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Christopher John Campion

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May 6, 2023
3pm, 4pm, Hastings-on-Hudson, Rock, Uncle Lefty's

Performance: 3 & 4pm, Uncle Lefty’s, 583 Warburton Avenue, Hastings
Saturday Only

Singer-songwriter with a sense of humor and rhapsodic lyrics.

Christopher John Campion is a singer-songwriter/author known for his rollicking off-Broadway music-monologue-piece, Escape From Bellevue and the acclaimed memoir that followed on Penguin Books. In recent years he has toured and opened shows for M.Ward, Rhett Miller, and Violent Femmes and his songs have been featured in movies and on the CBS shows Instinct and NCIS:Los Angeles.

Bruce T. Carroll

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…”

Caseyland

Performance: 4pm, 186 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry

Atmospheric synth-pop with live looping instruments, vocals, keys and drums

Casey Cichowicz, recording and performing as Caseyland, is currently performing solo, using an array of synths, effects, drum machines, and live guitar and bass. Using live looping and sequencing techniques, his solo show is both intimately performed and grandly orchestrated.

Concrete Flowers

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May 6, 2023
4pm, Hastings-on-Hudson, Rock, VFW Plaza

Performance: 4pm, VFW Plaza, Hastings

Concrete Flowers are a rock band who play their own original songs, and covers from across the rock canon, with a focus on tight arrangements, catchy melodies, and strong vocal harmonies.

Anthony Giaccio and the Assortments

Performance: 4pm, Horan’s Landing, Sleepy Hollow

Original Music with Classic Rock and Country influences

Anthony Giaccio and the Assortments are a local rivertowns band playing original music from their first album “Outrun the Rain” and soon to be released second album “Down This Highway”

The Grifters

Performance: 4pm, Engine 46 HHFD, 83 Euclid Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson

Country-infected rock. Tunes we love, all covers.

We play music that we love, and we hope you’ll love it too.

John Henry

Performances: 2pm, 109 W. Franklin Street, Tarrytown & 3pm, 47 Jefferson Avenue, Hastings-and-Hudson

John Henry sings sad songs to laugh at that he also wrote.

Hudson Valley Sally

Performance: 4pm, OCA Keeper’s House, 15 Walnut Street, Dobbs Ferry

Original and cover music to inspire hope in difficult times.

Hudson Valley Sally is a folk trio in the tradition of Pete Seeger, loving audience participation. They are known for their tight harmonies and joyful sound. Their music is designed to make you think and inspire hope.

Jazz on the Pond

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May 7, 2022
4pm, 5pm, 7 Whitetail Road, IRV, Irvington, Jazz

Performance: 4pm & 5pm, 7 Whitetail Road, Irvington.

Jazz Standards Focused on 1940-1970
Top local jazz musicians playing Coltrane, Miles, Parker, Monk, Shorter, Mingus and others.

Michael Roth is an area musician that has hosted RiverArts Music jazz sessions at his home for many years. He loves to include local professionals, music students (Julliard, Oberlein, Miami), teachers and hobbyists alike. He starts off with a core group of musicians and eventually, and inevitably, it turns into a giant jam/jazz party. The setting overlooks a beautiful pond.

Sean Lippin

Performances: 2pm, 17 Baylis Court, Tarrytown & 4pm, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson

Modern Indie Jammy Alt Rock

Sean Lippin is a singer-songwriter from the Hudson Valley who seeks to strike the balance between being a city kid and nature lover in his songs, such as “Hazy Day” and his newest release, “Nothing on Our Minds.” “Nothing on Our Minds,” explores a day in the Adirondack region of New York state with awe-inspiring imagery and soul lifting acoustic guitar harmonies. Sean engages his audience with backstories from his own life, while weaving imagery of nature and values of friendship and family.

MEG

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May 6, 2023
4pm, Dobbs Ferry, Rock, The Art of Drumming

Performance: 4pm, The Art of Drumming, 145 Palisade Street #L17, Dobbs Ferry

A Mix of Rock, Funk, Jazz and Psychedelia

Drummer, Ed Bettinelli, guitarist, Mike Muller, and keyboardist Yan Falmagne bring you a mix of original and cover tunes, spun, the Meg way, with a dash of Funk, Jazz, Rock, and Psychedelia.

