BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Born Buffalo - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://bornbuffalo.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Born Buffalo REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230913T190520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T114854Z UID:2941-1697565600-1697565600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:WE CAME AS ROMANS: DARKBLOOM II TOUR 2023 DESCRIPTION:After Dark Presents\nWe Came As Romans\nDarkbloom II Tour 2023\nwith Special Guests\nEmmure\, Bodysnatcher\, Archetypes Collide \n16+ Admitted with ID / Under 16 Admitted with Guardian / No One Under 12 Admitted URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/we-came-as-romans-darkbloom-ii-tour-2023/ LOCATION:Town Ballroom\, 681 Main St.\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/We_30051692612360.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="After Dark Presents":MAILTO:info@afterdarkpresents.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231004T201345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T203311Z UID:4015-1697569200-1697569200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Lyle Lovett and Leo Kottke DESCRIPTION:Kleinhans Music Hall and Soul of Buffalo present\nLyle Lovett and Leo Kottke\nIn Conversation and Song\nJohn Hiatt who was originally scheduled to perform with Lyle Lovett at Kleinhans Music Hall recently suffered injuries from falling during a hike. Consequenty he had to cancel his fall tour dates and will not be able to appear with Mr. Lovett for their planned performance at Kleinhans Music Hall. Fortunately\, he is expected to make a full recovery. \nGiven the difficult situation\, Leo Kottke\, a legend of roots music guitar and song in his own right\, has gracious accepted Mr. Lovett’s invitation to join him for this intimate acoustic performance at Kleinhans Music Hall on Tuesday\, October 10th\, 2023. \nAll existing tickets will be honored\, but patrons who wish for a refund are encouraged to contact the Box Office via email at boxoffice@bpo.org or via phone at 716-885-5000. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nLYLE LOVETT\nA singer\, composer\, and actor\, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums. Coupled with his gift for storytelling\, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country\, swing\, jazz\, folk\, gospel\, and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers. \nWhether touring as a ‘Duo’ or with his ‘Acoustic Group’ or his ‘Large Band\,’ Lovett’s live performances show not only the breadth of this Texas legend’s deep talents\, but also the diversity of his influences\, making him one of the most compelling and captivating musicians in popular music. \nSince his self-titled debut in 1986\, Lyle Lovett has evolved into one of music’s most vibrant and iconic performers. Among his many accolades\, besides the four Grammy Awards\, he was given the Americana Music Association’s inaugural Trailblazer Award\, and was named Texas State Musician. \nHis works\, rich and eclectic\, are some of the most beloved of any artist working today. \nLEO KOTTKE\nAcoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens\, Georgia\, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states\, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child\, flirting with both violin and trombone\, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11. \nKottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/lyle-lovett-and-leo-kottke/ LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Lovett-Kottke-sq-Website42.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T161158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T161158Z UID:3092-1697655600-1697655600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:BUFFALO NICHOLS DESCRIPTION:Buffalo Nichols celebrates the release of his new album live at Buffalo Iron Works on Wednesday October 18th\, 2023! \nBuffalo Nichols \nOn his second album\, The Fatalist\, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols does things with the blues that might catch you off guard.There’s 808 programming\, chopped up Charley Patton samples\, washes of synth. There’s a consideration of the fullness of the sonic stage and the atmospherics of the music that can only come with a long engagement with electronic music. But this is no gimmicky hybrid or attempt to turn the blues into 21st century music by simply dressing it with skittering hi-hats. Nichols’ vision for the blues is of a form of music that’s intimately tied to every day life in 2023\, something that’s reflected not only in the choice of instrumentation\, but in the complexities of the songwriting and the gray areas his lyrics explore. This is music that comes straight from the present\, and as such\, it’s a reminder that the same shit that drove the first blues singers to pick up a guitar is still present behind the throbs of deep bass hits today. The Fatalist sounds unlike any blues record you’re likely to hear in 2023. \nOf course\, Nichols’ songwriting has always been firmly rooted in the present. He proved he could succeed on the music industry’s own blues terms on his self-titled 2021 debut\, whose songs\, Band camp Daily said\, “seem to flow from some great repository of emotion and insight.” The Fatalist finds him digging deeper in search of answers to ever-more-complicated questions around responsibility and self-definition\, his plainspoken lyrics both cutting and refreshing in their sincerity and refusal to accept pat solutions. Over a guitar line that blisters and pops with bright sunshine\, he holds forth on the simple everyday power of love in “Love is All\,” and when he shades his optimism with a clear-eyed view of “bad behavior in the canon of good men\,” as he sings\, his guitar line goes cloudy with the thought. He slowly walks around a broken relationship in “The Difference\,” trying to find the faults. It’s a decidedly modern breakup song\, one steeped in moral ambiguity. “I just don’t know the difference between love and sympathy\,”he sings\, before hoping his once-beloved “won’t forget the one who kept your ego fed.” \nStill\, Nichols rarely sounds like a blues singer. Like Leonard Cohen\, he dominates these songs with his voice. His low\, guttural baritone is high in the mix\, and he sounds coiled\, clenched tight. The slow drip of his songwriting lends TheFatalist an incredible amount of drama\, which the production—at times dark and dewy and claustrophobic\, at times zippy with light—further emphasizes. \nNichols produced the album himself at home\, having recently returned to Milwaukee following a few years in Austin.“Being back in Milwaukee reminded me of why I started making music in the first place. It got me away from the industry-town’ mentality\,” he says. “There’s definitely a certain work ethic that comes from being in a city likeMilwaukee. There are no clear paths to success and not many examples of ‘making it\,’ so people end up creating their own path and developing a broad skill set to sustain a career as an artist.” \nThat personal touch is evident in how considerately these songs have been framed. “In a lot of ways I was improvising\,” he says\, and he leaned on his years of experience as a DIY musician—and the songs themselves—to guide him. “Drum machines are a 50-year-old technology. If the blues hadn’t been hijacked and trapped in amber\, I think they naturally would’ve been incorporated.” The drum programming throughout feels like a natural rhythmic vehicle for these songs. “When you pick up a guitar\, the first thing you’re gonna play is the blues\,” he says. “And when you pick up an 808\, you’re gonna start doing trap beats.” \nThe album’s most ambitious song is Nichols’ dusky take on Blind Willie Johnson’s “You’re Gonna Need SomebodyOn Your Bond.” As he sings of salvation and relief\, Nichols creates a soundscape that teems with the joyous claustrophobia of classic gospel. Triggers of Charley Patton’s version connect the earliest blues recordings to the present\, both singers’ voices urgent in their message. “It’s important for contemporary musicians to play these old songs sometimes\,” Nichols says. “I always keep traditional songs in my set and on my records because I remember how important it was for me to hear somebody interpret a song in a way that made sense to me.” \nNichols further draws the past into the present in “The Fatalist Blues\,” a song that simmers with unanswered questions and quotes the classic blues song “Samson and Delilah.” “That was a question that stayed on my mind\,”Nichols says. “If you’re raised in a violent environment\, are you destined to become that\, or can you do something to change that?” The song finds Nichols testing the boundaries of will—“If I had my way I would fill my whole world with love\,” he sings\, and the implication is he’s not sure if he has his way or not. Even as that ambiguity gives the song a greater sense of dramatic tension\, uncertainty also carries within it the glimmer of hope\, and the imperative to try. \nThe stakes throughout this album are largely personal\, rather than social; Nichols is singing about his life in the first person\, and about his desire to forge his own individuality in a world and a music industry that make it nearly \nimpossible to do so. Ringing through “The Fatalist Blues”—and The Fatalist—is a simple question: Do I have any sayin how things are going to go? It’s the question behind so much of the physical and psychic pain in the blues\, and in a frustrating age that preaches self-empowerment and shames the disenfranchised\, it’s a stridently modern question\, too. By playing his music the way he wants to play it\, by refusing to give up his creative control or accept any one else’s definition of the blues or indeed his own life\, Carl Nichols has tried to forge an answer. Does he have any sayin how things are going to go? Let’s find out. \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $15 ADV/$20 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/buffalo-nichols/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Buffalo-Nichols.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T161423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T161423Z UID:3095-1697742000-1697742000@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:MELVIN SEALS & JGB – BUFFALO IRON WORKS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Buffalo Iron Works 10 Year Anniversary! \nMelvin Seals & JGB return to Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday October 19th\, 2023! \nMelvin Seals & JGB \nMelvin Seals has been a powerful presence in the music industry for over 30 years with a long-established reputation as a performer\, recording artist and producer. Melvin is most revered for his powerful\, high-spirited\, Hammond B-3 organ\, and keyboards in the Jerry GarciaBand. Melvin spun his B-3 magic with the Jerry Garcia Band for 18 years and in doing so helped pioneer and define what has now become “Jam BandMusic”. From blues to funk to rock to jazz\, Melvin Seals serves up a tasty mix with a little R&B and gospel thrown in to spice things up. \nMelvin and JGB bring an intuitive\, expressive style\, soul\, spontaneity and remarkable chops to the table. John Kadlecik on lead guitar and vocal duties\, John-Paul McLean’s savory bass\, Jeremy Hoenig on the drums and\, of course\, a heapin’ helpin’ of the wizard’s magic on HammondB-3 Organ and keyboards. Their chemistry is the focus from which they create a spontaneous and high art where the sky is the limit musically. They offer an exciting\, often psychedelic musical journey that changes nightly and keeps the audience dancing and smiling (and some staring in amazement) for hours. \nAdding his rock-gospel-soul-rhythm and blues touch with his funky style of playing\, no wonder Jerry nicknamed him”Master of the Universe”. Melvin continues to treat music lovers to his unique brand of melodic flavor with JGB. Come see and hear for yourself! \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $38 ADV/$45 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/melvin-seals-jgb-buffalo-iron-works-10-year-anniversary/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230919T112150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230919T112150Z UID:3333-1697830200-1697830200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Shania Twain Queen of Me Tour DESCRIPTION:Shania Twain Queen of Me Tour \nSHANIA TWAIN ANNOUNCES SECOND LEG OF 2023 QUEEN OF ME GLOBAL TOUR DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND \nWill visit KeyBank Center on October 20\, 2023 \nDecember 6\, 2022 (Buffalo\, NY) – Today\, five-time