appeared on the Animal Planet show Cat vs. Dog.
Black Violin at The Egg
The duo Black Violin is set for a show at The Egg May 17, 2019. Tickets go on sale the general public this Thursday, July 26 -- they're $34.50 and up.
Band blurbage:
Black Violin - featuring Wil Baptiste and Kevin "Kev Marcus" Sylvester - blends classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass with influences ranging from Shostakovich and Bach to Nas and Jay-Z. Their major label debut recording "Stereotypes" is anything but stereotypical as they break all the rules in creating their one-of-a-kind musical fusion that has rocked concert halls and festivals worldwide.
Black Violin is also lined up for a "SPAC on Stage" show at SPAC August 20, but it's been sold out for months. It's the second straight year the duo sold out their SPAC on Stage show. Black Violin also played Troy Musical Hall this past April.
Two more 2019 concerts announced for The Egg
January 11: "We Shall Overcome": A Musical Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr featuring The Damien Sneed Band
Stefon Harris at The Egg
Acclaimed jazz vibraphonist -- and Albany High School grad -- Stefon Harris is set to play a show at The Egg December 1. Tickets are on sale now -- they're $34.
This week Harris was named a winner of a Doris Duke Artist Award. Each artists receives $250k in flexible funding (along with as much as $35k for retirement savings). The awards are given to "exemplary individual artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theater and related interdisciplinary work who have demonstrated their artistic vitality and commitment to their field." Harris-specific blurbage:
With astonishing artistry and virtuosity, Stefon Harris has risen to become one of the most admired artists in jazz. He is a recipient of the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center and has earned four Grammy nominations. He has also been named Best Mallet Player eight times by the Jazz Journalists Association and was chosen as Best Vibes in the 2018 and 2017 DownBeat Magazine critics polls, the 2016 Jazz Times Expanded Critics Poll, the 2014 Jazz Times Critics Poll and the 2013 DownBeat Critics Poll.
Harris' 11th album as a band leader, "Sonic Creed," recorded with his band Blackout, will be released in 2018. ...
Harris' venture into new technological advances led to the co-founding of The Melodic Progression Institute (MPI) in 2013 with partner Clif Swigget. MPI released its first app in 2016, Harmony Cloud, an ear-training learning tool now available on iTunes, with a focus on designing innovative ways to help musicians learn and grow.
And he's an Albany High School grad, class of 1991. While in school here he was also a member of the Empire State Youth Orchestra.
photo: Elizabeth Leitzell
Amanda Shires at The Egg
Americana/roots singer/songwriter Amanda Shires is set to play a show at The Egg July 25. Tickets are on sale now -- they're $29.50.
Shires will be touring this summer as the lead up to a new album in August. Album blurbage:
To The Sunset is a compelling collection of narratives often told from a female perspective. The themes range from grappling with self-esteem in "Mirror, Mirror" to mental illness and addiction in standout track "Wasn't I Paying Attention?" and the power of a changed perspective with a dash of her signature wit in "Break Out The Champagne". Shires has a penchant for delivering her stories in ways that are intelligent and poetic yet thoughtful and warm, feeling as if coming from a good friend.
Shires also performs with Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, which won the Grammy for Best Americana Album this year. And, as it happens, she and Isbell are married. Here's a NPR interview with them both from this past December about their music and all sorts of stuff.
The opener for the show at The Egg: The one and only Sean Rowe.
Miranda Sings at The Egg
The comedy act Miranda Sings will be at The Egg July 13. Tickets are on sale now -- they're $39.50 and up.
The title for the show is "Miranda Sings Live... No Offense with special guest Colleen Ballinger." Miranda Sings is the YouTube-famous act -- Colleen Ballinger is the comedian / actor who plays her. Blurbage:
The character Miranda was created in 2008 and became mainstream when Colleen received a personal call from Jerry Seinfeld to appear on his series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and subsequently The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. 'Miranda's' origins were intended as a parody of the young, self-absorbed singers with more far more confidence (and vibrato) than talent which Colleen saw uploading videos to YouTube. Miranda is known for her overdrawn red lips, questionable advice about singing and life, a deluded self-confidence, and over-the-top rants about her family and personal problems.
