For those attending this Saturday’s 17th Pleasantville Music Festival, if Main Stage performer The Allman Betts Band conjures up memories of 1970s rock for some, that wouldn’t be off base. One of the most anticipated acts at this year’s festival,
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In his music career and in life, Pete Francis has been faced with obstacles, but each time has seemed to emerge stronger from the experience. A founding member of the groundbreaking indie band Dispatch, which formed at Vermont’s Middlebury College
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By Lily Spinda One of Westchester’s biggest music festivals allows families and friends to jam out to original music. It also gives three Westchester-based bands the opportunity to perform in front of thousands of new people. The 17th annual Pleasantville
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The northern Westchester-based indie soul/funk band Smooch has played in all types of venues throughout the county, from bars and breweries, to farms and street fairs. It took a bit of a fortuitous break for them to land a spot
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It’s no wonder that many of Greg Jacquin’s folk rock songs are about life in Westchester and its people. The Hudson Valley native recorded several albums in the 1990s, took a hiatus and returned to release his 2018 work “Hudson
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One of the thrills for new up-and-coming Westchester-based bands is a chance to play the Pleasantville Music Festival. It’s no different this year for the three winners of the festival’s annual Battle of the Bands, a competition that starts in
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Singer-songwriter Paula Cole has released 13 albums celebrating a rich, creative trajectory of deeply heartfelt songs starting with her 1996 triple Grammy-nominated single “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” She won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best New Artist,
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The world has changed in so many ways since the last time the Pleasantville Music Festival was held in 2019. Local music fans who have flocked to the village, typically on the second Saturday of July, for a day of
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Art Alexakis has had a busy year recording a solo album, but most people will recognize him from his work as the lead songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the popular alt-rock band Everclear. Everclear, founded by Alexakis
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Dave Pirner always wants a record to have an ebb and flow, where there are loud and soft moments throughout rather than sustaining one pace throughout. When Pirner, the lead vocalist for the Grammy-Award winning alternative rock
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