Troy power-trio Super 400 will celebrate 30 years together this winter, along with the release of their new album Spirit in the Sound, at Cohoes Music Hall on February 28.
The venue is a room the group love to play, making it the perfect venue to host a rollicking rock and roll show for the hometown crowd.
Back in 1996, in a Troy warehouse, three musicians plugged in and changed the weather of their small corner of New York State. Super 400 – Joe Daley on drums, Kenny Hohman on guitar and voice, and Lori Friday on electric bass and keyboards – carry the spirit of the ’60s and ’70s, with a heavy, soulful, and loud sound, bent toward the present with sharp hooks and a melodic sense all their own.
In the late ’90s, Super 400 spread from room to room and tape to tape, with early tours across the U.S. and overseas sparking a trail of bootlegs passed hand to hand until they circled the globe. By their most recent European run, the myth had caught up with them with more than 20 sold out shows, with strangers singing along as if they’d grown up with the band.
Their home of Troy claimed them as its own, with then-Mayor Harry Tutunjian marking their bond in writing, declaring February 25, 2006, “Super 400 Day in Troy,” 10 years removed from that first warehouse jam. By 2024, Mayor Carmen Mantello added a second honor, naming January 19 another ‘Super 400 Day’ and confirming what the city already felt—that this band was part of its story.
In 2022, the band was honored to be inducted into the Capital Region Eddies Music Hall of Fame and honored as Pop/Rock Artist of the Year in 2022 and 2023, then Rock Artist of the Year in 2025. Yet Super 400 continues their mission to keep creating each time they plug in, driven by their love for one another and for the music that will come.
February 2026 brings their 30th anniversary, and Super 400 stands in a rare place: still together, still evolving, playing and writing at the height of their powers. Their new full-length album, Spirit in the Sound, gathers three decades of shared experience into some of their strongest songs, melodies seasoned by the road, arrangements that know exactly when to burn and when to breathe.
Opening the night will be Drank the Gold, an Upstate NY based duo, soaring vocal harmonies, fiddle, guitar/banjo, Irish and American old-time tunes and songs, contemporary traditionalists. The 2023 Folk/Traditional Artist of the Year at the Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards, Drank the Gold play and sing North Atlantic dance tunes and folk songs. Steeped in music from an early age, they have been performing together since 2015 and their latest single “The Song of Wandering Aengus/The Widow Halpyne” simultaneously features the group’s tight vocal harmonies – Oona Grady’s deep Irish fiddle roots, James Gascoyne’s compositional talents, and their shared passion for digging deep into traditional music and finding something new to say.
Tickets for Super 400 at Cohoes Music Hall are on sale now at thecohoesmusichall.org
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