Sound Off: Benefit shows highlight this week's concert slate
A couple of cool benefit shows top this weekend's musical offerings. Let's take a look ...
- May. 9, 2012
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A couple of cool benefit shows top this weekend's musical offerings. Let's take a look ...
VOICES multicultural chorus will present "Tribute to Broadway," a revue of some of the most notable songs in American popular music May 17 at Ithaca College's Ford Hall.
Sure, "The Avengers" smashed box-office records last weekend by teaming up different superheroes for one epic film. Local hard rock fans, though, will get to witness their own high-octane alliance Sunday when the Mass Chaos tour pulls into the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is known for doing everything on a huge scale: big "rock theater" concepts, a few dozen band members and vocalists, and enough stage magic for 10 lesser shows.
During the 1970s, country music was overrun by a bunch of wild and wooly singer- songwriters from Texas who were dubbed "outlaws" by the Nashville establishment. Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker and Willie Nelson were at the forefront of this movement, but behind them were characters such as Ray Wylie Hubbard, who was writing some of the era's most colorful songs.
In her three-decade music career, singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega has played at small coffeehouses and big festivals, sharing her literate and urbane folk/pop with a band, as part of a duo, backed by a string quartet or with just herself and her guitar.
The summer silly season landed with a $200 million ka-boom this weekend with the release of the long-awaited "Avengers." Fanboys (and girls) have been salivating for years for this cinematic team-up of the protagonists of "Iron Man," "Captain America," "The Hulk" and "Thor."
Experimental indie-pop band Saturday Looks Good to Me will be bringing its dreamy soul-pop sounds to The Haunt on Tuesday. The band was started in 2000 by multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Fred Thomas as a one-time recording project with musicians in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Binghamton Philharmonic will host a food drive to benefit Food Bank of the Southern Tier from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Forum in Binghamton prior to the orchestra's concert with Suzanne Vega.
"The Unfortunates," a play by Cornell graduate student Aoise Stratford, will be performed Friday and Saturday at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora.
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