Month June 1975
Pandemonium reigns at SPAC concert witnessed by 14,000
by Steve Grandin, The Saratogian
“We jus’ wanna play our music and take it to the people, ” said Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd. And Lynyrd Skynyrd did play …
Lynyrd Skynyrd: ‘Genuine Southern hell-raising’
by Bill Brina, The Knickerbocker News, June 19, 1975
Lynyrd Skynyrd, the North Florida band with an aggressive pro-Dixie stance and an unspellable, unpronounceable name, drew about 12,000 to SPAC Tuesday night for an evening …
Jazz music at SPAC
Photo by Hubbard. Bennington Banner, June 17, 1975
Bit of New Orleans comes to SPAC
by Steve Grandin, The Saratogian
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band brought just a little bit of New Orleans to upstate New York Sunday night as it opened the season at the Saratoga Performing …
New Orleans jazz band gets audience into acts
by C. Robie Booth, The Knickerbocker News, June 16, 1975
Bourbon Street moved from New Orleans to Saratoga for an evening last night and more than 1,000 early-season music lovers were amply …
(editor’s note – this show was scheduled and advertised, but never happened. New Riders of the Purple Sage ended up playing in Austin on this night)
Syracuse Herald-Journal, May 25, 1975
by Lisa Tuttle, Austin American-Statesman, June 14, 1975
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