The Newman Brothers emerge from their long hibernation, Seedstock returns for its 12th year, and the LionsGate Family Cookout presents a “potent lineup of speakers, comedians, dancers, and spiritual leaders.” Plus, Noon Fifteen’s Mandy Goldman marks the release of her debut solo album Sunday night at Deep Dive!
In other Ithaca music news, Ben Ortiz – aka DJ ha-MEEN – has put together a new exhibit to mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop Culture. It’s on display at Cornell University’s Kroch Library through March 24. You can read more about it here!
Coming Together
“The LionsGate Family Campout is a coming together of minds, hearts, & hands with the intention to elevate the vision of a harmonious future here on planet Earth. The gathering takes place on a 50-acre sanctuary called LionsGate located in the heart of Prospect Valley New York. This is our 4th consecutive year and we are excited to return to the land with an inspired team of Musicians, Healers, Teachers, & Storytellers who are prepared to share their medicine with our budding community of change makers. Along with a diverse array of high-vibe entertainment we are excited to provide a potent lineup of speakers, comedians, dancers and spiritual leaders. Our goal is to provide an environment rich with play & creativity whilst allowing the sacred to shine through in each moment. Expect Ceremony, Wisdom Teachings, Sound Healings, Yoga, Ecstatic Dance, Somatic Workshops, Comedy, Theatre, Clowns, Soul Music, Hip-hop, Folk, Reggae, Electronic, Organic Food, Cacao, Amazing Art, Circus, and an incredible high vibe family centric container.”
Performers include Tubby Love and Superpowers, Kevin Kinsella, Cozmic Theo, Sophitafunk’s Jack Brown, Hollings, and many more.Find out more about it here!
When: Friday-Sunday
Where: Willseyville
Cost: Tickets are available online here
Bard Rock
The Cherry Arts presents “As You Like It,” its first-ever Shakespeare production.
“The crew is in trouble — so they're putting on disguises, marching into the forest, and not coming out until everyone's married! As You Like It is a cheeky and adventurous comedy full of passionate lovers, nefarious schemes, and ridiculous disguises. It's also Shakespeare’s most musical play, and some of Ithaca’s most beloved musicians have written sweet new tunes to bring Shakespeare's songs to life.”
“The play is chock full of songs —which will be written by some of Ithaca’s most iconic songwriters including Jennie Lowe Stearns, Nate Silas Richardson (of the Sim Redmond Band), and Maddy Walsh (of The Blind Spots).” Other contributing local songwriters include Mandy Goldman, Evan Friedell, and Samuel B. Lupowitz.
When: runs through Sunday
Where: The Cherry Artspace
Cost: $10-$55, depending on the performance date; tickets are available online here
American Music
Miss Tess returns to Ithaca to play South Hill Cider’s Golden Hour Music Series. “When most people think of defiant music, they think of punk rock or outlaw country. But defying genres while transcending eras and resisting clichés is hard to pin down when it comes to artistry—unless you’re talking about Miss Tess. Swinging for the fences and from the branches of jazz, country, blues and old school rock and roll, she has employed all of her influences and talents on a tour-de-force, while cleverly taking standard perspectives and ideas, like the definition of a love song, to task. After over a decade on the road, now making her home in Nashville — by way of Baltimore, Boston, and Brooklyn — Miss Tess has found a creative community that encourages and embraces wide artistic exploration and expression as much as she does.”
When: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday
Where: South Hill Cider
Cost: $10
Two in Tandem
Deep Dive hosts a happy hour show with Waking April and Kompyootur Muhsheen.
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Waking April has released a string of singles and EPs, played shows across the United States, been profiled in American Songwriter, and been interviewed on CBS's My Carolina. “Spend enough time with Waking April and the world gets more zen and more ballistic at the same time. Their songs play with the rules and boundaries of Pop, Rock, Dance, and Electronica while inviting you to clap your hands, shake your ass, and, every once in a while, cry. That's what happens when you combine synth queen, songwriter, and vocalist Bethany McKee's Rock-fairy vibes with synth maniac, songwriter, and guitarist Alex McKee's fidget-frantic electricity.”
Kompootur Muhsheen: Teenage Algorithm is a “mild-mannered middle management cyborg that manufactures synthetic harmonics and psycho-sonic biological upgrades.”
