The City's Backyard
The City's Backyard with Matt Zako. A Podcast For New York City's Backyard or any city's backyard across the world! Covering Arts, Entertainment, music and the community!
Episodes
On this episode we feature two outstanding New York comics! Matt Vita and Sharon Simon! Of course we joke around and have some laughs while finding out how these two comedians became friends over the years of being in the biz and performing along the comedy circuit! For more on Matt and Sharon check out their websites or follow them on social media to find out where they will be making you laugh next! And get your tickets soon for...
Led Zeppelin shook the world of rock & roll for little more than a decade, but their legacy lives on stronger than ever. Masters of creativity and diversity, their music covers such a wide range of styles and genres that they are difficult to define. Their collective talent remains unmatched and unchallenged.
There will never be another Led Zeppelin.
Their songs are still aired regularly, and their recordings are being bought...
We check in with our friend Steve Cooper, executive director at The Milford Performance Center! It is always fun chatting about upcoming shows including Who's Next and Gold Rush! For tickets and more info log on to the website!
Co-founder of the Yardbirds, Jim McCarty, continues to lead this ground-breaking British Invasion Rock band that provides the crucial link between the Blues, British R&B, Psychedelic Rock, and Heavy Metal, while pioneering the use of innovations like fuzztone, feedback and distortion. This drummer, singer, songwriter, and producer is said to be one of the driving forces responsible for the band's haunting sound.
Grady McAuliffe's debut single "On the Edge" released on March 7th 2025 to worldwide streaming platforms through Pilot Light Records. The single was produced by McAuliffe with Ethan Isaac, Tom Stewart and Joel P. Kelley. It was recorded at Isaac's owned and operated Factory Underground Studio in Norwalk, CT and mastered by John Shyloski, along with many more songs to be released soon. McAuliffe performed at Dayt...
The backyard of New York City has so much to offer especially when it comes to the arts and music in the suburbs! We check in with President and CEO Mike Moran about the history of this beautiful theatre and his longevity with The Palace Theatre in downtown Stamford, CT! Mike is enthusiastic about the music and arts in his community and is working hard to have more options with The Palace Theatre's "Upstage" series o...
Comedian Joe Pontillo checks in to the backyard of NYC to talk about Laughing Gas Comedy at The VFW Post in Westport! We talk about the tri state comedy scene, a little bit about his career and the line up on Friday April 11th at The VFW Post in Westport! Exit 17 off 95....465 Riverside Ave in Westport along the river!
To purchase tickets before it sells out go here > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-night-the-vfw-westpo...
American Nomads is a roots rock band based in Brooklyn and Woodstock, New York. Inspired by artists like Bruce Springsteen and The Band, they dive deep into the heart of American music with blends of Country, Rock, and Blues to cultivate their own unique contemporary style. Receiving national radio play, they reached #6 on the Billboard AC chart, as well as passed the first round of Grammy nominations for their song, A Revelation’s...
Years ago, on the iconic American Bandstand show, TV legend Dick Clark stuck a microphone in young Bruce Sudano’s face and asked, “What is your musical ambition?”
The teen fans who filled the audience didn’t have to wait long for Bruce’s answer: “I want to perform in Madison Square Garden.”
It happens that Sudano, then a member of a trio named Brooklyn Dreams, had already played in that fabled venue a few years earlier, opening wit...
Our friend Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling drops by the backyard of New York City to chat about his comedy shows in the tri-state area! We also catch up with him about his new role on a TV show called "The Better Sister" on Amazon Prime coming out in May 2025 where some of the scenes are shot from his house in Bayville, Long Island! You can also see Jackie live at The Suffolk Theatre in Riverhead, NY Saturday Mar...
SEAN CHAMBERS
recorded his 9th album
“LIVE FROM DARYL’S HOUSE CLUB”
Featuring The Savoy Brown Rhythm Section
on MAY 2ND 2024.
