(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Canadian punk-country band the Sadies, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, brings its melodic, hard-rocking alt-country to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, March 20, 2015, at 9pm. The Sadies are the missing link between fellow Torontonians The Band and punk-country pioneers like the Mekons and X. Formed in Toronto in 1994,…
Pine Hill Project with Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams Club Helsinki Hudson Saturday, March 14, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriters Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell brought their new duet effort, the Pine Hill Project, featuring producer-multi-instrumentalist-bandleader-extraordinaire Larry Campbell, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Mavis Staples, a scion of America’s first family of socially conscious soul-gospel music and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, brings her contemporary sound, crafted in collaboration with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, February 22, at 8pm. Even after achieving the status of…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Voodoo Orchestra North, led by legendary jazz drummer, improviser, bandleader and composer Bobby Previte and featuring many great upstate New York musicians, continues its regular series of performances devoted to exploring the music of Miles Davis’s eternal electric jazz-funk masterpiece, “Bitches Brew,” at Club Helsinki Hudson, on Friday, February 13, 2015,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Indie-rock singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins brings her blend of pop-fueled hooks and moody introspection to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, February 14, at 9pm, providing a perfect soundtrack for a modern-day Valentine’s Day adventure. Atkins’s unique blend of styles connects the dots from Roy Orbison to the Shangri-Las to Janis Joplin to Led…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Barnstar!, an all-star collective of bluegrass and roots-music talent, will celebrate the release of its new album, “Sit Down! Get Up! Get Out!,” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, February 6, at 9pm. Using the familiar tools of the genre, Barnstar! forges its own brand of song-based bluegrass, gloriously harmonized and raucously…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Club Helsinki Hudson’s annual Elvis Birthday Bash, featuring Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings plus other special guests, will take place on Saturday, January 10, 2015, at 9pm, just two days after what would have been Elvis Presley’s 80th Elvis Presley’s impact on all music that came after him is impossible to…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Boston-based twang-rocker Sarah Borges and honky-tonk outfit Girls Guns and Glory share a roots-rocking co-bill at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, January 2, 2015, at 9pm. Both artists mine early rock ‘n’ roll styles as well as their roots and tributaries, including country, blues and R&B, on their way toward making new…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Bruce Katz Band, featuring the legendary keyboardist and three-time Blues Music Award nominee Bruce Katz, will bring its organ-drenched blues-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, December 27, at 9pm. Bruce Katz’s resume reads like a who’s who of blues and blues-rock. Playing piano and B3 organ, Katz has toured and…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Seth’s Sauerkraut Revue, a mini-festival of regional Americana and honky-tonk performers hosted by “Sauerkraut” Seth Travins, returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, December 26, at 9pm. Seth’s Sauerkraut Revue includes an all-star cast of Hudson Valley roots musicians, including Pete Adams, Tony Kieraldo, Chris Neumann, Lukas Schwartz, Sasha Pearl, Jay “The…