GRAMMY® Award-winning legend and the best-selling female artist in country music history Shania Twain announced the second leg of her 2023 Queen of Me Tour. Due to phenomenal demand following the wildly successful announcement of the first leg\, Shania is adding 19 new fall dates to her highly anticipated tour. The tour is in support of Shania’s forthcoming album Queen of Me\, out February 3\, 2023 – pre-order/pre-save HERE. \nProduced by Live Nation\, leg two kicks off on Thursday\, October 12th in San Antonio\, TX at AT&T Center with stops across North America in Nashville\, TN\, Toronto\, ON\, Buffalo\, NY\, Edmonton\, AB and more before wrapping up on Tuesday\, November 14 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver\, BC. \nThe Queen of Me Tour marks one of Shania Twain’s biggest tours to date with over 70 dates taking place across North America and Europe next year. This is also her first tour in nearly five years\, following a highly successful residency run in Las Vegas. \nShania and Live Nation have announced that $1 of every ticket purchased to Shania’s “Queen Of Me” Tour will be donated to SKC. Established in 2010 by Shania Twain\, SKC provides services that promote positive change in children’s lives in times of crises and economic hardship. SKC provides children with one-on-one consultations\, academic support and group activities\, as well as nutritious snacks and meal programs where needed\, all while in the safe\, confidence-building environment that is the Shania Kids Can Clubhouse. These children are learning the skills to cope with and overcome family hardships which\, in turn\, improves their ability to succeed in school. For more information about Shania Kids Can\, please visit: www.shaniakidscan.com \nThis evening\, Shania Twain will also receive the Music Icon award at the 2022 People’s Choice Awards. As the top-selling female country pop artist of all time\, Twain is being honored for her record-breaking career which has spanned over four decades. With such enormous hits like “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!\,” Twain has expertly bridged the gap between country and pop music\, leaving an everlasting impact on the music industry and pop culture. The 2022 People’s Choice Awards will air on NBC and E! at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica\, CA. \nIn addition to receiving the award\, Twain will take the stage to perform a medley of her greatest hits as well as her new song “Waking Up Dreaming” off her forthcoming sixth album ‘Queen of Me\,’ set for release on February 3\, 2023 via Republic Records. It will mark her first return to the PCAs stage since 2005\, when she took home the award for Favorite Country Female Singer. \nSHANIA TWAIN ‘QUEEN OF ME’ 2023 TOUR LEG TWO – JUST ANNOUNCED \n10/12 San Antonio\, TX AT&T Center \n10/13 Fort Worth\, TX Dickies Arena \n10/16 Knoxville\, TN Thompson Boling Arena \n10/18 Raleigh\, NC PNC Arena \n10/20 Buffalo\, NY KeyBank Center \n10/22 Toronto\, ON Scotiabank Arena \n10/24 Quebec City\, QC Videotron Centre \n10/25 Montreal\, QC Bell Centre \n10/27 Columbus\, OH Schottenstein Center \n10/28 Louisville\, KY KFC Yum! Center \n10/31 Milwaukee\, WI Fiserv Forum \n11/02 Omaha\, NE CHI Health Center \n11/03 Des Moines\, IA Wells Fargo Arena \n11/05 Fargo\, ND FARGODOME \n11/07 Winnipeg\, MB Canada Life Centre \n11/09 Saskatoon\, SK Sasktel Centre \n11/11 Calgary\, AB Scotiabank Saddledome \n11/12 Edmonton\, AB Rogers Place \n11/14 Vancouver\, BC Rogers Arena \nMORE ABOUT SHANIA TWAIN \nLast month\, she made a grand return with her latest single “Waking Up Dreaming.” Right out of the gate\, Vulture hailed it as “a motivational\, synth-laden pop-rocker with few of the country touches you’d expect from Twain\, all of the glamour.” Rolling Stone raved\, “It gradually builds to a Shania-worthy maximalist sound\, a dance party of gleaming guitars and unfettered bliss.” People affirmed\, “Shania Twain is baring it all with her new era of music\,” and The Tennessean proclaimed\, “Country icon Shania Twain’s season in the sun continues with the release of ‘Waking Up Dreaming’.” Perhaps The TODAY Show summed it up best as “an absolute bop.” \n“Waking Up Dreaming” marked her first release in five years since 2017’s critically acclaimed\, Now\, which bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Top Country Albums Chart upon arrival. It also arrives on the heels of her blockbuster career-spanning documentary Not Just A Girl—streaming on Netflix now. It was notably produced by Mercury Studios and directed by Joss Crowley. To accompany the film\, she also presented the compilation album Not Just A Girl (The Highlights) available HERE. And in other news this once-in-a-generation Renaissance Woman joins the star-studded cast of Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration in the role of Mrs. Potts\, premiering on ABC December 15 and streaming on Disney+ as of December 16. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/shania-twain-queen-of-me-tour/ LOCATION:KeyBank Center\, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plaza\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/shania_twain.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231004T203509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T203516Z UID:4021-1697830200-1697830200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Caña Dulce y Caña Brava DESCRIPTION:Kleinhans Music Hall is pleased to present\nCaña Dulce y Caña Brava\nfeaturing the folk music of Veracruz\, Mexico\nKleinhans Music Hall is pleased to present Caña Dulce y Caña Brava coming to the Mary Seaton Room on Friday\, October 20\, 2023 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are on sale now to the public and start at $35. Music lovers can enjoy a 10% discount on the purchase of 4 or more tickets using code GROOVES at checkout. \nCaña Dulce y Caña Brava offers a performance which exhibits the music\, poetry\, dance and traditional attire of Veracruz\, Mexico\, interpreted by artists who are beneficiaries of the jarocho culture and noteworthy performers with years of experience on both national and international stages. The group stands out as an artistic project that highlights feminine poetry and voices. Creating an experience that connects the spectator with distinct emotions\, one is taken on voyage through multiple rhythms\, accompanied by traditional string instruments such as the harp and the jarana\, percussion and zapateado\, poetic improvisation in rhyme and the projection of visual effects. Offering an assortment of colors\, textures and images to diverse and multi-generational audiences\, the ensemble is defined by an original aesthetic concept that unites the traditional with the vanguard in a contemporary stage proposal. \nSince its formation in 2007\, the group has carried the seal of feminine strength and beauty within the traditionally masculine world of Mexican son. \nThe sounds of the strings interweave with the poetic messages written from a woman’s perspective\, creating a facet not before seen within this musical genre. \nThe zapateado (percussive dance) on the tarima (wooden platform) accentuates the beat\, while the band’s colorful wardrobe embellishes their musicality. Appealing instrumental landscapes include the captivating vibrations of the horse jaw\, the profound and mystical harmonies of the harp\, the percussive atmosphere created by the jarana\, the robust rhythm of the guitarra grande\, and the renaissance-sounding bowed instruments created ex profeso for the group\, resurrecting extinct baroque instrumentation. \nThe tour for Caña Dulce y Caña Brava in the United States has been supported by the Mexican Minister of Culture and Ibermúsicas \nAbout Global Grooves \nThe Global Grooves music series\, aims to bridge cultures and ignite a shared passion for music. Through captivating performances which highlight a variety of cultures\, it celebrates the rich tapestry of musical traditions from around the world\, fostering cross-cultural understanding\, appreciation\, and unity among the beautifully diverse community of WNY. Kleinhans’ commitment to artistic excellence and cultural exploration drove them to curate a concert experience that transcends boundaries and enriches the human spirit. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/cana-dulce-y-cana-brava/ LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cana-Dulce-y-Cana-Brava-SQUARE-copy.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T161614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T184034Z UID:3098-1697832000-1697832000@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:FARROW DESCRIPTION:Farrow will be celebrating their 100th show at Buffalo Iron Works on Friday October 20th\, 2023! \nFarrow \nFARROW is a Rock ‘n’ Soul band from Buffalo\, New York with high-energy shows\, thought-provoking lyrics\, and infectious melodies. They believe Joy is Revolutionary! \nThis diverse group of musicians creates songs that make you move to the movement and savor everyday joys like eating a fried pierogi dipped in hot sauce. Led by producer/bass player André Pilette and singer/lyricist Michael Farrow\, the band features Tim Webb on drums\, Michael Ruopoli on percussion\, Cory Clancy on guitar\, Rufus “Breezy” Cole Jr. on keys\, and Danielle Johnson on vocals. \nRecent performance highlights include Borderland Music + Arts Festival\, North By Northeast Music Festival (Toronto)\, Bowery Electric (NYC)\, Rockwood Music Hall (NYC)\, Jamey’s House of Music (Philadelphia)\, Shea’s Performing Arts Center\, Town Ballroom\, Buffalo Iron Works\, Sportsmen’s Tavern\, Erie County Fair\, and several outdoor summer concert series around Western New York.\nThis show at Buffalo Iron Works on Friday\, October 20 marks the band’s 100th show since forming in the summer of 2019. We hope you’ll join us for this celebration of joy! \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $15 ADV/$20 DOS \nDoors: 8:00pm \nShow: 9:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/farrow/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Farrow.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230930T131431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230930T133415Z UID:3869-1697832000-1697832000@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:AbbaFab DESCRIPTION:AbbaFab\nHaving played to sold-out crowds across the U.S. and abroad\, ABBAFAB is a stunning tribute to the music of ABBA featuring the sensational talents of some of TAD’s most talented and loved artists and musicians! This multimedia production is a tribute to some of the greatest music produced in the 70’s and 80’s including monster hits such as Waterloo\, Fernando\, Honey Honey\, Dancing Queen and countless others. From ABBA’s earliest hits to Mamma Mia\, ABBAFAB will take you on a technicolor journey that is unmatched. Our vocalists and musicians have toured the world as solo artists and band members and have come together to create the most entertaining ABBA tribute on the market today! \nABBA’s record breaking string of hits has stood the test of time and continues to thrill audiences of all ages. With vocals and musicianship\, they are second to none\, the ABBAFAB vibe is infectious! ABBA fans love it and new ABBA fans are created at every show. There’s no generation gap here\, so let’s ALL party like it’s1979! URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/abbafab/ LOCATION:Shea’s 710 Theater\, 710 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AbbafabFINAL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T161834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T161834Z UID:3101-1697911200-1697911200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:FERNWAY HALLOWEEN SHOW DESCRIPTION:Fernway returns to Buffalo Iron Works on Saturday October 21st for their annual Halloween show! \nLineup Includes: Fernway\, Eternal Boy\, Diyené\, America Part Two & Tuesday Nite \nFernway \nCelebrating Fernways’ fifth annual Halloween show with immense excitement. This will be the bands last easy Halloween gig since they’re now bicoastal and focused on creating a new full-length record.\nLooking forward to sharing scares\, a cool costume contest\, and rocking the night away! \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $15 ADV/$20 DOS \nDoors: 6:00pm \nShow: 7:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/fernway-halloween-show/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Fernway.