"Miranda" is also the basis for the Netflix series Haters Back Off!
More recently-announced comedy shows
+ March 31: Pretty Much The Best Comedy Show: Julie Kottakis at Proctors
+ April 7: Cuzin Maine at Troy Music Hall
+ May 18: Nick Swardson at The Egg
518 Songfest 2018
Moriah Formica
This year's 518 Songfest is May 18 -- 518 Day -- at The Egg. Tickets are on sale now -- they're $9.77-$20.
And the headliner this year is Moriah Formica -- who, as you know, had a strong showing on the most recent season of The Voice. The lineup also includes Super 400 (playing an acoustic set), singer/songwriter Sydney Worthley, Sandy McKnight's Pop-Clique, and Grammy award-winning songwriter Julie Gold.
Blurbage: "Songfest is a unique live concert experience, in that the artists get to perform their songs, as well as talk a bit about their music and experiences as creators and musicians."
The event is a fundraiser for Exit 97.7 WEXT and the Columbia Arts Team.
Shovels & Rope at The Egg
The Americana duo Shovels and Rope is set to play The Egg March 21. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 12 -- they're $34.
Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent "combine threads of traditional folk, country and rock." They recently released an album on which they collaborated with a bunch of other musicians covering tracks from artists ranging from The Breeders to Chuck Berry.
Also announced for The Egg
+ February 21: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
+ February 24: Shelby Lynne
Tickets for both shows also go on sale this Friday.
Dweezil Zappa at The Egg
Dweezil Zappa is set for a return to The Egg April 24. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 1 -- they're $39.50 and up.
Show blurbage:
Dweezil Zappa performs Frank Zappa, an evening of his father's music, keeping the legacy of the iconic rocker alive! Playing a long, ambitious set of Frank Zappa favorites and obscure gems, Dweezil respectfully executes his father's music beautifully. He is uniquely qualified to bring these compositions back to life with complete authenticity from the page to the stage. Helping to deliver the goods is his absolutely stellar band of first-rate musicians.
Zappa has played The Egg a handful of times in recent years and the shows have either sold out or been very close to selling out. So if you'd like to go, it's a good idea to get tickets sooner rather than later.
photo via Dweezil Zappa Facebook
Andrew Bird at The Egg
Violinist/songwriter/singer Andrew Bird is set to play a show at The Egg March 5. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 3 -- they're $40 and up.
Bird released a new this month. Echolocations: River is an instrumental he recorded while standing in the Los Angeles River. And last year he released an indie folk album, Are You Serious -- here's an NPR Tiny Desk concert supporting that.
The show at The Egg is in the 982-seat Hart Theatre.
Brad Mehldau
Also announced for The Egg today: Brad Mehldau Trio April 22. Tickets on sale this Friday -- they're $34.50.
photo: Addie Juell
Greensky Bluegrass at The Egg
The jamgrass band Greensky Bluegrass is set to play a show at The Egg January 24. Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 29 -- they're $29.50.
From a Relix profile earlier this year, about how the jam met the grass:
As Greensky Bluegrass' original compositions mounted, the "trad-grass" tunes began to fall by the wayside a bit, opening the door for the extended improvisations that highlight the band's current live show. "Early on, when we were doing bluegrass, we realized that so much of it is so similar," Hoffman says. "We used to play these three-hour shows, and when we were playing all bluegrass songs that are three minutes long, that was lot of goddamn songs. I remember being like, 'Why don't we just play one bluegrass song for twice as long, instead of playing two songs that are exactly the same?' And that's kind of where our improvisation was born."
The opener for the show at The Egg is Billy Strings.
photo via Greensky Bluegrass website
They Might Be Giants at The Egg
The duo They Might Be Giants are set to return to The Egg April 22. Tickets go on sale to the general public September 22 -- they're $27.50.
Of course, TMBG have a song about The Egg. It's embedded above -- it was part of the band's "venue songs" series. A thousand years ago, we talked with John Flansburgh about the song:
"The Egg" is actually a very good example of a song that is really responding to the extraordinary qualities of the venue itself. I mean how many venues are like The Egg, you know -- none. It's sui generis as they say in the legal profession.
