This website is a catalog of information about local musicians, venues, teachers, shops and services, etc. Why? Because Ithaca is a great city, and there is a lot of great live music in this area.

Musician Spotlight

Milkweed
Milkweed is a group from Binghamton's tightly-knit folk scene. Their love for each other permeates their songs and drifts into the crowd, who lose themselves in the group's intricately orchestrated original songs.

Venue Spotlight

Busy Bee Market
Interlaken, NY
The Busy Bee Market is a seasonal lakeside grocery and cafe. Open May through October. They have live music on Sundays.

Shop/Service Spotlight

I-Town Sound / Hawksview Studio
Ithaca, NY
I-Town Sound / Hawksview Studio is a production and recording studio founded and run by Trevor Thorpe

Education Spotlight

Julie Kuplen: Piano and Voice Lessons
Ithaca, NY
Personally designed piano and/or voice lessons for all ages and levels.

Events: Who's playing? Where? and When?

There isn't any comprehensive list of upcoming music events. Here are some tips to find out the "where and when":

  • If you have a specific musician or venue in mind, find their page on this site, and then go to their respective Facebook pages for primary source info. Be sure to "Like" their pages.
  • FLX Music 24/7 "is your ONE SOURCE for LIVE MUSIC in the Finger Lakes region."
  • Check out WVBR's Concert Log calendar.
  • Evensi seems to be an aggregator of localized Facebook event data that you may find useful.
  • "Dan Smalls Presents" books a few different venues in Ithaca, and they have a calendar on their site.
  • For punk, metal, hip-hop, hardcore music, check out Ithaca Underground.
  • For folk/acoustic music, The Canaan Institute is the best resource I've found. They have a comprehensive calendar, e-mail newsletter, discussion forums, and tons of other useful content.
  • IthacaEvents.com has some live music event listings as well.
  • Ithaca Times Events Calendar

I'll post more links to calendars as I discover them.