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April 4, 2018The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall April Shows
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Johnson Communications, DJ TGIF, and Cuzin Maine present
Cuzin Maine – Live at the Hall
Saturday, April 7, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $39, $34
Black Violin – Classical Boom Tour
Friday, April 13, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $49.50, $39.50, $34.50, $29.50
TSBMH & 97.7 WEXT present
Martin Sexton
Joan Osborne (Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan)
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $44, $37
Jesse Cook – Beyond Borders Tour
Sunday, April 15, 2018, 7:30 PM Tickets: $36, $29
107-7 GNA’s Classic Country Hall of Fame Show
Travis Tritt
Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $45.50, $35.50
Tickets: (518) 273-0038 For venue information: www.troymusichall.org
The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation has an a wonderful line-up of performers this month!
Cuzin Maine, Live at the Hall, Saturday, April 7, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $39, $34
Winthrop A. Ford better known as “Cuzin Maine” is a family-friendly comedian known throughout the industry as the “Next Best Thing.” A native Albanian (Albany, NY), Cuzin Maine has performed to sold-out audiences across the country and has opened for legendary comedians including Rickey Smiley and the incomparable Dick Gregory. Cuzin Maine’s “FUNNY” comes from within and audiences agree his biggest laughs come from simply being himself. Join us as we prepare to send Cuzin Maine on the next stage of his journey with the taping of his first broadcast comedy special.
Black Violin – Classical Boom Tour Friday, April 13, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $49.50, $39.50, $34.50, $29.50
“Black Violin upends cultural and musical stereotypes…an unexpected blend of classically trained musicianship and hip-hop beats and inventiveness.” —The Miami Herald
Black Violin is composed of classically trained violist and violinist Wil B. and Kev Marcus who combine their classical training and hip-hop influences to create a distinctive multi-genre sound that is often described as “classical boom.” The band released their major label debut Stereotypes (featuring Black Thought of The Roots and MC Pharoahe Monch) on Universal Music which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart and #4 on the Billboard R&B Chart. NPR praised the album and band, saying “their music will keep classical music alive for the next generation.” They have shared stages with top names including Kayne West, Aerosmith and Tom Petty, and has creatively collaborated with the likes of Wu-Tang Clan, Wyclef Jean and Alicia Keys.
Wil and Kev place heavy emphasis on educational outreach, and for this performance, any student who purchases a ticket is invited to attend the 5 PM sound check before the evening performance.
Martin Sexton,
Joan Osborne (Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan) Saturday, April 14, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $44, $37
Two amazing musicians, each performing their own set, creating a phenomenal night of music! Martin will perform songs pulled from his vast catalog, and Joan will sing a selection of Bob Dylan songs from her latest release, Songs of Bob Dylan.
Rolling Stone describes Martin Sexton as a musician with “Outstanding taste in songwriting as well as a soul-marinated voice.” Syracuse native Sexton got his start singing in the streets and subways of Boston in the early ’90s. Still fiercely independent and headlining venues from The Fillmore to Carnegie Hall, he has influenced a generation of contemporary artists. His songs have appeared in television series such as “Scrubs,” “Parenthood,” and “Masters of Sex” as well as numerous films, though it’s his incendiary live show, honest lyrics, and vocal prowess that keep fans coming back for more. http://www.martinsexton.com
Joan Osborne will sing selections from her latest release Songs of Bob Dylan. On this new album, she unleashes her sizable gifts as a vocalist and interpreter upon The Bard’s celebrated canon. With performances honed by the time Osborne spent polishing them during “Joan Osborne Sings The Songs Of Bob Dylan” — two critically acclaimed two-week residencies she performed at New York City’s Café Carlyle in March 2016 and 2017, the seven-time Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling singer and songwriter, whom The New York Times has called “a fiercely intelligent, no-nonsense singer,” winds her supple, soulful voice around Dylan’s poetic, evocative lyrics, etching gleaming new facets in them along the way. http://www.joanosborne.com/
Jesse Cook, Beyond Borders Tour – Sunday, April 15, 2018, 7:30 PM Tickets: $36, $29
Jesse Cook Widely is touring now to promote his latest album, Beyond Borders.
“I want to take people to places they haven’t been,” Jesse Cook says about his this latest album. The Juno winning Canadian guitarist, known for his masterful fusion of world music styles, has traveled the globe looking for sounds that resonate with him. On this album, he continues his journey, playing music without any cultural or geographical boundaries.
