Mark & Jill Sing the Blues
January 21, 2024 3:00PM
Mark Tolstrup & Jill Burnham, Based in upstate NY, Mark & Jill meld their vision and talent for a taste of New Orleans meets Austin. NY Blues Hall of Fame bluesman Marl Tolstrup and sultry Texas singer Jill Burnham come together where the Delta meets the Rio Grande. Over a haunting slide guitar their voices soar and blend in harmony. Mark and Jill bring a fresh original interpretation to the earliest roots of blues. Their original songs deal with both the hard realities of life and the joys of being alive.
Mark is a 2014 inductee into the New York State Blues Hall of Fame. Mark and Jill won the 2002 Capitol Region Thomas Edison Award Blues Artist of the Year. Thet are two time winners of the Capitol Regions Blues Network solo/duo Blues competition and competed in the International Blues challenge in Memphis 2019 and 2021.
January 21st, 2024 - 3pm at The Local Dining and Spirits Cost: $15 -SVAN Members ; $20 Non-Members
Reservations required: (518) 863-8047
The Local will be offering a lunch and appetizer menu and cash bar. Seating will be assigned by table, small groups may have to share a table. Food and Beverage purchases not required for concert attendance.
Michael Jerling
w/ special guest: Orion Kribs
February 11, 2024 3PM
Born and raised in Illinois, songwriter Michael Jerling became involved with music while helping to run the campus coffeehouse at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Now settled in Saratoga Springs, New York, Michael has been a noted artist on the club, college and festival circuits of North America since 1975. His baritone voice is backed up with consummate skill on six & twelve string guitars, harmonica and mandolin, all buoyed by his dry sense of humor. Through all of these recordings and in his live performances, Michael displays his first[1]rate lyrical sense and impressive musicianship - borrowing from blues, rock, country and R&B. A keen student of the good and ghastly in American life, Michael weaves themes like a novelist, evoking our shortcomings and dreams without yielding to cynicism or sentimentality. Often praised as a "songwriter's songwriter" who composes in styles influenced by the wealth of American music, he has been characterized as an artist who performs his "extraordinary songs with the uncommon ability to deliver them to an audience with power and grace".
February 11, 2024 - 3PM at The First United Methodist Church - Friendship Hall 301 S. Main St. Northville, NY 12134
Cost: $15 -SVAN Members ; $20 Non-Members
Reservations required: (518) 863-8047
Coffee, Tea, Water & Light snacks will be available
Cabin Fever Dinner Dance April 13, 2024 5pm
Johnny & The Triumphs
w/special guest Gwen Tracey
In the middle of the 20th century a new music came into being. It was a fusion of pop, rhythm and blues and country. It cut across race and class, city and country. No body owned it or controlled it then. They called it rock and roll and music hasn’t been the same since. Johnny and The Triumphs make this kind of music: rockabilly, rhythm and blues and old time rock and roll. They make music to dance to. They are not an imitation 50s band. They are much more the real thing. Without pretense Johnny and the Triumphs capture the feel and spirit and drive of those early years.
Saturday April 13th 5pm Dinner - 6-8pm Show The Sport Island Pub 108 Riverside Dr Northville, NY 12134 Spaghetti & Meatball dinner w/tossed salad, bread, & desert, Coffee & water (cash Bar available)
Cost: $40 per person members / $45 per person Non-Members Tax & Gratuity included
Reservations Required Call or Text (518) 863-8047