Visiting Indianapolis and New York, any advice?

[Craig]

So next month we're travelling from the UK to visit my wife's cousin who lives near Indianapolis before heading up to New York City for a few days.

Now we have different views on culture, she likes galleries and museums and I like all things music so where can you recommend we visit, music related, to even things up a bit?

Would a road trip to Chicago be viable? (we've hired a car for the duration in Indianapolis)

Oh yes, the Indy 500 is already sorted 

Thanks
Craig

[Jersey tuning]

NYC: catch a show at the Beacon Theater, my favorite NYC venue, or at any of the bazzillion concert places.  Rockwood Music Hall has something going on every night.  Venerable Jazz places: the Iridium, Blue Note, B.B. Kings, Birdland, etc etc.    Great guitar shops : Matt Umanov's in Greenwich Village -- Rudy's Music -- 2 locations.     The Lincoln Center venues for opera, symphony, and ballet.  And don't forget the Metropolitan Museum has a great collection of musical instruments

[mgap]

One thing Jersey left out would be the J. Peterman tour.  it is a must.  Ha

[Craig]

Thanks for that mgap, I had to google it but we'll put it on the to do list :-)

Jersey, the Beacon theatre looks cool but there's nothing on while we're there (3rd - 8th June)  but we're just too early for Jackson Browne which would have been very cool.

I watched a program about Mark Knopfler and his guitars and he went to a very old looking store in NYC, could that have been Rudys?

Craig

[Jersey tuning]

Maybe Rudy's, but also could have been Matt Umanov, which is in an old part of town and has been in business for over 50 years. 

here's a link to some of what's going on from June 4-8

http://events.wfuv.org/events/2016/06/04   Judy Collins, Bela Fleck, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jorma Kaukkonen, etc
http://events.wfuv.org/events/2016/06/05    Ringo Starr, etc
http://events.wfuv.org/events/2016/06/06
http://events.wfuv.org/events/2016/06/07   Beyonce, Dave Matthews, Dr. John etc
http://events.wfuv.org/events/2016/06/08    Beyonce, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, etc

[Craig]

Thanks for the links Jersey, I have some pages set up on Songkick but your site looks more comprehensive.

There's not much response about Indianapolis though, maybe it's true what they say ;-)

Craig

[Craig]

I found the Mark Knopfler program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27OT_FSWrIE
At 27 minutes in he goes to "the most beautiful guitar shop in the world" Rudy's and it's not far from our hotel!

Craig