Music for Front Porches
Every season, the Mystery Spot hosts FREE special musical performances by
some of our favorite musicians and bands on weekend afternoons on our front porch*
Upcoming Summer 2013 season:
Alessi’s Ark (Alessi Laurent-Marke) – Saturday, June 1, 2013 @ 1 PM
special acoustic show! direct from London!
see this post for full details.
We’re still putting together the line-up for for this summer’s (2013) Music for Front Porches series, so stay tuned! Meantime, check out the photos and videos of some of previous season’s porch shows right here on the site.
Feel free to sign our mailing list to be kept in the loop about upcoming shows in 2013 (line-up not yet announced).
Past shows:
Here’s what you missed at our PREVIOUS Music for Front Porches shows:
Our 2010 Season (second annual porch music series):
Ida (Elizabeth Mitchell & Daniel Littleton) and The Naysayer - Sun. August 1 2010 @ 1 PM
Holly Miranda – Sun. August 8 2010 @ 1 PM
Grasshopper and Jonathan (from Mercury Rev) AND Dean & Britta - Sun. August 15 2010 @ 1 PM
Uncle Monk (Tommy Ramone & Claudia Tienan) – Sun. August 22 2010 @ 2 PM
Ambrosia Parsley (Shivaree) & Chris Maxwell & Phil Hernandez - Sun. October 10 2010 @ 1 PM
….and more!
Special thanks to Loren Chodosh, Lisa Gottheil, Kellyn Slone, David Ayers, Chris Maxwell, and of course, all of the performers for a great 2010 concert series!
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 – Laura Cantrell
Sunday, July 19th, 2009 – Life in a Blender
Sunday, July 26th, 2009 – Steve Almaas
Sunday, August 9, 2009 – Two Dark Birds
Saturday, August 22 – Uncle Monk (Tommy Ramone & Claudia Tienan)
Sunday, October 4 – Gail Ann Dorsey
Sunday, October 11 – Ambrosia Parsley & Chris Maxwell
A big thank you to all of the folks who helped make the 2009 performance season possible, especially Mark Lerner, Craig Thompson (Shandaken Bake), the Kirks, the wonderful neighboring businesses on Main Street, the Village of Phoenicia, and everyone who came out and supported our concert series and helped make it possible. Most of all, our deepest gratitude to the incredible musicians who gave their time and talent to play our front porch: Laura Cantrell, Life in a Blender, Steve Almaas, Two Dark Birds, Uncle Monk, Gail Ann Dorsey, and Chris Maxwell & Ambrosia Parsley.
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Gail Ann is featured in this upcoming exhibition.
MUZIK KINDA SWEET BY POGUS CAESAR 1st – 30th October 2011
The British Music Experience at O2 presented by the Co-operative, in association with OOM Gallery will be showcasing an exclusive exhibition of 38 rare photographs celebrating legendary black musicians working in the UK.
Using a simple camera photographer Pogus Caesar followed the musicians and singers around the famous venues producing a collection that celebrates a style of black music that brings together the UK, the US and the Caribbean.
From Stevie Wonder in 1989, Grace Jones in 2009 and Big Youth in 2011, this unique exhibition documents how black music, in its Reggae, Soul, Jazz and R&B tributaries of sound, has changed and renewed itself over the decades.
Journeying from Jimmy Cliff to Jay-Z via Mica Paris and Mary Wilson of The Supremes to David Bowie’s bass player Gail Ann Dorsey, these images conjure up an alphabet of the music of the Black Atlantic.
The photographs selected from OOM Gallery Archive are also as much about the clubs and venues, as it is about the singers, producers and musicians. The Wailers at The Tower Ballroom, Sly Dunbar at The Hummingbird Club, Courtney Pine at Ronnie Scott’s, Cameo at the Odeon Cinema, Ben E. King at the Hippodrome and Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B at BBC Pebble Mill, many venues now lost to regeneration or renewal, and only recalled through memory and imagery.
http://www.britishmusicexperience.com/muzik-kinda-
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