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James Taylor / Linda Ronstadt @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 14, 1974)

Muggy, mellow evening at SPAC

by Jim Kunstler, The Knickerbocker News, July 15, 1974

LINDA RONSTADT AND JAMES TAYLOR IN CONCERT AT THE SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Oh my, what a hot, muggy night in the North Country. Even so, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gilbert O’Sullivan / Maureen McGovern / Marty Barris @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (September 13, 1973)

Audience hops to O’Sullivan beat

by Jim Kunstler, The Knickerbocker News, September 14, 1973

It was hopping high school madness when Gilbert O’Sullivan, the British product, brought his enormous ensemble to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center last night. Even earlier, …

Kris Kristofferson / Rita Coolidge @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (September 9, 1973)

Country singer warms chilled fans

by Jim Kunstler, The Knickerbocker News, September 10, 1973

It waş a subdued Kris Kristofferson who crooned through the Arctic blasts Sunday night at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center to a huddled crowd of hungry …

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