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Looking Ahead to Summer ’22: LIVE AT SPAC
Rod Stewart is slated to return to SPAC next July.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Rolling Stones registered as the highest grossing tour of Pollstar’s 2021 chart year, bringing in $115.5 million and more than 516,000 tickets over the course of just two months.
Looking ahead to the new year on the regional stage, the following shows are currently scheduled to take place at Saratoga Performing Arts Center as part of the pop concert season in 2022. June 3: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising The Roof June 10: John Mulaney: From Scratch June 16: The Doobie Brothers with Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and Jon McFee June 21: Steely Dan with Special Guest Steve Winwood July 3: Tedeschi Trucks Band – Wheels Of Soul, Featuring: St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Gabe Dixon July 7: Morgan Wallen with special guest HARDY/The Dangerous Tour July 17: Chicago and Brian Wilson with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin July 19: Foo Fighters/Live in North America 2022 July 22: Rod Stewart July 23: Backstreet Boys: DNA World Tour July 31: Matchbox Twenty Aug. 17: REO Speedwagon & Styx with Loverboy/Live and UnZoomed Aug. 19: Goo Goo Dolls Aug. 20: Bill Burr (Slight Return) Aug. 21: Dispatch & O.A.R. with special guest G. Love
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Composer and fictioneer Rees Shad returns to his roots at Caffe Lena with The Convo Combo to premiere songs from the upcoming album, “One Glass At A Time,” on Jan. 8 at Caffe Lena.
Shad began performing at the Caffe’s open mic nights in 1984 and was encouraged by its founder and namesake, American folk impresario Lena Spencer, to explore deeper narratives which the songwriter credits as foundational to his career.
A native of Manhattan who used his father’s Dictaphone to record his first song at the age of four, Shad grew up absorbing New York’s downtown music scene from Gerde’s Folk City to CBGB’s.
His recordings range from his debut album Walls (1993) to
Rees Shad Returns to Caffe Lena Roots with Show Jan. 8
Rees Shad performs live at Caffe Lena Jan. 8. Photo provided.
The Watcher (2019). The Convo Combo features longstanding Shad collaborator/drummer Bobby Kay and bassist Jeff Link who join Shad to explore a more improvisational approach to performing his crafted narratives.
For more information, go to www.ReesShadMusic.com. For tickets, go to: caffelena.org.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Congregation Shaara Tfille and The Jewish Community Center of Saratoga Springs host a live streaming Winter Film Festival from Dec. 31 - Jan 9. The wide variety of exclusive, award-winning new full features and documentaries and are open to the entire community. The films are presented by Menemsha Films, an organization that has worked for 20 years with a mission to preserve and share Jewish stories collected from around the world. Menemsha has built the largest library of its kind anywhere outside of Israel.
The 20 full features include A Starry Sky Above The Roman Ghetto (Un Cielo Stellato Sopra Il Ghetto Di Roma), An Impossible Love, An Irrepressible Woman, Asia, Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive, Broken Mirrors, Here We Are, If You See My Mother, Labyrinth of Peace, Neighbours, Plan A, Shadow Country, The Crossing, The Sign Painter, Those Who Remained, Thou Shalt Not Hate, Tiger Within, Valiant Hearts, Wet Dog and Winter Journey. Website: saratogasynagogue.org.
Email likebertrand518@ gmail.com to obtain trailers and the live streaming links.