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231006T123001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T123001Z UID:4307-1697914800-1697914800@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:SAN HOLO: EXISTENTIAL DANCE MUSIC DESCRIPTION:SAN HOLO: EXISTENTIAL DANCE MUSIC\nDoors / Show 7pm \nSan Holo\nsanholo.com\ntwitter.com/sanholobeats\ninstagram.com/sanholobeats\nsoundcloud.com/sanholobeats \nBorn Sander van Dijck\, his catalog reads like a diary. Falling in love with punk and alt-rock\, he learned to play the guitar and make noise of his own. Coming up as a future bass producer in the Soundcloud era\, San’s unique style and honest approach to songwriting has earned him a loyal following that supported his independent debut album\, cementing the artist as a star in a league all his own\, while earning the praise of critics and peers from rock icons like Rivers Cuomo and Tom Morello to producers such as Porter Robinson. \nFor San Holo\, everything is personal. Every note is a story and each lyric a memory\, a hyper-real exploration of purpose\, emotion and shared experience. The Dutch producer lives in his own space\, crafting a world of beauty and sentiment through what he calls ‘existential dance music’ (EDM). \nWhether playing a sold-out show at The Shrine\, a massive crowd at Coachella or headlining at Red Rocks Amphitheatre\, every San Holo show feels like an intimate experience. His fans are fiercely loyal\, singing along to each song\, some of them tattoo’d with his lyrics\, and many of them decorating their social handles with echoes of his “stay vibrant” philosophy. \nIn 2022\, San Holo teamed up with popular mental health app\, Calm\, for his “Stay Vibrant” mix series. While other artists in the dance music sphere and industry at large may shy away from the rawer aspects of the human experience\, San Holo has established himself both as an individual and a brand that encourages listeners to embrace one another’s vulnerabilities. “Stay vibrant” is a concept that asks for honesty with oneself and others\, to check in with yourself and your friends about how you’re really doing in triumphant or trying times. \nSan Holo’s single ‘All The Highs’ is a testament – simply put – to all of the lows and all of the highs\, and remembering the ebbs and flows of the human experience. The song featured on FIFA 2023’s official soundtrack and received strong support across digital platforms upon release including Spotify’s New Music Friday and #1 on Apple Music’s Breaking Dance. The official music video was added to rotation on MTV Live and San dropped a sold out ‘All The Highs’ NFT on Sound.XYZ. To celebrate the release\, San partnered with Brownies & Lemonade for an intimate release party where he performed a DJ set in an elevator. \nHis latest single ‘DON’T LOOK DOWN (feat. Lizzy Land)’ was initially started in a session with RL Grime before bringing in singer and songwriter Lizzy Land to add vocals to the track. Of the song\, San Holo says\, “DON’T LOOK DOWN is here to remind you that your doubts and negative thoughts are just like clouds passing by. We easily get caught up in the noise of everyday life\, myself included.” This is existential dance music! \nw/ special guests \nDROELOE\ndroeloe.com \nOddKidOut\ninstagram.com/oddkidout \nlocal support\nZwaan \nProduced by:\nmnmpresents.com URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/san-holo-existential-dance-music/ LOCATION:Bufffalo Riverworks\, 359 Ganson St.\, Buffalo\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SanHolo-EDM-ADMAT-buffalo-1x1-1-scaled-1.webp ORGANIZER;CN="MNM Presents":MAILTO:mike@mnmpresents END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231005T110436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110445Z UID:4043-1697916600-1697916600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Haydn’s The Clock DESCRIPTION:Haydn’s The Clock\nJulius Williams makes his BPO conducting debut leading Haydn’s exuberant “The Clock” symphony and expressive violinist Tessa Lark’s performances of Dvořák’s Romance and Ravel’s Tzigane. The program also features the turn-of-the-century Rhapsodic Overture of Edmund Thornton Jenkins\, and the inspirational Moments of Arrival by Elena Roussanova. \nProgram\nJulius P. Williams\, conductor\nTessa Lark\, violin \nJENKINS Rhapsodic Overture\nDVOŘÁK Romance in F minor for Violin and Orchestra\nRAVEL Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra\nELENA ROUSSANOVA Moments of Arrival\nI. Moving Forward\nII. Reflection\nIII. The Moment of Arrival\nHAYDN Symphony No. 101 in D major\, “The Clock”\nI. Adagio – Presto\nII. Andante\nIII. Menuet: Allegretto\nIV. Finale: Vivace \nAbout Tessa Lark\nViolinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time\, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds\, technical agility\, and musical elegance. A budding superstar in the classical realm\, in 2020 she was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. She is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky\, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian and bluegrass music and inspiring composers to write for her. \nFollowing a busy summer that saw her perform with NY’s Carnegie Hall Citywide\, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest\, and the Ravinia Festival\, among many others\, highlights of Lark’s 2023-24 season include the world premiere of Carlos Izcaray’s Violin Concerto – written for her – under the composer’s baton with the Alabama Symphony; and concerts with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker\, marking both her European orchestral debut and her first performances of Gang Chen and Zhanhao He’s Violin Concerto\, “Butterfly Lovers.” She reprises Michael Torke’s violin concerto\, Sky – also written for her\, and the 2020 recording of which earned her a Grammy nomination – with Oklahoma’s Signature Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra; returns to South Carolina’s Greenville Symphony\, the Virginia Symphony\, and England’s City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; and performs as a chamber musician in duos with double bassist Michael Thurber and jazz guitarist Frank Vignola. \nLark’s newest album\, The Stradgrass Sessions\, released in spring 2023\, features an all-star roster of collaborators and composers including double bassist Edgar Meyer\, pianist Jon Batiste\, mandolinist Sierra Hull\, and fiddler Michael Cleveland. Album selections mix original compositions by Lark and her collaborators with a sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe\, a selection of Bartók’s violin duets arranged for violin and mandolin\, and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s STOMP. \nThe violinist has performed with orchestras and at recital venues and festivals around the world. She has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; the Louisville Orchestra; and the Albany\, Indianapolis\, Knoxville and Seattle Symphonies; as well as being presented by Carnegie Hall\, New York’s Lincoln Center\, London’s Wigmore Hall\, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw\, the Music Center at Strathmore\, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston\, Cal Performances\, San Francisco Performances\, the Seattle Chamber Music Society\, Australia’s Musica Viva Festival\, and the Marlboro\, Mostly Mozart\, and Bridgehampton summer festivals. \nLark’s debut commercial recording was the Grammy-nominated Sky\, a bluegrass-inspired violin concerto written for her by Michael Torke and performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Her discography also includes Fantasy on First Hand Records: fantasias by Schubert\, Telemann and Fritz Kreisler; Ravel’s Tzigane; and Lark’s own composition\, Appalachian Fantasy. Invention\, marking the debut album for the violin-bass duo of Lark and her fiancé\, Michael Thurber\, comprises arrangements of Two-Part Inventions by J. S. Bach along with original compositions by both duo partners. A live recording of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires was released in 2021 by the BPO in honor of Piazzolla’s centenary. \nLark is a recipient of the Hunt Family Award\, one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards\, as well as a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Silver Medalist in the 9th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis\, and winner of the 2012 Naumburg International Violin Competition. \nIn addition to her performance schedule\, Lark was recently named Artistic Director of Musical Masterworks\, a chamber music presenter in Old Lyme\, Connecticut. She champions young aspiring artists and supports the next generation of musicians through her work as Co-host/Creative of NPR’s From the Top\, the premier radio showcase for the nation’s most talented young musicians. She also serves as Mentor and board member of the Irving M. Klein International Strings Competition. \nLark is a graduate of New England Conservatory and completed her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School\, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg\, Ida Kavafian\, and Daniel Phillips. Her primary mentors include Cathy McGlasson\, Kurt Sassmannshaus\, Miriam Fried\, and Lucy Chapman. She plays a c. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. \nAbout Julius Williams\nJulius P. Williams is an award-winning conductor\, composer\, recording artist\, educator\, author\, and pianist. Named one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year for 2022\, his career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues across the globe\, and has involved virtually every musical genre. He has conducted American orchestras in Dallas\, Oakland\, New Haven\, New Jersey\, Vermont\, Knoxville\, Sacramento\, Tulsa\, Savannah\, and more\, in addition to the Harlem Symphony\, Color of Music Festival Orchestra\, and New Works Orchestra. Career highlights include debuting at Carnegie Hall with the Symphony Saintpaulia; serving as Music Director of the Washington Symphony (1998-2003); and conducting the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Anthony Davis\, The Central Park Five\, premiering and preparing the work for Trilogy: An Opera Company (New Jersey). Williams’ other past positions include Artistic Director of the Costa del Sol Music Festival in Spain\, and Artistic Director of the School of Choral Studies at the NY State Summer School of the Arts for ten seasons. \nWilliams is currently Artistic Director of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra\, and Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston\, as well as Music Director and conductor of Trilogy: An Opera Company. He is the immediate past president of the International Conductors Guild\, and Co-Chair of the League of American Orchestras’ Conductors Constituency. In the past\, Williams served as Assistant Conductor to Lukas Foss\, former BPO Music Director\, with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the American Symphony in NY. Recently\, Williams conducted on tour with the Oberlin Conservatory Opera and the Cleveland Opera Theater\, receiving rave reviews for performances of Nkeiru Okoye’s opera\, Harriet Tubman. He was a guest conductor with the One World Festival Orchestra in Virginia\, and conducted a Gala performance with the Dallas Symphony at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters’ Riverfest Jazz Festival. In 2021\, he conducted the score for the Academy Award-eligible film\, Sky Blossom. This past season included conducting the Color of Music Festival Orchestra in Sacramento\, and the concert series at Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. In Europe\, Williams has performed and recorded with numerous esteemed symphonies. He has also been featured on national television\, profiled on CBS News’ Sunday Morning. \nA prolific composer\, Williams has created works for virtually every genre of contemporary classical performance\, including opera\, ballet\, orchestra\, chamber ensemble\, chorus and solo voice\, dance\, musical theatre\, and film. His music has been performed by countless orchestras including the New York Philharmonic\, Cleveland Orchestra\, Detroit Symphony\, St. Louis Symphony\, and Boston Pops. He has also served as Composer-in- Residence of Connecticut’s Nutmeg Ballet Company\, which premiered his ballet\, Cinderella. His opera\, Guinevere\, was performed at the Aspen Music Festival and at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia. He composed the score for the film\, What Color is Love?