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Green Day Preaches To The Choir at Blue Cross Arena By Michelle Picardo   The preacher of punk exulting the gospel of Green, newly sober Billie Joe Armstrong still gets high on rock ‘n’ roll as his adrenaline-fueled performance...

MIDGE URE with Right The Stars The Club at Water Street Sunday, January 13, 2013 By Scott Miller James “Midge” Ure, you might not know the name (“Midge” comes from Jim spelled backwards-pronounced Midge-to differentiate him from the...

Chris Botti and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/conducted by Jeff Tyzik, in Concert Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre January 11, 2013 By Scott Gudell When you’re the number one selling instrumentalist in the nation (3 million CDs and counting),...

MEMPHIS…The Musical Nov 27 – Dec 2, 2012 Auditorium Theatre By Scott Gudell It was a violent ocean that would consume you if you dared try to cross. That ocean did not exist off our shores but throughout the land in the mid part of the 20th...

Kiss, Motley Crue Bring Impressive Performance to Darien Lake. Darien Lake  • 9/15/2012 It was the last concert of the summer, but the upside saw Kiss & Motley Crue put on a very exciting rock show that entertained the sold out crowd. With...

Mumford and Sons CMAC Summer 2012 By Justin Gudell In the summer of 2012, CMAC in Canandaigua hosted a number of popular musicians, including the Dave Matthews Band, Crosby Stills and Nash, Train, Journey and, of course, Mumford and Sons. Summer...

“TRAIN ROLLS INTO CMAC” CMAC 8/24/2012 By Scott Cordaro The soft pop anthems were in full bloom on Friday night under the shell during Train & Mat Kearney concert. Train’s lead singer Pat Monahan proved he is still a great showman;...

By Frank Imburgia Note: all links are to shows, sets or songs on archive.org. They are freely distributable. After a two year, 60 mile detour to the Gelston Castle Estate, the moe.down music festival made a triumphant return to its roots:  Snow...

CMAC August 15, 2012 By Scott Cordaro For those who think the 80′s revival is over, tell that to the 10,000 people who showed up CMAC last Wednesday night to rock out with Journey, Pat Benatar and Loverboy. If you remember slow dancing...

 The Dukes of September supergroup is a crowd-pleaser CMAC – August 11, 2012 By Michelle Picardo An excited crowd at CMAC was not let down by the supergroup trio of Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs as their latest successful...