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ProgStock Presents Mystery – Caught in the Whirlwind of Time

Posted on December 8, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

Two back-to-back 90-minute shows where we will have members of Mystery LIVE on Zoom as we play this amazing recording from Boerderij Cultuurpodium in The Netherlands.

At only $5 each, you are going to want tickets for both parts!

Over the years, the Canadian progressive rock band has gained the reputation of being a great Live band. Caught in the Whirlwind of Time showcase the power and magic of a MYSTERY concert with over 2hour 45 minutes recorded on the first show of the Live and Butterflies Tour.

Recorded and Filmed on November 17, 2018 at the Boerderij Cultuurpodium, Zoetermeer, Netherlands.

MYSTERY
http://www.therealmystery.com/

MYSTERY is a cutting edge progressive rock band from Montreal Quebec. After 9 albums released, the Canadian group has become one of the most popular and respected Progressive Rock Bands in the world.

With concerts all over the world and having its lead singer chosen to become the lead singer of legendary progressive rock band YES, MYSTERY has created a unique and enchanting world with their sophisticated symphonic rock sound.

Recording albums over the years with guest musicians like Daryl Stuermer (Genesis, Phil Collins), Nick D’Virgillio (Tears for Fears, Spock’s Beard), Richard Lanthier (April Wine) and more, the MYSTERY Live Band always delivers a stunning live show with music that reaches the hearts of fans worldwide.

The band released their eponymous debut EP in 1992 with Raymond and Gary Savoie on lead vocals, followed by their first album “Theatre of the Mind” in 1996 and “Destiny?” in 1998, both with Gary on lead vocals. In 2007 the band released their third album “Beneath the Veil of Winter’s Face” with singer Benoit David who would record two more studio albums with the band, “One Among the Living” in 2010 and “The World is a Game” in 2012. On November 1, 2015 the band released their sixth album “Delusion Rain” with current singer Jean Pageau followed by Lies and Butterflies in 2018

Mystery’s current line-up is Michel St-Père, bassist François Fournier, guitarist Sylvain Moineau, drummer Jean-Sébastien Goyette, singer Jean Pageau and keyboardist Antoine Michaud.

http://www.therealmystery.com/boutique

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Paul Whitehead Painting Auctioned for The Bob Moog Foundation

Posted on December 8, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

Paul Whitehead - "Giants" by Days Between Stations — Paul Whitehead – “Giants” by Days Between Stations

Paul Whitehead created a new painting inspired by his cover art for “Giants” by Days Between Stations while listening to the album in its entirety on a December 5th show extension of Moogvember. Paul joined us on Zoom from his new gallery opening at The Hive in downtown Los Angeles and Sepand and Oscar joined us from their home studios, as well as Durga McBroom who performed some of the vocals on the album.

The painting is available by auction here:
https://bmf.betterworld.org/…/paul-whitehead-giants-by-DBS
All proceeds from the sale of the painting will go to The Bob Moog Foundation!
Thank you, Paul Whitehead!

Auction winner wins the painting. Paul Whitehead retains the copyright to the original artwork and the right to sell the image. Auction winner may not sell copies, prints or photographs of the painting or use the image for any commercial purpose.

Auction winner will also be responsible for the costs of shipping the painting or has the option of picking it up at Paul Whitehead’s gallery in Ventura, CA.

Watch a video preview of the painting event created by videographer Erik Nielsen…

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ProgStock Presents Virtual Series

Posted on August 29, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

ProgStock Festival, the American Northeast’s Only International Progressive Rock Festival, is proud to bring you the ProgStock Presents Virtual Series.

The pandemic has closed music venues and brought in-person live music performances to a screeching halt. We don’t know how long we will have to wait before it will be truly safe to stage a festival, but we will be back! Meanwhile, we will be bringing music right to you with some great shows from artists performing live in their homes or home studios. The series will be presented every Saturday night, 5PM – 10PM US Eastern, starting on August 1, 2020, followed by Gagliarchives Radio Philadelphia on the HOUSE of PROG – Music Page. Some Saturdays we will start one hour early at 4PM to accommodate artists live streaming from Europe.

The individual performances on StageIt are separate shows. Audience members will purchase a ticket to each performance individually, not the whole night as a block. Some shows will be 45 minutes and others will be 90, so we may have as few as 3 shows or as many as 6 on each Saturday night.

StageIt is all about experiencing music in the moment, duplicating the live music experience as closely as possible. You have to be there to see it, just like you would in a venue, so shows are only available on their site during the performance window.

