Joe Driscoll smiled widely from the podium on the stage of The Palace Theatre on James Street during Friday night’s Syracuse Area Music Awards show. He gripped his shiny black Sammys trophy for best Jam Band recording with Sekou Kouyate and told the capacity crowd of 600 or so how he always laid claim to…
My good friend Ulf Oesterle sent over a note about a show in downtown Syracuse featuring Stephen Douglas Wolfe. And when a musician catches the ear and wins over the heart of Oesterle, it’s time to take notice. I know that from the years he pointed me toward cool sounds when I toiled as the…
Mark Turley of Syracuse indie label LRS Records dropped me a line about a cool event taking place this Saturday … Which happens to be the same day of the Hoo-hah that is the annual downtown Syracuse St. Patrick’s Day Parade. “We recently partnered with this new building downtown called The Cosmopolitan (1153 West Fayette…
Every year still, the good folks who put on the Syracuse Area Music Awards ask me to join the ranks of their celebrity presenters. It’s an honor in my neck of the woods that started at the first one back in 1993, when I covered music for the big daily. It continued past the layoff…
The good people of Syracuse have been doing it right as far as it comes to music since a few heads came together in 1992 and Frank Malfitano opened up the grand Landmark Theatre for the first Syracuse Area Music Awards in 1993. Friday night in The Palace Theatre on James Street, the community came…
Music lover and writer Chris Rapp sent over a message a couple of months ago to alert me about a favorite old Syracuse band of his that was getting back together next weekend. Rapp urged that I alert the world through my blog. He even sent the pictures here along with his text. Rapp wrote…
An old friend from my days at the big daily sent me a note about a collaboration this week for his band a special guest coming up from the south. “I am reaching out to alert you about a treasure of a musician who will be headed up from the Mississippi Delta to perform with…
If there’s anything I’ve learned from watching musicians and music fans mix and mingle at the Syracuse Area Music Awards since the debut edition in 1993, it’s that everybody digs the reunion set. This year’s spotlight band will be Jam Factory, the Sammys organizers announced last week at a news conference at The Palace Theatre…
Irv Lyons Jr., , Wonderland Syracuse guitarist and singer Irv Lyons Jr. obviously put his heart and soul into his new album Wonderland. The 10-song collection bursts with love songs touched with his rich guitar work, innermost lyrical poetry and plenty of help from his Syracuse music community friends. The veteran member of standout blues…
Jamie Cheeseman is ready to turn the page of his calendar, he says. Bring on 2016, says the Syracuse rapper who goes by Powder Jay. The controversy of 2015 took much out of him. His depression started when he wrote and released a song about what he perceived as a snub by the judging panel…
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