Category Concert Review
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 …
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 …
(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof for Molly Bee)
Song Festival: Good TV Fare But ‘Disaster’ on The Scene
by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, September 4, 1974
Viewers who watch the American Song Festival finals on …
Song Festival Closes Late
by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, September 3, 1974
The American Song Festival wound up its four-day stay at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Monday night, running late as usual.
The final program got underway 55 minutes …
(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof for Mercer Ellington, Al Wilson, James Cleveland, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Pointer Sisters, or Ray Charles and the Raeletts)
Woodstocker’s Song Wins At the Spa
Daily Freeman, September 1, 1974…
Sparse Crowd Mars Song Festival Opener
by Donald E. Wilcock, The Times Record, August 31, 1974
What would happen if they put on a giant concert and nobody showed up? Last night, the opening act of the four-day American Song …
Festival Under Way
by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, August 31, 1974
A Connecticut hospital worker and three West Coast musicians were the first winners at the American Song Festival as it got off to a rocky start Friday …
A Whimper — Not A Bang
by Doug deLisle, The Times Record, August 27, 1974
IF THERE IS, as theologians love to speculate, a personal hell for all of us. I often fear that mine will consist of being strapped …
Benny Goodman Still Too Good to Believe
by Sandra Gartner, The Rutland Daily Herald, August 15, 1974
Benny Goodman and his Jazz Ensemble cannot be reviewed, but only absorbed and watched with awe. Goodman, who created a subtle swing …