Performance: 12pm, Horan’s Landing, Sleepy Hollow
Original folk-pop with a solid beat and vibrant vocal harmonies.
Avalanche at Dawn plays tuneful original songs with tasty harmonies and infectious beats. Their latest album Daylight has been featured on WFUV radio, and they perform in venues around Westchester County–such as RiverArts, New Rochelle ArtsFest, the Common Ground Coffeehouse and the New Rochelle Jazz Festival.
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Original Award-Winning Music with a Soulful Vocal
The Buzz has been building for quite some time about Mike Burns, with a delightfully smooth baritone. Mike has two albums out “Through the Hard Times” and “Walk the Water’s Edge.” Mike currently plays out with Bassist David Dunaway who has toured the world over with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Performance: 2pm, 47 Jefferson Avenue, Hastings
SECOND PERFORMANCE CANCELLED
Saturday Only
Original, Lyrical Americana
“Bruce T Carroll’s music is a sort of Tom Waits-meets-William Shakespeare exploration of American life and times, with a healthy dose of political activism thrown in…”
Performances: 5pm, Horan’s Landing, Sleepy Hollow
Soul-tinged Country Rock
Alt Country Rock band, DIVINING ROD, led by Hawaiian born, multi-instrumentalist Miyuki Furtado, who sings, plays guitar & drums simultaneously, serves up his brand of soul-tinged Country along w/ his bandmates & good friends: guitarist/vocalist, Patrick Harmon, bassist Matt Svigals and drummer, John Malone. Melodic, rowdy & tender songs swathed in reverb. A live experience not to be missed.
Performances: 12pm, OCA Keeper’s House, Dobbs Ferry & 2pm, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson
Americana/originals/country/rock
The Even Trade Band, Dan and Luca Peppe with Larry Lewis on drums, blend folk, country, blues and rock music with vocal harmonies and impressive guitar licks.
Performances: 1pm, 17 Baylis Court, Tarrytown & 3pm, 55 James Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
American Songbook and oldies
Elaine Hartstein had been playing and building guitars for many years. She loves to perform classics from the American songbook, though occasionally ventures into newer songs from the 50’s and 60’s.
Performance: 3pm, Main Street School, Irvington
Rock, blues and americana music and perform in venues in Westchester and Rockland
Performances: 12pm, 47 Jefferson Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson & 3pm, OCA Keeper’s House, Dobbs Ferry
Mostly American, mostly vintage, plus originals, contemporary gems and complete surprises.
The Porch Brothers sing and play acoustic guitars and mandolin. Their songs are mostly American and mostly vintage, with generous handfuls of originals, contemporary gems and complete surprises. Richard Brooker’s deft touch on guitar and mandolin comes from decades of playing in American, Celtic and gypsy jazz traditions. Tom Heany is a Hudson Valley songwriter; his instruction manual is the great American song book and his newspaper is traditional American music. They sing like fine old cars.
Performance: 12pm, 12 Edgewood Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson
Lively Old-time String Band Revival Music
Performance: 1pm, VFW Plaza, Hastings-on-Hudson
Dark Americana with an indie country rock sound
Tumbleweed Mile is a New York-based indie rock band led by the prolific and masterful singer/songwriter Chris Merola. The band, consisting of Chris, Mike Levine, Marc Jacoby and Marlowe Stern, and Pete Wilson. From Austin’s SXSW to New York’s Mercury Lounge, CBGB and beyond, their songs combine the lyrical imagery of dark Americana with an indie rock sound tinged with country influences that also integrates loops as well as other modern creative production approaches.
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
info@riverarts.org
