Performances
Porchfest Musicians’ Submission Deadline
Roxbury Arts Center 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY, United StatesPorchfest is a free celebration of music and community, welcoming regional musicians to perform on the front porches and lawns along Stamford, NY's Main Street for a free-flowing audience of townspeople. Porchfest 2022 will take place Saturday afternoon, July 23, rain or shine. If you're a band, singer or instrumentalist and want to showcase your […]
Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup presents “A, My Name Is…”
Roxbury Arts Center 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY, United StatesA, My Name Is… playfully explores memory and forgetting, incorporating choreographic fragments and gestures based on memories of heightened experiences. Inspired by the phenomenon of gravity, the piece is set in a space littered with fallen apples. The vocabulary in this dance grows in the same way as one’s language skills develop over time. Choreographer […]
Lakecia Benjamin and Pursuance
Roxbury Arts Center 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY, United StatesThis performance is sponsored by SluiterAgency, Inc. Voted by 2020 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Alto Saxophonist and Up and Coming Artist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, charismatic and dynamic saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin fuses traditional conceptions of Jazz, Hip Hop, and Soul. Benjamin’s electric presence and fiery sax work has shared stages […]
Stamford Porchfest
Front Porches along Main Street, Stamford, NYExcitement is high about Stamford’s second Porchfest. Last year’s event was such a success, with generous residents and businesses hosting local musicians on their front porches and stoops, that nearly twice the number of musicians have applied to perform this year. The town of Stamford, NY will be filled with music end to end along […]
Akropolis Reed Quintet performs Jazz Influenced Classical Chamber Music
Old School Baptist Church Intersection of Route 36 & Cartwright Road, Denver, NY, United StatesCelebrating its 13th year making music with a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure” (The Wire), Akropolis has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare). As the first reed quintet to grace the Billboard Charts (May 2021), the untamed band of five reed players and entrepreneurs is united by a […]
Double Bill: Brasskill and Rose & the Bros
Veteran's Memorial Park Main Street, Stamford, New YorkAs part of the Mom McGrail Memorial Run and and the Stamford Block Party, the Roxbury Arts Group is presenting two bands that are ready to get you up and dancing! Brasskill, a lively 14-piece party brass band known for getting people out on the dance floor, will bring funky decibels to Veteran's Memorial Park. Brasskill’s […]
uncleshake
Veteran's Memorial Park Main Street, Stamford, New Yorkuncleshake is an acoustic eclectic trio that make themselves happy by playing a style of music they like to call Vaudeville Grunge. Although they refer to their music as non-traditional, their sound is rooted in early century ragtime and the jazz and blues coming out of the era. Some of their favorite influences include the […]