CULTURE / ARTS
Don’t Miss SPAC’s Delicious Expansion of the Arts
Ahead of a busy winter events schedule, the producers of CulinaryArts@SPAC—Kim Klopstock an Pam Abrams—sit down with SPAC President Elizabeth Sobol.
Saratoga Living: SPAC’s CulinaryArts has become a regular series in record time, with tickets to every event selling out fast. When did this happen—and why?
Elizabeth Sobol: We started CulinaryArts@SPAC at our 2019 Wine and Food Festival. It was a chance to work with Kim...
#TBT: Bob Dylan’s Shaky Start
He is undoubtedly the biggest star with a bona fide Saratoga footnote in his origin story, but the audience members at Bob Dylan’s first two shows here were, by all accounts, clueless to his talents. The softspoken singer was living in the Village in Manhattan in 1961, doing local gigs but unable to score anything outside his artsy neighborhood—a matter of his folk bent...
Saratoga’s Books of the Month
Nonfiction
New York’s Greatest Thoroughbreds: A Contemporary History
By Allan Carter
In addition to being home to some of horse racing’s most historic and important tracks, New...
How Terry Decorah Became a Rising Star in the World of Lego Photography
It’s hard not to smile when you look at Terry Decorah’s Lego minifigure photography. There’s just something inexplicably endearing about a ceaselessly smiley, tiny...
5 Summer Reads by Capital Region Authors
Mystery: Deadly Reputation
By David K. Wilson
Author David K. Wilson has just released the fourth installment in his Sam Lawson series. Part mystery, part comedy, the...
Live Nation Kicks Off its Saratoga Summer Season With The Lumineers and Zac Brown Band
It's only the first week of June, and already Live Nation has presented three killer concerts as part of the promoter's summer season at...
Ledisi Sings Nina: The 2022 SPAC Performance You Can’t Miss
When it comes to the sheer talent possessed by Ledisi, the genre-fluid powerhouse singer-songwriter who’s coming to SPAC not once but twice this summer,...
Mostly Modern Festival Returns to Saratoga This June
Mostly Modern Festival (MMF) was born when classical music powerhouses Robert and Victoria Paterson (he’s a composer, she’s a violinist) were looking for a...
Saratoga’s Warden and Company Releases Debut Album ‘Somewhere’
This past April, Saratoga-based trio Warden and Company released its first full-length album, an insanely catchy, sing-along-able 11-track folk/rock debut called Somewhere, to rave...
New Orleans–based Band Galactic is Bringing Funk to Saratoga Jazz Fest
While it was certainly great to be back at the Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival last summer, the experience wasn’t exactly what local jazz fans...
Carolee Carmello Comes Home With Opera Saratoga
When Broadway star Carolee Carmello was growing up in Albany, she treasured her summer evenings at SPAC, taking in concerts such as James Taylor...
Yo-Yo Ma Finds Beauty in Nature at SPAC
In a comeback classical season that’s about as buzzed-about and fanfare-filled as it could possibly get, there’s no denying that Yo-Yo Ma’s return to...
The Live Nation Concerts Saratogians Can’t Stop Talking About
If you grew up in Saratoga Springs, chances are that you grew up on concerts at SPAC. Whether you climbed the fence to sneak...
Opera Saratoga Debuts Region-wide 2022 Festival Format
Opera fans may remember that last year, due to concerns about performing indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic, Opera Saratoga took its 60th Anniversary Season...