When: 6 p.m. Friday
Where: Deep Dive
Cost: $10
Brothers in Arms
“After many years behind bars, Dirty, Podunk, and Paul Blart Jr. Newman have posted bail” and return to perform in Ithaca. “The Newman Brothers grew up in a goat shed outside of Ithaca, NY and have been playing music together since prepubescent times. They were active in the early 2010s, hooking up with some freaks along the way (Big D and the Kids Table, Hank & Cupcakes, Mephiskapheles, What Cheer!, Mr. Boneless, Well Worn Boot, Seth Faergolzia).
"In 2024, the Newman Brothers plan to release the10 year anniversary edition of their children’s album Camping Trip! with additional songs, and an illustrated book.
"Come see the Newman Brothers and their #$%^kickin' buds Well Worn Boot and Dizzy DeScretion bring the ruckus to Deep Dive and see what all the fuss is about!”
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Where: Deep Dive
Cost: $15
Dynamic Duo
Sacred Root hosts a double bill featuring Mars Ray and Eliza Waldman of Eliza and the Organix.
“Mars Ray is an emo-grunge singer-songwriter of wickedly lyrical songs for the revolution. She explores the shadow and punches up to power with melodies that will make you want to get up and dance while the world burns.”
“Eliza and the Organix is a funky rock project based in Brooklyn centered around the songwriting of vocalist and guitarist Eliza Waldman. E&tO deals in deep grooves, quirky humor, and high octane playing, drawing from a broad sonic canvas that remains focused in storytelling and soulful sound. Think Say Anything meets Alanis Morissette.”
When: 8:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Sacred Root Kava Bar and Tea Lounge
Cost:
Night Moves
“DJs Apactor (Ithaca) and Priest (The Seed, Journeymen Productions) ease The Downstairs into the rest of the night after Wordle to a wide range of beats, including techno, house, experimental, and ambient music.”
When: 10 p.m. Friday, after the Competive Wordle event concludes
Cost: $5
Outstanding in their Field
Seedstock XIII returns to Cortland to offer a “one-day celebration of music, art, and our incredible community of friends, family, and music fans.” Beginning at 11 a.m., the lineup in order includes Corey Paige, Raedwald Howland-Bolton, Bradford Allen and Casey Widger, Miss Tess, People People, Mike Powell and the Echosound, Metasequoia, Fall Creek Brass Band, The Rollin’ Rust, The Unknown Woodsmen, Digger Jones, The Unknown Jones, and DJ Kidd and Sydchik. See the complete schedule here!
When: Saturday
Where: 3336 State Route 215, Cortland
Cost: $25 and up; advance tickets are available here; camping is available
Kicking Brass
Deep Dive presents a “N'awlins Jazz Happy Hour” with The Brass Machine. “
"Laying down funky New Orleans-style street beats across the United States and Canada. Formed in 2014 at the University at Buffalo, The Brass Machine provides a unique blend of hip hop, funk, and R&B, all in an infectious and energetic brass-y package. Having performed alongside national acts such as Earth, Wind, and Fire, Starship, The Soul Rebels, Rebirth Brass Band, Bonerama, John Papa Gros, CJ Chenier and more - The Brass Machine is hittin’ the streets HARD.
Led by frontman “Kidd” Kyle Yagielski, the group has been named the best FUNK BAND in Western New York three years in a row by JazzBuffalo, and continues to maintain a robust performance schedule at festivals across the Northeast including Borderland, RailRider, Rochester Jazz Fest, Night Lights, and more! If you want to hear music that’s good for your souls and soles, come party with The Brass Machine!”
When: 4-7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Deep Dive
Cost: $5, tips welcome!
On the Inlet
WaterMusic & Dancing on the Trail returns to offer music and dance performances for paddlers, pedestrians and bicyclists along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Ithaca. Performance areas will be along the Waterfront Trail on the east and west banks of the Cayuga Inlet between the Farmers Market and Dragon Boat Docks on the north, and Look Out Point (Inlet Island) on the south. Performers include:
1. Fly By Night (Old Time) at Dragon Boat Dock
2. Nikolai Ruskin (Violin) at Inlet Overlook
3. Triphammer Arts Dancers at Cass Bird Garden
4. London McDaniel (Jazz) at Rowing Finish Line
5. Djug Django (Swing) at Lookout Point
6. Six Mile Craic (Irish) at Crew Cove Overlook
7. Sow’s Ear at Farmers Market Trailhead
(Please note that there is a wedding at the market on the 12th so the Pier will not be a WaterMusic Stage.)
