Posts by Nancy Lasher

Summer kicks off in New York City at Governor’s Ball – the three day music festival that follows the (usually) rainy Memorial Day weekend. The kids are home from college, private high schools are over, and public school kids are in that end of the year lull. For working New Yorkers, it’s a nice time […]

Photos by Nancy Lasher from weekend one at the 2018 New Orleans Jazz Fest that took place April 27th thru April 29th.

Nashville-based Judah and the Lion headlined Irving Plaza on October 18th, one of the few times they’ve returned to the New York area since scoring an early time slot at Governor’s Ball in June. After a long intro of distortion, excerpts from historical political speeches, and smoke, as the sold-out crowd waited patiently, they bounded […]

Photos of the very diverse offering of artists from the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival that took place July 28th through July 30th 2017. Photos by Nancy Lasher.

So stop me if you’ve heard this one: How many Westchester hippies does it take to put on a music festival?…. All of them! The 2017 Clearwater Music Festival – The Great Hudson River Revival – returned to Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, NY after a year-long hiatus. The festival was started by folk singer […]

The music at Northside Festival kicked off Thursday June 8th with a pair of Canadian indie-rockers – Land of Talk and Wolf Parade – at the outdoor stage in McCarren Park, and continued into the wee hours of Sunday night. (Northside Content and Northside Innovation preceded, each two days, hosting a series of talks, expos and […]

Friday – Governor’s Ball 2016 kicks off.  Doors at 11:45 am; music starts on two of the four stages at 12:15 pm and then the stages alternate all day with a wide variety of quality acts til the closing bands shut the festival down about 11 pm.  While the larger acts get the two bigger […]

Sunday night, post JazzFest, a sold out crowd of weary music lovers geared up at One Eyed Jack’s for one more show.  Three, sometimes four guitars, bass, a keyboard with some weird apparatus on it, a drum kit, two sets of bushy ‘burns, a tambourine, maracas, and Anton Newcombe and his seemingly endless cache of […]

The Revivalists, in town in support of their new album Men Amongst Mountains, played Wednesday and Thursday night to sold-old audiences.  Playing most of the songs from the new album, though many weren’t new as they’ve been weaving them into their shows for the past two years, they still made time for their big crowd […]

Photos of Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival that took place June 20 & 21, 2015 at Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY. Featured performers included David Crosby, Citizen Cope, Neko Case, Guster, The Lone Bellow and The Mavericks. Photos by Nancy Lasher