The song "The Egg" is one of the few songs I've ever written while driving. I recorded it on a tape recorder singing out loud. When I got to the parking lot of The Egg I sat in the back of my car and put some chords to it and then I gave it to the band and we played it that night.
This upcoming concert is billed as an all-ages show: "Science, Kids, and Beyond."
Rodrigo y Gabriela at The Egg
The duo Rodrigo y Gabriela is set to play a show at The Egg November 12. Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 15 -- price isn't posted, yet. (It looks like there's also a pre-sale via the band's site.)
Rodrigo y Gabriela are Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero, acoustic guitarists originally from Mexico whose music is influenced by flamenco, rock, and heavy metal. Listening to them -- and the huge sound they produce -- it's easy to forget they're just two people.
They were last in town in 2016 for a show at The Egg.
photo: Peter Neill
Neko Case at The Egg
Neko Case is set to play a show at The Egg January 15. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, September 1 -- they're $34.50 and up.
Case hasn't released a solo album in a few years. She was collaborated with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs on an album released last year, and she was part of the new album from the New Pornographers this year. So maybe there's some new solo music from her on the way.
The last time she and her intergalactic voice made a stop here was at Troy Music Hall in March 2016.
photo: Dennis Kleiman
Phantogram, now at The Egg
The Phantogram show lined up for the Schaghticoke Fair Grounds July 27 has been moved to The Egg. The promoter's press release cites "unforeseen circumstances." Tickets already purchased will be honored, and refunds are available at the point of sale.
Tickets are $35 ahead / $38 day of. It's a general admission show in The Egg's Hart Theatre, which has a maximum capacity of 982.
When the show was first announced, Tycho was on the bill as an opener. But the act is no longer playing the show.
Phantogram shows usually sell out when they return home to this area -- the date at Upstate Concert Hall earlier this year sold out -- so it wouldn't be a surprise if this one does, too.
photo: Timothy Saccenti
Hurray for the Riff Raff at The Egg
The folk/rock/blues act Hurray for the Riff Raff is set to play a show at The Egg September 15. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 30 -- they're $29.50.
Hurray for the Riff Raff is centered around Bronx native Alynda Lee Segarra. From an All Things Considered profile earlier this year:
So at 17, she left, literally thumbing rides and hopping trains across the country. She made New Orleans her home and eventually started the band Hurray for the Riff Raff. Their music sounds like those long road trips Segarra made in the West: A mixture of rock, folk and blues. But their new album is something different, because Segarra finally got to point where she was ready to grapple with the part of her identity that she'd pushed away when she was younger. She's a Puerto Rican woman, from a New York neighborhood, and that history is now part of her music. The new album is called The Navigator.
The album was released this spring and it's gotten strong reviews.
The opener for the show at The Egg is Xenia Rubinos.
photo: Sarrah Danziger
Made in the Shade 2017
Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band will be there in June.
The Made in the Shade series of free lunchtime concerts on the Empire State Plaza starts a new season in June 7. The concerts are Wednesday at noon underneath The Egg (thus the name).
Here's the lineup...
Kevin James at The Egg
Comedian/actor Kevin James will be at The Egg June 23 for a stand-up show. Tickets are on sale now -- they're $55 and up.
James, of course, starred on The King of Queens for many years, as well as appearing in movies. And he now has a new sitcom.
He's made a couple of stops here in recent years at The Palace. This show at The Egg is in the 982-seat Hart Theatre.
More comedy
+ That John Mulaney show July 27 that was originally scheduled for The Egg, but moved to The Palace because of demand has added a second show that same night at 9:30 pm.
+ Demetri Martin is returning to The Egg October 6.
+ And this year's comedy lineup for the Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA June 23-25 includes: John Hodgman (of course), Michael Ian Black, Eugene Mirman, Phoebe Robinson*, Nick Offerman, and Jean Grae's The Show Show with DJ Quelle Chris. (It looks like Robinson has replaced Aparna Nancherla in the lineup.)
photo via Kevin James Facebook.
Demetri Martin returning to The Egg
Comedian/actor Demetri Martin is returning to The Egg October 6 for a stand-up show. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 21 -- they're $35 and up.
