Goose to Make Triumphant SPAC Return on Independence Day
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The jam band Goose will perform at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) on July 3 and 4, Live Nation announced on Monday.
The group will be accompanied by two notable acts in the jam band world: The Disco Biscuits (on July 3) and Moe (on July 4).
2026 will mark the third time Goose has appeared at SPAC, after one show in 2023 and two more shows in 2024. In June of 2025, the band sold out Madison Square Garden for the first time (they’re scheduled to play at MSG two more times this summer).
SPAC is an important venue for Goose. In 2013, the band’s keyboardist Peter Anspach attended a Phish concert in Saratoga, camping out on the lawn with thousands of fellow fans. A decade later, when Goose hit the SPAC stage for the first time, Anspach told the crowd that “some of us have seen a lot of shows on that lawn right there and I’ll tell you what, it feels great to be on the stage. So thank you so much for making it happen.”
In 2024, several members of the band stopped by the Saratoga Spa Golf Course prior to their SPAC shows for “Goose on the Green,” a sold-out charity event that raised $7,500 for Therapeutic Horses of Saratoga.
Goose has also played at Putnam Place in Saratoga, opening for the Ryan Montbleau Band in 2018.
Moe was originally formed in Buffalo but moved to Albany in 1994. In the book “Sharing in the Groove” by Mike Ayers, Moe drummer Vinnie Amico described the thrill of performing alongside surviving members of the Grateful Dead at SPAC on July 6, 1997.
“I’d seen hundreds of concerts [at SPAC],” Amico said. “And here I am on that stage for the first time, which was my dream when I was 16…I mean, I saw everybody there. And that was my dream to play on stage one day, and here I am playing on that stage with one of my idols. We did ‘That’s It for the Other One,’ which the Dead hadn’t played in years. Had my career gone no further than that day, I would have been fine. My dreams were realized.”
Marc Brownstein, a founding member and bass player for the Disco Biscuits, wrote in an Instagram story on Monday that SPAC was his childhood summertime home venue. “I saw three Phish shows there this summer. I’m so excited my next time there will be with a bass guitar and looking out at the crowd. Thanks, Goose.”
Tickets for Goose’s 2026 SPAC shows go on sale Friday, Jan. 30 at 10 a.m.