Quality events for this weekend
Friday January 27
Savage Love Live at EMPAC: Dan Savage’s podcast, live.
Troy Night Out: Art, music, food, and drinks around Troy.
Fabolous and Jadakiss at Proctors: With Young M.A., Dave East, Phresher.
Opening Reception for “Captured Moments” Photography Exhibition at Albany Institute: Art opening.
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company at Massry Center: Modern dance.
Tesseract at EMPAC: “The new two-part work, Tesseract, by artist Charles Atlas and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, will be presented for the first time following several years of development at EMPAC.”
Hill Haints, Yoma, Grimer, and 1TBA at Pauly’s: Punk/rock/no wave/psych.
90s Night at Fuze: All the hits.
Joan Shelley at The Linda: Appalachain folk music.
Sunhee’s Korean New Year’s Celebration: Celebrating the New Year (and Troy Night Out).
Incontinence, Methedras, Goblet, The Imperialist, Head Of Hydrus at Trickshots: Metal show.
Heroes of Toolik, Mimi Goese + Ben Neill at BSP: “A collection of long time NYC avant gardists, two proto-punk gods, and an old time fiddler”.
Daniel Bachman and Alexander Turnquist at Spotty Dog: Fingerstyle guitar.
Graham Tichy Band at The Ruck: Dance the wings off.
Saturday January 28
Yoga at The Pride Center: Sliding scale, all welcome.
Comic Jam at Troy Public Library: “improvisational cartooning project where you collaborate to create wild/weird/unique illustrated stories based on story primers”.
Lore and Legends at Old English: With the hosts of WAMC’s Listen with the Lights On podcast.
Lychi, Stoker, Blood of Spain at 51 3rd St: Rock and roll.
Tesseract at EMPAC: “The new two-part work, Tesseract, by artist Charles Atlas and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, will be presented for the first time following several years of development at EMPAC.”
Seth Herzog at Proctors: Part of the Pretty Much The Best Comedy Show series.
Body Shine at Fuze Box: Dance party.
POLLYHeat at 38 3rd St: Reggae/bachata/afropop dance party.
Sunday January 29
Billy Webb Yager Memorial Show at Fuze Box: With Wisdom in Chains, Sentries, 1 Through 10, and Widowed.
The Albany Record Riot at Ramada Plaza: Go crate diggin’.
All weekend
Art Omi: The sculpture fields are awesome.
Day trip to MASS MoCA: Pretty drive and a great museum.
The NYS Museum: Bunch of great exhibits and it’s right in your backyard.
Second-run movies at the Madison Theater: Only five bucks!
Movies at The Spectrum: First run, independent movies at a small centrally located theater.
Farmer’s Markets: Troy, Delmar, and Saratoga on Saturday, and Schenectady and Saratoga on Sunday.
