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Andrew V. Craig
Original and fun, jazzy, folk, pop music
Andrew V. Craig is a singer/songwriter, music teacher and dad from Hastings ,New York. His songs are in the styling of pseudo jazz, bossa nova, pop, folk and deal with love, loss, anxiety and other topics in not so serious a manner.
Andrew has performed with Pete Seeger, Pat Humphries, Old Dogs New Tricks and opened for Rod MacDonald . He has performed in the Tarrytown Music Hall , Uptown Coffee House, The Bitter End, The Duplex and The Black Cat in Irvington,N.Y. Andrew was also invited to share his songs at The Christopher Street Coffee House Song Circle in NYC.
Divining Rod
Soulful Americana Country Rock Led By Hawaiian Born Miyuki Furtado
“Writing music to me is like exercise – you have to do it every day, whenever you can, and you just have to keep doing it. I think that’s the most important part of writing of any kind,” says Miyuki Furtado, singer and songwriter of the New York-based duo Divining Rod.
Furtado is no stranger to the struggle of finding time to write. After leaving The Rogers Sisters mid-tour in Norway, he returned home just before his daughter was born. Now, in between his daughter’s naps and repairing the old house north of New York where he lives with his family, Furtado still makes time to write music.
A self-described musical omnivore, Furtado grew up in Hawaii, where country, reggae, and hip-hop were popular, shaping his tastes and defining his style in the early aughts of his life. Now, Divining Rod is preparing to release their first LP, Return to Crystal Cove, wherein Furtado and bandmate Patrick Harmon have fashioned something truly unique, stuffing a grab bag full of influences ranging from Kris Kristofferson to Sonic Youth into a journey through moments both significant and insignificant in Furtado’s life.
Inspired lyrically by Furtado’s Hawaiian upbringing, snippets of New York City life, and the challenges of fatherhood (among other things), Return to Crystal Cove is due for release in November 2018. And it’s an absolute pleasure to behold: an evocative expedition full of strong melodic stylings, highly ocular lyrics, and redolent soundscapes that are sure to inspire connection and hope in those who listen.
Exit 12
New and old jazz standards.
Exit 12 is an eclectic jazz quintet based in Hastings on Hudson: Glenn Babakian plays trombone in jazz and classical venues. David Hamburger’s played bass and toured with NYC rock bands throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. Mark Kaufman plays jazz, R&B and Jewish music on saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet. Bill Reeve has played drums with many of the great names in jazz. Sometimes raucous, often joyful, always new.
Greetings From Anywhere
Backyard Stage Stomp n’ Twang
Formed high up on a hill in Dobbs Ferry, NY in 2007, Greetings From Anywhere mashes folk, blues, bluegrass and country into a unique roots-rock hybrid, performing with the gritty, impromptu abandon of a good-old-time garage band. Veterans of the NYC and Hudson Valley club, pub and festival circuit, GFA features a wide array of original songs alongside select feel-good covers.
Ted Horan
Flamenco flavored American music
While traveling in Spain I was put under a spell by the beautiful melodic strains of gypsy flamenco music, in this trancelike state, I was set upon by a band of gypsies & robbed. Vowing revenge I have studied their musical forms for a number of years – hoping to weave a few spells of my own…
Alan Murray & The Westchester Chamber Soloists
Alan Murray, pianist, and the Westchester Chamber Soloists present a diverse program of classical chamber music for strings, winds, brass and piano. Duos, Trios, Quartets, Quintets and Sextets by Beethoven, Brahms, Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Mozart, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Schubert and Thuille.
Old Dogs New Tricks
Lyric driven original songs with soul and gentle harmonies
Old Dogs New Tricks is made up of husband-and-husband duo Mark Davis and Jim Howe, joined by flutist and friend Paul Harris. Their songs ask what it means to be human and how, in the words of the poet Mary Oliver, we can make the most of our “one wild and precious life.” Forming Old Dogs New Tricks is one answer they came up with for themselves.
RiverDrummers
Concert and Jam featuring Middle Eastern and African pieces by contemporary percussion masters