8. WaterGrass (Bluegrass) on Floating Stage
When: 5:30-7:30 pm. Saturday. Postponed to 5:30-7:30 pm. Sunday!
Where: Cayuga Waterfront Trail
Cost: free
String Thing
Big Sky Music Studio Summer Concert Series continues with violinists Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy, who “reimagine the potential of string chamber music with a unique sound both deeply intimate and cinematically expansive. Rooted in traditions of South Indian classical music, Western chamber music, and jazz, the duo is uniquely positioned to create a sound that feels ancient, orchestral, and contemporary or as The New Yorker put it “free-flowing and globe-spanning.” Combined with the duo’s fluency in improvisation, there is a clear architecture to their sound that still gives space for the two violins to be delightfully indiscernible and shine individually. Their debut album, ‘Nakshatra,’ the Sanskrit word for constellation, is a profound exploration of this dance between a collective and singular sound, bursting with energy, playfulness, and a cosmic gravitas.
“As a duo they have been artists-in-residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute and Next Stage Arts Project, and have performed at Ragas Live Festival, The Jazz Gallery, Bang on a Can, Benque Cultural Center, Sri Ramanjaneya Sangeetha Sabha, and Lyric Chamber Society of NY. Varying colors, shapes, and sounds emerge from the ensemble with their esteemed collaborators, who have included cellists Marika Hughes and Jake Charkey, percussionists Dan Kurfirst and Rich Stein, bassists Damon Banks and Rashaan Carter and guitarist Shane Parish. Basu and Ramamurthy are married and live in Brooklyn, NY with their two young children.”
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Sweet Land Farm CSA, Trumansburg
Cost: $18 in advance, available online here; $20 at the door
Friends, Indeed!
The Davey Squires & Friends band comes to downtown Ithaca. “Serving up a wide array of genres, band leader Davey Squires composes to include anything from jazz to blues and ragtime to rock within his original songs, along with a blend of swing-inspired covers. Davey Squires & Friends is completed as a 4-piece band at its core with an ever-changing arsenal of guest musicians, notably not including a guitar like much of their local counterparts. Prior to the band, Squires toured around the country from New York to Montana as a solo act and with numerous studio musicians.”
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Downstairs
Cost: $5
Underground Sounds
Practice at Presents returns to Sacred Root Kava Bar with local favorite Microbes, Mostly joined by Birdweek and Chicago’s Soft and Dumb. “Don’t miss out!”
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Sacred Root Kava Bar and Tea Lounge
Cost: $10
Disco Fever
Get ready to dance at Lucky Hare Brewery! “Disco time is here friends!!! Join us for our 3rd Annual Disco Dance Party, this year we have the amazing DJ Proper Philth spinning all your disco favorites. There will be prizes for best costume and for those who dare to participate in our disco dance off!!! Maybe for the brave soul who's willing to get up and sing along too!!! Oh where will the night take us! No door charge, just come and have a great time and bring those dancing platforms!!”
When: 8-10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Lucky Hare Brewing, Hector
Cost: no cover
Let’s Dance
“It's bright outside, let light up the night! Join your host Tilia Cordata and her glowing cast of local performers for a Neon Show! Come early to get into the mood, and stay late to party the night away with a DJ Dance party with The Dutchess of Spirit Posse.” Featured performers include Kizzie LoveLips, Vivi Nox, Skarlet Killz, and James Ballin'.
When: 9:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Deep Dive
Cost: $10
Sunday Club
The Buena Vista Sunday Club with Fabi and Friends and the Sabores de Oaxaca Food Truck returns to Damiani Vineyards for the summer season. “Join us every Sunday in summer for the eclectic and amazing music from Fabi World Music Summer Duo featuring Martini. We have wines by the glass, by the bottle, and special wine cocktails available for you to enjoy as you take in the views and wonderful vibes.”