“I like music that provides a common ground for different traditions, a space where music from all historical eras and parts of the world can mingle,” Cook explains. “On this album, and One World, my last record, I began to realize that you can go anywhere on earth, without moving. There are many borders in our lives. Some have been built by others, some we create for ourselves, but whenever I ventured beyond the borders of my life, I have been the better for it. In the past few years, we’ve been moving backwards. I don’t want to focus on politics, but after the fall of the Berlin wall, Europe united and people began thinking of themselves as global citizens. The rising nationalism of today is exploiting our differences, not celebrating them. Beauty, humanity, artistry, joy, wisdom, and of course love…these things don’t stop at some line on a page. If music is the universal language, maybe there is something it can teach us?”
Cook was born in Paris, to Canadian parents. The family moved to Arles, where they bought a small home built in the 16th Century, for 100 dollars. “It was like stepping into the Middle Ages,” Cook recalls. “Manitas de Plata was popular then. His albums got me interested in the sound of flamenco guitar.”
After moving back to Canada, Cook started guitar lessons and at the Eli Kassner Guitar Academy in Toronto, he studied flamenco. This lead to a lifelong fascination, and on his albums, and in concert, Cook started exploring the history of flamenco, tracing its roots from India to Spain and Cuba. Along the way, he developed his signature synthesis of world music. He’s released ten genre-defying albums, garnering eleven Juno (Canada’s Grammy) nominations – and one win, in 2001 for Free Fall – in the World Music and Instrumental categories. “I write music without lyrics, so it’s a statement of pure emotion,” Cook says. “Music touches your soul, or it doesn’t, and every tradition on earth has its own way of doing that. When we venture beyond our cultural and geographic borders, we can gain the whole world.”
107-7 GNA’s Classic Country Hall of Fame Show
Travis Tritt – Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8 PM Tickets: $45.50, $35.50
More than 27 years after Travis Tritt launched his music career, the Southern rock influenced artist continues to display strong sales activity, sell-out shows, and stay true and relevant to country music fans across the globe. Continuously performing shows and withholding a heavy appearance schedule, Tritt is proving to be unstoppable.
The highly abbreviated Tritt timeline started when the young Marietta, Georgia native incorporated his lifelong influences of Southern rock, blues and gospel into his country during a honky-tonk apprenticeship that led him to Warner Bros. in 1989. Over the course of a decade, Travis released seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label. His 1990 debut Country Club and its succession of hits put him in the vanguard of the genre’s early ’90s boom, dubbing him as one of “The Class of ‘89,” which included country music superstars Garth Brooks, Clint Black and Alan Jackson; all whom dominated the charts in the early ‘90s.
“Country Club,” “Help Me Hold On,” “I’m Gonna Be Somebody,” and “Drift Off to Dream” peaked at numbers two and three on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; all which led for Tritt to win Top New Male Artist award from Billboard and the CMA Horizon Award (now known as the New Artist Award). Additionally, in 1991, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) marked Tritt’s debut album Country Club as certified platinum.
Two years after his debut, Travis’ sophomore album, It’s All About to Change, was released. Literally speaking, this album changed everything when the album shipped three million copies and all four of its singles reached the top five on the country music charts. Along with his first album, this release became triple-platinum certified by the RIAA.
At the same time, his conspicuous lack of a cowboy hat and musical assertiveness set him apart. The next series of albums, seven of which are certified platinum or higher, scored him more hit singles and led him to amass more than 25 million in career album sales, two Grammys, three CMA Awards and a devoted fan base that filled venues coast-to-coast.
Most recently, Tritt released a new project, a special live 2-disc CD and DVD, titled A Man and His Guitar – Live From The Franklin Theatre. The much-anticipated release, shot and recorded at the historic Franklin Theatre in Franklin, Tenn., spotlights Tritt’s distinctively soulful voice and his exceptional guitar prowess in an intimate theater setting.
The Southern-rock influenced artist continues to stay true and relevant to Country music fans across the globe. In 2015, Tritt topped the SoundScan Top 200 Catalog Country Albums chart for over 60 consecutive weeks with 15 weeks spent at No. 1 and 35+ weeks notched in a Top 5 position. Tritt’s compilation album, Very Best of Travis Tritt, which was released in 2007, saw a resurgence of sales that started in Nov. 2014. The 20-track album features some of Tritt’s biggest hits, including “It’s A Great Day To Be Alive,” “Here’s A Quarter,” and “Anymore.”
For more information on Travis Tritt, visit his website TravisTritt.com and follow him on and Facebook and Twitter.
Tickets are on sale now via phone, (518) 273-0038, in person, or online at www.troymusichall.org. Tickets are available at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Box Office, 30 Second Street, Troy, Monday through Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. More information on the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and upcoming programs is available on the website at www.troymusichall.org.
The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has hosted performances by legions of world-renowned artists, from legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Isaac Stern, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Vladimir Horowitz, to the best on today’s contemporary music scene, including Joshua Bell, Andrew Bird, Steve Martin, Lyle Lovett, and John Prine and many others.
