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.
Performance: 1pm, 186 Clinton Avenue
Original Music with a little edge. Fun, cathartic!
Performance: 1pm, Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Stage
Original Music with great stories led by JGB.
James G Barry is based in Brooklyn NY. Over the lockdown James and his band mate David B Wilson started writing and releasing music based on jams they were having while playing in public parks. “Scrantonia” is an epic polka-rock-jam-opus followed by “14.7lbf/sqin” that celebrates the bitter sweet feeling of getting to play again after the lockdown. They throw covers into the mix that range from Morphine to Johnny Cash to The Dead Kennedys.
Performance: 5pm, Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Stage
Psychedelic jam band with a NY attitude keeping the spirit of ’60’s/’70’s rock music alive
Performance: 8pm, Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Stage
Erik Blicker playing Blues, Classic Rock and Originals
Erik Blicker is an avid fan and performer of American blues and rock music. Inspired by the British greats.
Residencies in NYC have proved a fertile ground to collaborate with some of the greatest blues and jazz musicians in New York City.
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.
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.
Performance: 3pm, Horan’s Landing, Sleepy Hollow
HERE COMES THE INTERPLANETARY TERROR COSMIC ERROR! BRINGING YOU A WIDE ARRAY OF THUNDEROUS SYSTEMATIC SOUNDS AND SOULFUL VOCALS TO CARRY YOUR SPIRITS SO HIGH AND GROOVES THAT WILL MAKE YOU MOVE! YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS! ALL ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE A FREE GIFT AT THE END OF THE SHOW!
Performance: 12pm, 186 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry
Westchester’s Premier Rolling Stones Tribute Band – Featuring 9-Year-Old drummer Marco Lamberti
Performance: 12pm, Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Stage
Garage rocking mid 60’s groove guaranteed to get the soirée swinging!
Performance: 5pm, Main Street School, 101 Main Street, Irvington.
Classic rock covers from the 60s to the 2000s
Dog Years plays classic rock that you would not be surprised to find on Q104’s playlist today or in the future. Featuring covers of songs from the 1960s to the 2000s, Dog Years has rocked audiences at venues ranging from clubs to outdoor events. Dog Years prides itself on its song selection: You will know and love the songs, but you might be a bit surprised by some of them.
Performances: 2pm & 5pm, Engine 46 HHFD (83 Euclid Avenue, Hastings)
Classic rock, plus a few originals
We are Flashover, a group of volunteer firefighters who share a love of music. Formed in late 2022, we play classic rock, with a few originals mixed in. Pull up a seat, relax, and jam with us.
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”
Performance: 2pm, VFW Plaza, Hastings-on-Hudson’
Saturday Only
Improvisational Psychedelic Rock Dead Covers
Grateful Dead music! With two drummers Charlie and Bill the groove is immersive. Rich on Keys and vocals, Dave on Bass and Erik Blicker on guitar, voice
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.
Performance: 3pm, Main Street School, Irvington
Rock, blues and americana music and perform in venues in Westchester and Rockland
Performances: 10am, The Good Witch, Hastings-on-Hudson & 2pm, 121 Edgars Lane, Hastings-on-Hudson
Spanish, flamenco, pop & rock
While traveling in Spain I was put under a spell by the beautiful melodic strains of gypsy flamenco music, in this trancelike state, I was set upon by a band of gypsies & robbed. Vowing revenge I have studied their musical forms for a number of years – hoping to weave a few spells of my own…
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.
Performance: 1pm & 2pm, Boyce Thompson Center, Yonkers
The McCarron Brothers featuring Suzanne Mueller bring an atmospheric blend of Brazil, Classical music, blustery swing, and moody rock to their live performances, channeled through their eclectic lineup of guitar, cello, saxophone, bass, and drums. The band has released two albums, Way Down in Brooklyn in 2009, and No Moon Train in 2012, and are set to release their latest recording, Before All This, in 2023.
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.
Performance: 1pm, Horan’s Landing, Sleepy Hollow
All-female band covers of favorite songs from 80s, 90s, 2000s.
Just a bunch of suburban moms living the dream. We cover all of your favorite songs through the decades, from artists like Alanis Morisette, Miley Cyrus, and Amy WInehouse.
Performance: 3pm, 186 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry
All original modern rock that blends pop and classic rock to get you rocking.
Performance: 11am, Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Stage
Indie Pop, Rock, and Folk
Sophia Rae is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, originally from New York’s lower Hudson Valley. Her music is infused with memory, insight, and emotional connection, weaving stories that are profound and personal, yet easily recognizable as shared experiences. Sophia Rae was a featured performer at the LA Times 2022 Festival of Books, a cultural touchstone that draws 100,000 attendees annually. Her debut single, “Let You Stay” is streaming on Spotify and other music platforms.
Performance: 2pm, 186 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry
Hard Rock/Metal covers and originals with melodic vocals (no screamo)
Performances: 1pm, The Lobster Guys, Dobbs Ferry & 3pm, 17 Baylis Court, Tarrytown
Acoustic covers of Beatles, Paul Simon, Dion, etc.
Happy and lively oldie covers, regular contributor to Uncle Floyd’s Radio Show
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!
Performance: 1pm, Main Street School, Irvington
Were a psychedelic rock and metal band playing our inaugural gig
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.
Performance: 1pm, Shames JCC on Hudson, Tarrytown
Folk-Rock Singer/Songwriter
A seasoned recording artist and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Turk is a veteran performer who has performed and recorded with Pete Seeger, opened for Judy Collins, The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple and the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart. He has performed at the Clearwater Festival, Gathering of the Vibes, Atlanta’s Music Midtown, Jazz at Lincoln Center and The Beacon Theatre. Matt has recorded for Warner Bros Records with Gaby Moreno & Matter Music.
Performance: 2pm, Shames JCC on Hudson, Tarrytown
Alicia Mott-Comitto and Sue Larsen are both recording artists and have decades of performance experience under their belts. They are also multi-instrumentalists and singer songwriters. They have teamed up to create something new…an acoustic duo with a bite. They are not limited by style, musical tastes, or what decade any song was popular. An adult contemporary treat of well placed harmonies, notes, and rhythms.
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
info@riverarts.org