\, and also scored the theatrical production to In Dahomey. Additionally\, Williams has served as a composer with the Boston Symphony’s Composer-In-Residence Project\, and as cover conductor for the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. His recordings are on the Albany\, Centaur\, Naxos and Videmus record labels. In 2024\, two new albums of orchestral music will be released on the Albany record label. \nIn addition to his conducting and composing careers\, Williams maintains a demanding schedule of speaking engagements\, consulting\, and academics. Williams is the recipient of many awards for musical and academic achievement: an Honorary Doctorate from Keene State College in New Hampshire\, the Detroit Symphony’s Emerging Composer Award\, the Gracie Allen Documentary Award\, the Distinguished Medal of Artistic Achievement from the Ecuador Youth Symphony Orchestra Foundation\, the Honorary Distinguished Alumnus Award from Langston University\, the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award\, proclamations from the mayor and council of Newark for artistic contributions in 2023\, the National Culture of the Arts Award from the Association of Foreign Language Teachers of NY\, and various ASCAP awards in composition for the past forty years. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/haydns-the-clock/ LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HaydnsTheClock.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231005T110436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110445Z UID:4043-1697916600-1697916600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Haydn’s The Clock DESCRIPTION:Haydn’s The Clock\nJulius Williams makes his BPO conducting debut leading Haydn’s exuberant “The Clock” symphony and expressive violinist Tessa Lark’s performances of Dvořák’s Romance and Ravel’s Tzigane. The program also features the turn-of-the-century Rhapsodic Overture of Edmund Thornton Jenkins\, and the inspirational Moments of Arrival by Elena Roussanova. \nProgram\nJulius P. Williams\, conductor\nTessa Lark\, violin \nJENKINS Rhapsodic Overture\nDVOŘÁK Romance in F minor for Violin and Orchestra\nRAVEL Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra\nELENA ROUSSANOVA Moments of Arrival\nI. Moving Forward\nII. Reflection\nIII. The Moment of Arrival\nHAYDN Symphony No. 101 in D major\, “The Clock”\nI. Adagio – Presto\nII. Andante\nIII. Menuet: Allegretto\nIV. Finale: Vivace \nAbout Tessa Lark\nViolinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time\, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds\, technical agility\, and musical elegance. A budding superstar in the classical realm\, in 2020 she was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. She is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky\, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian and bluegrass music and inspiring composers to write for her. \nFollowing a busy summer that saw her perform with NY’s Carnegie Hall Citywide\, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest\, and the Ravinia Festival\, among many others\, highlights of Lark’s 2023-24 season include the world premiere of Carlos Izcaray’s Violin Concerto – written for her – under the composer’s baton with the Alabama Symphony; and concerts with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker\, marking both her European orchestral debut and her first performances of Gang Chen and Zhanhao He’s Violin Concerto\, “Butterfly Lovers.” She reprises Michael Torke’s violin concerto\, Sky – also written for her\, and the 2020 recording of which earned her a Grammy nomination – with Oklahoma’s Signature Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra; returns to South Carolina’s Greenville Symphony\, the Virginia Symphony\, and England’s City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; and performs as a chamber musician in duos with double bassist Michael Thurber and jazz guitarist Frank Vignola. \nLark’s newest album\, The Stradgrass Sessions\, released in spring 2023\, features an all-star roster of collaborators and composers including double bassist Edgar Meyer\, pianist Jon Batiste\, mandolinist Sierra Hull\, and fiddler Michael Cleveland. Album selections mix original compositions by Lark and her collaborators with a sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe\, a selection of Bartók’s violin duets arranged for violin and mandolin\, and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s STOMP. \nThe violinist has performed with orchestras and at recital venues and festivals around the world. She has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; the Louisville Orchestra; and the Albany\, Indianapolis\, Knoxville and Seattle Symphonies; as well as being presented by Carnegie Hall\, New York’s Lincoln Center\, London’s Wigmore Hall\, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw\, the Music Center at Strathmore\, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston\, Cal Performances\, San Francisco Performances\, the Seattle Chamber Music Society\, Australia’s Musica Viva Festival\, and the Marlboro\, Mostly Mozart\, and Bridgehampton summer festivals. \nLark’s debut commercial recording was the Grammy-nominated Sky\, a bluegrass-inspired violin concerto written for her by Michael Torke and performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Her discography also includes Fantasy on First Hand Records: fantasias by Schubert\, Telemann and Fritz Kreisler; Ravel’s Tzigane; and Lark’s own composition\, Appalachian Fantasy. Invention\, marking the debut album for the violin-bass duo of Lark and her fiancé\, Michael Thurber\, comprises arrangements of Two-Part Inventions by J. S. Bach along with original compositions by both duo partners. A live recording of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires was released in 2021 by the BPO in honor of Piazzolla’s centenary. \nLark is a recipient of the Hunt Family Award\, one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards\, as well as a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Silver Medalist in the 9th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis\, and winner of the 2012 Naumburg International Violin Competition. \nIn addition to her performance schedule\, Lark was recently named Artistic Director of Musical Masterworks\, a chamber music presenter in Old Lyme\, Connecticut. She champions young aspiring artists and supports the next generation of musicians through her work as Co-host/Creative of NPR’s From the Top\, the premier radio showcase for the nation’s most talented young musicians. She also serves as Mentor and board member of the Irving M. Klein International Strings Competition. \nLark is a graduate of New England Conservatory and completed her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School\, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg\, Ida Kavafian\, and Daniel Phillips. Her primary mentors include Cathy McGlasson\, Kurt Sassmannshaus\, Miriam Fried\, and Lucy Chapman. She plays a c. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. \nAbout Julius Williams\nJulius P. Williams is an award-winning conductor\, composer\, recording artist\, educator\, author\, and pianist. Named one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year for 2022\, his career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues across the globe\, and has involved virtually every musical genre. He has conducted American orchestras in Dallas\, Oakland\, New Haven\, New Jersey\, Vermont\, Knoxville\, Sacramento\, Tulsa\, Savannah\, and more\, in addition to the Harlem Symphony\, Color of Music Festival Orchestra\, and New Works Orchestra. Career highlights include debuting at Carnegie Hall with the Symphony Saintpaulia; serving as Music Director of the Washington Symphony (1998-2003); and conducting the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Anthony Davis\, The Central Park Five\, premiering and preparing the work for Trilogy: An Opera Company (New Jersey). Williams’ other past positions include Artistic Director of the Costa del Sol Music Festival in Spain\, and Artistic Director of the School of Choral Studies at the NY State Summer School of the Arts for ten seasons. \nWilliams is currently Artistic Director of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra\, and Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston\, as well as Music Director and conductor of Trilogy: An Opera Company. He is the immediate past president of the International Conductors Guild\, and Co-Chair of the League of American Orchestras’ Conductors Constituency. In the past\, Williams served as Assistant Conductor to Lukas Foss\, former BPO Music Director\, with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the American Symphony in NY. Recently\, Williams conducted on tour with the Oberlin Conservatory Opera and the Cleveland Opera Theater\, receiving rave reviews for performances of Nkeiru Okoye’s opera\, Harriet Tubman. He was a guest conductor with the One World Festival Orchestra in Virginia\, and conducted a Gala performance with the Dallas Symphony at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters’ Riverfest Jazz Festival. In 2021\, he conducted the score for the Academy Award-eligible film\, Sky Blossom. This past season included conducting the Color of Music Festival Orchestra in Sacramento\, and the concert series at Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. In Europe\, Williams has performed and recorded with numerous esteemed symphonies. He has also been featured on national television\, profiled on CBS News’ Sunday Morning. \nA prolific composer\, Williams has created works for virtually every genre of contemporary classical performance\, including opera\, ballet\, orchestra\, chamber ensemble\, chorus and solo voice\, dance\, musical theatre\, and film. His music has been performed by countless orchestras including the New York Philharmonic\, Cleveland Orchestra\, Detroit Symphony\, St. Louis Symphony\, and Boston Pops. He has also served as Composer-in- Residence of Connecticut’s Nutmeg Ballet Company\, which premiered his ballet\, Cinderella. His opera\, Guinevere\, was performed at the Aspen Music Festival and at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia. He composed the score for the film\, What Color is Love?\, and also scored the theatrical production to In Dahomey. Additionally\, Williams has served as a composer with the Boston Symphony’s Composer-In-Residence Project\, and as cover conductor for the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. His recordings are on the Albany\, Centaur\, Naxos and Videmus record labels. In 2024\, two new albums of orchestral music will be released on the Albany record label. \nIn addition to his conducting and composing careers\, Williams maintains a demanding schedule of speaking engagements\, consulting\, and academics. Williams is the recipient of many awards for musical and academic achievement: an Honorary Doctorate from Keene State College in New Hampshire\, the Detroit Symphony’s Emerging Composer Award\, the Gracie Allen Documentary Award\, the Distinguished Medal of Artistic Achievement from the Ecuador Youth Symphony Orchestra Foundation\, the Honorary Distinguished Alumnus Award from Langston University\, the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award\, proclamations from the mayor and council of Newark for artistic contributions in 2023\, the National Culture of the Arts Award from the Association of Foreign Language Teachers of NY\, and various ASCAP awards in composition for the past forty years. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/haydns-the-clock/ LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HaydnsTheClock.