Tuesdays @ the AC
Community events on Tuesday nights throughout the summer
Admission is by suggested donation of $15.
PAUL MEYERS
June 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Paul Meyers has been a busy freelancer, sideman and bandleader in and around New York City since 1980. He has performed and/or recorded with a list of jazz greats such as Geri Allen, Harry Allen, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Ray Drummond, Eliane Elias, Clare Fischer, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Gomez, Annie Ross, Wynton Marsalis, Bill Mays, Rufus Reid and Steve Wilson. For several years Paul performed and recorded with his quartet featuring Frank Wess and also plays and records with his own critically acclaimed Brazilian Jazz group, World on a String, since 2004.
THE YOD SQUAD
June 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Long Lake favorites, led by Yod Crewsy, with a variety of fun music.
RYAN LEDDICK
July 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Ryan Leddick is a queer folk/rock artist whose music is rooted in a childhood listening to classic rock and the folk music of his native Adirondacks—as well as anything else he could get to work on his parents’ sound system. The result is a distinctive fusion of life experience, diverse influences and a strong artistic vision. When you listen to his music, you can hear all of that echo in his unique sound. Leddick, who has shared the stage with Damien Rice, Of Good Nature, and Brian Dunne to name a few, is also a formally trained vocalist and has toured the Northeast for the better part of a decade, in both group and solo acts. He’s now based in Troy, New York, and continues to travel regionally to perform for crowds large and small.
BROCK GONYEA
July 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Channeling the spirit of classic country, American singer and songwriter Brock Gonyea brings the sound of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams into a contemporary country setting with his 2021 debut Where My Heart Is.
Born and raised in Tupper Lake in upstate New York, music surrounded Gonyea as a child; his father, grandfather, and uncle played bluegrass and folk, and passed on traditional songs to him. His love of old-time country prompted him to take on covers of original songs and post them to his social media channels. A cover of Faron Young's "Hello Walls" went viral and caught the attention of Brynn Arens, who flew Gonyea to Nashville to start putting together some songs. A meeting with Big Machine followed and in 2020 he inked a deal with the label. Drafting in some of the best players from Nashville's country scene, Gonyea started to work on what would become his debut EP. Where My Heart Is was issued at the beginning of 2021 and featured original material by Gonyea, as well as a version of an unrecorded Mel Tillis and Webb Pierce song, "All Night Long," from the 1940s.
McCARTY ZITO DUO
August 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Internationally acclaimed for their expressive artistry as soloists and chamber musicians, Patricia McCarty and Bill Zito present programs featuring four centuries of richly varied music for viola and guitar (or lute) – from the delicate subtlety of Dowland to lively Baroque Telemann & Corelli, virtuosic Paganini, romantic Spanish Granados & de Falla, jazzy Piazzolla, and evocative 20th-21st Century composers. The McCarty Zito Duo performs concerts frequently throughout the Adirondack region of upstate NY, and an upcoming recording will be released in 2024.
SCHANZER/SPEACH DUO
August 27 at 7:30 p.m.
The Schanzer/Speach Duo consists of Jeffrey Schanzer, composer/guitarist and Bernadette Speach, composer/pianist. Their collaborative works combine the intuition and spontaneity of improvisation with the structure of formal composition. In addition to their collaborative improvisations, they will perform works written for the Duo by two prominent black composers: Shiffs by Oliver Lake, the great jazz composer and saxophonist, and Ajiaco by Tania León, a Cuban-born composer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2021 and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2022. There will also be solos including Bernadette’s In and Out of Love – after Stephen Sondheim’s Liaisons and Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music, part of Anthony de Mare’s “Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano”, released on the ECM label.
