Best of Summer Music 2019

Posted OnJune 12, 2019

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Best of Summer Music 2019: There’s something for every musical taste this summer from Aimee Mann to The Who, Slash, Train and Bela Flek.

Colby Caillat, FT Gone West, Ridgefield Playhouse, Fri, 7/5: 8pm: Two-time Grammy Award Winner, Colbie Caillat (“Bubbly,” “Try,” “Fallin’ For You”), returns with her new band Gone West featuring multi-platinum singer/songwriter Jason Reeves, four-time Hawaii Music Award Winner Justin Kawika Young and ACM and CMT nominated artist Nelly Joy. They are touring with their debut EP, Tides. This show will feature Colbie’s solo material along with songs from her new collaboration with Gone West. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

A Full Day of Awesome! Pleasantville Music Festival, Sat, 7/12: 13: all day! 18 bands, 9 hours of music on three stages, The Pleasantville Music Festival, New York’s Backyard Jam, returns with a full day of awesome. Featuring Aimee Mann, the triple platinum selling Everclear, the Grammy Award-winning Soul Asylum, Dean Friedman, Matthew Sweet and rising stars Bailen who recently played at The Capitol Theatre and Swahoogie.. (Parkway Field. Pleasantville, www.pleasantvillemusicfestival.com)

The Wallflowers, Ridgefield Playhouse, Fri, 7/19: 8pm: Back after a packed show in 2017! Led by Jakob Dylan (son of legend Bob Dylan), The Wallflowers enjoyed huge success as part of the mid-’90s roots-rock revival with hits like “6th Avenue Heartache” “Three Marlenas,” a gritty take on David Bowie’s “Heroes,” and “One Headlight,” a song for which they won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Hot ticket alert! Jazz Festival, ft. Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Caramoor mulitple venues, Sat, 7/20: all day: Celebrating its 5th year in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Caramoor’s Jazz Festival presents jazz performed by phenomenal talent amid lush gardens and distinctive venues on their 90 acres of grounds. Stay for a whole day of music leading up to the evening headliner — ten-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri, one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years. (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah; www.caramoor.org)

Almost Queen & Black Dog, Capitol Theatre, Sat, 7/20: 8pm: Almost Queen dons the genuine Queen costumes and delivers Queen’s signature four part harmonies and intricate musical interludes in their tribute show. of Q. Black Dog opens with a complete acoustic set of Led Zeppelin’s classics including “Going to California,” “Friends,” and “That’s the Way.” (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

Hot Russian Pianist Alert! Daniel Trifanov (piano) Caramoor’s Venetian Theatre, Fri, 7/26: 8pm: Russian piano phenomenon Daniil Trifonov — “without question the most astounding pianist of our age” (The Times, London) — returns to Caramoor with a solo recital of Beethoven, Schumann, and Prokofiev..Trifonov recently won Gramophone’s Artist of the Year award in 2016 and and the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album for Transcendental — a double album of Liszt’s works. In 2019 he released a new album, Destination Rachmaninov: Departure. (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah; www.caramoor.org)

Hot ticket alert! Bela Flek & Abigail Washburn, Caramoor’s Venetian Theatre, Sat, 7/27: 8pm: Crowned “the king and queen of the banjo” by Paste Magazine, husband-and-wife Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn build upon the folk tradition to create a distinct style pulling inspiration from Chinese atonal music and the banjo’s rich American heritage to stretch “their sound beyond bluegrass, across continents, into everything from prog-rock to Eastern instrumentation” (NPR). PS Bela has won 16 Grammy Awards! (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah; www.caramoor.org)

Season Finale, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Venetian Theatre, Sun, 7/28: 4pm: Caramoor’s summer season comes to a close with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by their Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie and violinist Christian Tetzlaff. The program includes one of the most popular violin concertos in the repertoire, Mendelssohn’s E Minor, alongside his Hebrides concert overture and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Christian Tetzlaff is an “exceptional soloist … with soaring tone making every note sound with absolute clarity.” — Boston Classical Review (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah; www.caramoor.org)

Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, Ridgefield Playhouse, Tues & Wed, 7/30-31: 8pm: Grammy Award-winner, Lyle Lovett, returns to The Playhouse – this time with his Large Band! Over a career that spans 14 albums, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers. Hits include “That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas),” “If I Had a Boat,” “Cowboy Man” and more! (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Capitol Theatre, Wed, 7/31: 8pm: These tickets won’t last as Guns n’ Roses guitarist Slash takes the stage with his new band. A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Slash is on everyone’s list of the Greatest Guitarists of All Time from Time to Rolling Stone, Guitar World and the Gibson Guitar Foundation. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

August

Corinne Bailey Rae, Ridgefield Playhouse, Sat, 8/3: 8pm: Grammy Award-winner, Corinne Bailey Rae’s music spans indie, electronic, jazz, soul and experimental. The critically acclaimed British singer-songwriter’s global hits include “Put Your Records On” and “Like A Star.” Don’t miss this intimate performance the day after her Newport Jazz Festival debut! (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Train, Goo Goo Dolls, Alien Stone, Northwell Jones Beach Theatre, Sat, 8/3: 7pm: Two-time Grammy Award-winners, Train’s 2002 album went double platinum on the success of the single “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)’. They followed up in 2003 with the single “Calling All Angels” that spearheaded there second platinum album. In 2009 their album Save Me San Francisco featured three Billboard Top 40 hits including their 6X platinum single “Hey, Soul Sister”. (Bay Parkway, Wantagh, NY www.jonesbeach.com)