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T162101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T162101Z UID:3104-1698001200-1698001200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:RAYLAND BAXTER W/ FLYTE- FALL TOUR 2023 DESCRIPTION:Twenty6 Productions Presents: Rayland Baxter w/ Flyte – FALL TOUR 2023 at Buffalo Iron Works on Sunday October 22nd\, 2023! \nRayland Baxter \nFor the making of his fourth album If I Were a Butterfly\, Rayland Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. “I spent that year living in a barn with the squirrels and the birds\, on my own most of the time\, and I discovered so much about music and how to create it\,” says the Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter. “Instead of going into a studio with a producer for two weeks\, I just waited for the record to build itself. I’d get up and go outside\, see a butterfly and connect that with some impulsive thought I’d had three months ago\, and suddenly a song I’d been working on would make sense. That’s how the whole album came to be.” \nThe follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Wide Awake\, If I Were a Butterfly finds Baxter co-producing alongside Tim O’Sullivan (Grace Potter\, The Head and the Heart) and Kai Welch (Molly Tuttle\, Sierra Hull)\, slowly piecing together the album’s patchwork of lush psychedelia and Beatlesesque pop. In addition to working at Thunder Sound (the Kentucky studio he called home for months on end)\, Baxter recorded in California\, Texas\, Tennessee\, and Washington\, enlisting a remarkable lineup of musicians: Shakey Graves\, Lennon Stella\, several members of Cage the Elephant\, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes\, Morning Teleportation’s Travis Goodwin\, and legendary Motown drummer Miss Bobbye Hall\, among many others. In an especially meaningful turn\, two of the album’s tracks feature the elegant pedal steel work of his father\, Bucky Baxter (a musician who performed with Bob Dylan and who passed away in May 2020). Thanks to the extraordinary care and ingenuity behind its creation\, If I Were a Butterfly arrives as a work of rarefied magic\, capable of stirring up immense feeling while leaving the listener happily wonderstruck. \nBaxter’s debut release as a producer\, If I Were a Butterfly bears a dazzling unpredictability that has much to do with his limitless imagination as a collector and collagist of sound. “Sometimes the bullfrogs in the pond outside would pulse in a certain tempo and I’d apply that to a song\, or I’d hear a bird chirping and it would inspire me to add harmonica in a particular place\,” he says. “I could be walking around this massive building in the middle of the night and the air-conditioning would turn on\, and it’d give me the idea to include a synth part that holds a similar note. I’d wait for those moments to happen and whenever I tried to force anything\, the music usually rejected it.” \nA perfect introduction to If I Were a Butterfly’s elaborate sonic world\, the album-opening title track begins with a recording of a Baxter singing at age four\, then drifts into a delicately sprawling reverie ornamented with so many lovely details (lavish flute and cello melodies\, radiant horns\, the hypnotic harmonies of Lennon Stella and Baxter’s girlfriend\, Sophia Rose). “I liked the idea of the first voice on the record being me as a little kid\, not knowing where I’d be today\,” notes Baxter\, who embedded newly unearthed audio clips of himself and his older sister Brooke all throughout the album. Graced with the combustible guitar work of his bandmate Barney Cortez\, “Billy Goat” kicks up a potent tension with its restless grooves and hot-tempered gang vocals. “It’s a breakup song about being with someone who’s on a different life path—one side wants to influence the other\, and inevitably you part ways\,” says Baxter. From there\, the album takes on a feverish momentum with “Rubberband Man\,” a delightfully frenzied track channeling a wild and giddy freedom. “There’s rubber bands all over the property at Thunder Sound—in the earth\, in the concrete\, used as insulation for the studio\,” says Baxter. “I took a mishmash of images in my head and it turned into a song about staying flexible\, rolling with the punches.” \nIn its searching reflection on love and loss and striving for transcendence\, If I Were a Butterfly reaches a quietly glorious intensity on “Tadpole”: a piano ballad threaded with childhood memories at turns oddly tender (catching frogs and crawfish in a nearby toxic creek) and nightmarish (hearing the gunshot when an across-the-street neighbor took her own life). And on “My Argentina\,” If I Were a Butterfly closes out with a piano-driven and painfully raw outpouring\, its starkness intermittently broken by soulful strings and gospel-esque harmonies. “One time at the studio I stayed up all night and played that song maybe 100 times; we ended up using the last take\, which was recorded at about five in the morning\,” says Baxter. “It’s a song that represents the thoughts one might have about a perfect love life\, and I love how it ends the album in a big angelic cloud of reverb.” \nFor Baxter\, the act of self-producing such a sonically and emotionally expansive body of work proved both exhilarating and arduous. “It really wore me out to spend all that time alone at the studio\, editing the hell out of this record; my heart definitely suffered\,” he says. “But I also had the guidance of my dad\, who was in my dreams all the time—if I was moving too fast\, I’d hear him telling me to slow down.” Another profound influence on the album-making process: the 2018 deaths of Baxter’s close friends Billy Swayze (a musician whose parents owned the rubber band company that became Thunder Sound) and Tiger Merritt (the vocalist/guitarist for Morning Teleportation\, who worked with Swayze in constructing the studio). “Billy and Tiger had been going up there since 2015\, and finally they turned it into a legit recording studio\,” he says. “It’s a very special place to me\, so they’re two of the four angels I decided to dedicate this record to.” \nEven in its most somber moments\, If I Were a Butterfly wholly fulfills Baxter’s mission of imparting a certain purposeful joy. “It’s been a weird few years\, but I think the big picture is for us to just exist and find love and be loved\, and try to see that all the daily bullshit is simply bugs on the windshield\,” says Baxter. “I hope that this album makes people feel the way I do whenever I listen to my favorite records\, and that it gives them a platform to dream on.” \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $23 ADV/$26 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/rayland-baxter-w-flyte-fall-tour-2023/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rayland-Baxter.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Twenty6 Productions":MAILTO:events@twenty6productions.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231006T123218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T123218Z UID:4310-1698170400-1698170400@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:DROPKICK MURPHYS DESCRIPTION:DROPKICK MURPHYS – FULL ELECTRIC SHOW\nSupport: The Interrupters\, Jesse Ahern \nVenue: Buffalo RiverWorks \nDoors: 6:00pm \nShow: 7:00pm \nAge Restriction: All Ages Admitted \nPrice: $49.50 advance / $55 day of show \nTickets on sale this Friday\, May 19th @ 10am URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/dropkick-murphys/ LOCATION:Bufffalo Riverworks\, 359 Ganson St.\, Buffalo\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dropkick-Murphys-Revised-Vertical-Feed-1.webp ORGANIZER;CN="After Dark Presents":MAILTO:info@afterdarkpresents.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T162249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T162249Z UID:3107-1698174000-1698174000@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:THE FURIOUS BONGOS – A FRANK ZAPPA PROJECT FEAT. CHAD WACKERMAN DESCRIPTION:The Furious Bongos – A Frank Zappa Project feat. Chad Wackerman performs live at Buffalo Iron Works – Tuesday October 24th\, 2023! \nThe Furious Bongos \nWe’re only in it for the money. HAHAHAHA \nActually\, we’re just a bunch of professional musicians with pretty diverse backgrounds who decided to take on a pretty big challenge and have some fun in the process. \nNow\, you might ask\, “Oh yeah? ‘Professional’ musicians\, eh? What makes you think you can play Frank’s music as well as [insert Zappa family member here]?” \nWell…you might not have heard of us individually\, but you have heard of the people we’ve spent our careers working with (and we don’t mean “I played a 10am slot at a festival once that was headlined by Famous Artist X”): \nYo Yo Ma\, Mick Fleetwood\, BB King\, REM\, Vinnie Colaiuta\, Oasis\, LA Philharmonic\, Madison Symphony\, Arthur Barrow\, Munich Philharmonic\, Bryan Beller\, India Arie\, Popa Chubby\, Limelight: A Tribute To Rush\, Pinetop Perkins\, Chicago Lyric Opera\, Arrested Development\, Madison Opera\, blah blah blah….you get the idea. \nWhen it came to the music\, Frank was constantly changing things\, and he allowed his band members to bring their unique voices to the table. He also understood that his live performances were entertainment: it’s supposed to be a rock show\, not a piano recital. \nWith that in mind\, we don’t think playing Song X from Album Y note-for-note while staring at our shoes is the proper way to go about this. \nThe result of that approach (combined with a lot of homework) is a show that pays respect to Zappa’s legacy\, but is also new and different and dangerous and FUN\, with lots of eyebrows. Kinda like Frank. \nTickets: $20 ADV/$25 DOS\nDoors: 7:00pm\nShow: 8:00pm\nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/the-furious-bongos-a-frank-zappa-project-feat-chad-wackerman/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Furious-Bongos.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T144457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T144457Z UID:3070-1698175800-1698175800@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Moulin Rouge! DESCRIPTION:Pop the champagne\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards® — including Best Musical! \nEnter a world of splendor and romance\, of eye-popping excess\, of glitz\, grandeur\, and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical! Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage\, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth\, Beauty\, Freedom\, and — above all — Love. With a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan; music supervision\, orchestrations\, and arrangements by Tony Award® winner Justin Levine; and choreography by Tony Award® winner Sonya Tayeh\, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical — it is a state of mind. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/moulin-rouge/ LOCATION:Shea’s Buffalo Theatre\, 646 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MoulinRouge_1600x700.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231006T104731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T104731Z UID:4263-1698175800-1698175800@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Halloween Bat Sh*t Bingo @ Resurgence! DESCRIPTION:Halloween Bat Sh*t Bingo @ Resurgence! \nMark your calendars for another epic bingo experience with taunting\, laughing\, music\, prizes\, AND Halloween costumes! \nGet spooky and bring your lucky bingo dabbers for the next BatSh*t Bingo on October 24! \nDon’t forget– your first beer is on the house! URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/halloween-bat-sht-bingo-resurgence/ LOCATION:Resurgence Taproom\, 55 Chicago St.\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14204\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bat-ShT-Bingo-5.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T144806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T144932Z UID:3075-1698262200-1698262200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Moulin Rouge! DESCRIPTION:Pop the champagne\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards® — including Best Musical! \nEnter a world of splendor and romance\, of eye-popping excess\, of glitz\, grandeur\, and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical! Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage\, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth\, Beauty\, Freedom\, and — above all — Love. With a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan; music supervision\, orchestrations\, and arrangements by Tony Award® winner Justin Levine; and choreography by Tony Award® winner Sonya Tayeh\, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical — it is a state of mind. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/moulin-rouge-2/ LOCATION:Shea’s Buffalo Theatre\, 646 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MoulinRouge_1600x700.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T145043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T145050Z UID:3076-1698348600-1698348600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Moulin Rouge! DESCRIPTION:Pop the champagne\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards® — including Best Musical! \nEnter a world of splendor and romance\, of eye-popping excess\, of glitz\, grandeur\, and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical! Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage\, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth\, Beauty\, Freedom\, and — above all — Love. With a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan; music supervision\, orchestrations\, and arrangements by Tony Award® winner Justin Levine; and choreography by Tony Award® winner Sonya Tayeh\, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical — it is a state of mind. