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Steve Hahn - Music for Chapman Stick

September 19th at 6:30pm

Witness award-winning musical artist Steve Hahn perform on the Chapman Stick, a fascinating 10-string tap instrument blending bass, guitar, and percussion into a mind-bending performance. Fusing prog-rock, jazz, and ambient textures, his solo arrangements are a sonic spectacle. Secure your tickets today and experience the range and versatility on this single instrument!

Length: 75 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Araspel

September 19th at 8:00pm

A concert dedicated to Armenian piano music. Araspel is the award-winning third album by pianist and mathematician Laura Farré Rozada, who specializes in contemporary music. The repertoire is a constant dialogue between Armenian composers and authors from other European countries. Featuring works by Komitas, Nenov, Spendiaryan, Chebotarian, Debussy and Babadjanian.

Length: 75 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Uncle Shoehorn's Big Easy

September 19th at 9:30pm

Nine-piece Uncle Shoehorn’s Big Easy conjures the magic of New Orleans’ rich musical tapestry, paying homage to the indelible mark NOLA makes on American culture. Performing hits from: the Meters, Neville Bros, Dr. John, Prof. Longhair, Jon Cleary, Preservation Hall, Dirty Dozen Brass, Galactic, Trombone Shorty, Rebirth Brass, and more! Also: soul/R&B hits, rock & roots blues, Voodoo Dead, and infectious original material!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Uncle Shoehorn's Big Easy

September 19th at 11:00pm

Nine-piece Uncle Shoehorn’s Big Easy conjures the magic of New Orleans’ rich musical tapestry, paying homage to the indelible mark NOLA makes on American culture. Performing hits from: the Meters, Neville Bros, Dr. John, Prof. Longhair, Jon Cleary, Preservation Hall, Dirty Dozen Brass, Galactic, Trombone Shorty, Rebirth Brass, and more! Also: soul/R&B hits, rock & roots blues, Voodoo Dead, and infectious original material!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Anti-Gone

September 20th at 5:00pm

"Anti-Gone" is a daring adaptation of the beloved classic. Audiences take action to determine the outcome of the thrilling drama, utilizing the most popular invention of Ancient Greece—the democratic vote. Is a happy ending for Sophocles' "Antigone" possible? Will we be able to find what has not been found in 2,500 years—a solution? "Anti-Gone" was the most-awarded show of the 2025 NYC Fringe Festival.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Theatre

Dick Tracy - Live Radio Drama Double Feature

September 20th at 6:10pm

Experience Dick Tracy at the WHAM radio studio in 1946, recreated by screen plays with live Foley effects, vintage commercials, and a seven-actor ensemble. Presented as a "broadcast," these adventures feature Tracy navigating mystery, danger, and romance in the jazz-era 1930s. Act One follows The Case of the Big Top Murders at a circus. Act Two tackles The Case of the Diamond Double-Cross, with Tracy searching for a missing diamond amid rising threats. Enjoy nostalgia and unexpected twists.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Theatre

Dick Tracy - Live Radio Drama Double Feature

September 20th at 7:15pm

Experience Dick Tracy at the WHAM radio studio in 1946, recreated by screen plays with live Foley effects, vintage commercials, and a seven-actor ensemble. Presented as a "broadcast," these adventures feature Tracy navigating mystery, danger, and romance in the jazz-era 1930s. Act One follows The Case of the Big Top Murders at a circus. Act Two tackles The Case of the Diamond Double-Cross, with Tracy searching for a missing diamond amid rising threats. Enjoy nostalgia and unexpected twists.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Theatre

Araspel

September 20th at 8:30pm

A concert dedicated to Armenian piano music. Araspel is the award-winning third album by pianist and mathematician Laura Farré Rozada, who specializes in contemporary music. The repertoire is a constant dialogue between Armenian composers and authors from other European countries. Featuring works by Komitas, Nenov, Spendiaryan, Chebotarian, Debussy and Babadjanian.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

The Vierling Duo

September 20th at 9:45pm

Folk rock songwriters from northeastern Pennsylvania, The Vierling Duo emphasize tight vocal harmony and unique acoustic arrangements of your favorite songs, with original material sprinkled throughout. With years of live performance experience between the two, expect a soulful, dynamic concert that will keep you listening and coming back for more.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Uncle Shoehorn's Big Easy

September 20th at 11:00pm

Nine-piece Uncle Shoehorn’s Big Easy conjures the magic of New Orleans’ rich musical tapestry, paying homage to the indelible mark NOLA makes on American culture. Performing hits from: the Meters, Neville Bros, Dr. John, Prof. Longhair, Jon Cleary, Preservation Hall, Dirty Dozen Brass, Galactic, Trombone Shorty, Rebirth Brass, and more! Also: soul/R&B hits, rock & roots blues, Voodoo Dead, and infectious original material!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Araspel

