Kevin Naquin & The Ossun Playboys February 25 Sportsmens Tavern in The Big Easy in Buffalo series, coming at you for a matinee on Sunday February 25 at Sportsmens Tavern! Just $10 at the door. Doors at noon, music at 1 pm (no opener, two sets). Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys have arrived! This [...]
CJ Chenier & The Twang Gang February 13 Sportsmens Tavern Celebrate Mardi Gras Day February 13 with a Louisiana zydeco master and one of Buffalo's best bands! Join the legendary CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band for a night of blazing zydeco, with special guests The Twang Gang! Doors at 5, music at [...]
The female staff of Arts Services Initiative of WNY was featured in BUFFALO BOSS BABES. Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we raise them. May we be them. This week's Buffalo Boss Babes is a bit different than we have done in the past :) We are featuring the dynamic group of [...]
By Tracey Drury  –  Reporter, Buffalo Business First Dec 18, 2017, 12:05pm While a search continues for a permanent leader at the Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, board members have appointed Jennifer Swan to interim executive director for a six-month period. Swan, who has served as associate director for a half dozen years, will work with the board to [...]
Bonerama Sunday, November 5, 2017 6PM Doors Buffalo Iron Works Formed in New Orleans in 1998, by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein (who from 1990-2006, were also members of Harry Connick Jr.'s big band), Bonerama bills itself as a brass/funk/rock band but Bonerama is much more than that. Bonerama is a New Orleans [...]
The Big Easy in Buffalo and Artpark present Galactic, opening for Gov't Mule! Tuesday, August 8, 2017 4:45PM Gates Open | 6:30PM Show Artpark Amphitheater Tickets available by phone at 1-888-223-6000 | Online | In person at the Artpark Box Office Box Office hours: Monday- Saturday 10am-4pm, Concert days 10am-9pm It’s been more than 20 [...]
Rebirth Brass Band Friday, June 9, 2017 7PM Doors | 8PM Show Tralf Music Hall 622 Main Street Street, Buffalo Seen on HBO’s Treme or at their legendary Tuesday night gig at The Maple Leaf, Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band is a true New Orleans institution. Formed in 1983 by the Frazier brothers, the band has evolved from [...]
The Big Easy in Buffalo presents Tom McDermott performing a solo piano show! Friday, July 14, 2017 6PM Doors | 8PM Show Pausa Art House 19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo $7 admission - Tickets are cash only and available at the door. Tom McDermott is one of New Orleans’ premiere piano players. For much of the 1990s [...]
Sunday, February 26, 2017 Sportsmens Tavern 326 Amherst Street, Buffalo 12PM (noon) with headliner TERRY & THE ZYDECO BAD BOYS! Joined by local favorites TEN CENT HOWL and THE BUFFALO BRASS MACHINE performing both separately and together as "Ten Cent Brass Machine". Special thanks to our sponsors: the New York State Council on the Arts, Erie [...]
Monday, October 3, 2016 UB Center for the Arts 103 Center for the Arts Buffalo, New York 14260 7:30PM $47 | $37 Click here to purchase tickets. New Orleans native Trombone Shorty is the bandleader and frontman of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a hard-edged funk band that employs hip-hop beats, rock dynamics and improvisation [...]