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/moulin-rouge-3/ LOCATION:Shea’s Buffalo Theatre\, 646 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MoulinRouge_1600x700.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T163217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T163217Z UID:3110-1698350400-1698350400@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:WEIRD PHISHES DESCRIPTION:Weird Phishes – One-Of-A-Kind Mashups of Radiohead in the style of Phish perform live at Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday October 26th\, 2023! \nWeird Phishes \nWeird Phishes is exactly what it sounds like -the iconic melancholy rock songs of Radiohead completely reborn as danceable\, crunchy jams. With full-album performances\, unexpected mashups\, and gluey funk-driven improvisation\, their jam-heavy take on alt-rock classics has sparked unexpected energy in audiences across the northeast. \nA quick glance at the band’s social media gives a glimpse into why this unlikely mashup proves worthwhile. “Bought tickets on a whim because I love both bands\, had wanted to checkout the club and thought it would be amusing. I was not expecting such incredible musicianship and thought that had gone into their set…it was one of the best shows I’ve seen in years.” Said one user. “Clean\, creative mashups of a favorite album and great Phish selections. Great energy.” says another. “Impossibly excellent show.” \nIn July 2019\, Weird Phishes solidified their place in the New England jam community\, playing back-to-back after parties for Phish’s performances at Fenway Park. With a growing fanbase and an ever-changing setlist\, the band continued their breakout year with several headlining performances in Boston and a fall tour to the midwest\, topped off with Phish afterparties inProvidence and New York\, and the very last performance at legendary venue Nectar’s before the pandemic hit. When live music returned in 2021\, Weird Phishes returned with a force. The band made its triumphant return with a headlining performance at the inaugural Safe and Soundz festival\, and took a victory lap in their home city\, selling out the Aeronaut Cannery and performing at the legendary Paradise Rock Club. \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 1403 \nTickets: $10 ADV/$12 DOS \nDoors: 8:00pm \nShow: 9:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/weird-phishes/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Weird-Phishes.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230913T190755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T114844Z UID:2943-1698433200-1698433200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:DWAYNE GRETZKY DESCRIPTION:Funtime Presents\nDwayne Gretzky\nAges 12+\, minors under 16 must be accompanied by a parent\nGovernment Issued ID Required URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/dwayne-gretzky/ LOCATION:Town Ballroom\, 681 Main St.\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Dwayne_29541690805159.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T145146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T145153Z UID:3077-1698435000-1698435000@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Moulin Rouge! DESCRIPTION:Pop the champagne\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards® — including Best Musical! \nEnter a world of splendor and romance\, of eye-popping excess\, of glitz\, grandeur\, and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical! Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage\, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth\, Beauty\, Freedom\, and — above all — Love. With a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan; music supervision\, orchestrations\, and arrangements by Tony Award® winner Justin Levine; and choreography by Tony Award® winner Sonya Tayeh\, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical — it is a state of mind. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/moulin-rouge-4/ LOCATION:Shea’s Buffalo Theatre\, 646 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MoulinRouge_1600x700.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231005T110738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110738Z UID:4047-1698435000-1698435000@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:A Gospel Symphony Celebration with Donald Lawrence DESCRIPTION:A Gospel Symphony Celebration with Donald Lawrence\nDonald Lawrence wears many musical hats\, including songwriter\, producer\, and recording artist. Over a 30-year career\, the multiple Grammy and Stellar Award winner has collaborated with marquee names in the Gospel\, R&B\, Hip Hop\, Pops\, and Broadway worlds. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind performance with the BPO and the voices of the Buffalo United Community Choir under the baton of the equally accomplished composer\, orchestrator\, and educator\, Dr. Henry Panion III. \nProgram\nDr. Henry Panion III\, conductor\nDonald Lawrence\, vocals\nBuffalo United Community Choir \nRide on King Jesus\nPresence of the Lord\nThe Blessing of Abraham\nBless Me (The Prayer of Jabez)\nBack II Eden\nGlory from Selma \n–INTERMISSION– \nIn the Sanctuary\nProcession of the Levites\nAnthem of Praise\nTotal Praise\nJehovah Sabaoth (God of Angel Armies)\nThe Best is Yet to Come \nThis performance features songs composed by iconic Gospel artists including Richard Smallwood\, Kurt Carr\, Byron Cage\, and featured guest Donald Lawrence. Orchestral arrangements provided by Dr. Henry Panion\, III\, guest conductor. \nAbout Donald Lawrence\nSongwriter. Producer. Composer. Music/choir director. Recording artist. Those words capture the multifaceted essence of Donald Lawrence. The guiding force behind such No. 1 hits as “Encourage Yourself\,” “Back II Eden\,” and “The Blessing of Abraham\,” Lawrence has also been the producing force behind No. 1 songs like “Blessed and Highly Favored” by the Clark Sisters and “Lift Him Up\,” “Souled Out\,” and “Every Praise” by Bishop Hezekiah Walker. \nDonald Lawrence is one of the most influential figures in modern gospel music\, with an impressive career in the gospel industry that has spanned more than 25 years. Over the course of that time\, Lawrence resurrected and led the Tri-City singers\, who were noted as one of the best choirs in the world\, and found much individual success as a solo artist with multiple #1 Billboard hits and albums. He has also worked on numerous films and television programs\, providing his musical services. \nOn top of over 30 Stellar Award wins and 4 Dove Award wins\, Lawrence has been nominated for 18 Grammy awards over the course of his career\, including a Grammy win in 2008. Lawrence has also served as the face of Verizon’s How Sweet The Sound national tour\, the Musical Director and headlining act for the McDonald’s Inspirational Gospel Tour\, and the Music Supervisor for BeBe Winan’s hit theatrical production\, Born For This. \nIn 2019\, Donald and The Tri-City Singers released their 25-year anniversary project\, Goshen. The highly anticipated album was met with much praise and acclaim. It earned a Grammy nomination for “Best Gospel Album\,” and the album’s hit single\, “Deliver Me. This Is My Exodus\,” which went to #1 on the Billboard charts\, was also named Billboard’s “most played Gospel song of 2019.” Furthermore\, Goshen won 5 Stellar Awards\, including the Song of the Year award for “Deliver Me. This Is My Exodus.” \nLawrence has stayed busy since the release of Goshen. In the past few years he has worked on a song with the Hamilton cast that featured former President Barack Obama and also performed for President Joe Biden’s Inaugural Prayer Breakfast\, to name just a few of many projects. \nLawrence has also helped relaunch the How Sweet The Sound tour\, and has filled his mentor’s shoes by taking over the Music & Arts charitable organization started by the late Edwin Hawkins. He recently relaunched this organization with an amazing global conference in London\, and looks forward to the future of this organization. \nLawrence continues to produce new music\, like his highly anticipated tribute project to Twinkie Clark\, Power-Reimagined. “It’s said that the music you do is where you’ve lived\,” says Lawrence of his creative journey. “What I do isn’t contrived. I don’t think in terms of genre or religious perspective. It comes from being honest. I just honor the gift and purpose I was given to touch the world and inspire. And people have paid attention to that.” \nAbout Henry Panion III\nHenry Panion III\, PhD\, holds the distinguished titles of University Professor and Director of Music Technology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He holds degrees in music education and music theory from Alabama A&M University and Ohio State University\, respectively. Dr. Panion is most known for his work as conductor and arranger for pop icon Stevie Wonder\, an association that spans over the past 30 years. Other artists for whom Dr. Panion has had the opportunity to conduct and/or arrange include Aretha Franklin\, Chaka Khan\, the Blind Boys of Alabama\, the Clark Sisters\, India Arie\, The Winans\, Yolanda Adams\, Lady Tramaine Hawkins\, Kirk Franklin\, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra\, Lionel Richie\, ALABAMA\, Kelly Price\, Robin Thicke\, LeAnn Rimes\, Bootsy Collins\, and American Idol winners Carrie Underwood\, Taylor Hicks\, and Ruben Studdard. \nDr. Panion has worked with more that 50 orchestras across the globe\, including the Royal Philharmonic (England)\, the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra (Russia)\, the Orchestre de Paris (France)\, the Melbourne Symphony (Australia)\, the Rio de Janeiro Philharmonic (Brazil)\, the Raanana Philharmonic (Israel)\, the Gothenburg Symphony (Sweden)\, the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra (South Africa) and the Tokyo Philharmonic (Japan)\, and in this country prominent orchestras such as those in Nashville\, Cleveland\, Atlanta\, Honolulu\, Boston\, Baltimore\, Detroit\, D.C.\, and his home state of Alabama. During the 50th Anniversary of Selma’s Bloody Sunday in 2015\, Dr. Panion served as Artistic Producer & Conductor for the BET/Centric TV special. In 2019 he concluded the city of Birmingham’s three-year commemoration of the state of Alabama’s Bicentennial\, in which he served as composer\, advisor\, and artistic director. The 2020 PBS concert-documentary Dreams of Hope: Birmingham’s Historic 16th Street Baptist Church Welcomes Violins of Hope was produced by Dr. Panion and has been broadcast over 1000 times since its release\, received 13 Telly Awards\, and has been featured in prestigious film festivals domestically and abroad in major cities such as New York\, Los Angeles\, Chicago\, Miami\, London\, Paris\, Amsterdam\, Jerusalem\, and Sydney. In 2021\, Dreams of Hope picked up 2 Emmy awards for Music Composition and Audio Post-Production. \nAs a producer\, composer\, arranger\, and orchestrator\, Dr. Panion’s work has produced three Grammy Awards and a host of other national music awards and nominations. From 1994 to 2000\, Dr. Panion served as chair of UAB’s Department of Music. Other honors include a 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award from Alabama A&M University\, a similar award from Ohio State University in 1996\, the 1996 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction\, the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus’ Civic and Cultural Advancement Award\, and an appointment as Cultural Ambassador for the City of Birmingham in 2009. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Alabama Arts Hall of Fame in 2019. Dr. Panion is presently serving a Governor’s appointment as Chair of the Alabama State Council on the Arts and has recently been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He most recently served as Artistic & Creative Director and Composer for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2022 World Games\, and producer of the World Games’ new theme song\, “Hope of Alabama\,” featuring an all-star cast of singers and receiving an unprecedented 19 Telly Awards and a 2023 Emmy nomination for musical composition and arranging. In 2023\, Dr. Panion was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. \nAbout the Buffalo United Community Choir\nThe Buffalo United Community Choir (BUCC) was formed in January of 2023\, with a goal of unifying the Buffalo-Niagara region by gathering voices from across the community to sing and work together. This 100-plus voice choir represents the very best of Buffalo\, with representatives from 42 local churches and organizations including First Shiloh\, First Calvary\, St. Luke AME and Mt. Olive Baptist Churches\, St. Joseph University Parish\, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus\, the Community Music School\, and many more. \nThe group is led by three exceptional music directors: Ella E. Robinson\, Karen Saxon\, and George Brown\, with assistance from Adam Luebke and Phillip McMullen of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. The BUCC debuted in February for Buffalo United for Black History at First Shiloh Baptist Church\, performed at the Johnnie B. Wiley Sports Pavilion as part of the May 14th Remembrance event\, and sang with the BPO in the 2023 Concert for Unity. The BUCC’s motto is\, “We lift our voices in song as ONE community.” URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/a-gospel-symphony-celebration-with-donald-lawrence/ LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DonaldLawrence.