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*

Summer 2013 season:

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby – Sunday, September 1, 2013 @ 3 PM

Ambrosia Parsley and Holly Miranda – Sunday, July 21, 2013 @ 3 PM

a handful of songs worked up just for the Mystery Spot audience !

see this post for more details

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.

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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!

Our 2009 Season (first annual porch music 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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