Syracuse musicians have a new, local venue to make tunes and connections with one another. The Creekwalk near Café Kubal on West Water Street is now home to Overpass Fest, a weekly music gathering where Syracuse residents and visitors can now stop by for a taste of local music. Overpass Fest was created by Syracuse resident Michael Heagerty. He assisted with the cultural development of the Connective Corridor. Heagerty enlisted the help of local musicians to launch Overpass F

A new traveling Syracuse-centric concert series, Sounds of Summer, kicked off Friday evening at Schiller Park in Syracuse's Northside. This was the first show in a new series of five Friday night concerts that will appear in Syracuse parks throughout city’s north, south, east and west quadrants. The Syracuse Parks Department started the free concert program this year. Led by local trumpeter Jeff Stockham, The Stock Market Swing Orchestra was first in the Sounds of Summer line

Music isn’t what it used to be. Men aren’t asking Barbra Ann to hold their hands and quartets of women no longer beg the postman to deliver letters from their boyfriends so far away. Instead, music has permeated into comedy and the “musician/comedian” performers are taking the stage. These artists, like Matt Griffo, have created new songs with lyrics along the lines of “sit on my face and tell me you love me” and “let’s all drink our bottled water and put the Earth aslaughter