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T163424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T163424Z UID:3113-1698436800-1698436800@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:RAVENSCOON W/ SUPER FUTURE\, MEDUSO\, REZI DESCRIPTION:RAVENSCOON\nw/ Super Future\, Meduso\, Rezi\nFriday October 27\nIron Works\n49 Illinois St Buffalo NY\nDoors 8pm 18+ $20+\nRavenscoon \nravenscoon.com\ntwitter.com/ravenscoon\ninstagram.com/ravenscoon\nsoundcloud.com/ravenscoon\nPaul Conversano\, aka Ravenscoon\, is an electronic music producer & DJ from San Francisco\, California\, who combines influences of death metal\, hip-hop\, and punk rock with experimental bass music. \nOriginally from Atlanta\, GA\, his unique flair of southern roots compliment pulsating dream-like bass lines and psychedelic arpeggios to create something uniquely fresh yet also familiarly nostalgic. \nHis passion and love for electronic music are present in both his original songs and his wildly popular mixtape series. No genre goes untouched — from dubstep\, trance\, rap\, trap\, drum & bass\, halftime\, psytrance\, and more — each Ravenscoon live set is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before. \nFrom sold-out headlining shows to supporting industry-leading bass music acts — Ravenscoon has made a statement that he’s just getting started. \nw/ special guests\nSuper Future\nsuperfuturedj.co\ninstagram.com/superfuturedj\nsoundcloud.com/superxfuture\nMeduso\nfanlink.to/Meduso\nRezi\nrezimusic.com\nProduced by\nMNM Presents URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/ravenscoon-w-super-future-meduso-rezi/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RAVENSCOON.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="MNM Presents":MAILTO:mike@mnmpresents END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T145236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T145244Z UID:3078-1698501600-1698501600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Moulin Rouge! DESCRIPTION:Pop the champagne\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony Awards® — including Best Musical! \nEnter a world of splendor and romance\, of eye-popping excess\, of glitz\, grandeur\, and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical! Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage\, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers\, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth\, Beauty\, Freedom\, and — above all — Love. With a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan; music supervision\, orchestrations\, and arrangements by Tony Award® winner Justin Levine; and choreography by Tony Award® winner Sonya Tayeh\, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical — it is a state of mind. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/moulin-rouge-5/ LOCATION:Shea’s Buffalo Theatre\, 646 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MoulinRouge_1600x700.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T163632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T163632Z UID:3116-1698519600-1698519600@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:“ALL BAD TOUR” – NICK SHOULDERS AND THE OKAY CRAWDAD DESCRIPTION:Twenty6 Productions and DSP Present: \n“All Bad Tour” – Nick Shoulders and The Okay Crawdad on Friday October 28th\, 2023! \nNick Shoulders \nAll Bad\, the latest album from Nick Shoulders\, ultimately encapsulates everything that makesShoulders’ inimitable form of country music so vital: a heady balance of dazzling musicianship and punk defiance\, coupled with gritty eccentricity and a generational connection to the roots of the genre. With a singing style inherited from his family’s vocal lineage\, Nick’s songs achieve the rare feat of imparting difficult truths while inciting a certain joyful abandon\, balancing a sound forged by years of hard travel with a heartfelt reverence for the origins of country music. In the spirit of HazelDickens and Jimmy Driftwood\, the incisive yet wildly jubilant All Bad vocally objects to the reckless destruction of the natural landscape and development run rampant\, while still offering plenty of joy and dance-ready rhythms. Spanning a variety of early country styles\, the album’s infectious harmonies shine alongside everything from jangling cajun waltzes to surf-rock infused bluesy ballads–all tied together by a voice seemingly out of place in this century\, yet ever ready to speak up about its problems. \nReleased via Gar Hole Records (a label founded and co-owned by Shoulders)\, All Bad marks the first LP made with his longtime band\, the Okay Crawdad\, since 2019’s premier full-length Okay\,Crawdad and their subsequent pandemic-imposed hiatus. After writing most of the album from the front seat of a tour van\, the Fayetteville\, AR-based musician and bandmates Grant D’Aubin (harmonies/bass)\, Cheech Moosekian (drums) and Jack Studer (lead guitar) recorded the album in a home studio on the banks of the Mississippi River with New Orleans collaborators Ross Farbe and Sam Doores. \nSurrounded by a singing style passed down from a time before microphones\, Nick’s childhood of bird call whistles and an over-exposure to southern gospel music eventually steered him toward an adolescence drumming for metal and punk bands\, and subsequent years as an active illustrator and member of Arkansas’s heavy music scene. After numerous personal calamities and a growing obsession with the rural musical traditions of his lifelong home\, Shoulders left the Ozarks and lived out of his van\, singing on the street corners of the west while slowly being drawn to the vibrance of the New Orleans dance and busking world. After forming in early 2018\, the ‘Okay Crawdad’ band flourished briefly in the wildly talented south Louisiana alt-country scene\, culminating in the release of ‘Rather Low’ by the popular YouTube channel Western AF\, catapulting Nick’s songs to a vastly wider audience right as Covid-19 and lockdowns ensued. Since then\, a rapid ascension into the world of touring music has seen Nick playing alongside the likes of Sierra Ferrell and at major festivals such as Stagecoach. With the hard rhythms and heavenly melodies of their newest release\,All Bad\, the band manages to concoct a body of work that is at turns sublimely freewheeling and profoundly illuminating\, yet primed to permanently warp the listener’s perspective to glorious effect. \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $20 ADV/$25 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/all-bad-tour-nick-shoulders-and-the-okay-crawdad/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Nick-Shoulders.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20231005T110946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T110946Z UID:4050-1698521400-1698521400@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:Stephen Schwartz & Friends DESCRIPTION:Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter Stephen Schwartz shares his stories and songs from Broadway with a stellar cast of performers for an unforgettable evening of musical theatre\, from Godspell to Wicked and beyond. \nProgram\nJason Seber\, conductor\nStephen Schwartz\, piano\nJohn Boswell\, piano\nShaleah Addkison\, vocals\nScott Coulter\, vocals\nDebbie Gravitte\, vocals\nMichael McCorry Rose\, vocals \nMagic to Do\nChanson\nMaking Good / The Wizard and I\nJust Around the Riverbend / Corner of the Sky\nIt’ll be Me\nIt’s an Art\nForgivenesss’ Embrace\nProud Lady\nMeadowlark\nDefying Gravity \n–INTERMISSION– \nBeautiful City\nNo Time at All\nOut There\nIn Whatever Time We Have / As Long as You’re Mine\nTwo’s Company\nColors of the Wind \nSelections from musicals\, films\, and unreleased albums composed by Stephen Schwartz and others. Program is subject to change. \nAbout Stephen Schwartz\nComposer\, Piano\, Host\nStephen Schwartz was born in New York City on March 6\, 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama. Upon coming back to live in New York City\, he went to work as an A&R producer for RCA Records\, but shortly thereafter began to work in the Broadway theatre. His first major credit was the title song for the play Butterflies are Free\, which was eventually used in the movie version as well. \nIn 1971\, he wrote the music and new lyrics for Godspell\, for which he won two Grammys among other awards. This was followed by the English texts\, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein\, for Bernstein’s Mass\, which opened the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, D.C. The following year\, he wrote the music and lyrics for Pippin\, and two years later\, The Magic Show. At one point\, Godspell\, Pippin and The Magic Show were all running on Broadway simultaneously. \nHe next wrote the music and lyrics for The Baker’s Wife\, followed by a musical version of Studs Terkel’s Working\, to which he contributed four songs and which he also adapted and directed\, winning a Drama Desk Award as Best Director. He also co-directed the television production\, which was presented as part of the PBS “American Playhouse” series. \nOther work for musical theatre includes lyrics to Rags (music by Charles Strouse)\, music and lyrics for Children of Eden\, and two musicals produced overseas\, Mit Eventyr (My Fairy Tale) in Denmark and Schikaneder in Austria. He has also written songs for two musicals for young audiences\, Captain Louie and My Son\, Pinocchio. Compilation revues of his work include Snapshots and\, for Princess Cruise Lines\, Magic to Do. \nFor film\, he collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Pocahontas\, for which he received two Academy Awards and another Grammy\, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame\, and Enchanted. He also provided songs for DreamWorks’ first animated feature\, The Prince Of Egypt\, for which he won another Academy Award for the song\, “When You Believe.” The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and The Prince Of Egypthave both been adapted for the stage. \nMr. Schwartz’s most recent stage musical\, Wicked\, opened in the fall of 2003 and is currently running on Broadway and in several other productions around the world. He received another Grammy for the cast recording\, and in 2008\, Wicked reached its 1\,900th performance on Broadway\, making Mr. Schwartz the only songwriter in Broadway history ever to have three shows run more than 1\,900 performances. \nHis first opera\, Séance on a Wet Afternoon\, premiered at Opera Santa Barbara in the fall of 2009 and was subsequently produced by New York City Opera. His frequently performed choral works include “Testimony”\, based on the It Gets Better Project\, “Keramos\,” and part of the Tyler Clemente Suite. He has also released two singer/songwriter CDs\, Reluctant Pilgrim and Uncharted Territory. \nMr. Schwartz has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2015\, he received the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for his humanitarian and mentorship contributions to theatre. A book about his career\, Defying Gravity\, has been released by Applause Books. \nUnder the auspices of the ASCAP Foundation\, he has been the artistic director of musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty years\, as well as conducting workshops for aspiring musical theatre writers and performers in countries around the world\, including Australia\, Germany\, Latvia\, and Kenya. He is also a past president and current council member of the Dramatists’ Guild. \nAbout Jason Seber\nConductor \nJason Seber is known for his inviting and engaging approach on and off the podium. A strong believer in the eclectic experiences which today’s symphony orchestras offer their communities\, he strives to make music of many genres and styles accessible\, relevant\, and meaningful to diverse audiences across the country. \nSeber has conducted many leading American orchestras\, including the Charleston\, Colorado\, Detroit\, Duluth Superior\, Houston\, Indianapolis\, Kansas City\, Milwaukee\, Nashville\, National\, San Diego\, Santa Fe\, and St. Louis symphonies\, and the Louisville Orchestra\, among others. Upcoming performances include a debut with the Minnesota Orchestra\, as well as return engagements with Detroit\, Kansas City\, Louisville\, Nashville\, and St. Louis. Seber has had the pleasure of performing with a wide range of artists including Patti Austin\, Mason Bates\, Andrew Bird\, Boyz II Men\, Ashley Brown\, Jinjoo Cho\, Melissa Etheridge\, Ben Folds\, Renée Elise Goldsberry\, Paul Jacobs\, Wynonna Judd\, Lyle Lovett\, Natalie Merchant\, Brian Stokes Mitchell\, My Morning Jacket\, Leslie Odom Jr.