SARATOGA SPRINGS —Deep Purple returns to Saratoga Performing Arts Center Sept. 4 to celebrate over 50 years of Smoke On The Water with a repertoire that spans a half-century. 

Hit songs ‘Hush’, ‘Black Night’, ‘Speed King’ ‘Fireball’ and ‘Smoke On The Water’ helped define heavy rock, riffs and all. 

Selling over 100 million records and laying the ground for hard rock and metal, the band continue to tour arenas the world over and release hit albums.  Their last studio album, 2020’s ‘Whoosh!’ was their highest charting in 46 years, making Number 4 in UK Album charts.

Joining Deep Purple on their US tour is YES.

Tickets: go to livenation.com. 

SCHENECTADY — This year’s Harbor Jam concerts will take place Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21, Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady announced. 

The concerts will feature the music of the Bee Gees and the Eagles 

Headliners Night Fever – a tribute to the Bee Gees on Saturday night, and Hotel California – a tribute to the Eagles on Sunday night. Each night’s entertainment kicks off at 6 p.m. with a DJ (DJ MixItUp NY on Saturday and DJ Ketchup on Sunday), followed by the headliner performance at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday, July 21 concert will also be followed by a special fireworks show.

Food and beverages will be available for purchase. There are no age restrictions to attend, and concertgoers are welcome to bring chairs and blankets for seating. The free shows will take place at the Mohawk Harbor Amphitheater in Schenectady. 

More Birds in Schenectady:  A cover band called The Best of The Eagles will perform at Proctors on Sept. 28, in a Live Nation-presented show. 

Meanwhile, The Rumours of Fleetwood Mac – comprised of nine musicians who call themselves “the world’s finest ‘Fleetwood Mac tribute artists” embark on a North American summer tour that will stage at Proctors on Aug. 13, promoter LiveNation announced this week.    

• GLENS FALLS – At 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Rewind At The Park’ featuring Harvest & Rust – A Neil Young Experience. From the chart-topping Harvest material and the electric exploration of Rust Never Sleeps, to songs from Neil’s time in Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Buffalo Springfield. Tickets: Early Bird – $20, Day Of Show – $25.  The Park Theater is located at 14 Park St, Glens Falls. Go to: www.parktheatergf.com.

• SARATOGA SPRINGS – The music of The Beatles (Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, July 17), Pink Floyd (Brit Floyd P-U-L-S-E Celebrating The 30th Anniversary of The Division Bell, July 21), and Queen (Killer Queen,  with Special Guest Journey cover band Voyage, Sept. 15), are scheduled to be performed at Saratoga Performing Arts Center this year. 

Bearly Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) appears at Putnam Place May 17. 

• HUDSON FALLS – Mr. Gone: The Headhunters Show-Weather Report Tribute (May 25), and AC/DC cover band Back In Black (May 26) are slated to appear at The Strand Theatre, at 210 Main St., Hudson Falls. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS —  Pitbull announced his Party After Dark Tour will hit over 25 cities across the U.S. and include a stop at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 8.

Pitbull’s recent musical releases include Trackhouse and Trackhouse: Daytona 500 Edition. The album titles are inspired by the NASCAR Cup Series team Trackhouse Racing, which he has been a co-owner of since 2021. The tracks feature special guests Dolly Parton, Tim McGraw, Nile Rodgers, T-Pain, Omar Courtz, and more.

Special guest T-Pain and openers SiriusXM Globalization DJ’S will also perform at Saratoga. Tickets: livenation.com.   

ALBANY — Five weeks after re-opening the Wilton Mall cinema in its newly rebranded Scene One Entertainment form, company owner and CEO Joe Masher has reopened the Spectrum 8 Theaters in Albany, restoring the luster and soul of the iconic Albany cineplex back as an independent arthouse movie theater.

For decades, the Spectrum has been synonymous with independent, upscale programming of avant-garde, foreign, independent, and widely-released features. Originally a single-screen theater known as The Delaware Theater that opened in the early 1940s, the Spectrum has been a mainstay of the Delaware Avenue neighborhood.