New York Jazz Force

Performance: 2pm, Lang Studio Stage, 40 Curry Road, Hastings & 4pm, Boyce Thompson Center, Yonkers
Soul/Jazz Classics and Originals

The Battle Brothers started out playing in Blues clubs in Greenwich Village and have been working in the R&B and Jazz field including a stint in the 1990s in the original R&B group ‘Nuance’. Since then, The Battle Brothers have been creating their own original sound.

Pittson Family Band

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May 14, 2021
22 Meado Way, DF, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, Dobbs Ferry, Jazz

Performance: 3, 4 & 5pm, 22 Meado Way, Dobbs Ferry

Original and Jazz Compositions that Explore Eclectic Musical Colors

Pittson Family Band brings together three accomplished performers who are continually pushing the boundaries of their instrument. Vocalist Suzanne Pittson, widely recognized as a master improviser, has recorded music by John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard. Jeff Pittson, a creative force on piano, keyboards, synthesizers, and as a composer, has performed with Mike Clark, Paul Jackson, Maynard Ferguson, Ruth Brown, Larry Coryell. Evan Pittson presents a modern direction for the viola.

Josh Saltzman’s Bluegrass Jam

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May 8, 2022
13 Crossbar Road, HOH, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, Bluegrass, Hastings-on-Hudson

2pm, 3pm & 4pm, 13 Crossbar Road, Hastings’

Bluegrass with open all-levels jam

Oscar Sanders

Performance: 4pm, River’s Edge Theatre, Hastings-on-Hudson

Social justice spoken word plays performed in thirteen different characters

Bob Sideli

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May 6, 2023
2pm, 4pm, 55 James Street, HOH, Hastings-on-Hudson, Jazz

Performances: 2pm & 4pm, 55 James Street, HOH

Original improvisational piano

Bob Sideli plays jazz, blues, rock and pop piano with a focus on improvisational interpretation and composition. He will be performing his original improvisational compositions that cross several music genres.

The Skam

Performance: 4pm, Main Street School, 101 Main Street, Irvington

Adult alternative, 70s/80s music with melody and an edge. The Skam makes good use of its two lead vocalists — one female, one male — with some fun choices as to who sings which song. The Skam has so much fun playing music, and if you check out the band, you will, too!

Gary Smulyan Quartet

Performance: 4-5pm, 17 Riverview Place, Hastings
If Saturday is cancelled, Sunday’s performance will be at 12pm

Jazz in the swinging tradition.

Gary Smulyan is a four-time winner of the Down Beat Critic’s and Reader’s Poll’s and a multiple winner of numerous other official polls including the Jazz Journalists Award for
Baritone Saxophonist of the Year. He is a six-time GRAMMY award winner for his work with B.B. King, Lovano, Holland and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

Shenendoah Thompson

Performances: 1pm, OCA Keeper’s House, Dobbs Ferry & 4pm, 47 Jefferson Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson

A highly energetic blend of folk, reggae and rock.

Shenendoah Thompson is a poly-genre singer-songwriter whose primary influences stem from an eclectic background. Passionate lyricism blends with high-energy rhythms to create a uniquely captivating acoustic performance.

Ken Tuccillo and the Cillhouettes

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May 7, 2022
121 Edgars Lane, 4pm, Folk, Hastings-on-Hudson, Rock

Performance: 4pm, 121 Edgars Lane, Hastings-on-Hudson

Original Folk-Rock and Blues

Ken Tuccillo and the Cillhouettes have been playing in the Rivertowns and NYC together or in other configurations for the last 25 years. They have an excellent album up on Sptify, iTunes, etc, called Whatever.

The Westchester Chamber Soloists

Performances: 3pm, 4pm, 5pm & 6pm, 41 Hollywood Drive, Hastings-on-Hudson

WCS is Westchester County’s premier performing chamber orchestra and chamber music network and is very happy to return to the RiverArts Music Tour for the 5th time in 2023.

3pm: Frank Bridge: Sonata for Cello & Piano

4pm: Dvorak: Romanze for Violin / Haydn & Mozart: Piano Trios

5pm: Shostakovich: Piano Quintet / Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915

6pm: Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

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