Seneca Lake · Live Music
A curated calendar of live music at the wineries, breweries, and rooms we actually send guests to. Updated weekly.
26 upcoming shows · Updated Mondays
When
Venue
Genre
Featured
SUN
3
MAY
12 PM – 5 PM
festival
Free entry
An afternoon-long celebration of local dairy farms, creameries, and craft vendors with rotating live music on the brewery's lake-facing patio. Cheese, beer, the lake — sit and stay.
FRI
8
MAY
7 PM – 10 PM
folk
Free
Hazlitt's Friday-night house band — a rotating three-piece that leans into Finger Lakes folk and quiet harmonies. Free pour with the show.
SAT
16
MAY
6 PM – 9 PM
country
Free
Classic-country covers and a few originals on Wagner's deck — the first craft brewery on Seneca, still one of the best rooms.
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WEEK OF APR 27 – MAY 3
SUN
3
MAY
12 PM – 5 PM
festival
Free entry
An afternoon-long celebration of local dairy farms, creameries, and craft vendors with rotating live music on the brewery's lake-facing patio. Cheese, beer, the lake — sit and stay.
WEEK OF MAY 4 – MAY 10
THU
7
MAY
6 PM – 8 PM
jazz
Free with dinner
Recurring Thursday Pasta Night — house-made pasta, Finger Lakes wine specials, and Dave Richman on solo classical and jazz guitar. Dinner from 5; music 6–8.
FRI
8
MAY
7 PM – 10 PM
folk
Free
Hazlitt's Friday-night house band — a rotating three-piece that leans into Finger Lakes folk and quiet harmonies. Free pour with the show.
SAT
9
MAY
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
bluegrass
Free
A five-piece Ithaca outfit that plays the kind of bluegrass that sounds better on a brewery porch than in a theater.
SAT
9
MAY
8 PM – 11 PM
rock
Free
Horseheads four-piece, Route 414's Saturday-night regulars. Smoked brisket pairs well.
SUN
10
MAY
4 PM – 7 PM
acoustic
Free
Sunday afternoon acoustic on the lakefront porch — sunset pours and the best view of any brewery on the trail.
SUN
10
MAY
10 AM – 2 PM
jazz
Brunch menu pricing
Mother's Day Jazz Brunch — the Maplewood Jazz Team plays standards through midday while the kitchen serves a special menu. Reservations recommended.
WEEK OF MAY 11 – MAY 17
THU
14
MAY
6 PM – 8 PM
jazz
Free with dinner
Thursday Pasta Night, Dave Richman on solo guitar. The reliable mid-week stop on the wine trail — show up hungry.
FRI
15
MAY
7 PM – 10 PM
singer-songwriter
Free
A local songwriter duo writing about the lakes, the drive in, and everything in between. Quiet room, dog-friendly porch.
SAT
16
MAY
6 PM – 9 PM
country
Free
Classic-country covers and a few originals on Wagner's deck — the first craft brewery on Seneca, still one of the best rooms.
SAT
16
MAY
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
jazz
$10
Standards and soft bossa on the south-end terrace. The sunset table is the one worth reserving.
SUN
17
MAY
3 PM – 6 PM
indie-folk
Free
Sunday afternoon on the Dundee-side barn floor — hazy IPAs and a three-piece that writes about the drive down 14.
WEEK OF MAY 18 – MAY 24
THU
21
MAY
6 PM – 8 PM
jazz
Free with dinner
Thursday Pasta Night with Dave Richman — solo classical and jazz guitar through dinner service.
FRI
22
MAY
7 PM – 10 PM
rock
Free
Hector-based power trio that cut their teeth at Watkins Glen International race weekends.
SAT
23
MAY
7 PM – 10 PM
Americana
Free
Three-part harmony, mandolin, upright bass — a Sunday-dress kind of sound on the Saturday deck.
SAT
23
MAY
8 PM – 11 PM
bluegrass
Free
Five-piece Trumansburg string band — the room usually ends up dancing by the second set.
SAT
23
MAY
8 PM – 11 PM
country
$5
Elmira's craft anchor — outlaw country and a crowd that knows every word. The beer-serious detour guests make once.
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Live music on Seneca Lake isn't a scheduled event industry — it's the background to a weekend. A three-piece on the Hazlitt deck at six. Bluegrass at Grist Iron once the sun is low enough to sit on the porch. A songwriter at Lucky Hare while the dogs sleep under the picnic tables. It's the kind of music you stumble into, not the kind you plan a flight around.
The season runs May through October, with the peak between Memorial Day and the last weekend of September. Wineries and tasting rooms tend to book acoustic acts for Friday and Saturday afternoons. Breweries lean later — seven or eight — and louder. Watkins Glen venues like Seneca Harbor Station pick up the fine-dining end of the calendar, jazz quartets and standards on the terrace as the sun drops behind the west shore.
A show at a Hector brewery beats a city venue because the room is smaller, the beer is better, and the view usually wins. We keep this calendar short and opinionated on purpose — everything on it is a place we'd send a guest to on a Friday night. Updated every Monday.
Beyond our list
Our calendar is curated — only what we'd send a guest to. For the broader running directory of every brewery, restaurant, market, and live-music night across the southeast Seneca region,Southeast Senecais the most thorough resource we've found.