September 21st at 6:00pm

A concert dedicated to Armenian piano music. Araspel is the award-winning third album by pianist and mathematician Laura Farré Rozada, who specializes in contemporary music. The repertoire is a constant dialogue between Armenian composers and authors from other European countries. Featuring works by Komitas, Nenov, Spendiaryan, Chebotarian, Debussy and Babadjanian.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Araspel

September 21st at 7:15pm

A concert dedicated to Armenian piano music. Araspel is the award-winning third album by pianist and mathematician Laura Farré Rozada, who specializes in contemporary music. The repertoire is a constant dialogue between Armenian composers and authors from other European countries. Featuring works by Komitas, Nenov, Spendiaryan, Chebotarian, Debussy and Babadjanian.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Love Songs in Winter

September 21st at 8:30pm

Love Songs in Winter: A love story about the years we lose while we are busy living. Over the years two people who once couldn't live without each other stopped paying attention. Now they sit across from each other at the same table they've always shared. Told through original songs and intimate, unflinching dialogue, Life on the Ground asks the question many of us are afraid to answer: when love becomes invisible, is it still there? Performed by the Front Porch Project and Project 7.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

The Sacred and Profane: Two Sides of 1920s Popular Music

September 22nd at 6:00pm

Step back into the 1920s, a decade split by a stark cultural divide. This talk explores the friction between two distinct sonic worlds: the "sacred," sentimental popular music that reinforced white middle-class domesticity, and the "profane," gritty blues of Black America that voiced the raw, unfiltered realities of urban life. Discover how these competing soundscapes collided, challenged American moral boundaries, and laid the groundwork for a modern musical revolution.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

All The Blues You Can Use: Bill Schmitt and the Bluesmasters

September 22nd at 8:30pm

This ain't your granddad's blues show! Bill Schmitt and the Bluesmasters, one of the region's most in-demand blues bands, brings a slice of its high-energy stage show to the Rochester Fringe Festival! A staple of clubs and festivals, Bill Schmitt and the Bluesmasters has gained a dedicated following for the band's high-level musicianship and interactive, danceable blues shows. Get ready to put on your dancing shoes and have a natural ball with The Bluesmasters!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Spirits

September 23rd at 6:00pm

Spirits is a performance of poems, songs and stories from Jacob Rakovan, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and career bartender. It will explore the intersections of memories, survivor's guilt, ghosts and alcohol. Expect Appalachian murder ballads, Low-fi hillbilly blues, invocations of ghosts, moonshine and whiskey.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Multidisciplinary & Circus

Love Songs in Winter

September 23rd at 7:15pm

Love Songs in Winter: A love story about the years we lose while we are busy living. Over the years two people who once couldn't live without each other stopped paying attention. Now they sit across from each other at the same table they've always shared. Told through original songs and intimate, unflinching dialogue, Life on the Ground asks the question many of us are afraid to answer: when love becomes invisible, is it still there? Performed by the Front Porch Project and Project 7.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Music

Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue presents The Saints

September 23rd at 8:30pm

Written and performed by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams ("equal parts devotion, subversion and wit"—Washington Post), a satirical folk-rock-variety-show based on the fantastical, gruesome, salacious, inspiring stories of Catholic saints, ranging from the famous—St. Francis of Assisi—to the obscure—St. Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. Blends vaudeville and a wide range of musical styles, and hearkens back to story wagons and medicine shows.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Theatre

All Below

September 24th at 5:00pm

“All Below” is a multimedia, two-person theatre performance that exists in a pocket universe between clown, cosmic horror, and 19th century poetry. Also, there are puppets. Drawing inspiration from Carlo Rovelli’s writings on quantum physics and the magical realism of Jorge Luis Borges, the performance maroons two Victorian explorers outside of the flow of linear time as their minds attempt to grapple with their impossible and unknowable discoveries on the phantom island of Saxemberg.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Theatre

All Below

September 24th at 6:15pm

“All Below” is a multimedia, two-person theatre performance that exists in a pocket universe between clown, cosmic horror, and 19th century poetry. Also, there are puppets. Drawing inspiration from Carlo Rovelli’s writings on quantum physics and the magical realism of Jorge Luis Borges, the performance maroons two Victorian explorers outside of the flow of linear time as their minds attempt to grapple with their impossible and unknowable discoveries on the phantom island of Saxemberg.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Biltmore Bar & Lounge
Genre: Theatre

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