Live music returns to Frog Alley Brewing this weekend | The Daily Gazette
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A diagram shows the location of the stage and tables for the outdoor concert series at Frog Alley Brewing in Schenectady. (photo provided)
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Live music lives on at Frog Alley Brewing this season with an outdoor concert series starting this weekend.
Soloist Rich Ortiz kicks things off on Saturday, followed up by jam band Annie in the Water. Then on Sunday, the Grateful Dead tribute band The Wheel will perform two marathon sets.
Organized in conjunction with NY Rock N Roots, High Peaks Event Production, Nippertown and Frog Alley, the shows are a commemoration of Earth Day. Each will be held outdoors in a parking lot-turned performance space, featuring socially distanced tables set in front of a stage. The capacity is limited to 200 people each day. Tickets go for $120 per table, with a maximum of four people per table. Shows run from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. both nights.
Christine Sharp and Chauvet Professional Flow with Lousy Sloughters on Livestream USA – It’s a good bet that a livestream with a name like “Couch Tour” is going to be a mellow affair; the kind of show that invites viewers to kick back and flow with some smooth music. That’s precisely the performance that the popular New York quintet Lousy Sloughter delivered from High Peaks Event Productions’ livestream studio in early April.
For 50 minutes, the band wove its way through a mesmerising blend of blues, funk and jazz. With them every step of the way, note-for-smooth-note, was a fluid, artfully crafted lighting design by Christine Sharp that drew on the colour and gobo rendering prowess of over 30 Chauvet Professional fixtures.
Lousy Sloughters livestream with Chauvet
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Off the couch: Lousy Sloughter
USA - New York quintet Lousy Sloughter delivered their Couch Tour from High Peaks Event Productions’ livestream studio in early April. For 50 minutes, the band wove its way through a blend of blues, funk and jazz. With them every step of the way was a fluid, artfully crafted lighting design by Christine Sharp that drew on the colour and gobo rendering prowess of over 30 Chauvet Professional fixtures. “The looks I create are pretty varied depending on the genre of music, even and down to the song being played,” said Sharp, who runs High Peaks with her husband Roger. “For a low-keyed show, or an acoustic performance, I try to create an aesthetic frame around the musicians on stage. If I know the vibe of the song, I saturated the stage with colours that reflect the feelings, at least as I interpret them.”