When: 1-4 p.m. Sundays
Where: Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 NY Route 414, Burdett
Cost: free; donations welcome
Ready for Release
Noon Fifteen’s vocalist Mandy Goldman will celebrate the release of her debut album. A singer, songwriter, and vocal coach based in Ithaca, she “has been deeply involved in the Ithaca music scene for the last ten years, singing with Maddy Walsh and the Blind Spots, NEO Project, Alan Rose and the Restless Elements, and her band with her husband Samuel B. Lupowitz, Noon Fifteen. After many years singing for the Ithaca community at Ithaca Festival, Apple Fest, and Grassroots, Mandy is releasing her own solo album, ‘Balance of the Trade,' which will be available on all platforms August 13, 2023.”
Opening the show is Fusebox, a new local trio that includes Harry Nichols, Julia Felice, and Josh Ross. Their debut single, "He Feels," is available on all streaming platforms.
When: 7 p.m. Sunday
Where: Deep Dive
Cost: $12in advance, available online here; $20 day of show
Get Rhythm
Dave Davies RhythMakers return for Jazz Mondays, as Dave Davies, Doug Robinson, Brian Earle, and Chad Lieberman will play classic jazz, blues, originals, and more.
When: 5:30-8:30 p.m., second and fourth Mondays of each month
Where: South Hill Cider
Cost: free; donations welcome
Cutting Edge
Theoretical Events presents Cindy Lee, Freak Heat Waves, and Microbes, Mostly!
When: 8 p.m. Monday
Where: Angry Mom Records
Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
Pressure Drop
Angelo Paradiso (New Planets, Living Myths, Big Mean Sound Machine, Swamp Kids) continues his weekly residency at Deep Dive, joined by special guest drummer Brian “Willie B” Wilson, who has played with Johnny Dowd, Black Castle, Jamie Lidell,
“Angelo Paradiso (multi - instrumentalist / mad scientist) brings you a VS battle that will make that tush pop and jaw drop. Man VS machine : Angelo invites a rotating cast of characters that range in instruments, names and forms to battle machine sequences, modular synths and all things sample-able. All styles from all places. All things funky. No computers, just humans. Bring your dancing shoes, your party hat, and dial 1-800-NOREQUESTS.”
When: 8:30 p.m. Monday
Where: Deep Dive
Cost: $10
More Shows
Wingnut is at Liquid State North Shore at 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday
Jasperoo plays Brookton’s Market at 5-7 p.m. Friday
Scott Adams plays Bagley’s Winery at 5-8 p.m. Friday
The Undefeated is atFillmore Days in Moraviaat 5 p.m., followed by Tailor Made at 6:30 p.m.
DJ ha-MEEN spins at Osmote Winery at 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday
Bad Bear is at Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards at 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday
Gerard Burke is at Seneca Cheese Company at 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday
John Liuzzo is at McGraw Box Brewing at 6-8 p.m. Friday
The BobCats Band is at Hopshire Farms and Brewery at 6-8 p.m. Friday
Levi and the Wranglers are at Summerhill Brewing at 6-8 p.m. Friday
Cherry Holler is at Homer Hops at 6-9 p.m. Friday
Friends with Bennys are at Grist Iron Brewing at 6-9 p.m. Friday
The Sweats are at Two Goats Brewing at 6-9 p.m. Friday
The Delta Mike Shaw Band is at Scale House Brewery at 6-9 p.m. Friday
The Jim E Leggs Trio is at Buttonwood Grove Winery at 6-9 p.m. Friday
Cisco and the Soul Benders are at Finger Lakes Cider House at 6-9 p.m. Friday
Brass Inc. is at Treleaven Winery at 6-9 p.m. Friday
City Limits is at the BoatYard Grill at 6-9 p.m. Friday
The Smoking Loons play Wagner Vineyards at 6:30 p.m. Friday
Past My Bedtime is at the Groton American Legion at 6:30 p.m. Friday
The Shylocks are at ONCO Fermentations at 7-9 p.m. Friday
Clint Bush is at the Glen Haven at 7-10 p.m. Friday
Bradford Allen is at Revelry Yards at 7-10 p.m. Friday
Tribal Revival is at BRU64 at 7-10 p.m. Friday
Northern Ramble is at Cortland Beer Company at 8 p.m. Friday
The Diana Leigh Quartet is at Buttonwood Grove Winery at 1-4 p.m. Saturday
Miller and the Other Sinners are at Grist Iron Brewing at 1-4 p.m. Saturday, followed by Terrapin Station at 6-9 p.m.
