calendar of events
Concerts & Music Classes: Virtual & In-Person.
Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles Community Concert
Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles Community Concert
Live Stream: Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles Community Concert
Live Stream: Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles Community Concert
Lena Go Round – Songwriter Showcase with Erin Harkes
Lena Go Round – Songwriter Showcase with Erin Harkes
Live Stream: Lena Go Round Songwriter Showcase
Live Stream: Lena Go Round Songwriter Showcase
Weekly Slow Jam: Folk, Bluegrass and More
Weekly Slow Jam: Folk, Bluegrass and More
Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
Weekly Newsletter
April 22 – 28
Raul Midón is a folk-leaning, jazz- minded, song-loving fool! This 2x Grammy nominated, blind, A-list artist will play Caffe Lena for the first time this Sunday. Midón traverses pop, jazz, soul, urban, cumbia, and flamenco. His breezy, sweet, silky style can be heard on more than 60 recordings, many Grammy-winning. He has served as a sideman for Shakira, Snoop Dogg, Queen Latifah, and has recorded and written with Herbie Hancock, Bill Withers and numerous other major artists. In 2021 he was awarded the Disability Rights Ambassador of the Year award, presented to him by friend and colleague Jason Mraz.
March 25 – 31
Recently selected by Rolling Stone for their Future 25, the magazine wrote: Get Ready To Be Blown Away by Lizzie No’s Songwriting. You can find out what the buzz is all about when Lizzie brings her songs back to our stage on Thursday. She has had a dizzying five years with the release of two albums that drew praise from the likes of Billboard and Rolling Stone – followed by appearances at AmericanaFest, the Newport Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and SXSW, plus tours with Iron and Wine, Son Little, and Adia Victoria. Her writing is beautifully intricate, the personal and the political folding into each other. She’s an outspoken activist and civil rights advocate on a mission to “make revolution irresistible.”
March 18 – 24
“As a violinist, Lena Jonsson is hard to beat. She swings the bow like a magic wand.” Our Nordlys Global Voices Series continues this Sunday with the tradtional and contemporary music of Sweden’s Lena Jonnson Trio. Sparkling joie de vivre and the charisma of a rock-star have made Jonnson one Scandinavia’s most exciting musicians. She merges traditional Swedish dance music with rock, pop, funk and American old-time and bluegrass. She’s Sweden’s current Folk Artist of the Year, and is in heavy rotation on European folk radio. Joined by guitarist Erik Ronström and bassist Krydda Sundström.
Caffè Lena: The Story of the Longest Running Coffeehouse in America
Caffè Lena In the News
Eight Remarkable Artists That Played at Caffè Lena Before They Hit It Big
Pretty much every Saratogian knows that Bob Dylan performed at Caffè Lena back in the early ’60s, just as he was beginning to kick off his legendary folk career. But Bob wasn’t the only one.
According to Sarah Craig, Executive Director of Caffè Lena, most of the now famous musicians who have performed at the club weren’t famous when they first started performing there. “This was an important building block in their career and in building their skills, and that’s what Caffè Lena is really for,” she explains. “The shows are always great regardless of whether that person becomes a household name later down the line. That’s just a matter of lightning striking or not.”
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