HoboFest Saranac Lake

08/31/2022

a great week for festivals, don't overlook this one!

08/26/2022

Northern Current: A Community Music Festival returns to Riverside Park with an irresistible lineup of live music on Sunday of Labor Day weekend. The festival's mission is to enrich the cultural diversity of the town by celebrating a...

08/02/2022

The 1956 Rockabilly classic by three former golden glove boxers. Johnny Burnette-Guitar and vocals.Dorsey Burnette-Bass and Paul Burlison-Guitar.Buddy Harman...

10/24/2021

Hobofest-alum Mamie Minch returns to the North Country, Friday, Nov 12th, at PENDRAGON THEATRE, in a collaboration with "noir guitar" trio Big Lazy and video-archivist Russell Scholl. Check out this pandemic-era video:

Mamie Minch is a longtime staple of New York’s acoustic blues scene. Listening to her sing and play is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s...

08/06/2021

DIY pop-punk performers this Saturday at 4pm in the Skate Park

07/15/2021

see you there!

We are thrilled to share our 2021 musical lineup with y'all!!

07/09/2021

at Riverside Park next Weds!

It was a rough year and a half, but we're back! Please join us this Wednesday (7/14) at 7pm. at Riverside Park in Saranac Lake. We have some great news. Redia Spada is back in town and singing with us. Also, Gene V Baker (on trumpet) will make his CF debut.

07/24/2020

looking forward to 2021

Stay safe, music fans 💜💜💜

07/23/2020

04/25/2020

the most consistent presenter of live music in the Adirondacks. Please consider their fund-raising request.

The Waterhole Music Lounges Presents:A Community Supported Music Program (CSM) $25 = Yo… Kiki Sarko needs your support for Waterhole Community Supported Music

03/28/2020

fond memories of Mamie at Hobofest. Here she is live-streaming last night from the epicenter of the crisis.

03/17/2020

one of our favorite bands looking for your support

11/13/2019

tonight!

Folk Alley Sessions at 30A: Amythyst Kiah performs “Darling Corey” from her album ‘Dig’ at the 2019 30A Songwriters Festival. Filmed and recorded at the 30A ...

09/17/2019

John blessed the first iteration of Hobofest as the first imported act. He endorsed my (Peter Seward) efforts with the event, calling me "a George Wein." I consider him a crucial bridge between the NYC audience and genuine rural talent.

A member of the New Lost City Ramblers, Cohen celebrated American roots culture in many mediums, including his celebrated photography. He died Monday at age 87.

09/13/2019

Happening at the Olympic Ski Lodge due to weather forecast

LAKE PLACID — The fourth annual Blues at Timbuctoo (BT2) festival will bring three class acts to the John Brown Farm State Historic Site on Saturday, Sept. 1

08/30/2019

Steve was a big part of Hobofest. We're glad to see that he'll open the first Northern Current this Sunday!

Today's Artist Spotlight: Steve Langdon

Steve Langdon was the first act at the first HoboFest Saranac Lake, and he played many Hobofests including the last one. We are thrilled that he will open the first Northern Current.

Steve comes by his odd strain of guitar/harmonica American roots music honestly. One set of grandparents were eminent scholars and collectors of cowboy and western songs and worked with folks like John and Alan Lomax to archive and study Western American music. As a teenager, Steve played around campfires with musicians like fiddler Alan Jabbour, old cowboy poets, and college professors.

The other side of the family is from the North Country, going several generations back, and passed down many old tunes and half-forgotten songs. Steve’s education in acoustic blues began in Plattsburgh in the early 1990s, where he where he cut his teeth in North Country bars and on visits to octogenarian inmate musicians at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where his father has been a chaplain for nearly three decades.

Commercially, Steve’s music has been a complete and total flop — his words. After four winters touring with the Professor Washboard Band in Northern Europe in the late ‘90s, he pretty much just “woodsheds” as he calls it — playing for himself, his kids, or at local Saranac Lake music festivals.

Thanks to Edward Jones for sponsoring this set!

08/30/2019

your hands-on support welcomed!

2019 Welcome Northern Current 2019 volunteers! Everywhere you see a number (1-, 2-, 3-, etc) a volunteer is needed. Sign up for as many jobs as you'd like. If you don't have a cell, please provide your land line. Use scroll bars to go DOWN and OVER to view everything. Corresponding times are i...

08/28/2019

Sunday of Labor Day weekend!

𝐖𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞!

Don't miss the tribute to Jeff Couture, a longtime friend of HoboFest Saranac Lake and the Saranac Lake music community, at noon!