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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame features art, equipment, memorabilia and more tracing the history and culture of horse racing.
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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame features art, equipment, memorabilia and more tracing the history and culture of horse racing.
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Try locally made vintages at Saratoga Winery.
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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame features art, equipment, memorabilia and more tracing the history and culture of horse racing.
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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, center, with jockey Victor Espinoza, leads the fieldduring the Travers Stakes horse race at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 2015.
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival to return this summer | The Daily Gazette
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Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center from June 26-27 with in-person concerts by Dianne Reeves, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Christian McBride and others.
The festival, which is co-hosted by Absolutely Live Entertainment, marks the first live performances that the venue will have hosted since the pandemic started in 2020.
“Our Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival is always one of the most exhilarating and anticipated weekends of the year, kicking off our summer season.
While this year’s festival will look a little bit different as a result of COVID-19 health and safety guidelines, the very fact that we will once again be able to join together on the SPAC grounds for live music feels absolutely miraculous,” said Elizabeth Sobol, president and CEO of SPAC. “Once again, we are grateful to Freihofer’s, which has been a ge
Jukebox: Remembering Tony Markellis, our boss of the beat | The Daily Gazette
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Tony Markellis at the Hurricane Ivan Relief fundraiser at Saratoga Springs Music Hall in November 2004. (Photo by Ed Burke)
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Nobody who loves music hereabouts wanted to believe that bassist and producer Tony Markellis has passed. Sadly, devastatingly true; among the most terrible news of a wretched time. How unfair that he moves on just as the world begins to recover.
Tony was my second favorite musician after my brother Jim. A player of subtle supportive listening on ballads or mighty muscular force in any groove, Tony made every song he played on better, every band he played in both more poetic and more powerful.
Masterful Spa City bass player Tony Markellis dies at 68
Longtime Phish collaborator provided bottom end for countless acts
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Bassist Tony Markellis performs onstage in the Trey Anastasio Trio in Concert at the Civic Theatre on April 28, 2018 in New Orleans. The Saratoga Springs guitarist died April 29, 2021.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
SARATOGA SPRINGS Spa City musician Tony Markellis, a genre-jumping master praised by Phish frontman Trey Anastasio as the baddest bass player I’ve ever heard, died in his sleep Thursday night at age 68.
Markellis death was announced on Facebook by his nephew, Cory Markellis. Bridget Ball Shaw, who along with her husband Chris Shaw collaborated for decades with Markellis, said he had been battling health problems.
Venues gradually getting back to in-person concerts | The Daily Gazette
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As Caffe Lena has welcomed audience members back for in-person concerts again, executive director Sarah Craig has heard some encouraging stories from people who have missed the experience.
“I had an amazing number of people say that other than going to the grocery store, this was the first thing that they had gone out and done since the start of the pandemic. For them to choose an event at Caffe Lena, for them to choose music, was very touching to me. [It’s] an act of trust and an indication of just how much live music really means to people,” Craig said.