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UpNorth Concert HallThe UpNorth Concert Hall specializes in recordings of live performance in regional venues. Listen to guest artists or submit your own digital audio from your garage band, string ensemble, church choir or poetry slam. Latest Performances
Performed by Dave Ruch at the NCPR Studio for UpNorth Music. This song is included on his new CD The Oldest was Born First.
Performed by Dave Ruch at the NCPR studio for UpNorth Music. This song is included on his new CD The Oldest was Born First.
Performed by Dave Ruch at the NCPR studio for UpNorth Music. This song is included on his new CD The Oldest was Born First.
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This outdoor concert at Asgaard Farm features four performers from the UpNorth Music project: bluegrass with Althea Jean, Caribbean drums with Dan Hammond, blues with Mark Tostrup, and ska and jazz with Shu. We select highlights from their live performances.
UpNorth Music Concert: In The Neighborhood Singer-Songwriter Festival at Norwood Village Green
06/16/08
The annual singer-songwriter festival at the Norwood Village Green Concert Series featured three performers from the UpNorth Music project: folk songs by Celia Evans of Paul Smiths NY, eclectic acoustic tunes by father-son duo John & Orion Kribs from Corinth NY, and folk and blues by father-daughter duo Jim & Gwen Tracy from Old Forge. We select highlights from their original compositions in live performance.
The Church of the Assumption in Redford, NY, hosts the Hill and Hollow Music series. One of this season's finest performances was by The Biava Quartet. In this live concert excerpt recorded April 27, 2008, we hear them perform the Viola Quintet in G, K. 516, "A Garden of Music," with soloist Soovin Kim, viola.
Upnorth Music opened its concert series with a program in the Gulick Theater at St. Lawrence University in Canton NY. Featured performers participated in NCPR's year-long studio outreach project. They were Adrenaline Hayride, a bluegrass band from Saratoga Springs, The Jonathan Lorentz Quartet, a jazz ensemble from Queensbury, singer/songwriter Meredith Luce from Ottawa, and the celtic family band The Fraser Clan from Harrisville.
Performed by Mark Mason in Saratoga Springs, NY for UpNorth Music.
Performed by Mark Mason in Saratoga Springs, NY for UpNorth Music.
Performed by City Limits in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Performed by City Limits in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
City Limits
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This classic country act is the house band for the Riding Hy Ranch in Warrensburg, performing two or three times each week year-round. Like a lot of bands we met in out travels, these guys play together not just for the love of music, but for the strong friendships that they have with each other.
Performed by Flakjacket in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Performed by Flakjacket in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Flakjacket
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Don’t be mislead by the name: this is NOT a heavy metal band. Friends Alex Hyatt and Liam Irwin are the songwriting heart of this band that describes its sound as alternative acoustic pop/rock. Sound engineer Joel Hurd was pretty interested in the classic Fender Rhodes keyboard they brought to their session.
Performed by Shu in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Performed by Shu in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Shu, in a television appearance in Glens Falls
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Ska, a rhythmically up-tempo precursor to reggae, is a strong musical influence on this band’s sound. Like most of the bands we’ve recorded, though, their songs reflect other musical interests. Shu toured the Northeast extensively in the 1990s, mostly performing for university crowds.
Performed by Daniel Monroe in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Performed by Daniel Monroe in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
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In ConcertNovember 21, 2008 | NPR· Strauss's lurid yet sumptuous one-act opera tells the story of Elektra and her decidedly dysfuntional family — her murdered father Agamemnon, her frantic sister Chrysothemis and their homicidal mother, Klytaemnestra. The production is from the Washington National Opera.
November 21, 2008 | NPR· Singer-songwriter Karla Adolphe and percussionist Caleb Friesen make up the Manitoba-based duo Jacob & Lily. On their recent Mountain Stage appearance, the two show off Adolphe's powerful, passionate voice and steady guitar strumming, along with Friesen's meticulous and driving rhythmic work.
November 20, 2008 | NPR· Based out of his tiny, rustic hometown of Slaughters, Ky., songwriter and guitarist Chris Knight writes backwoods poetry with introspection he's clearly gained by living the words he writes. On this Mountain Stage appearance, Knight performs songs from his latest album, Heart of Stone, as well as the title cut from his previous record, Enough Rope.
November 20, 2008 | NPR· Appleton, Wis., provides a lot of material for Cory Chisel: It's the childhood home of Harry Houdini, and it's surrounded by small towns, bigger lakes, paper mills and vast stretches of rural landscape. The singer-songwriter plays music inspired by the seemingly normal town, and talks about a music scene that takes a lot of pride in itself.
November 19, 2008 | NPR· Poetic young pianist Roberto Plano uncovers the layers of bittersweet emotion in a set of Impromptus written by Franz Schubert near the end of his short life. Plano performs for a live studio audience at WGBH in Boston.