Details for StageIt:
Shows will be presented on StageIt. To participate, you must have a StageIt account. If you don’t yet have an account, here’s what to do:

Go to stageit.com (on a laptop or desktop, the site is not mobile-friendly for opening accounts, purchasing Notes/tickets, but works on mobile for viewing)
Click Sign Up (upper right corner)
Create a username and password
Click “Buy Notes” (10 notes = $1) – The StageIt system sells Notes in minimum intervals of $5 (50 Notes).
After choosing how many Notes you want to purchase, choose your payment type – it’ll be credit card or PayPal (with PayPal, you do not need to have an account, you can use a credit/debit card as a guest).
Go to the direct ticket link for ProgStock Presents and purchase tickets to the shows you want to watch.
You will also be able to tip the artists before, during and after the shows with Notes. Consider loading up your account now, so you can have some fun with tipping while supporting your favorite artists. Tips show up on the screen as colored bars and many artists view them as the alternative to applause!

Pricing: Most 45-minute shows will have a minimum ticket price of $4.00 (40 Notes) and 90-minutes shows will have a minimum ticket price of $8.00 (80 Notes), with prices in US Dollars. You can pay more, if you have the means, and you will also be able to tip during the show with your StageIt Notes. We encourage you to support the artists at this difficult time.

We want to thank Ed Unitsky Official for our beautiful artwork, Austin Kokel for providing us with awesome radio spots and Marty Dorfman and Rob Rutz of The Waiting Room with The Prog Doctor on The House of Prog, Rick Henry, Mary Pat Henry, Steve Swayne of House of Prog Radio, Phil Merkel of Captain Phil’s Planet on WUSB, Tom Gagliardi of Gagliarchives Radio Philadelphia, Mark Monforti of Progrock.com, Alan Baillargeon of NewEARS Prog Show, Alex Cruzeta of Deep Nuggets Radio, Rick Dashiell of Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio, Peter Jones and Cliff Pearson of Progzilla Radio, Nick Katona and Melodic Revolution Records and Melodic Revolution Radio and the fabulous Anne Leighton for your continued support and promotion of ProgStock Festival! THANK YOU!

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Announcing Moogvember

Posted on November 1, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

ProgStock Festival and The Bob Moog Foundation are proudly joining forces to bring you Moogvember, featuring an incredibly talented array of artists appearing live every Saturday evening this November as part of the ProgStock Presents Virtual Series.

Click here to purchase tickets for the shows.

During Moogvember, a portion of the proceeds from each show will be donated to The Bob Moog Foundation to benefit their educational and archive preservation efforts, including the new Moogseum, which was closed for five months due to the pandemic.

Moogvember begins on Saturday, November 7, with Adam Holzman, an alumnus of the Miles Davis band who currently plays with Steven Wilson, a career-spanning retrospective featuring Larry Fast of Synergy, Nektar, Peter Gabriel, and Tony Levin Band fame, led by Erik Norlander of Rocket Scientists and Tom Palmieri of ProgStock and featuring some fantastic special guests, and Paul Whitehead, the Official Fine Artist of ProgStock, whose works adorn many progressive-rock album covers, painting a new work of art during a playback of Giants, the latest album featuring his cover art by Days Between Stations.

Saturday, November 14 brings the raw, uncoiled, progressive-rock power of The Ryo Okumoto Project, led by Spock’s Beard keyboardist Ryo Okumoto and featuring the all-star lineup of Matt Dorsey, Jonathan Mover, Erik Madsen, and Keiko Okumoto. Also that evening, you can see Rachel Flowers, the phenomenal multi-instrumentalist and composer, and ProgStock audience favorite, appearing for the first of two unique performances this month, Chris Clark of Brand X, another alumnus of ProgStock, and recently a touring member of the Virgil Donati Band, André Cholmondeley of the Frank Zappa tribute band Project/Object, and tour manager and guitar tech to the stars, and Robert Schindler, the “patron saint” of ProgStock and the musical genius known as Robeone.

Saturday, November 21 is framed by two unique performances by Jordan Rudess, best known as the keyboardist of the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated band, Dream Theater. And appearing between those two performances, we have Herd of Instinct, a hybrid progressive-rock/post-rock band that blends complex melodic moments and atmospheric soundscapes and Klauss, an Argentinian band that uses many types of synthesis to create dreamlike environments and symphonic textures in a space open to experimentation and improvisation.

Moogvember concludes on Saturday, November 28 with two unique performances by Tom Brislin, renowned solo artist, leader of the band Spiraling, member of The Sea Within, and past touring keyboardist for Yes, Renaissance, and Camel who is now the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the legendary Kansas and co-writer of their recent release The Absence of Presence. Appearing between those two performances, we have Rachel Flowers returning for a second, unique performance, and Ad Astra, an instrumental progressive-rock, fusion band with a clear focus on melody and arrangement, over a bed of complex rhythm and harmony.

Learn more about Moogvember on The Bob Moog Foundation website!

Moogvember is going to be amazing! See you in the chat rooms!

