OntheWilderSide

Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down. Corrections and Comments are welcome. Support Live Music on Long Island.

Gary Schoenberger

For more information about great live music on LI and elsewhere, Please also visit Michael Kornfeld and Glen Roethel’s excellent website www.acousticmusicscene.com

Day Date Time Artist Venue

Fri 7/4 Noon Mary Lamont Band Belmont Race Track
Sat 7/5 7:00 Miller’s Crossing, Chapin Sisters, Dan Stevens, Vance Gilbert Acoustic LI Summer Concert, Deepwells Mansion, St. James
Sat 7/5 8:00 Homegrown String Band Custer Observatory, Southold
Sun 7/6 6:00 Anthony daCosta, Abbie Gardner, Phil Minnisalle Courthouse Concerts (house concert), Merrick
Sun 7/6 9:00 Tom Cavanaugh/Lita Ford – (Rock) Crazy Donkey, Rt 110, Farmingdale
Mon 7/7 8:00 Mary Lamont Band Jones Beach Bandshell
Thu 7/10 8:00 Mary Lamont Band Millhouse Inn, Yaphank
Fri 7/11 8:00 Gathering Time Dix Hills Performing Arts Center
Fri 7/11 7:00 Jay Scott Munchaba Lounge, Levittown
Fri 7/11 4:00 Various Artists Great South Bay Music Festival, Bayshore
Fri 7/11 5:00 Homegrown String Band Great South Bay Music Festival, Bayshore
Sat 7/12 Noon Great South Bay Music Festival, Bayshore
Sun 7/13 Noon Various Artists Great South Bay Music Festival, Bayshore
Sat 7/12 8:00 Open Mic Custer Observatory, Southold
Sat 7/12 8:00 Rorie Kelly Eastenders, Riverhead
Mon 7/14 8:00 Mary Lamont Band Jones Beach Bandshell
Thu 7/17 7:00 Rorie Kelly Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, Riverhead
Fri 7/18 7:00 Mary Lamont Band Brentwood Library, Brentwood
Sat 7/19 8:45 Frank Latorre Riverhead Blues Festival
Sat 7/19 11:00? Frank Latorre Maples, Manorville
Mon 7/21 8:00 Mary Lamont Band Jones Beach Bandshell
Fri 7/25 9:00 The Sun Gets Down Once And For All, Patchogue
Fri 7/25 8:00 Lucky 13-Cathy Kreger, Marci Geller, Susan Devita IMAC, Huntington
Fri 7/25 7:00 Rorie Kelly & More of the Mess Munchaba Lounge, Levittown
Fri 7/25 10:00 Rorie Kelly & More of the Mess Fadeley’s Deli-Pub, Patchogue
Sat 7/26 7:30 Vitamin D (+ other artists) Bartini, Babylon
Sat 7/26 10am-7:30pm Festival – Various Artists Sounds on Sound Festival, Jamesport
Sun 7/27 10am-7:30pm Festival – Various Artists www.soundsonsoundmusicfestival.com
Sun 7/27 7:00 Caroline Doctorow UU Fellowship, Bellport
Sat 8/2 8:00 Christine Lavin & Gathering Time Hecksher Park, Huntington

Venues

FMSH (Folk Music Society of Huntington) First Saturday Concerts and Hard Luck Café. Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Dr., Centerport. For info: 631-425-2925 www.fmshny.org. Most concerts are preceded by a one-hour open mic.

University Café, Stony Brook. Tickets are $20.00 with a student rate of $15.00. Ticket information/reservations may be made by email to SundayStreetWUSB@aol.com or by calling 631-632-1093. Please visit the website at www.universitycafe.org. The University Café (a not-for-profit organization) is located in the Stony Brook Union, near the LaValle Stadium Parking Lot, at Stony Brook University. Press contact: Charlie Backfish at 631-632-1093 or via e mail: CBackfish@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Garden Stage. All shows are at 8:00 p.m. Doors open at 7:15 PM Tickets $15. Garden Stage is a an all- volunteer, non-profit, committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau. Indulge in delicious homemade desserts in the Malette Gallery while enjoying the work of local artists during the intermission. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau. 223 Stewart Avenue. Garden City. 516-248-8855 www.uuccn.org calendar@uuccn.org 1/2 Block North of the Long Island Railroad, Nassau Boulevard Station.

Acoustic LI at Deepwells Mansion (25A) St. James. www.acousticlongisland.com Wednesdays – Open mic at 8 pm followed by performer. Deepwells is on the south side of 25A just west of Moriches Road

Soul Growth. Open Mic. 50 W Montauk Hwy. Lindenhurst 631 957 4692

1 block west of Wellwood Ave on the North side of Montauk Hwy.Between 1st and 2nd ST next to Roma pizza (yummy). 7:15 Open Mic sign in. 8:00-9:30 First Open Mic. 9:45-10:30 Featured Artist 10:45-12:00 Second Open Mic. A $10 donation will be collected at the door. Peace and light. David and Patty

Last Licks Café, 109 Brown’s Road (UU Fellowship), Huntington. Open mike at 8:00 p.m. Concert at 8:30 p.m. Refreshments available. $10 all. 631-427-9547. www.lastlickscafe.org .

Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts Tickets $20.00 71 East Main Street (673) 207-1313 Also, LIVE IN THE LOBBY is a series of concerts for small audiences held in the lobby of the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, on the first Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM. These concerts feature artists from the Long Island area playing a wide variety of mostly original music in an intimate setting. The PTPA bar will be open; there will be chairs set up for sitting, and room around the bar for standing. All ages are welcome but age 21 proof is required for service at the bar. Showtime 7:30 PM – Tickets at the PTPA box office or at the door.

Boulton Center for the Performing Arts 37 W. Main St, Bay Shore 631-969-1101 www.boultoncenter.com

Songbox. Please make advance reservations by sending an email to songbox@optonline.net. You will be sent a confirmation and directions via return email. If you have no email call 516-579-5365 for reservations.

Finch Mountain House Concerts, Babylon Good friends and great music in an old Victorian house
Advanced reservations required Call Jack and Karen Finkenberg – 631-661-1278

Babylon Village Arts Council’s 2nd Thursday Concerts at Astoria Federal Savings Bank180 W. Main Street, Babylon Admission and refreshments are freefor more inormation call 631-669-1810

Fiddlehead’s Crazy fun ’til about Midnight – every time! 62 South Street, Oyster Bay, NY 11771 – Ph: 516.922.2999 www.fiddleheadsnewyork.com (Please call first, before making a long trip. Thanks!)

Eastenders Coffee House – 40 Main Street, Riverhead – Free Admission

Grounds and Sounds Cafe. UU Fellowship. 380 Nicholls Rd (just north of Rt. 347)
Stony Brook www.groundsandsounds.uufsb.org

Custer Observatory 1115 Main Bayview Road (South of Route 25), P.O. Box 1204, Southold, New York 11971;631-765-2626

Millhouse Inn, 284 Mill Rd, Yaphank

Brentwood Libary, Second Avenue, Brentwood

UU Fellowship, Bellport51 Browns Ln, Bellport

Munchaba Lounge, 58 Gardiners Av (behind King Kullen), Levittown

Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, Peconic Av, Riverhead

Once And For All, 8 East Main St, Patchogue

Fadeley’s Deli-Pub 422 West Main Street Patchogue

Bartini, North Carlls Av, Babylon (under west end of Babylon LIRR Station)

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