“Perceptive…clever…right up there with The Beatles and Bob Dylan” NEW YORK TIMES
On the occasion of his last regional tour before retiring, join us to celebrate Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner, folk icon and fun topical songwriter, Tom Paxton, who began his illustrious career in the infamous ‘60s Greenwich Village folk scene.
After over five decades performing around the world and writing and recording innumerable songs and recordings, Tom will be retiring after Spring 2025. So - regretfully, this will be Tom’s last regularly scheduled appearance here at The Step. It’s been our honor to bring him to you every two years since the late 1980s on Willett Street in Albany, then at our temporary home at Cohoes Music Hall, and since 2007 as 8th Step at Proctors. We hope for a grand send-off and look forward to the opportunity to hear Tom live one last time on our stage, and say thanks in person!
In recent years Tom has teamed up with the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter duo The Don Juans, aka Don Henry & Jon Vezner, and the trio found truly explosive musical synergy! Paxton found yet another outlet for his creativity: joining his two friends/songwriting colleagues in a writing and performing experience calculated to keep them too busy to get into trouble.
Within days of first writing and playing together, the three knew they were on to something, with:
Tom on guitar/vocals/stories
Don on guitar/vocals/uke/banjo/grins
Jon on piano/vocals/guitar/uke/kitchen sink
We call them brilliant. They’ve performed numerous times together on our stage, bringing their alternatively lush, hilarious, poignant and pointed songs for magical nights that fill our senses. Join us for this grand finale concert, a feast of wonderful songs by one or more of this amazing ensemble; and let’s salute the one and only Tom Paxton - an incomparable artist, personality, friend of The Step - whose music has long provided a sound track, a conscience, and tongue-in-cheek humor to at least three generations here and abroad.
Tickets: $32.50 Advance / $37.50 Day of Show / $55 Gold Circle [Priority Seating + Artist Meet & Greet 6:30 pm onstage] Location: GE Theatre