SARATOGA SPRINGS — Inspired by the long-running “Beatlemore” Skidmania concerts at Skidmore College, SKIDMANIA ‘72 is a reboot that will celebrate the music of 50 years ago, fueled by more than 70 Skidmore student musicians. The event takes place 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18-19 at the Zankel Music Center, on the campus of Skidmore College. 

SKIDMANIA ‘72 features popular songs from 1972 – what organizers describe as a” unique look-back at the 70’s that includes music of Stevie Wonder, Carly Simon, Led Zeppelin, Betty Wright and many others.”

Not that anyone asked, but we would like to also point out that seminal year for music also saw the release of David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust,” Mott The Hoople’s “All The Young Dudes,” Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” “Exile On Main St., from the Rolling Stones, “Transformer” from Lou Reed, the self-titled debut from Roxy Music, and Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly.” Phew!

Tickets are $15 General Public, $8 Students (Non-Skidmore) & Seniors, and $5 Skidmore Community (Students, Faculty, Staff, & Retirees). Box office is open for in-person sales Tuesday-Friday from 1 – 5 p.m. and one hour before showtime. Seating is first come, first served and doors open 30 minutes prior to the start of the event.

All proceeds from SKIDMANIA ‘72 will benefit Skidmore Cares, a Skidmore College initiative that supports agencies in our communities. 

While recording his album “Harvest” during a nine-month period in 1971, Neil Young was accompanied by a camera capturing moving images and some of the sounds. 

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the album’s release, captured footage from Northern California, London, and Nashville are being turned into an exclusive cinema event on Dec. 1.  

“We’re just making a film about, I don’t know, just the things we want to film,” a 20-something Neil Young explains in a preview trailer, while walking along a path at Broken Arrow Ranch in California in 1971. 

“Neil Young: Harvest Time” will be presented in movie theaters worldwide on Thursday, Dec. 1 with select encores on Sunday, Dec. 4.

The film depicts the “Harvest Barn” sessions, as well as an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, and sessions in Nashville.  Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into the storytelling and includes most of the tracks from the 1972 album ‘Harvest,’ including “Heart of Gold,” “A Man Needs A Maid,” “Alabama,” and “Old Man.”

“This is a big album for me. 50 years ago. I was 24, maybe 23 and this album made a big difference in my life,” Young said in a statement. “I played with some great friends and it’s really cool that that this album has lasted so long. I had a great time and now when I listen to it, I think I was really just lucky to be there. I hope you enjoy this story, which is ‘Harvest Time,’ and which talks about everything that happened. And now people all around the world can see it at the movies.” 

A 50th Anniversary Edition Harvest Box Set will also be issued on Vinyl and CD which includes the original album, three studio outtakes on CD/7” vinyl, an unreleased live 1971 BBC solo performance on CD/LP and DVD, and a hardbound book and fold-out poster. 

Visit NeilYoungHarvestTime.com for ticketing and the most up-to-date information about participating theaters.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Marking the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise, the Saratoga Automobile Museum will celebrate with a major new exhibition called BOND IN MOTION featuring 25 official vehicles from the past six decades of the longest-running film franchise in movie history. The multimedia exhibit also features movie memorabilia, images, and video to create a totally unique Bond experience for museum visitors. The exhibition opens Nov. 18.

Visitors to the exhibition will experience all the excitement and drama of the world of Bond with a collection of automobiles including the iconic and most famous Bond car: the 1964 Aston Martin DB5. Other vehicles on display include the white 1977 Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) that sensationally transforms from a high-performance sports car into a submarine; the 2007 Aston Martin DBS that made movie history with a record-breaking seven full rotation roll in Casino Royale (2006), and the one-of-ten 2015 Aston Martin DB10, built specifically for 2015’s Spectre.

The Saratoga Automobile Museum is located on Avenue of the Pines. Phone: 518-587-1935. Visit: saratogaautomuseum.org. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Robert Burke Warren will discuss his new book “Cash on Cash: Interviews and Encounters with Johnny Cash,” with Chuck “Rochmon Record Club” Vosganian at Northshire Bookstore this week.   

The event takes place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

Music has played a major role in Warren’s personal life and his career has included stints with RuPaul – “the singer of my first band, when I was 17. He was 20,” Warren recalls, The Fleshtones, and auditions for the B-52s and The Ramones. In 2016, he published his debut novel “Perfectly Broken” – a splendidly entertaining volume of words he synopsisized to this journalist as “Musicians in love, musicians behaving badly—and the people that love them.” In January, he co-hosts the David Bowie Birthday Bash in Manhattan. 

“Cash on Cash,” published by Chicago Review Press in September, offers unprecedented insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the 20th century.  

As an interviewee, Cash was an exemplary communicator to an astonishingly broad spectrum of people: always open and articulate, part friend, part spiritual authority, part flawed hero. Throughout a decades-long career, as Cash took risks, embracing new technologies, formats, and attitudes, he cleaved to a simple, core message of unvarnished truth.

Cash’s story, told in his own words, shines unfiltered light on a journey of archetypal proportions that resonates still in this comprehensive collection of interviews and feature stories, some widely published and others never previously transcribed, culled from the 1950s through the early days of the new millennium. 

