Things are looking greener at SPAC | The Daily Gazette
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The absence of performing arts companies and pop concerts last year took a toll on the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
However, as attendees returned to see the New York City Ballet this week, they may have noticed one upside to the stillness of 2020: the lawn is looking its greenest.
“SPAC has always worked with the top turf experts, investing a considerable amount in lawn care and maintenance and this year is no exception,” said SPAC CEO and President Elizabeth Sobol. “The most significant improvement to the lawn comes as a result of not having large events on our grounds during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This year, as we have gradually emerged from COVID, we have hosted fewer attendees than normal by this time of year. We were not able to allow tarps and tents at our Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival this past June and many of the Live Nation concerts were postponed until later in the
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Live Saratoga Jazz Festival returns to SPAC | The Daily Gazette
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SARATOGA SPRINGS – The woman dancing down the aisle Saturday at Saratoga Performing Arts Center danced what everybody felt as the Hot Club of Saratoga, first act playing Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival, lit up “Swing 42.”
Musically, the festival looked back. The Hot Club celebrated 1930s fleet “gypsy jazz” of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Joey Alexander explored the piano’s every dialect, eloquent ala McCoy Tyner, Oscar Peterson and Teddy Wilson. Dianne Reeves sang and skated Brazilian-style: Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. And Christian McBride’s New Jawn hard-bopped like the Jazz Messengers, Charles Mingus and Miles Davis.
Despite challenges, SPAC reports growth | The Daily Gazette
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On the eve of its first concert of the season, leaders at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center looked back on a challenging year in which, perhaps surprisingly, it grew. It added new facilities and ended the year with a surplus of more than $400,000.
“On Monday, May 18 of 2020, SPAC did the unthinkable,” said President and CEO Elizabeth Sobol during an annual meeting on Thursday. “In the middle of glorious high spring weather, after 53 continuous years of presenting on our beloved and legendary stage, we canceled an entire season and left the doors to the amphitheater locked a profound and solemn acknowledgment during some of the darkest, early days of the pandemic. And yet, here we are. After what now seems an eternity, the amphitheater is open, the lawn is thick and green, and our first concert takes place tomorrow night.”