Dark Star Orchestra Acoustic, Ridgefield Playhouse, Tues, 8/6: 7:30pm: DSO doesn’t cover Grateful Dead songs – they cover Grateful Dead shows. Each performance faithfully recreates a specific Dead concert (date, time and venue). Here they take one of the Dead’s acoustics sets from the Workingman’s Dead/American Beauty era. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Natalie Merchant, Ridgefield Playhouse, Wed, 8/7: 8pm: After rising to fame at the helm of the popular folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant has enjoyed even greater success as a solo artist with hits like “Carnival,” “Jealousy” “Kind and Generous,” “Wonder,” and more! (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Bryan Ferry, Capitol Theatre, Wed, 8/7: 8pm: One of our Fave Raves, Roxy Music’s quirky heart-throb lead singer has had an active solo career releasing cover albums of songs by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson, Janis Joplin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill and others. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

Gavin DeGraw, Capitol Theatre, Thurs, 8/8: 8pm: His 2003 debut album, Chariot went platinum on the strength of the chart-topping single “I Don’t Want To Be”. He reached the top of the charts again in 2011 with “Not Over You”, had Top 10 hits with “Chariot” and “in Love With a Girl” and garnered a Grammy-nom for his duet with Colbie Caillat, “We Both Know”. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

My Morning Jacket: A Tennessee Fire 20th Anniversary Celebration, Capitol Theatre, Fri, 8/9: 8pm: The alt-country, indie rockers from Louisville perform their debut album, The Tennessee Fire, in its entirety plus other songs from their early years. The album had some success in the US but caught fire overseas on their European tour. The album introduced the band’s reverb vocal sound created by recording in an empty grain silo in Kentucky. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

Art Garfunkel, Tarrytown Music Hall, Sat, 8/10: 8pm: The other half of Simon & Garfunkel breaks out his beautiful counter tenor voice to sing “Mrs. Robinson,” “Scarborough Fair,” “The Sound Of Silence,” “The Boxer” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and more. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Hot Tuna Electric & David Bromberg Quintet, Capitol Theatre, Thurs, 8/15: 8pm: Americana godfather, David Bromberg opens for Jorma and Jack, following the release of his new album, The Blues, the Whole blues and Nothing But the Blues. The album features Robert Johnson’s “Walking Blues” as well as country and gospel influenced blues. Then it’s Hot Tuna Electric presenting the other side of the fold/rock/psydelia continuum. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

Rob Thomas, Capitol Theatre, Chip Tooth Tour, Fri, 8/16: 8pm: After selling out his August 2 show at the Cap in a nano-second, Rob Thomas, the former Matchbox Twenty frontman, adds another show just two weeks later to support his new album “Chip Tooth.” Thomas had three Top 10 hits with Matchbox Twenty including the No. 1, “Bent”. He added another top 10 hit as a solo artist with “Lonely No More”, and won three Grammy-Awards for his collaboration with Santana on “Smooth”, his third chart-topper. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)

Rufus Wainwright, Ridgefield Playhouse, Tues, 8/20: 8pm: Grammy Award nominee Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation with songs like “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk,” “April Fools,” and his covers of “Hallelujah” and “Across the Universe.” He has collaborated with Elton John, David Byrne, Joni Mitchell and Burt Bacharach. His album Rufus Does Judy, recorded at Carnegie Hall, was nominated for a Grammy Award. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

The Zombies, Ridgefield Playhouse, Wed, 8/21: 8pm: The Zombies return to The Playhouse after a sold-out show in 2017! Recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, The Zombies are known for the 60s hits “She’s Not There,” “Tell Her No” and “Time of the Season.” The band is led by founding members Colin Blunstone (vocals) and Rod Argent (keyboards). Their 1968 Odessey & Oracle is ranked #100 on Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Santana & The Doobie Brothers, Northwell Jones Beach Theatre, Sun, 8/25: 7pm: Santana celebrates the 20th anniversary of his Grammy Award-winning album Supernatural, (“Smooth”, “Corazon Espinado”) and the 50th anniversary of his performance at Woodstock (“Soul Sacrifice”) He is joined by The Doobie Brothers (“Listen to the Music”, “Black Water”, “China Grove”). (Bay Parkway, Wantagh, NY www.jonesbeach.com)

Hot Ticket Alerts for September

The Who Symphonic Tour, Northwell Jones Beach Theatre, Sun, 9/15: 7:30pm: The Who bring their 2019 Symphonic Tour to the beach. Each night on their tour they will be accompanies by a local orchestra. Roger Daltrey explains, “Just because it’s The Who with an orchestra, in no way will it compromise the way Pete and I deliver our music. This will be full throttle Who with horns and bells on.” Expect a selection of songs from Tommy and Quadrophenia. (Bay Parkway, Wantagh, NY www.jonesbeach.com)

Lucinda Williams & Buick 6, Capitol Theatre, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 20th Anniversary tour, Fri, 9/20: 8pm: WTD Fave Rave, Lucinda Williams (great show at Caramoor in 2016) takes her Car Wheels on a Gravel Road tour to the Cap. Williams garnered her first of three Grammy Awards for the album (Best Contemporary Folk Album) and it was named Album of the Year in the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop critic’s poll. (149 Westchester Ave, Port Chester; www.capitoltheatre.com)