The Concert Archive for the Capital Region

Month June 1974

Seals & Crofts @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 29, 1974)

(editor’s note – any openers unknown)

by Barbara Stone, The Post-Star, July 1, 1974

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America / Maria Muldaur / Gerry Vitek @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 28, 1974)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof)

The Times Record, June 28, 1974

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The Mahavishnu Orchestra @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 27, 1974)

by Don Wilcock, The Troy Record, October 6, 1974

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Gordon Lightfoot @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 25, 1974)

Lightfoot charms fans in low-keyed performance

by Jim Kunstler, The Knickerbocker News, June 26, 1974

It’s really amazing how different the audiences are. Gordon Lightfoot’s was a clean, hygienic audience, drawn from that mid-American wad of the upwardly mobile, where …

“Two Generations of Brubeck” / The Preservation Hall Jazz Band @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 23, 1974)

by Bill Skirving, The Knickerbocker News, June 26, 1974

From the number of Albany residents at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Sunday night to hear the Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans, there must have been more than a casual …

Herbie Mann @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 22, 1974)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof)

(editor’s note – Duke Ellington was originally scheduled to play, but died)

by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, June 21, 1974

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Chuck Mangione @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 21, 1974)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof)

by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, June 20, 1973

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New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 17, 1974)

A joyous dose of Joplin from ragtime ensemble

by Jim Kunstler, The Knickerbocker News, June 20, 1974

“Ninety million people in this country think that Marvin Hamlisch wrote ‘The Sting.’ It bothers me terribly. It just isn’t fair.”

Speaking is …

New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 17, 1974)

Revival of Ragtime Takes Over SPAC Stage

by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, June 19, 1974

A group of college students re-created the 70-year-old music of a long-dead composer Monday night at the Saratoga Festival.

The combination of the …

The Beach Boys / Kiki Dee @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 16, 1974)

Beach Boys ‘clean fun’ amid facismo weirdness

by Jim Kunstler, The Knickerbocker News, June 18, 1974

‘A bicentennial spirit’

A really evil afternoon, complete with tornadoes, ripened into a gentle, misty, veiled evening. There was even a kind of premature …

“Richard Nader’s Fabulous 50’s Rock & Roll Revival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 14, 1974)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof)

by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, June 13, 1974

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