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Keith Moon of The Who died at the age of just 32, on September 7, 1978. Moon’s biographer Tony Fletcher marks the 45th anniversary by hosting an interactive presentation about the man he calls “the best, most influential and revolutionary drummer rock music has ever known.” Keith Moon: A Celebration will be happening at the Orpheum Theatre in Saugerties, New York on 9/7 at 7 p.m.

The Bearsville Jazz & Art Festival will be happening this Sunday, September 3rd. Attendees can celebrate Labor Day Weekend in the Park at Bearsville Theater with world-class Jazz plus painting demonstrations by the Woodstock School of Art in the heart of the Catskills. To tell us more we welcome Lizzie Vann, owner of the Bearsville Theatre and historian and writer Tad Wise.

Alvvays are a pop-rock band from Toronto, Ontario in Canada who have been releasing records for nearly a decade. Their most recent album, Blue Rev, turned up near the top of a lot of Best-Of-The-Year lists last year — ours included — and they’ll be playing at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA this Saturday September 2. Will Hermes speaks with Alvvays frontwoman and songwriter, Molly Rankin.

Boston’s own Guster returns to Tanglewood for a performance of their biggest hits. "An Evening with Guster," featuring The Ballroom Thieves, takes place at Ozawa Hall at 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 2. Ryan Miller is a co-founder of Guster playing guitar, piano and bass and he joins us.

The Hudson Valley Meadowlark Festival is set to take place from September 8-10 at Stone Ridge Orchard & Farmers Market in Stone Ridge, New York, featuring some of the most storied names in Americana, indie rock, and experimental music.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker David Remnick has gathered his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time - intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more for his new book, "Holding the Note."

Robbie Robertson, a founding member of The Band, solo artist and prolific film composer, has died at age 80. In 2017, he spoke with WAMC about the frenetic, fruitful early years of his music career.

Berkshire native, producer, digital music maker, and erstwhile stand-up comedian McQueen Adams will be at Studio 9 on the Porches Inn campus in North Adams, Massachusetts this Saturday and Sunday evenings, performing new songs and bits for those in attendance. The shows will be recorded as McQueen’s next album “Touch” and he’ll be joined by a cadre of comedy-and-creep adjacent characters - as embodied by artists and friends who seem very happy to be on his unique artistic journey with him.

On August 11 and 12, the Tanglewood Learning Institute in collaboration with the Terezín Music Foundation, will offer two “Defiant Music” programs presented by Mark Ludwig.

The Minneapolis-and-Brooklyn-bred rock band, The Hold Steady, have been celebrated for their musical storytelling and their post-classic-rock classic rock spirit. Now they’re going to be celebrating 20 years as a band with the inaugural Positive Jam festival, which will take place, lucky for us, in our region, on the weekend of August 5 at Arrowood Farms in Accord, New York. Their frontman Craig Finn made time to speak about all of this with friend of the Roundtable, local music journalist and author, Will Hermes.