The hot tickets in music this weekend have only begun when thinking of acts directly connected with the Hudson Hot Air Affair.
What is old becomes new again as Jason Jerry performs at Stone Tap on Saturday night, a gig that was a late announcement, as far as those having a tie-in with the longtime ballooning event.
Jerry’s sets will be acoustic country, rock and folk so people can converse — or listen intensively, since they’ll showcase his newer style that’s heavy on telling stories. Think John Prine and even some songs Jerry has penned himself.
In former days, he was a guitar wiz who helped lead open jams at Dick’s Bar and Grill and other places around the turn of the millennium. He stopped playing for a while, having developed carpal tunnel problems that made it difficult to perform.
But all that is past now, as he’s fine tuned his style while doing things such as sitting around the campfire and has been back in the game for the last year-and-a-half, learning new songs that often are unlike the overplayed standards on the radio. He said that he’s learned from other musicians encountered in days both old and new.
Jerry is slated to play from 8-11 p.m.
There are other acts burning up the stage this weekend:
The Flashbacks play the Village Inn in North Hudson on Saturday, and their flyer bills the music as smoking classic rock and the hottest new country in a show that ”is on fire” at the Village. If more evidence is needed, at the bottom of the flyer are two flaming matchhead creatures.
But where there is hot, there is also cool, as in cool cats. To that end, the TC Cats start playing at 6 p.m. Friday, meaning they’ll on stage when the torchlight parade of the Hot Air Affair passes through the downtown, unless they happen to be on set break. The Cats feature ’50s and ’60s doo wop, as well as not just classic rock, but classic rock ‘n roll.
At the Smilin’ Moose it also will be smokin’ on Friday night, as one of the favorites among the dozen or more bands that regularly play there, Tim Sigler, hits the stage to be their first music offering of the month for the second 31-day-period in a row. You can tell from the occasional cowboy hats seen in the crowd, that he’s country but not TOO country.
It gets even hotter at Woody’s in Bayport on Saturday evening, for the seventh annual Sexy in the City romp from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. that features 11 vendors with Valentine’s Day friendly wares. Then, a deejay spins tunes from 9 p.m. to close.