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B.B. King / Bobby “Blue” Bland / Melvin Jackson @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 10, 1975)

B.B. King proves he’s ‘King of Blues’

by Candace Hollar, The Saratogian

B. B. King, the “Boss of the Blues,” brought his magic to the stage of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Sunday evening, wooing the excited crowd into cheers …

Peter Nero @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 5, 1975)

Nero captures small, but devoted audience

by Marilyn Moran, The Saratogian

Music lovers missed a fine concert at SPAC Tuesday night. The amphitheater was less than one-fourth filled for pianist Peter Nero’s late-scheduled performance.

“Thank God you’re here,” he said …

Glen Campbell / Jud Strunk @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 4, 1975)

‘New” Glen Campbell has come a long way

by Steve Grandin, The Saratogian

Glen Campbell has come a long way in the past seven years. He’s gone from that high-pitched, young guitar player to a slick, Las Vegas-type showman. And …

Liberace / Scotty Plummer / Mr. Electric @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 3, 1975 – evening)

Liberace–‘Mr. Showmanship’

by Marilyn Moran, The Saratogian

SPAC crowds get ‘money’s worth’

Audiences at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center learned firsthand Sunday how Liberace comes to be called “Mr. Showmanship.” At afternoon and evening performances at the center, he gave …

Liberace / Scotty Plummer / Mr. Electric @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 3, 1975 – matinee)

Liberace–‘Mr. Showmanship’

by Marilyn Moran, The Saratogian

SPAC crowds get ‘money’s worth’

Audiences at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center learned firsthand Sunday how Liberace comes to be called “Mr. Showmanship.” At afternoon and evening performances at the center, he gave …

Harry Chapin / Steve Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 28, 1975)

Chapin nears perfection at SPAC

by Steve Grandin, The Saratogian

What is a perfect concert? Well, first you need an artist who has both talent and charisma. Then you need a crowd that knows the performer and wants him to …

The Carpenters / Neil Sedaka / Skiles and Henderson @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 27, 1975)

Carpenters, Sedaka, give crowd money’s worth

by Craig Wilson, The Saratogian

Audiences usually have to sit through mediocre warm-up acts before they get to see the stars they came to see.

The crowd at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center last …

James Taylor / Emmylou Harris @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 20, 1975)

(editor’s note – Phoebe Snow was the originally scheduled opener, but canceled.)

Taylor cheered by 12,000 at SPAC performance

by Chat Blakeman, The Saratogian

James Taylor returned to Saratoga Performing Arts Center for the second year in a row Sunday …

J. Geils Band / Eros @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 13, 1975)

(editor’s note – Muddy Waters was the scheduled opener, but canceled the day of the show. Eros replaced him.)

(editor’s note – This date was originally scheduled to be Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, and Billy Swan but Kristofferson was forced …

J. Geils Band / Eros @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 13, 1975)

(editor’s note – Muddy Waters was the scheduled opener, but canceled the day of the show)

(editor’s note – This date was originally scheduled to be Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, and Billy Swan but Kristofferson was forced to cancel due …

J. Geils Band / Eros @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 13, 1975)

(editor’s note – Muddy Waters was the scheduled opener, but canceled the day of the show)

(editor’s note – This date was originally scheduled to be Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, and Billy Swan but Kristofferson was forced to cancel due …

Dave Mason / Livingston Taylor @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 6, 1975)

(editor’s note – Joe Cocker was originally scheduled as the opener, but was replaced by Livingston Taylor)

Dave Mason displays talent

by Steve Grandin, The Saratogian

Dave Mason isn’t exactly your household name. Even in many rock music circles, his …

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