Martin's style is understated and observational, with a lot of one-liners (also: diagrams). From his Facebook page yesterday: "If they could read, I think wolves would be very offended by most fairy tales." He also has a film -- Dean, which he wrote and directed -- coming out in June.
He's made stops in this area a few times, the last at The Egg in 2015.
Drive-By Truckers at The Egg
The alt-country band Drive-By Truckers are set to play The Egg July 25. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 14 -- they're $29.50 and up.
The band is touring support of a "blunt, pissed-off Trump-era anthems" album released last fall. Here's a recap of a show they played recently in Austin. [Rolling Stone] [Austin360]
The show at The Egg is one of four new concerts announced this week for the venue. Also newly announced...
May 13: The BoDeans
May 18: Big Head Todd & The Monsters
August 15: Buddy Guy
Tickets for those shows also go on sale this Friday.
photo: Danny Clinch
John Mulaney at The Egg -- now at The Palace
Update: This show has been moved to The Palace.
Comedian John Mulaney is set for a stand-up show at The Egg July 27. Tickets went on sale today (March 22) -- they're $29 and up.
Blurbage:
He most recently starred in the Broadway hit, "Oh, Hello on Broadway" alongside Nick Kroll. In 2015 Mulaney released his 3rd hour stand up special a Netflix Original titled "THE COMEBACK KID" which the AV Club called "his best hour of his career." He began his career in New York's East Village and has since toured around the world. In 2008, he began writing at "Saturday Night Live" where he appeared as a "Weekend Update" correspondent and co-created characters such as "Stefon" with Bill Hader. He currently writes for IFC's "Documentary Now" and for Netflix's "Big Mouth" on which he voices the character of Andrew.
The show at The Egg is in the 982-seat Hart Theater.
A handful of other comedy shows coming up...
518 Songfest 2017
The 518 Songfest returns to The Egg April 1. The headliner is Sawyer Fredericks, of American Idol The Voice fame. Also on the card: Girl Blue, The Sea The Sea, John Davidson, and Sandy McKnight.
Blurbage: "Songfest is a unique live concert experience, in that the artists get to perform their songs, as well as talk a bit about their music and experiences as creators and musicians."
Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 24 -- they're $30 ahead / $35 day of. The concert is a benefit for Exit 97.7 WEXT and the Columbia Arts Team. It's in the 450-seat Swyer Theater.
Welcome to Night Vale "All Hail" at The Egg
The touring live show of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale is set to return to The Egg April 10. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 20 -- they're $30.
The date at The Egg is part of the tour for a new Nightvale live show -- "All Hail" -- that includes narrator Cecil Badlwin and guests, music by Disparition, and Erin McKeown as the weather.
From the podcast's blurbage:
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.
Turn on your radio and hide.
The creators of the show were -- Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor -- were recently on the podcast Bad with Money With Gaby Dunn and talked about how they started Night Vale and how they've funded it.
photo via Welcome to Night Vale FB
Aimee Mann at The Egg
Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann is set to play
Mann announced today that she has a new album -- her first in five years -- coming out in March. Mental Illness includes contributions from Ted Leo, with whom she toured a few years back (they made a stop at Helsinki Hudson).
It isn't mentioned on The Egg listing for the show, but it looks like Jonathan Coulton will be the opener.
The show at The Egg in the 982-seat Hart Theatre.
BNL
By the way: The Barenaked Ladies show at The Egg April 21 is sold out.
KT Tunstall at The Egg
KT Tunstall
Singer/songwriter KT Tunstall is lined up for a show at The Egg February 24. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 16 -- they're $29.50.
Tunstall's star rose very high about a decade ago -- for a while it seemed like her songs were in every movie or TV show. But apparently things weren't going so well for her in her personal life and at one point didn't plan to make any more albums. Things turned around though, and she got back to recording -- she released a new album this past fall and it's gotten pretty good reviews.
Sarah Jarosz
Also announced this week: singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sara Jarosz at The Egg March 9. Tickets go on sale this Friday -- they're $29.50.
She was recently nominated for the 2017 Grammys in the best folk album and best roots performance categories.
... said KGB about Drawing: What's something that brought you joy this year?