28 Arts &
Lumineers Announce SPAC Show May 29
The Lumineers, coming to Saratoga Springs in May.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Lumineers announced a series of North American dates as part of their Brightside World Tour 2022, which will stage a show at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on May 29. The shows begin May 18 at Jacksonville, Florida and continue through early September. Also performing: Athens, Ohio trio, Caamp. And, yes, “Caamp” is the correct spelling of the name of the band. The Lumineers’ tour takes its name from the band’s new album, “Brightside.” The album was produced by longtime collaborator Simone Felice and produced, mixed, and engineered by David Baron over two sessions in winter and spring 2021 at Baron’s Sun
Mountain Studios in Boiceville, NY, located in Ulster County. “Brightside” marks The Lumineers’ first new music in more than two years. The nine-song collection sees The Lumineers’ cofounders/co-songwriters Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites performing virtually all of the eclectic, effervescent instrumentation, with Baron on a wide variety of keyboards and backing vocals and more by Simone Felice, touring members Byron Isaacs and Lauren Jacobson, famed backing singer Cindy Mizelle (Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews Band), The Felice Brothers’ James Felice, and acclaimed singer-songwriter Diana DeMuth. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 18 via Livenation.com.
Week of February 11 – February 17, 2022
Entertainment Saratoga Springs Musical Trio Warden and Co. Set for Live Shows, Debut Album Release
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Spa City based Americana/roots rock/folk trio Warden and Co. will perform a series of local shows in the lead-up to the showcase of their debut album, “Somewhere,” which is released April 8. Band members include frontman/vocalist/ guitarist Seth Warden, violinist/vocalist Doug Moody, and drummer Brian Melick. The 11-song album, an independent release, was co-produced by multi-instrumentalist Chris Carey and Warden and recorded at Millstone Studio in Ballston Spa. A single, “Living for Love,” was released in January. Longtime veterans of the regional music scene, Warden, Melick, and Moody originally
Warden and Co. L to R: Brian Melick (percussion), Seth Warden (vocals, guitar), Doug Moody (violin, viola, vocals). Photo: Tim Ferris.
joined forces in Saratoga Springs in 2011 as the award-winning children’s and family artists, Seth and the Moody Melix. For Warden. Upcoming shows include: Peddlers Bar and Bistro in Clifton
Park on Feb. 11, Barvino in North Creek on Feb. 23, and The Saratoga Winery on March 4. For additional information, visit Warden and Co.’s website www.wardenandcompany.com.
Tang Teaching Museum Opens, Offers Free Public Tours SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College reopened to the public on Feb. 3 and announces a series of upcoming tours that are free and open to the public. Tang Guide Tours, Sundays at 2 p.m. during the spring semester (through May 1), provide visitors with an overview of the museum and what’s on view. These tours are given by Tang Guides, Skidmore College students and visitor services associates who are part of a program that introduces them to the Tang and the museum world, trains them how to be gallery ambassadors and tour guides, provides guidance in how to talk about art, and gives them valuable experiences interacting with visitors. Curator’s Tours feature the organizing curator or curators providing in-depth information of an exhibition: • Friday, February 11, Noon: Tang Student Advisory Council member Paige Meade ’22 gives a tour of Hyde Cabinet #15: Doomsday. • Thursday, February 17, Noon: Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator Rachel Seligman, Assistant Professor of Art History
Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara speaks about the Core Memory Quilt, 2018, by Helen Remick, Daniela Rosner, Samantha Shorey, and Brock Craft, in the exhibition Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science. Photo courtesy of Tang Teaching Museum.
Nancy Thebault, and students from the Scribner Seminar “Outsiders? Folk and Self-Taught Artists in the United States” give a tour of On Their Own Terms. • Thursday, March 24, Noon: Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara gives a tour of Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science, which includes the community-created crochet coral reef Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef. • Thursday, April 14, Noon: Dayton Director Ian Berry gives a tour of Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler—New Patterns. • Thursday, May 12, Noon: Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator Rachel
Seligman on Thursday, May 12, at noon, for a tour of Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting All tours are free and open to the public. The museum is open Thursdays noon to 9 p.m., and Fridays through Sundays noon to 5 p.m. All visitors are asked to follow Skidmore College protocols for COVID-19, which include wearing high-quality KN95 masks (or the equivalent, such as N95 or KN94) and showing proof of vaccination plus booster shot via a vaccination card, a copy of a vaccination card, or the Excelsior Pass. For more information, call 518580-8080, or visit tang.skidmore. edu or email tang@skidmore.edu.