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Announcing Virtual ProgStock 2020!

Posted on September 12, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

ProgStock Festival, the American Northeast’s Only International Progressive Rock Festival proudly presents Virtual ProgStock 2020!

Virtual ProgStock 2020 will be streamed LIVE on Saturday, October 10 from the Hamilton Stage Theater of the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) in Rahway, NJ, and on Sunday, October 11 from the Temple Stage at Tellus360 in Lancaster, PA.

With the pandemic in mind, and the rules and regulations in place, these shows will not have an in-person audience, so this is the ONLY way you can see them! We will be taking every precaution to protect the health and safety of our bands and crew.

The Virtual ProgStock 2020 shows will all be full-band, full-production shows with theater sound and lighting! It will be just like you are actually here, but everyone gets a front-row seat!

Show times (all times are in US Eastern):
Saturday, October 10:
1:00PM: Total Mass Retain YES Tribute Band
4:30PM: Mile Marker Zero
8:00PM: Gnarbot

Sunday, October 11:
1:00PM: Solar Federation – A Rush Tribute
4:30PM: Cell15
8:00PM: Crack The Sky

Tickets are $10 per show for this event, which means you can watch the entire event for $60. The individual performances on StageIt are separate shows. Audience members will purchase a ticket to each performance individually, not the whole night as a block.

Since our live-streamed events will only provide a virtual audience for our venues, we are also holding a fundraiser to help support UCPAC and Tellus360 through this crisis.
The funds raised here will help offset the costs of operating the venues for our livestream events and will be matched with in-kind support for the events by our friends at these venues.
https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/progstock-festival

Donate $100 and get one ticket to the show of your choice on October 10 or 11 (a $10 value).
Donate $250 and get tickets to three shows (an entire day or any three shows you choose, a $30 value).
Donate $400 and get tickets to all six shows (the entire weekend, a $60 value) and our eternal and unconditional love (priceless).

Donations are being processed by Fractured Atlas on behalf of ProgStock Festival. ProgStock is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of ProgStock must be made payable to Fractured Atlas only. The value of each ticket received is $10. Any contribution above that amount is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Please help us support our home venue, UCPAC, and our new partner venue, Tellus360, so they can survive this crisis and return to staging live events when such things are allowed again!

Pricing: Virtual ProgStock 2020 shows will have a minimum ticket price of $10.00 (100 Notes), with prices in US Dollars. You can pay more, if you have the means, and you will also be able to tip during the show with your StageIt Notes. Tips show up on the screen as colored bars and many artists view them as the alternative to applause! We encourage you to support the artists and venues at this difficult time.

StageIt is all about experiencing music in the moment, duplicating the live music experience as closely as possible. You have to be there to see it, just like you would in a venue, so shows are only available on their site during the performance window.

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ProgStock Partnership with RISE Brewing Company

Posted on July 11, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

ProgStock has a new partnership with RISE Nitro Brewing! This allows you to get a 20% discount and free shipping when you order their delicious nitro cold brew coffee and enter the discount code: ProgStock20.

Once ProgStock returns to the stage, RISE will be visiting with samples for our audience, our musicians and our volunteers. For now, you can try it at home and take advantage of the group discount and free shipping.

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ProgStock Presents Virtual Series

Posted on July 9, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

ProgStock Festival, the American Northeast’s Only International Progressive Rock Festival, is proud to bring you the ProgStock Presents Virtual Series.

Shows will be presented on StageIt. To participate, you must have a StageIt account. If you don’t yet have an account, here’s what to do:

Go to stageit.com (on your laptop or desktop, the site is not mobile-friendly for accounting, but works on mobile for viewing)
Click Sign Up (upper right corner)
Create a username and password
Click “Buy Notes” (10 notes = $1) – The StageIt system sells Notes in minimum intervals of $5 (50 Notes).
After choosing how many Notes you want to purchase, choose your payment type – it’ll be credit card or PayPal (with PayPal, you do not need to have an account, you can use a credit/debit card as a guest).
Go to the direct ticket link for ProgStock Presents and purchase tickets to the shows you want to watch. Please note the shows are NOT on the StageIt website, yet, but it is a good idea to get your account set up and ready to go! Feel free to contact us, if you have any issues.
You will also be able to tip the artists before, during and after the shows with Notes, so consider loading up your account in advance, so you can have some fun with tipping while supporting your favorite artists.

Direct Ticket Link for ProgStock Presents (when the shows become available): https://www.stageit.com/ProgStock

As always, our sincere thanks go out to Ed Unitsky for designing the logo and artwork for ProgStock! You can learn more about Ed, and hire him to make beautiful art for your project by visiting his Facebook page and sending him a message.

