There’s Santa Claus – who brings joy to children all across the world one night a year, and then there’s another jolly man, who brings to music and joy to the Capital Region over the course of many evenings of the year.
Through concerts and shows that have created and sustained a live music scene for decades, Greg Bell has left his mark on Albany, Troy, Schenectady and Saratoga Springs, among other locales in Upstate New York.
Now, with a moe. show on December 27 at the Palace Theatre, he’ll close out* a career that has spanned 33 years and brought an incredible amount of music to the region.
NYS Music recently spoke with the artists that benefitted most from his early years promoting at Bogies and Valentine’s, ahead of his December 20 Halliday Ball, but naturally, we needed to have another conversation with Greg, having first spoken to him in 2012, and later in 2017. Heck, there was even a documentary – Grapplin’ Greg – produced by Mirth Films‘ Frankie Cavone and released in 2022…