Upstate

Bio

Upstate is an indie folk and harmony group from New York's Hudson Valley. Grateful Web says founding members Melanie Glenn, Mary Webster, and Harry D'Agostino formed the band as college students, and that guitarist Dylan McKinstry joined in 2019. The same announcement lists a fourth album, Abalone, recorded live to tape and due November 6, on RPF Records/Royal Potato Family, following A Remedy, Healing, and You Only Get a Few. Buffalo Iron Works describes 15 years, nearly a dozen former members, and one name change, with the original trio still writing together.

The band

• Melanie Glenn

  Founding member. Highway 81 Revisited credits her with guitar and vocals and with the three-part harmony alongside Mary Webster and Dylan McKinstry.

• Mary Webster

  Founding member and one of the three harmony singers named by Highway 81 Revisited.

• Harry D'Agostino

  Founding member. Highway 81 Revisited credits him with upright bass.

• Dylan McKinstry

  Guitarist who joined in 2019 after working with the band as a producer and hired player. He told Highway 81 Revisited that Abalone was the first record all four co-wrote.