Phone 346-6204 or visit Also tonight, reedman/composer Don Byron leads his jazz quartet - pianist Edward Simon, bassist Kenny Davis and drummer Billy Hart - at the Main Theatre of the UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Expect multifaceted music, dancing and singing. Phone 1-800-30-EVENT or visit Dangerous musicĬellist François le Roux launches Proctors’ Dangerous Music series tonight, performing as the Ha!man at 7 p.m. Show time for “An Evening with Howe, Squire & White of Yes” is 7 p.m.

With original singer Jon Anderson sidelined by respiratory ailments, the band recruited Benoit David from a Yes tribute band they saw on YouTube, emulating Journey and Boston but annoying Anderson, who protested by blog.Īll this drama will be replaced on Sunday by the drama of the music itself, which is considerable. However, keyboardist Rick Wakeman left the reunited-for-this-tour band (his fifth departure: a record?) before the tour, replaced by his keyboardist son Oliver. Bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe and drummer Alan White from previous versions of this constantly mutating British progressive rock band will perform. Yes, it’s kinda Yes playing on Sunday at the Times Union Center (51 S. Judy Collins sings songs from her decades-deep career at 8 tonight at The Egg. She explained: “I do think the songs that I’m supposed to sing do come to me, and that’s a kind of mysterious process.”Ĭommunicating them to an audience, however, is anything but mysterious: “I sing and sing and sing and sing some more.” She is proud of Dan Fogelberg’s hit cover of her song “Since You’ve Asked,” and she said, “I’m usually trying to write my own songs, and then I hear something that draws me in and I’ll go find it” - or they find her. Her quest seems more like a series of triumphs as she became one of the shrewdest talent scouts in pop music history, matching songs to what The New York Times called her “voice of liquid silver.” Her authoritative covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Richard Farina and others helped introduce these writers to audiences worldwide.

“I learned all the great songs and finding new great songs has always been a challenge to me.” Chapters? “My current life involves writing a book called ‘Suite Judy Blue Eyes: Sex, Drugs, Rock ’n’ Roll and Folk Rock,’ ” she explained, having borrowed for her book - “about 50 years in the music business and 70 years on the planet” - the title of the song Stephen Stills wrote for her at the dawn of folk rock.Įarly chapters? “I was brought up with great music all the time, whether it was Rachmaninoff or Debussy or Rodgers & Hart or whatever,” she said, “because my dad was a great singer and had a radio career for 30 years.” She often performed on his show as a child, learning singing and songs.

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