Category: Music

Collective coming from Kingston NY Mix of hip hop & R&B and great vibes For everyone to tap into frequency is the new wave

Colton Thorn, MT-BC (he/they) is a board certified music therapist, local quirky singer-songwriter, and a multi-instrumentalist and voice teacher. They studied classically at Temple University. They have a wide variety of original songs and have been performing as a singer-songwriter since 2012. Their music includes tender songs around transitions, love, grief, and even Oreos. Colton’s style could be described as folky with a little bit of bounce. Colton runs a local open mic at Saltbox and one at Holding Space Place in Kingston. Colton loves playing guitar, ukulele, piano, violin, banjo, and singing. Colton also teaches music and performs locally around the Hudson Valley. Colton believes music can empower through learning and expression of emotion and provides an “in the moment connection” and loves to help foster independent and group growth. When not playing music, they love wiggling around, going on runs, eating their veggies, and time with friends in nature.

The neon moons are an east coast country band blending elements of classic country western and rock/jam band vibes. We play a bunch of originals as well as a few choice covers depending on the length of the set. Our goal is always to get people moving and highly encourage dancing at our shows. We would be stoked to share our music with they o+ crowd!

Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria classically trained pianist and producer/rapper DAP was drawn to music through an entirely musical family. He started playing the piano aged 4 and passed his ABRSM Grade 8 Piano with distinction aged 13, and went on to attain a DipABRSM Performance Diploma on the Piano aged 17. After high school in London, UK, he attended the Berklee College of Music for two semesters majoring in Contemporary Writing & Production or Music Production & Engineering. He released the mixtape GoodBye For Never in October 2014, which The Source magazine labelled “the best mixtape of 2014”. In September 2015, he recorded at the renowned Abbey Road Studios in London with Grammy award winning “Uptown Funk” producer Mark Ronson after being selected for a competition produced by Converse. Through graduating from Brown University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Computer Music & Multimedia, and Columbia Law School in 2020, and having been a practicing intellectual property attorney for 3 years at a top NY law firm, DAP continued to release several projects, including the collaborative EP entitled Old New Clothes under the moniker Hi-Lo Jack with fellow collaborators Clyde Lawrence and Cody Fitzgerald, who scored the 2019 Disney movie “Noelle”; “Two Roads EP” on April 28th 2017; the Contract Thursdays series (Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 in 2017, Pt. 3 in 2019); and the album and short film EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER. DAP has opened for Lawrence (the band), Skepta, Burna Boy, Rema, and most recently, The Cavemen, and performed at shows and festivals across continents, most notably in Lagos, London, and New York. The Powers series was born during the COVID-19 pandemic, the third installment of which was released on May 26, 2023.

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Good For Mondays is a new Indie Folk Rock band based out of Bethel, home of the ’69 Woodstock Festival. With a goal of having good, lighthearted fun and making some great music in the process, they are keeping it rootsy, groovy and simple in all the right ways.

Replete with rich imagery and burning affirmations for life, the Albany, NY group’s exploratory writing takes the form of grandiose song structures, call-and-response passages, and confrontations with the unfamiliar.

Zohar & Adam Cabo are a keys & drums jazz duo who compose with a dynamic multi-genre influence rooted in jazz ranging from classical music to Hip-Hop and Latin grooves. They have been playing together our whole lives and writing, recording, and performing their own original material for the last two years.

Bob Goldberg is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and music educator, born in New York City, based in Brooklyn since the 1980s and in the Hudson Valley since 2017. Having studied piano, electronic music and composition, accordion has been his main performing instrument and a focus of his compositional activity in the 21st Century.

He has written and performed in small- and large-group settings, within the context of folk, rock, jazz, world, and modern experimental music, collaborated with film, dance, theater and television, and created site-specific work in non-traditional performing spaces, including parks, community gardens, the NYC and Philadelphia Subway Systems, Green-Wood Cemetery, and the 24- Hour Drone at Basilica in Hudson NY.

Bob has performed and recorded as a member of Washboard Jungle, Le Nozze di Carlo, The Corner Store Dance Company, the BAN Radio “Orchestra” and “Chorus”, and the Famous Accordion Orchestra.

He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (BA) and Brooklyn College (MA), and has received grants and commissions from Arts Mid-Hudson, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the American Orff Schulwerk Association, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Franklin Furnace and the Bachtopus Accordion Ensemble.

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music-aficionado David Cruz (also known as Jams Bond) brings a crate of unique and diverse talent to the helm of every party. In the DJ booth, he not only showcases his mastery with seamless transitions and impressive tricks on the decks but also delivers a feel-good selection that keeps the energy soaring.

His home base is in the Hudson Valley, while performing events and clubs in Brooklyn and NYC often. His list of residencies include Bembe, Nublu, Miss Favela, and the Hudson Valley skate rink, Skate Time. He’s rocked NYC venues such as Norwood, Le Bain, Beauty & Essex, Capitale, Chelsea Music Hall, and Output to name a few. David has traveled the world and has an extensive resume, performing in Berlin, Tokyo, Beirut, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and the Bahamas.

He’s a Bronx-born musician who got his first taste for music from his self-professed, Woodstock-hippie mom. He started listening to rock and psychedelic hits as a kid, and the first records he spun were Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours with songs such as “Dreams” and “The Chain”—they just so happened to be played from a Fisher Price kid’s record player.

Fast forward to today, David’s sets allow for dance-floor goers to feel complete liberation via his eclectic taste, leaning more into electronic-flavored styles such as nu-disco, house, techno, drum and bass, Latin, Brazilian, afrobeats, hip hop & reggaeton.

As of late 2023 into 2024, you’ll find David in the epicenter of the emerging dance music scene in Kingston, NY. He began his art and electronic-music centered party, “Kingston Techno” in the summer of 2023 with underground raves and epic sold-out parties. He’s a major contributor to the “Bombón” and “The Audacity” parties which are also picking up steam and are sure to be wild events to be a part of if you’re near the Hudson Valley!

Don’t be mistaken, even though he tends to stay away from pop in his everyday listening, it surely sneaks in his mixes because he loves a good guilty-pleasure tune to get the crowds going.

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Morphing alternative rock sub-genres, independent female-fronted ‘DIY’ band, Sir Echo, is causing big waves in the vibrant sea of Hudson Valley NY music. From festival stages to sweaty, college-house-show basements, human-to-human moments are the remedy for doom-scrolling, and the infectious energy of a Sir Echo show is the medicine. ‘I won’t try to change the way I cope, or alter my born silhouette – oh god, I hate the internet’. — SIMMER by Sir Echo

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