The Chance
The Chance is a concert and theater complex in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
It began its life as one of Poughkeepsie's movie theaters in the 1920s.[1] It is now a popular nightspot.
Many famous and local acts have performed at The Chance, including: A Dying Vision, A Static Lullaby, A Wilhelm Scream, AC/DC, Ace Frehley of Kiss, Adema, Agnostic Front, Alien Ant Farm, All Out War, All That Remains, Allan Holdsworth, American Hi-Fi, Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, Asia, August Burns Red, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Brains, Baby New Year, B.B. King Between The Buried And Me, Billy Club Sandwich, Blink-182, Blue Murder, Blue Öyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Boys Like Girls, Breaking Benjamin, Breath of Silence (featuring 3 different singers), Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Buckcherry, Bulletboys, Cannibal Corpse, Cheap Trick, Chevelle, Chick Corea, Chiodos, Clutch, Converge, Crossfade, David Bowie, Dio, Dissolve, Dokken, Don Dokken from Dokken, Dope, Dream Theater, Dropkick Murphys, Dropp'D, E. Town Concrete, Eighteen Visions, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Every Time I Die, Fall Out Boy, Far Beyond Gone, Fates Warning, Flogging Molly, Fuel, George Lynch from Dokken Gizmachi, Goatwhore, God Forbid, Good Charlotte, Guns N' Roses, GWAR, Gym Class Heroes, Hawthorne Heights, Hellogoodbye, In This Moment, James Labrie of Dream Theater, Joe Perry Project, "Dr. Dirty" John Valby, Jonas Brothers, Johnny Cash and The Carter Sisters Judas Priest, Kings X, Lori Lieberman, Lostprophets, Marillion, MazMyth, Meets The Sky, Megadeth, The Misfits, moe., Motograter, Motörhead, Mudvayne, Murphy's Law, Mushroomhead, My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory, Otep, Ozzy Osbourne, Panic! At the Disco, Pat Benatar Pat Metheny, Paul Stanley of Kiss, Perfect Thyroid, Peter Criss of Kiss, Peter Frampton, Phish, Powerman 5000, Puddle of Mudd, Queensryche, Robbie Dupree, Saliva, Sam Hill, Savatage, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Shadow Image, Shadows Fall, Shai Hulud, Silverstein, Skid Row, Slayer, Smile Empty Soul, Smoke Or Fire, Social Distortion, Soul 4 Sale, Static-X, Steve Howe, Stone Sour, Story of the Year, Stretch Arm Strong, Sum 41, Suicidal Tendencies, Symphony X, Taking Back Sunday, Take One Car, Tesla, The Black Crowes, The Business, The David Belker Experience, The Devil Wears Prada, The Exies, The Leo Project, The Police, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Rolling Stones, The Sleeping, The Starting Line, The Suicide Machines, They Might Be Giants, Third Eye Blind, Three Days Grace, Todd Rundgren, Train, Trapt, TRUSTcompany, Twisted Sister, U2, Unearth, Unwritten Law, Utopia, Warrior Soul, "Weird Al" Yankovic, White Lion Winger Ynwgie Malmsteen and Zebra.
Dave Price listed this as one of the "Top 10 things" he "loved about Poughkeepsie" in a 2005 Poughkeepsie Journal article.
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Coordinates: 41°42′11″N 73°55′28″W / 41.703162°N 73.924469°W
