Set at perhaps the most unusual outdoor event space in town, the Buffalo Niagara Blues Festival takes place on the grounds of Silo City, an impressive collection of grain elevators and silos along the Buffalo River. Buffalo Niagara Blues Festival – July 2020
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For more than 20 years, these free concerts have celebrated the memory of local jazz legend James “Pappy” Martin. Park features the local, national and international artists who carry jazz traditions forward. Over the course of two weekends in July, the Pappy Martin Legacy Masten Jazz Festival, held at Martin Luther King, Jr. Pappy Martin Legacy Masten Jazz Festival – July 2020 Filling the streets of the Cobblestone District with local vendors, eats and music lovers, the festival features big names and talented local acts rocking out on four stages. buffalo Cobblestone Live – July 31 – August 1, 2020Įntering its fourth year, Cobblestone Live has become downtown Buffalo’s signature summer music festival. For more than 20 years, this tradition has filled the stadium with patriotic music and the skies with the largest fireworks show of the season. Independence Eve with the BPO – July 3, 2020įollowing a Buffalo Bisons’ game, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus will take the field. Dance competitions, performing arts showcases and a traditional drum procession are just the start at this weekend-long festival. The Strawberry Moon Festival links amazing musical performances to the culture and history of the indigenous peoples that called the lands surrounding Artpark home. Strawberry Moon Festival at Artpark – June 27 – 28, 2020 Family and dog friendly, these outdoor concerts are one of the highlights of Buffalo’s summer music scene. Pack a bottle of wine and some cheese and crackers for a music-filled Tuesday night picnic on the beautiful, tree-lined, Olmsted-designed Bidwell Parkway.
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Bidwell Concert Series – Tuesdays, June – August 2020
Sway to the tunes of local rock, bluegrass and folk acts as you walk the square filled with artisan vendors, food trucks, and fun and games. Larkin Square’s Wednesday night concert series, Live at Larkin, is quite the weeknight bash. Live at Larkin – Wednesdays, June 10 – August 26, 2020 This biannual grassroots music festival allows visitors to walk or bike from porch to porch sampling the music of dozens of local artists. The quaint porches of the Elmwood Village neighborhood become the stages for local musicians at Porchfest. Here are a dozen reasons to make a musical trip to Buffalo in 2020. His transcriptions of the music of James Booker (The James Booker Collection, Hal Leonard) and Professor Longhair have become standard reference tools for pianists the world over.There’s a long tradition here of festivals and outdoor concerts bringing together fans who enjoy the energy and excitement of live performances. Since then he has served at the pleasure of notable acts as Maria Muldaur, Leigh “Li’l Queenie Harris, Cookie Gabriel, Bruce Hornsby, The Afghan Whigs, Papa Mali, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, The Wild Tchoupitoulas Indian Tribe, Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes and The Pfister Sisters. By the time he earned his masters degree in Jazz Piano, he found that the city had gotten its teeth into him, so he stayed. Josh moved from his native Ohio to New Orleans to study piano with Ellis Marsalis in the mid- 90s. At 11 his parents gave into his pleas for piano lessons and bought him his first piano.
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– is sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Fund for the Arts, Erie County, and Adams Mark Hotel & Events Center.Īt the age of five Joshua Paxton received a little yellow toy piano that he banged on for years, playing along with TV jingles and music on the radio by ear. The Big Easy in Buffalo – a program of Arts Services Initiative of WNY, Inc. Other acts at the Fest include David Bromberg Quintet & Band, John Nemeth, Tom Hambridge, Keesha Pratt Band, and Reverend Raven & The Chain Smokin Altar Boys.Ī limited number of free tickets are available through the Arts Access program call 71 x514 for those.
The Big Easy in Buffalo presents Josh Paxton performing a solo piano set as part of the Buffalo Niagara Blues Festival on July 14 at Silo City! Josh Paxton at the Buffalo Niagara Blues Festival
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