24-25 Passport Series at Proctors Collaborative
The Passport Series brings Music Haven to Proctors Collaborative, “traveling the world one concert at a time.”
For 30 years, the Music Haven Concert Series has presented an amazing array of global sounds in Schenectady’s Central Park transporting summer seekers to locales like Yemen, Ukraine, Louisiana, Ireland and Peru without ever having to leave their seats.
Get ready to travel around the world – one concert at a time!
The Passport Series takes the same beloved world music that patrons of the park series have come to cherish and brings it to Proctors in Schenectady and Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga so the party can continue all year.
Listen, dance, groove!
Get all 5 shows for the price of 3 with the Passport Series Pass! See below for details.
24-25 Passport Series Pass
Get a ticket to all 5 shows in the 2024-2025 Passport Series, for the price of 3! With the passport series pass, you get to travel the world through something all cultures have in common – music.
To purchase a passport series pass, call (518) 346-6204 or click here to purchase online and we will call you to book your favorite seats to all 5 shows!
Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, 2025
Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs
Lousiana, USA/Zydeco
2023 Grammy nominee Nathan Williams is a zydeco legend with over three and a half decades under his hat as Southwest Louisiana’s most beloved Creole music pioneer.
Plena Libre
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025
GE Theatre at Proctors, Schenectady
Puerto Rico/Latin
With multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, and over 30 years of recording and touring history, Plena Libre is widely considered to be Puerto Rico’s most important plena, bomba, and salsa ensemble and is a Latin dance party that can’t be beat.
Moonlight Benjamin
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025
Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs
Haiti
As a longtime favorite of Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) and Iggy Pop, the Haitian vodou priestess Moonlight Benjamin explores the roots of blues and rock in this new opus.
Damir Imamovic
7:30 p.m. Friday, Apr. 11, 2025
GE Theatre at Proctors, Schenectady
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Growing up in a family of sevdah bards, Damir was immersed in the world of Balkan traditional music at a very young age. He started tracing his path in sevdah in the early 2000s.
Vieux Farka Toure
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 26, 2025
Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs
Mali
Often referred to as “The Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré was born in Niafunké, Mali in 1981. He is the son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka Touré.