Music On Long Island - Venues: P

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park -- which includes the Coe Hall Historic House Museum -- is located at 1395 Planting Fields Road in Oyster Bay, New York. Amongst its 400+ acres is a concert venue which often featured headliners of note. Coe Hall is reportedly the Tudor Revival residence of the Coe family and open for guided tours each year from April to September. Video of the overall site can be seen here and here.

Among the notable artists who have performed at this venue at Wynonna Judd, Phoebe Snow, Boz Scaggs, Emmylou Harris, The Indigo Girls, They Might Be Giants (whose bassist Danny Weinkauf is a Long Island resident), Aimee Mann, Los Lobos, Peter Frampton, Hootie & The Blowfish, Little Feat, Donovan, Natalie Cole, Art Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Dave Brubeck, Don McLean, and Arlo Guthrie.

View from the concert stage:

Ticket stub from the venue:

New York Times article about a festival at the venue:

Sources:

https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/plantingfields/details.aspx

https://www.setlist.fm/venue/planting-fields-arboretum-oyster-bay-ny-usa-1bd63d94.html

https://events.longisland.com/summer-concerts-in-the-park-at-planting-fields.html

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60949-d105630-r215641098-Planting_Fields_Arboretum_State_Historic_Park-Oyster_Bay_Long_Island_New_York.html

https://seatgeek.com/venues/planting-fields-arboretum/tickets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nnC3kvGfQ

https://plantingfields.org/happenings/music-in-the-garden-summer-concert-series-presented-by-planting-fields-foundation

Researched by Darren Paltrowitz on April 13, 2025.

Exterior photos of the former site of Plush:

As located at 222 Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, New York, Plush was primarily a bar and club which promoter Christian McKnight also rented out for live music events. The only documented event which the Internet seems to remember at Plush -- which is now Kashi, an acclaimed Japanese restaurant -- featured co-headliners The Anniversary and Superdrag and opening acts Brand New (reportedly one of the band's first "big" shows) and Mates Of State.

Practically across the street, McKnight would also promote shows featuring Superdrag and Brand New at nearby venue Backstreet Blues in the early 2000s.

Sources:

https://www.setlist.fm/venue/plush-rockville-centre-ny-usa-3bd474e0.html

https://www.cdn.concertarchives.org/venues/plush--661131

https://www.angelfire.com/indie/superdrag/main.html

http://www.mfyi.com/a/anniversarytourography.html

Researched by Darren Paltrowitz on April 19, 2025.

The PWAC was a big warehouse rented from The People With Aids Coalition in the mid-1990s, as located on Route 109 in West Babylon, New York. Described as "a huge open warehouse with a stage built at the far end," its big room could hold an estimated 1,500 attendees. The space also featured a smaller venue and, later, a record store.

Reportedly, the first show at the PWAC was Mind Over Matter and Vision Of Disorder in April 1994. The last show appears to have been in 1996 and to have featured Sick Of It All. The building is currently a church auditorium. Other notable artists who performed at the PWAC in the years to follow were Fugazi, H2O, Silent Majority, Inside, Clockwise, Motive, and Sick Of It All.

A 1996 performance by Sick Of It All at PWAC can be seen here. A 1996 performance by H2O at PWAC can be seen here.

Fugazi performing live at the PWAC in 1995:

Vision Of Disorder performing live at the PWAC:

Flyers for then-upcoming events at PWAC:

Sources:

https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/pwac

https://www.punknews.org/article/60921/editorial-why-silent-majoritys-reunion-is-peculiar-and-awesome

https://medium.com/three-imaginary-girls/fugazi-at-the-pwac-long-island-95-a65b6869b50b

https://www.facebook.com/groups/343230737641/about

Researched by Darren Paltrowitz on April 21, 2025.