“Cash on Cash” is available at Northshire Saratoga. The bookstore is located at 424 Broadway in Saratoga Springs. Call 518-682-4200, visit: northshire.com. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler, collectively known as the Folk-Americana duo The Rough & Tumble have relentlessly toured since forming as a band in 2011. On Saturday, Nov. 20, they perform on the regional stage at Caffe Lena.  

“Living on the road full-time in a small camper, with two big dogs (Mud Puddle and Magpie Mae) for the last 8 years – until last week, when we settled in New Hampshire,” says Graham.  “We’re looking forward to spending more time in the Northeast.”

Show time is 7 p.m.on Nov. 20. Go to: caffelena.org. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — It is story was born in Saratoga a long time in-the-making that will make its landing in living color in the Spa City this month.

IT is called “The Supernatural Strings of Vampwyre,” a 32-page comic from the mind of Zack Lynch, launching the first book of what he hopes will be a quarterly publication with his new enterprise Blue Shack Comics. 

“The first time I ever got to go to a comic shop was on Broadway (in Saratoga Springs). My mom took me and it was like a magic portal,” says Lynch, who subsequently grew up reading ‘Conan’ and ‘X-Men’ –  “the two mainstays I read as a kid without fail, and after that pretty much everything Marvel put out.”

By the 1990s, Lynch began working for comic book companies, first as an intern and later graduating to doing coloring and production design. “Comics have been a part of my life forever, since I was a kid, and it’s been in my career wheelhouse for the past 30 years now,” he says.  

Earlier this year, he assembled a creative team in anticipation of launching a local comic book company and estimates approximately 50 brainstorming meetings have been held at Desperate Annie’s on Caroline Street – “that has been quite a creation hub for us” – since May.  

“I hired a team of professionals and knowing how every position works really helps. It takes about six people to put together a comic. You’ve got your basic creator – who comes up with the idea; your writer; you have to do sketches to get an idea of what the book is going to look like, then it goes to a penciller, an inker, a colorist and a letterer,” Lynch explains.  “Then all of that comes back to me for design layout and printing.”

The end result is Blue Shack Comics’ first issue: The Supernatural Strings of Vampwyre – a kid-friendly story about an AI rock star who deals with the experiences that all humans experience, Lynch says, from growing up, to figuring out who and what we are. 

Book 1 is on its way back from the printers. Book 2 begins production next month and is slated for release in the spring. The hope is to release a new book on a quarterly basis. Lynch – who wears the title of creator, writer and editor of the book, also launched a Kickstarter campaign. 

“I am the financier, and it is costly, but an interesting part is that it’s also being financed by old classic comics which are now exceptionally valuable. I have quite a large comic collection, and for this book I’m selling comics to make a comic,” Lynch says. 

“The Supernatural Strings of Vampwyre” is slated to make its premiere Nov. 12-13, during Comic Con at the Saratoga Springs City Center. It will also be available at the website: vampwyre.com, where more information about the publication may be found. 

“The Supernatural Strings of Vampwyre.” Creator & Writer – Zack Lynch; Artistic Concept Designer – Kim Vincent Harris; Pencils – Jason Baroody; Inks – Mark McKenna; Colors – Ross Campbell; Letters – Dezi Sienty; Graphic Design – Tyrus Christiana. 32 pages, color, $6. Go to: vampwyre.com. 

ALBANY – Original Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison and noted touring member Adrian Belew have announced they will bring their popular ‘Remain In Light’ concert on the road in 2023, in celebration of the band’s iconic 1980 record. 

The 19-date tour kicks off in Denver on Feb. 16 and stages a show at Empire Live in Albany on March 8.

Harrison and Belew will perform songs from the early 1980s period of the band’s history, and will be joined by a powerhouse band, including former members of Turkuaz, Julie Slick on bass, and Yahuba Garcia-Torres on percussion. 

Harrison played keyboards with The Modern Lovers in the early 1970’s (“Roadrunner, Roadrunner, Going faster miles an hour… with the radio on” if you don’t know), and joined the Talking Heads in time for the recording of the now-four-piece combo’s debut LP, “Talking Heads ’77.”  Belew worked extensively as a session, guest and touring musician with numerous artists and ensembles, including the Talking Heads during the early 1980s.    

 “’Remain In Light’ is a high point in my career,” Harrison said, in a statement. “Adrian and I had often discussed the magic of the 1980 tour and the sheer joy it brought to audiences. It is such a delight to see that joy once again in the audiences on the current tour.”

To purchase tickets, visit: remaininlight.net.

SCHENECTADY — A four act Rock N Roll/Doo Wop Spectacular will be staged at Proctors Theatre, 432 State Street, Schenectady, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19.

Headlining the show is the legendary Chubby Checker. The singer grew up in South Philadelphia and formed a street-corner harmony group at age 8. His first hit record, “The Class” was released in 1959. By the summer of 1960, “The Twist” became a #1 hit, introducing the concept of couples “dancing apart to the beat” and leading to a revolution in dancing.

Co-headlining the show is The Doo Wop Project – stars of five Broadway smash hit shows like Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical. 

Also performing: The Duprees (“You Belong to Me,” “My Own True Love,”), and regional fave Trish Anderson – the lead singer of the Bluz House Rockers. Tickets are on sale at Proctors Box Office, by phone at 518-346-6204 and on line at proctors.org.