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Official ProgStock 2020 Update Newsletter

Posted on July 9, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

Official ProgStock 2020 Update Newsletter
https://bit.ly/PSNews070920

A message from Tom Palmieri, Ann Rinaldi, and the ProgStock volunteer staff…

Hello ProgStockers!

First and foremost, we at ProgStock hope that all of you, your families, and your friends and loved ones are safe, healthy, and finding the strength and good fortune to persevere during these challenging and unprecedented times. Everyone, everywhere on Earth is suffering from the devastating impacts of this pandemic…yet we remain hopeful that, eventually, we will all be able to return to a more “familiar” way of life, including having the freedom to gather together safely with amazing musicians and fellow fans to enjoy live-music events without fear or danger.

There is no way to sugarcoat this…2020 has been disastrous for everyone and has foiled all efforts to successfully plan and produce live events everywhere. We are all watching and waiting as our collective situation unfolds, and this uncertainty makes producing any live event nearly impossible. Now that we are three months away from our intended festival weekend, we at ProgStock have been forced to accept the reality that, regardless of what the law may permit, we will not be able to produce our usual high-quality, live-music festival experience this October.

With so many events cancelled or (optimistically) postponed this year, we know that this is yet more depressing news. We are devastated by this outcome, and we humbly apologize. The COVID-19 pandemic may have won this round…but we are determined to return to the stage, with a vengeance, in October 2021! Meanwhile, we feel a solemn duty to continue, unabated, to shine light on one of the most exciting and creative genres of rock music, Progressive Rock. That is the vital mission of ProgStock, and as the saying goes…where there’s a will, there’s a way!

To that end, we are tremendously proud to announce the ProgStock Presents Virtual Series, bringing live-streamed musical performances directly to you from a treasure trove of incredibly talented artists performing from their homes, home studios, or wherever they can safely assemble. We are also working on adding some special events to this series, such as live interviews, exhibitor presentations, and a few other surprises we’d love to bring you. ProgStock Presents will stream every Saturday evening starting August 1, 2020 from 5:00pm to 11:00pm US Eastern time.

Some of the phenomenal artists on our schedule for August include: Rachel Flowers, Julie Slick (Echotest), Jean Pageau (Mystery), Frogbelly & Symphony, Bob Richardson (Cell15), Jane Getter & Adam Holzman, Mile Marker Zero, Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella, Potter’s Daughter, Joe Deninzon (Stratospheerius), Harry Waters & Larry McNally (McNally Waters), and Mark Trueack & Sean Timms (Unitopia). Please consider joining us on Saturday evenings to support both ProgStock and our performing artists as often as you can. Stay tuned for more details and announcements!

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Last Night of Shows on UCPAC Virtual Stage

Posted on April 20, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

Tuesday, April 21 is the last night of shows on the UCPAC Virtual Stage for the UnCancelled Music Festival. Join us for sets by:
Dave Bainbridge (IONA, Celestial Fire, Lifesigns, The Strawbs) doing back-to-back sets at 5PM & 6PM US Eastern
Ted Wulfers at 7PM Eastern
Kiki Ebsen at 8PM Eastern
Sky Nicholas with Dan Rothchild at 9PM Eastern
Unitopia (Mark Truey Trueack and Sean Timms) are reuniting on our stage at 10PM Eastern and coming to us live from Adelaide, Australia!

Tickets available at StageIt.com/UMF-UCPAC

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UCPAC Is Hosting a Virtual Stage for UnCancelled Music Festival

Posted on April 3, 2020 by ProgStock Festival

Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC.org) will be participating in the UnCancelled Music Festival. This is the venue in Rahway, New Jersey, that brings you the ProgStock Festival every October.

Now UCPAC is bringing music right into your home, during this crazy time of isolation, by way of the UnCancelled Music Festival. UCPAC is hosting a virtual stage for the festival and bringing you some great shows from artists performing live in their homes or home studios. Ann Rinaldi (ACR Management) from ProgStock Festival is curating the talent for the stage.

Ticket Link: https://www.stageit.com/UMF-UCPAC

The artists and venues will receive a portion of the proceeds to help keep them going during this unprecedented crisis. And a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Recording Academy’s emergency financial assistance program, MusiCares – which provides critical funds to music people struggling with financial, medical or personal crises. Any affected music professional who has lost work during this crisis can apply to receive emergency funding. It is important to all of us during this challenging time that no musician or music venue goes bankrupt.

The first night of shows on the UCPAC virtual stage is this Saturday, April 4 starting at 5PM Eastern US time, which will be topped off at 8PM Eastern US time by Harry Waters, son of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/650268175538242/

Steve Hackett of Genesis has sent a video promotion. View it on the ACR Management Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/acrmanagement/posts/1358295437707079

UCPAC Virtual Stage for UnCancelled Music Festival