Musician Spotlight

Maddy Walsh & The Blind Spots
Maddy Walsh & The Blind Spots is a tenured, original, six-piece "Moxy Rock" band, fronted by powerhouse female vocals. Their moxy comes from their own punchy, danceable indie pop-rock, and stage presence.

Venue Spotlight

Scale House Brewery
Hector, NY
Microbrewery with good food, live music, including an open mic Thursdays from 6-9

Shop/Service Spotlight

Ithaca Stringed Instruments
Trumansburg, NY
ISI has been building exquisite violins, violas, cellos, mandolins and custom guitars for more than 30 years.

Education Spotlight

Maestro Music Therapy
471 Midline Road, Freeville, NY 13068 and in 2023 at South Hill Business Campus
Maestro Music Therapy provides clinical music therapy services, community music classes and adaptive lessons to Ithaca and surrounding areas.

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."
  • Events.com seems to be an aggregator of localized Facebook event data that you may find useful.
  • 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.