News & Reviews

Artist spotlights, reviews and interviews from around Central New York.

Mr Monkey talks with Fred at The Pressroom Pub

Thank you to The Pressroom Pub for hosting a great conversation and two original songs from Mr. Monkey’s Scott Sterling and Patti Dillman.

By admin · Mon, May 1

Sydney Irving Award Winning Musician and Songwriter

Sat down with Sydney Irving, She is an amazing musician and songwriter.

By admin · Mon, Feb 6

A Poolside Conversation with Harmonic Dirt

Susan and Mike from Harmonic Dirt have a poolside conversation with Fred from CNY Alive about their start as a band and new projects coming up. They also talk about some of their Dinner reservations…

By admin · Mon, Aug 31

One More Song, Under The Gun’s Final Show

If you were around 25 years ago New Year’s Eve at Western Ranch Tavern, then you saw the start of UTG. Saturday we saw the final show of a quarter century of an in your […]

By admin · Wed, Sep 11

Bill Ali His Story at The Listening Room 443

On Saturday CNY Alive had the pleasure of getting to know one of its local artists a little better, instead of a typical interview we were lucky enough to see Bill Ali tell his story […]

By admin · Wed, Mar 6

Root Shock, It’s Good For Your Soul.

Cold October evening, you know the kind, Syracuse seems to slow down a bit trying to hold off the inevitable cold blast and snow that’s on its way. Maybe even a bit of depression sets […]

By admin · Wed, Oct 24

Oswego Police Department Lipsync challenge

GREAT SCOTT!!! The Oswego City Police Department has answered your call!! Here is our attempt at the law enforcement #LipSyncchallenge. Thank you to all of the men and women of the OPD who…

By admin · Thu, Aug 16

Azure Eyes On Display

Out front of Maxwells is the sound of Alysa Rose’s voice playing acoustic guitar along with Matt McRenalds on guitarist and percussion John Heard. The street is filled with the sound of great music…

By admin · Mon, Jul 30

Tanksley on SoundCheck

Tanksley performance is a nice combo of Funk, Soul, Jazz and modern R&B but why really tag him with a genre. Tanksley has a great smooth clean voice. He is a self-taught guitarist and pianist. […]

By admin · Thu, Jul 26

Roger Daltrey Interview with CNY Alive!

Roger talked about his new Album “As Long As I Have You”, his early inspirations as a musician and his goal to be a good Rock N Roll Singer. He also spoke about what we […]

By admin · Sat, Jul 7

Only 6 More REDLINE Shows? -Updated

Once again redline doesn’t disappoint the crowd. Very quickly the audience moved forward to get best view and pictures of a local favorite Joe “idol”mc Sweeney yells out Billy Idol’s White Wedding…

By admin · Sat, Jun 16

Letter To The Oswego Players

To The Oswego Players: Last Sunday I attended your play, An Act of God. Its director, Paul McKinney, is a friend of mine and for the last few months I’d been hearing about his process […]

By Contributor · Fri, May 4

SPARK The Arts

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By admin · Wed, Apr 4

The Blizzard Is Coming, The Blizzard of Blues to Funk ‘N Waffles

Tommy Z and his band is coming to Syracuse and he is bringing the “Blizzard of Blues”. You might ask, Who is Tommy Z? Tommy Z is an international Blues Artist. He started in high […]

By admin · Mon, Jan 8

Bill Ali Open Mic brings out Frank Malfa

Wednesday Evening at The Blue Spruce in Liverpool, Bill Ali has an open mic night. Bill is a great musician and performer then as a special guest Frank Malfa joined Bill. What a great night […]

By admin · Sun, Nov 5

Celebration!

All these tributes to John Lennon got me thinking. Lately the news has been marred with bad stuff, shootings, local and national, hurricanes, wars, and a political system that seems to be falling…

By admin · Mon, Oct 9