WNYO concert brings live music back to SUNY Oswego campus
OSWEGO, N.Y. — SUNY Oswego’s student-run radio station, WNYO, hosted a live music concert Saturday night at the Laker Lounge in the Marano Campus Center. Tickets were $5 at the door.
The lineup featured bands from Oswego and Upstate New York, including:
- CPS
- Triple Dog Death Barrage
- See Through Faded
- ANVII
The show was organized by WNYO General Manager Ben Goldblatt and his members on the WNYO e-board. Alternative Director Andrew Valentine said the station wanted to recapture the momentum of last year’s concert and turn it into something more frequent.
“We had a concert last year around March, and we wanted to bring that fun back — but want to do it more than once a semester or once a year,” Valentine said. “My assistant Dash Russ started reaching out to a few bands over about three weeks. We had some venue changes, but we ended up in a really nice spot, and I can’t complain.”
One of the featured acts was ANVII, a band made up of SUNY Oswego alumni who began performing together while attending the university. Lead singer Andrew Valderama and bassist Gabe Ramirez described the group’s early roots.
“He’s been making music for a long time, and I showed off my skill,” Ramirez said. “We’ve been longtime friends making music, and I’m like, look at what we can do.”
The band said their current goal is to continue expanding their sound and experimenting creatively. “For me, I just want to keep putting out music that reflects how I’m feeling in life,” Valderama said. “You can’t just work off what already exists — you’ve got to push the envelope as much as you can.”
Valentine also says that the concert also served as a way to build engagement between students, musicians, and the station and is already planning on future shows. “Just today we got a couple of new band inquiries,” Valentine said. “Our next major event will probably be next semester, but we want to have more shows like this to build engagement, recognition for the studio, and connections with bands we can really work with as a station.”
You can visit and listen live to WNYO at 88.9FM and at https://wnyo889.org/