The release is scheduled for
FEBRUARY 28TH, 2025
The album consists mostly of
Chambers’ past material as well as
a few SAVOY BROWN songs.
Florida born Sean Chambers began his career in the Blues back in 1998
when he toured with the legendary Hubert Sumlin...
Andy Aledort is widely known for his transcriptions, instructional columns and DVDs and has also toured throughout the last two decades with Dickey Betts and the Jimi Hendrix Tribute.
Andy’s latest album is In A Dream, featuring five originals and covers of Jimi Hendrix’s “Pali Gap,” Cream’s “Lawdy Mama” and Albert King’s ‘Can’t You See What You’re Doing To Me.” The album has garnered incredible reviews from today’s most respected p...
Saxophonist, singer-songwriter, arranger, and Gulf Coast Records recording artist, Jimmy Carpenter is on a roll! He is coming to play this area! For area dates and venues click on the website:
https://jimmycarpenter.net/tour-dates
Jimmy won the 2021 and 2022 Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist/Horn. And he is now a Grammy-Winning Composer, for a composition he contributed to the New Orleans Nightcrawlers’ winning album, Atmosp...
Singer Songwriter Pop Artist Emeli DonDey drops by from Stockholm, Sweden to check into The City's Backyard to tell us about her musical career and her inspirations to become a singer! She has a new single out called Lifta Blicken! We play it on this episode! Does she sound like ABBA? You decide! We love her Swedish accent and her new song!
Follow Emily on social media!
https://www.facebook.com/a7essi
Our guest is classic rock legendary drummer "Corky" Laing from Mountain! .....was born in Montreal Canada on January 26, 1948 as the youngest of five siblings.... formed a number of local bands with his best friend, George Gardos...
... lived the high life of rock ... was awarded with gold records...worked e.g. as the Vice President of Polygram, Canada (here signing Bootsauce)... was inducted to the Long Island Rock and R...
Lee Rocker made his mark singing, playing, standing on, spinning and rocking his giant upright bass as a founding member of the Grammy nominated music group The Stray Cats. The Stray Cats sold over 10 million albums, garnered 23 gold and platinum certified records, and were music video pioneers of the MTV. The Stray Cats’ worldwide mega hits “Stray Cat Strut”, “Sexy and Seventeen” and “Rock this Town” have become a part of the fab...
On this episode of The City's Backyard Podcast we go out to Seattle, Washington to chat with Steve Fossen Co Founder and Original HEART Bassist about his days in HEART! Today Steve is in a new band called HEART by HEART!
The Story of Heart By Heart
The original rhythm section for Heart - one of classic rock’s most successful and revered bands - is still locked in and delivering those iconic songs as faithfully as pos...
Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band ~ Fleetwood Macked
Fleetwood Macked the Ultimate Tribute to Fleetwood Mac is a New York based Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band. Hailed as the most authentic Fleetwood Mac tribute band in the U.S., much of the realism comes from the bands history. Husband and wife musical team Hillary and Michael (Stevie and Lindsey ) and friends Caroline, Jay, Phil and Andrew (Christine, John and Mick), that have made ...
The Lake Sirens are a community band of 5 women that are having the time of their lives singing together!
Sande Alessi (Casting Director...owner of her own casting company in LA)
Shannon Ggem (award winning interior designer with a career spanning two decades)
Gina Marcione (caterer for the stars and owner of Blue Table wine and cheese bar with deli)
Windy Wagner (Professional Singer, seasoned session vocalist...
On this episode we talk with Executive Director Lou Ursone from Curtain Call about theatre and shows in 2025!
CURTAIN CALL: A THEATRE COMMUNITY
As Stamford’s longest-running and only year ’round, nonprofit producing theatre company, we are proud to offer 10 to 12 (or more) full-scale productions each year in our two venues: The Kweskin Theatre and The Dressing Room Theatre. Professionally managed but primarily a volu...
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