TUPPER ARTS
Wednesday Summer Sunset Series
Join us on Wednesday Evenings
Introducing the 2023 Summer Sunset Series lineup for Monday evenings! Join us every week at the Tupper Lake Sunset Stage on Mill Street in Flanders Park for a FREE evening of music.
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets!
Rain venue for the Summer Sunset Series soon to be announced.
Read a recent article on the Summer Sunset Series featured in the online music publication NYS Music:
Tupper Lake Hosts Free Music On Monday And Wednesday Nights This Summer
New Horizons Swing Band
Date: July 12, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
The New Horizons Swing Band is a part of New Horizons Bands of Northern New York.* The band is made up of community members, many retired from a variety of backgrounds and careers, all united by their love of swing’in music!
Developed under the direction of Theresa Witmer, who is on leave, the band is fortunate be led this summer by Paul Buell, another retired music director. The Swing Band looks forward to entertaining you!
*New Horizons was initiated by Roy Ernst, a professor at the Eastman School of Music. It was designed for seniors who wanted to learn an instrument or those who needed to restart their instrument. It is now an international organization. Our New Horizons Concert Band started 11 years ago, and the Swing Band has been playing for six years.
FREE and open to the public.
Moment's Notice
Date: July 19, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
Moment’s Notice is a local, four-piece band with veteran musicians Karen Baker on keys, Mike Joyce on electric guitar/vocals, Dan Spada on electric bass/vocals and Sadie Spada on lead vocals/percussion. The band covers a wide range of genres including jazz, latin, blues, rock and even a little country. We share a dedication to producing well-crafted, well-rehearsed, tight musical arrangements.
FREE and open to the public.
Rose & The Bros
Date: July 26, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
Rose & The Bros out of Ithaca, NY began as a collective dream. Rosie Newton is an internationally touring fiddle player and singer with her Old-Time duo w/ banjo player Richie Stearns, Richie and Rosie, but plays a mean accordion in her spare time. Rosie, fiddler Steve Selin and guitar player Paul Martin all wanted to have a band together to play rockin’ music people just couldn’t help but dance to!
Starting in 2015, Rosie, Steve Selin, and Paul Martin formed a trio and began collecting songs and organizing their dream dance band that people just couldn't help but rock to! When they joined forces with the rhythm section Angelo Peters (leader of Big Mean Sound Machine), Greg Evans, and Sally Freund, the band was complete.
Together they specialize in Cajun and Zydeco music from South West Louisiana. They also include sweet vocal harmonies and a few crooning country classics in the mix. Their goal is to breathe life into the young dance music scene and have a great time doing it.
FREE and open to the public.
The Midnight Stargazers
Date: August 2, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
The Midnight Stargazers Cosmic Country Band are an entertaining four piece acoustic band from Bloomingdale NY.
“Cosmic Country” consists of a blend of our own original songs as well as many of your favorite classic country, country folk and country rock tunes.
The Band:
Rocky James Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Songwriter
Teresa Stephenson, Percussion, Vocals, Songwriter
DeAnna Rose, Banjo, Tenor Guitar, Vocals, Songwriter
Daun Reuter, Mandolin, Songwriter
FREE and open to the public.
Junction Jam
Date: August 9, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Fladers Park, Tupper Lake
Junction Jam are just four guys that love to play and love to rock. With a catalog that spans the 60s through 90s, Junction Jam will have you up dancing, traveling back in time, and wanting more.
Dennis, Skip, Brian and Mike are excited to be part of the Summer Sunset Series, and excited to be part of many more.
FREE and open to the public.
Organ Fairchild
Date: August 16, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
Jam scene mainstays Joe Bellanti, Corey Kertzie and Dave Ruch met in 1983 as members of Buffalo NY Grateful Dead cover band “Wild Knights,” a group that still plays reunion shows to this day.
But it wasn’t until early 2020 that they wrote their first original music together, this time as three-piece instrumental organ trio/funky jam band Organ Fairchild.
The debut gig was just a month before COVID shutdowns, but the horse was out of the barn and the response was immediate!
Individually, these veteran musicians have played with (not in support of) Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, Robbie Krieger (The Doors), Nels Cline, Tony Rice, moe., Oteil Burbridge, Steve Kimock, Keller Williams, Strangefolk, Gibb Droll, Big Leg Emma, Juggling Suns and more.
But since 2020, they’ve been joined together in the pursuit of groovy tunes and juicy jams in a high-powered organ trio format.
Seriously, get ready to get down with Organ Fairchild!
FREE and open to the public.
Larry Ham Quartet
Date: August 23, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
Pianist, composer, and arranger Larry Ham is a veteran New York sideman, performing, touring, and recording with many great jazz artists.
David Dupont of Cadence Jazz Magazine writes, “He glides over the keys with each note articulated cleanly…his playing is masterful.” And Mike Neely in All About Jazz calls him “…a pianist well on his way to becoming a master.”
Larry earned a BA in Musical Studies from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and an MA in Jazz Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City. He currently teaches Jazz Piano and Jazz Improv at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
FREE and open to the public.
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