Musician Spotlight

Music's Recreation
Music's Recreation was founded in 1993 to sponsor intimately-scaled chamber music concerts designed to make classical music more accessible and understandable to the largely uninitiated, while still offering new insights to seasoned concert-goers.

Venue Spotlight

Garrett's Brewing Company
1 W Main, Trumansburg, NY
Beer with Soul, and live music, open mic on Thursday nights.

Shop/Service Spotlight

The Cayuga Music Shop
203 Dey Street, Ithaca, NY
Cayuga Music Shop offers a complete range of maintenance, repair and restoration services for all band and orchestral, fretted (guitar), and percussion instruments. Our repair shop runs full time with multiple technicians repairing hundreds of instruments each year.

Education Spotlight

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)
330 E MLK Jr / State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
For over 50 years, CSMA has provided instruction in the arts for students of all ages.

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.