“The overwhelming response to the theatre’s closing in March prompted me to move faster with the building’s owner to get the cinema reopened,” masher said. “The art gallery will be reactivated and the calendar that was published monthly will return.

The opening marks the third theater operating for Scene One Entertainment in Upstate New York, after Scene One Movieland in Schenectady and Scene One Wilton Mall Cinemas. Scene One Entertainment also operates Huck Finn’s Playland in Albany.

Tickets can be purchased at scene1ent.com or the Spectrum box office located on Delaware Avenue in Albany.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Connecticut-based rock quintet Goose have announced more headlining tour dates in 2024. 

The newly announced run begins at Holmdel, NJ’s PNC Bank Art Center on Sept. 1, and plays two shows at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Sept. 6 & 7. 

For more information and tickets, go to: livenation.com. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Twisting scarves, bodies in motion, and the purposeful crash of a gong accompanied by the sustained resonance of an electric cello descending the stairs. 

Artists MIZU, Theresa-Xuan Bui, and Antonius-Tín Bui, along with dancer Glenna Yu presented an “activation” of the Tang Museum’s elevator and staircase on April 17. 

The performance that included music, movement, spoken word poetry, and audience interaction, framed in a setting of traditional Vietnamese garments – called áo dài. 

Event description via the Tang: The audience joins the diasporic artists on a migration embodying the hesitations, expectations, and contemplations of returning home.

“Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh” will be on display at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College through May 19. For more information, go to: https://tang.skidmore.edu/. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS —Two-time Grammy nominee Raul Midón will perform at Caffe Lena at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28. 

The blind singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist – an advocate for artists and professionals in the entertainment biz with disabilities – comes to town with a new, 10-song album “Lost & Found.” 

Midón is joined on the album, released April 26, by friends Andrés Forero (Hamilton, Phish, U2) on Drums & Percussion, Richard Hammond (Hamilton) on bass, and Federico Peña (Black Generations Project) on keyboards & piano. 

More information, tickets, go to: caffelena.org. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Dan Navarro will stage a workshop and a show at Caffe Lena on May 3. 

Navarro’s career began as a songwriter, most often with Eric Lowen, for artists as diverse as Pat Benatar, The Bangles, Jackson Browne, Dave Edmunds, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, and others. In the 1990s and 2000s, he and Lowen recorded and toured as the acclaimed acoustic duo Lowen & Navarro until 2009. Navarro has transitioned smoothly into a busy solo career over the past decade, touring nationally almost constantly. 

His latest album, “Horizon Line,” released in August was produced by Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco, Dixie Chicks, & the first five Lowen & Navarro albums) in a dozen sessions in mid-2021 and a dozen more in spring 2022. 

Caffe Lena is located at 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs. Performance tickets are $23-25. Afternoon workshop tickets sold separately. Call 518-583-0022 or go to: www.caffelena.org. 

GLENS FALLS — The Park Theater Foundation presents ‘Comedy After Dark’ featuring highly-acclaimed comedian, Shafi Hossain. 

Currently working out of NYC, Hossain made his TV appearance on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network’s show Road Comics. He was named one of New York’s Funniest Stand Up by the New York Comedy Festival (2021), is a regular at Comedy Cellar and has headlined performances in international locales, captivating audiences in Canada, Paris, and London. 

The evening of laughter and fun takes place 8 p.m. April 26. Tickets: $25. Doors: 7:30 p.m.

The Park Theater is located at 14 Park St., Glens Falls. visit www.parktheatergf.com.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — On Friday, April 26, Caffe Lena will host the Captain Fun Lunchtime Listening Hour, featuring choice vinyl cuts from the Al McKenney collection sonically oozing through the cafe’s stellar system of sound. 

The event takes place from noon to 1 p.m. Friday April 26, and admission is free. Bring your brown bag lunch, coffee and tea are provided. 

The tunes to be spun come from among the 1,516 record albums (and several hundred CD’s) curated by the late Al “Captain Fun” McKenney. 

Designated record spinner Rochmon AKA Chuck Vosganian serves as regular event host, and each month features a different playlist chosen by a different charismatic member of the local community. This month’s playlist was chosen by Thomas Dimopoulos.