\, Aoife O’Donovan\, Pink Martini\, Doc Severinsen\, Conrad Tao\, Bobby Watson\, and Joyce Yang. This summer he led orchestras across the country in Lyle Lovett and His Large Band’s summer tour. \nSeber served as associate conductor of the Kansas City Symphony from 2016 to 2022. In this position he led the symphony in over 300 performances on the Classical\, Pops\, Classics Uncorked\, Family\, Film + Live Orchestra\, Education\, and Christmas Festival series. He also served as co-host for the symphony’s podcast\, “Beethoven Walks into a Bar.” Prior to Kansas City\, Seber was the education and outreach conductor at the Louisville Orchestra from 2013 to 2016\, and music director of the Louisville Youth Orchestra from 2005 to 2016. \nA passionate advocate for music education\, Seber has led the Honors Performance Series orchestra in concert at Carnegie Hall\, the Sydney Opera House\, and Royal Festival Hall in London. He is a frequent guest conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra each summer and he has served as the All-State Orchestra conductor for Georgia\, Missouri\, and Pennsylvania\, and upcoming in 2024\, Kansas. \nAbout John Boswell\nPiano\nJohn Boswell has served as musical director for Judy Collins\, Andy Williams\, Bob Newhart\, Scott Coulter\, Maude Maggart\, Faith Prince\, Carmen Cusack\, Babbie Green\, Jason Graae\, and a host of other fine talents. John played the role of Moose in the national tour of Crazy for You\, and has appeared on The Tonight Show\, The Today Show\, CBS This Morning\, Live with Regis And Kathie Lee\, General Hospital\, and was the piano-playing hands of Nancy McKeon on the sitcom\, The Facts Of Life. \nRecent concerts with symphonies have included Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert\, Blockbuster Broadway!\, Sheena Easton and Scott Coulter: The Spy Who Loved Me\, and Music of the Knights. John has been heard singing in the shows Three Men and a Baby Grand\, Cinema Toast\, Broadway Today\, Wiseguys\, and the New York cult hit\, Cashino. Broadway/off-Broadway credits include Crazy For You\, The Secret Garden\, LIZA! Steppin’ Out At Radio City Music Hall\, Back To Bacharach and David\, and The Kathy And Mo Show: Parallel Lives. His monthly concerts in 2017 at the Gardenia in Los Angeles have been crowd pleasers. \nJohn has eight CDs of original piano music and a ninth on the way. While a student at UCLA\, John received the Frank Sinatra Award for popular instrumentalists. \nAbout Shaleah Adkisson\nVocals \nShaleah Adkisson has been seen on Broadway and on tour in Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical\, and off Broadway in the revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical\, Rent. Her many regional theater credits includeJubilee (Arena Stage)\, Clybourne Park\, Avenue Q (Arkansas Repertory Theatre)\, The Hot Mikado\, Beehive: The ’60s Musical\, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Broward Stage Door Theatre)\, Grease\, Nunsense (Murry’s Dinner Playhouse)\, and Children of Eden (Arkansas Repertory Theatre). Shaleah regularly performs in New York City and on tour with Soul Picnic Productions (Back to the Garden and August 1969: A Tribute to the Women of Woodstock). Visit shaleahadkisson.com for more information. \nAbout Scott Coulter\nVocals \nScott Coulter\, star of the Emmy-nominated A Christmas Carol: The Concert on PBS\, is one of New York’s most honored vocalists. For his work in cabaret\, Scott has received five MAC Awards\, five Bistro Awards\, and two Nightlife Awards. In addition to his solo concert work\, Scott regularly performs in concert with a variety of legendary performers including Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz and Grammy-winner Sheena Easton. Schwartz has said\, “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.” \nScott has performed with symphonies all over the world including those of San Francisco\, Baltimore\, Seattle\, Phoenix\, Winnipeg\, St. Louis\, and Calgary. He has created many touring concert events including Blockbuster Broadway!\, Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin\, You’ve Got a Friend: The Music of the Brill Building\, Music of the Knights\, and with The ASCAP Foundation\, Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert. \nScott is founder/owner of Spot-On Entertainment and Spot-On Arts Academy\, and is a resident director of programming at 54 Below (Broadway’s Supper Club) in NYC. He is the artistic director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and founder of The Pocono Pops! Scott is a proud graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music\, which honored him with the CCM Young Alumni Award in 2010 and CCM’s Distinguished Service Award in 2020. Visit spot-onentertainment.com for more information. \nAbout Debbie Gravitte\nVocals \nTony Award-winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbins’ Broadway)\, one of Broadway’s biggest personalities\, has found herself in demand from the Broadway stage to the concert stage and beyond. After making her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song\, she went on to appear in Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award nominee)\,Blues in the Night\, Ain’t Broadway Grand\, Zorba\, Chicago\, and Les Misérables. \nDebbie has performed her nightclub act worldwide\, from New York’s Rainbow and Stars\, 54 Below\, and Birdland to London’s Pizza on the Park\, and back home again to Atlantic City\, where she has had the honor of performing with Jay Leno\, Harry Anderson\, and the legendary George Burns. A favorite with symphony audiences\, she has sung with over 175 orchestras around the world. On TV\, Debbie co-starred on the CBS series Trial and Error\, was seen on NBC’s Pursuit of Happiness\, and starred in several specials for PBS including Live from the Kennedy Center\, The Boston Pops Celebrate Bernstein\, Rodgers & Hart for Great Performances\, and Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Celebration. \nDebbie has four solo CDs to her credit\, including her latest release\, Big Band Broadway\, along with Defying Gravity\, The MGM Album\, and Part Of Your World: The Music Of Alan Menken. Debbie has sung with the New York City Ballet in Peter Martin’s Thou Swell at Lincoln Center\, appeared with Bette Midler in the Universal Feature\, Isn’t She Great?\,and can be heard as one of the voices in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Debbie is the proud mother of three beautiful children. \nAbout Michael McCorry Rose\nVocals\nMichael recently wrapped production on Disney’s live action film\, Disenchanted\, starring Amy Adams and Maya Rudolph\, directed by Adam Shankman. Prior to that\, he starred in Daniel Levine’s film adaptation of Snapshots\, which received a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. On Broadway\, he has appeared in the Tony Award-winning musical\, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder\, Wicked\, and the first national tour of Anastasia. In New York\, Michael has appeared in concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center\, Avery Fisher Hall\, Symphony Space\, Birdland\, Green Room 42\, and Feinstein’s/54 Below. \nHe regularly appears in concert with his long-time partner Stephen Schwartz\, and one of their concerts starring Scott Coulter and Debbie Gravitte was filmed for PBS’ Great American Songbook Concert Series at NJPAC\, aired in the summer of 2016 and nominated for a 2017 Regional Emmy Award. \nMichael has performed with symphonies and concert orchestras across the United States. Internationally\, he has performed in concert at the Adelaide Music Festival in Australia\, and for the U.S. State Department in Nairobi\, Kenya and São Paulo\, Brazil. His theatrical credits include roles at regional theaters such as the Paper Mill Playhouse\, Williamstown Theater Festival\, Yale Repertory Theater\, Primary Stages\, Capital Repertory Theater\, and Project Shaw in New York City. \nOriginally from San Diego\, he holds a B.A. in Mass Communication Studies from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, where he appeared in Carol Burnett’s directorial debut of Once Upon a Mattress. He studies at the Jen Waldman Studio and The Actor’s Gym in New York. URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/stephen-schwartz-friends/ LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/StephenSchwartzFriends-.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230913T201402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T114820Z UID:2947-1698523200-1698523200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:THE EMO NIGHT TOUR DESCRIPTION:Funtime Presents\nThe Emo Night Tour\nAges 18+\nGovernment Issued ID Required \nThe greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase… (including this event\, which has been raging all across the country since 2015 and is only getting BIGGER AND BETTER)! \nThe Emo Night Tour Band will play some of the biggest emo songs in existence with the ENT DJ’s spinning all the angst your teenage dirtbag heart desires all night long that will make you feel like you’re at Warped Tour ‘08 minus all the dust and melting in the sun! \nSo just imagine going to a show and hearing Taking Back Sunday\, Fall Out Boy\, Panic! At The Disco\, My Chemical Romance and many more\, all only playing their best songs…all night long in a dance club atmosphere. \nThese shows will be selling out and fast\, so make sure to Tell All Your Friends and Sugar\, Come Down! URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/the-emo-night-tour-2/ LOCATION:Town Ballroom\, 681 Main St.\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The_29931692108959.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230930T132504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230930T132504Z UID:3875-1698523200-1698523200@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Alex Bugnon DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Alex Bugnon URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/an-evening-with-alex-bugnon/ LOCATION:Shea’s 710 Theater\, 710 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AlexSmilingatPiano.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T150226 CREATED:20230915T163827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T163827Z UID:3119-1698778800-1698778800@bornbuffalo.com SUMMARY:SONGBIRDS DESCRIPTION:Songbirds are coming back to Buffalo Iron Works\, and they’re dialing the spook factor up to thirteen! \nCome out for a mystical night of dancing\, costumes\, and all your Fleetwood favorites (and more) on Tuesday\, October 31st for the Halloween bash of the year. \nWe’ll have themed drinks at killer prices and a costume contest with prizes for multiple categories. \nSo ditch the kids and spend Halloween the way you really want—dressing up\, singing your heart out\, and partying with the witchiest tribute band in town! \nSongbirds \nSongbirds is a young and fast-rising Fleetwood Mac tribute band that’s been rocking across WNY since late 2021. With hit appearances at events like East Aurora Music Festival\, the Old Falls Street Concert Series\, and the FMX Anniversary Show at Buffalo Iron Works\, this band has become a fast favorite for classic rockers\, party-goers\, and live music fans of any persuasion. \nCrowds go wild for their instrumental proficiency\, tight harmonies\, and dynamic stage presence. Follow @songbirdswny to join The Flock and see what all the hype is about! \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $10 ADV/$15 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+ URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/songbirds/ LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Buffalo Event,Live Music,Nightlife ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bornbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Songbirds.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR