This Weekend in Live Music

Friday, June 20

6 p.m. — Monkberry @ The Saratoga Winery

Covers from the 1950s to the present day.

7 p.m. — Big Sky Country @ Dock Brown’s Lakeside Tavern

A high-energy, modern country band that brings Nashville north.

7:30 p.m. — Sean Lippin Band @ Quarters Bar

Sean Lippin is a singer-songwriter from the Hudson Valley playing original songs.

7:30 p.m. — Mostly Modern Orchestra with Andrew Crust @ Arthur Zankel Music Center

The 6th season finale of the Mostly Modern Festival with Maestro Andrew Crust, music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and the Mostly Modern Orchestra. The nature-themed performance features Hovhaness, Boulanger, Paterson, Morlock, along with the concerto competition winner performing Schnyder’s Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra.

8 p.m. — Big Radio @ Nanola

Albany-area cover band playing modern classic rock with a few surprises, specializing in vocal harmonies and swoon-worthy dance moves.

8 p.m. — Dom Flemons @ Caffe Lena

Grammy Award winner, four-time Grammy nominee, two-time Emmy nominee, and United States Artists Fellow Dom Flemons is one of America’s most celebrated musicians and historians of American roots music. His performances span more than a century of American song, weaving together country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and early Americana traditions.

9 p.m. — Tim Olsen Quartet @ 9 Maple Ave

Tim Olsen is a composer, performer, and educator whose early training involved playing trumpet in marching, concert, and jazz bands. Olsen began writing and arranging for these groups and picked up the piano by ear. As a Fulbright Scholar in 1990-91, Olsen studied with composer Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen.

9 p.m. — Ky McClinton Band @ Putnam Place

The Ky McClinton Band merges their inspirations in blues rock and RnB/Soul, molding influences from the likes of John Mayer and Jimi Hendrix with soulful artists like Michael Kiwanuka and Goose. Their setlist is crafted to bring life to any space but also leave room for improvisation.

Saturday, June 21

6 p.m. — Tame the Rooster @ Carson’s Woodside Tavern

A vibrant, modern country band from New York’s Capital Region.

7 p.m. — Mumford & Sons @ SPAC

The popular British folk rock band has earned two BRIT Awards and two Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year) for their distinctive Americana sound.

8 p.m. — Hot Club of Cowtown @ Caffe Lena

The Hot Club of Cowtown play high-energy Western swing and hot jazz, “at that crossroads where country meets jazz and chases the blues away” says The Independent.

8 p.m. — Darkside Skinny Dippers @ Nanola

Diverse rock and roll with attitude from Upstate New York.

9 p.m. — Out of the Box @ 9 Maple Ave

Out of the Box will bring their version of straight up jazz, seasoned with a bit of funk and plenty of groove, to 9 Maple. Selected winner of the Albany Downtown Jazz Competition in 2011, they have been a staple of the greater Capital Region music scene for the past decade.

Sunday, June 22

3 p.m. — Great Sonatas: Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart @ SPAC

Celebrated pieces presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

7 p.m. — Sue Foley @ Caffe Lena

Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer brings her One Guitar Woman show to life, a solo acoustic tribute to female guitar pioneers.