Label founder Joe Tunis is throwing a four-day festival of strange sounds July 25-28.
Patrick Hosken
Patrick is CITY's arts and culture reporter. He was formerly the music editor at MTV News and a producer at Buffalo Toronto Public Media.
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Music Review | ‘Star of Tomorrow’
John Viviani channels years of music-making into a tender, acoustic new ode.
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Monopoly: Rochester Edition coming in early 2025
Local landmarks will populate the game board, which is still being developed.
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The many hands making light work
Finger Lakes agricultural collaboration helps power urban growers in Rochester.
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An arts utopia off I-81
The Center for the Arts in Homer reels in members with live music — they stay for the community.
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Castaways and cutouts
To mount a lesser-known Shakespeare production at Highland Bowl, Rochester Community Players lean into the two-dimensional.
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Concert Review | Samara Joy
At Kodak Hall on Friday night, the dazzling young jazz singer found a venue large enough to match her star power.
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Reel to real
Digitization efforts at Visual Studies Workshop transform a half-century of archival video into streamable moments.
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Concert Review | Taj Mahal
The 82-year-old bluesman kicked off the 2024 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival by melding island rhythms with Irish folk music and traditional fare.
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Jazz Fest performers keep other musicians’ legacies alive
Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan and funk legends The Meters find new life in 2024’s varied sets.
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Jazz Fest looks to the future with Gen Z performers
Headliners Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Laufey and Samara Joy were all born in 1999, marking a big moment for the next generation.
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Bill Tiberio, Jazz Festival staple and music educator, gets his flowers
The longtime Fairport music teacher will perform once more on June 23, a month after his Rochester Music Hall of Fame award.