Richman and the Poorboys are at Chateau Dusseau at 3-6 p.m. Saturday
Kitestring is at Scale House Brewery at 4-7 p.m. Saturday
Quinn Bedore is at Liquid State North Shore at 4:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday
The Delta Mike Shaw Band plays Bagley’s Winery at 5-8 p.m. Saturday
Ship of Phools are at Summerhill Brewing at 5-8 p.m. Saturday
Driftwood and the Brothers Blue are at Inspire Moore Winery in Naples at 5 p.m. Saturday
Clint Bush is at McGraw Box Brewing at 6-8 p.m. Saturday
Rocco Rich and Aaron Craig are at Homer Hops at 6-9 p.m. Saturday
Tenzin Chopak and Emmett Scott are at Two Goats Brewing at 6-9 p.m. Saturday
Bradford Allen and Steve Romer are at Trax Pub and Grille at Greek Peak in Cortland at 6-8 p.m. Saturday
The Cadleys are at Heuga’s Alpine in Tully at 6-9 p.m. Saturday
The Cast Iron Cowboys are at Cayuga Shoreline at 6-9 p.m. Saturday
DJ AstroHawk is at Atwater Vineyards at 6-8 p.m. Saturday
JP Payton and Loveday of Freight are at Ithaca Beer in Collegetown at 7 p.m. Saturday
Exit 11 is at Cortland Beer Company at 8 p.m. Saturday
The 86ers are at the Night Drop in Syracuse at 10 p.m. Saturday
Ronnie Leigh is at Heuga’s Alpine in Tully from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday
Blue Skies plays the Live Jazz Brunch series at Stonecat Café from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday
The One-Man Steel Band is at Cayuga Shoreline at 12-3 p.m. Sunday
David Siurano is at Wagner Vineyards at 1-4 p.m. Sunday
Brian Hughes is at Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards at 2-5 p.m. Sunday
Tom Gath is at ONCO Fermentations at 2-5 p.m. Sunday
Tim Herron is at the Glen Haven at 2-5 p.m. Sunday
Payton Bird and Sean Fried are at McGraw Box Brewing at 2-5 p.m. Sunday
Jacob Shipley is at Treleaven Winery at 2-5 p.m. Sunday
Major Bigtime is at Grist Iron Brewing at 2-5 p.m. Sunday
Cordless Telephone is at Seneca Cheese Company at 3-6 p.m. Sunday
GoGone is at Two Goats Brewing at 4-7 p.m. Sunday
Seneca Jam is at Scale House Brewery at 4-7 p.m. Saturday
Rachel Beverly is at Hop Notch Brewing in Montour Falls at 4 p.m. Sunday
Brett Beardslee is back with the blues at Rasta Ranch Vineyards at 5-8 p.m. Mondays
Mark Maynard hosts Open Mic Night at Lucky Hare Brewing in Hector at 6-8 p.m. Mondays
Regional Shows
Aug. 11, The Frank White Experience, Westcott Theatre, Syracuse
Aug. 11, The Chicks, CMAC, Canandaigua
Aug. 11, Zac Brown Band with Marcus King and King Calaway, St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Syracuse
Aug. 12, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Smith Opera House, Geneva
Aug. 12, Dan + Shay, Turning Stone Event Center, Verona
Aug. 12, Disturbed, St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Syracuse
Aug. 12, Zac Brown Band, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel
Aug. 13, Mastodon and Gojira, Upstate Medical Arena at the Oncenter War Memorial, Syracuse
Aug. 13, Zac Brown Band with Marcus King and King Calaway, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs
Aug. 13, Joe Bonamassa, Styx, and Don Felder, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel
Aug. 14, Maddie Poppe, Westcott Theatre, Syracuse
Aug. 16, Goo Goo Dolls and O.A.R., St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Syracuse
Aug. 16, Nickelback, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center
Aug. 17, The Steeldrivers, Center for the Arts, Homer
Aug. 17, Yellowcard, St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Syracuse
