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Justin Tracy featuring Elie Massias opening for Jules Taylor at Colony Woodstock.

Join guest host Marc Delgado and his guests Justin Tracy and Jules Taylor for a cool spring Showcase at Green Kill on May 18, 8 PM. Seating is limited to 45. $10 at the door or tickets may be reserved on eventbrite.com. BYOB or soft drinks and snacks served at Ozubar.

Justin (on drums!) joins Marc Delgado and Pete Mancini & the Hillside Airmen at Woodstock's newest premiere venue. Doors at 7:00 p.m. with $5 suggested donation.

Justin is joined by Elie Massias at Kingston's newest gem, Crown Lounge. Two sets--one for the before-dinner crowd, 6:30 p.m. and one for after, at 9 p.m.

Spend the weekend of August 25-26 in Hudson, NY. Over 25+ local vendors, workshops and eateries will be parked at Olana State Historic Site, the home and 250-acre landscape designed by 19th century Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. Come shop, discover, picnic, relax and enjoy the views!

Interested in attending? Reach out to bookings@justintracy.com for details

The New York Songwriter’s Circle was the brain child of the late Ken Gorka (owner of the historic Bitter End club in NYC West Village). Singer Songwriter/vocal coach Tina Shafer, started hosting and booking the New York Songwriterʼs Circle in 1991. The Songwriters Circle has been home to some of best artists of the last three decades including Grammy Winner- Norah Jones, George David Weiss, Lisa Loeb, multi-awarded -Steven Dorff, Judy Collins, Phoebe Snow, Rob Mathes, Peter Zizzo, Albert Hammond, The Story, Grammy Winner-Jesse Harris, Siedah Garrett (Michael Jackson), Gary Burr, BMI SongOf The Year Winner-Hugh Prestwood, Marcus Hummon, Kevin Bents, Big and Rich, Vanessa Carlton, Gavin DeGraw and Lana Del Rey, Ian Axel and John Schmitt, to name a few…later she incorporated the famous “Young Performer’s NIght” staring some of the best up and coming young talent in the country, as well. The showcases meet once a month on the first Monday of the month at the Bitter end in the west village of NYC. The New York Songwriters Circle is the original showcase and in it’s 25th year, continuing today at The Bitter End.

)+ Festival builds long-term relationships between creatives and health & wellness providers to help strengthen local communities. Its year-round efforts culminate in one-day and weekend-long celebrations, during which underinsured artists and musicians create and perform in exchange for a variety of services donated by doctors, dentists and complementary care providers.

In honor of the Grange and the New York State 100th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote! More details at: http://www.dovercountryfair.com/

Intimate Friday night show at Town of Esopus Library!

On Saturday, June 10, singer-songwriter and eclectic popster Chris Maxwell will perform at Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, with special guests Ambrosia Parsley and Justin Tracy. Rolling Stone magazine has called Maxwell’s music “an invigorating pop mishmash that’s earthy, literate, and melodic;” an earthy literacy is equally what urged Byrdcliffe’s utopian dreamers Ralph and Jane Whitehead to build an art colony in the wilds of Woodstock’s Mount Guardian, to which they invited artists and writers in the early twentieth century to come and create in a romantically situated space. Maxwell, an Arkansas native who made his way to Woodstock via the 1990s music scene of New York City, first caught critics’ ear as guitarist for Skeleton Key, a noise-pop rock band born at the legendary Knitting Factory; the band went on to cut a Grammy-nominated album with Capitol Records. Maxwell’s debut album, Arkansas Summer, began in a studio-fitted Airstream trailer parked in his Woodstock backyard. The album’s narratives are filled with Biblical personages, seedy subterranean heroes, and skinny cats who take listeners on an auditory joy-ride despite the dark images of abuse, addiction and, in several songs, decapitation: “Remove the neck and the head can’t turn/Then light the hair and watch it burn/With imaginary concern” (“Imaginary Man”). National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist John Lethem calls Maxwell’s style as “personal as home movies with X-rays included.” Maxwell has a voice both melodic and edgy, with Freedy Johnston, Wilco, Michael Penn, and—in a big way—Lennon/McCartney as his influences. Maxwell also composes and records music for TV shows like Bob’s Burgers and Inside Amy Schumer, as well as producing and writing music for other artists (They Might Be Giants, Iggy Pop, Yoko Ono, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) as part of the production team The Elegant Too, with Phil Hernandez. Opening for Chris Maxwell is the tunefully earnest Justin Tracy, who was born and raised in London and currently divides his time between New York City and the Catskills. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a focus on guitar and vocals, with a lusty voice that has more than once been compared to the (almost) incomparable Nick Drake. Tracy began his career as a jazz drummer performing with acts including Earth, Wind & Fire at the Nice Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival. His albums Bangla Motor and the forthcoming Mumbai Night, to be released in summer of 2017, feature acclaimed tabla player, Nilesh Jadhav. His composing credits include BAFTA-award winning television program Fonejacker and the Emmy-award nominated television program Facejacker. Tickets are $15 general admission, or $13 for Byrdcliffe members. Purchase by calling 845.679.2079, online, or at the door. Doors open at 7:30 pm; the concert begins at 8:00 pm.