M&T Summer Concert Series
Running from yesterday, June 9th, till August 29th, it brings one-hour performances from noon till 1 while downtowners enjoy their lunches. With every kind of music including jazz, soul, gospel, rock, dance, and more, it is a great way to get out and enjoy the day and get a new taste of a different music every single weekday.
There is not much seating, so if you want to sit and eat, better get there early. Otherwise stand and enjoy the music! The list of musicians is as follows:
Opening Week:
Mon. June 9th - Pirate Dreams
Tues. June 10th - Jazz Vocalist, Colleen Williams
Wed. June 11th - Reggae Cowboys
Thurs. June 12th - Westminster Community Charter School Band & Choir
Fri. June 13th - Old School B-Boys
WNED Week:
Mon. June 16th - Willie & The Reinhardts
Tues. June 17th - Doug Yeomans and Lo Blu Flame
Wed. June 18th - Hot Guitars
Thurs. June 19th - Dave Constantino Band
Fri. June 20th - Tommy Z Band
Bisons' Week:
Mon. June 23rd - LeeRon Zydeco & The Hot Tamales
Tues. June 24th - Blues Root
Wed. June 25th - Natural Elements (on stage) and Kennel Club of Buffalo (off stage)
Thurs. June 26th - The If's
Fri. June 27th - The David DeMarie Dancers
WBEN NewsRadio 930 Week:
Mon. June 30th - Laurie Bordonaro & the Mike Jones Trio
Tues. July 1st - Last Word Jazz Researchers
Wed. July 2nd - Community Music School Performers
Thurs. July 3rd - Morgan Street Stompers
Fri. July 4th - Bank Holiday in observance of Independence Day - no performance
Business First Week:
Mon. July 7th - Pointless Brothers
Tues. July 8th - Outer Circle Orchestra
Wed. July 9th - O'Connell & Company
Thurs. July 10th - The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Fri. July 11th – Frankfurters
Channel 2 “On Your Side” Week:
Mon. July 14th - Mark Mazur & the Little Big Band
Tues. July 15th - African-American Cultural Center's Dance & Performing Company
Wed. July 16th - Greater Refuge Temple Praise & Worship Choir
Thurs. July 17th - Carnival Kids Steel Band
Fri. July 18th - Unity Band
WNY Hall of Famers' Week:
Mon. July 21st - Barbara St. Clair & The Shadows
Tues. July 22nd - Big Wheelie & The Hubcaps
Wed. July 23rd - The Lance Diamond Show
Thurs. July 24th - Billy McEwen Band
Fri. July 25th - Joyryde & The Hitmen Horns
Children's Week with WIVB-TV News 4:
Mon. July 28th - Mime Internationale
Tues. July 29th - In Jest = Comedy & Variety; Zoomobile
Wed. July 30th - Chris Johnson's Family Magic Show
Thurs. July 31st - Susan Rozler & Mama Earth's Kitchen Band; Facepainters
Fri. August 1st - Buffalo Clown Alley
96.1 WJYE Week:
Mon. August 4th - Amherst Saxophone Quartet
Tues. August 5th - Ramblin' Lou Family Band from WXRL
Wed. August 6th - Creek Bend
Thurs. August 7th - Kickin' Rhythm Cloggers
Fri. August 8th - Terry Buchwald's Tribute to Elvis
The Buffalo News Week:
Mon. August 11th - Sentimental Journey Orchestra
Tues. August 12th - Beatlemagic
Wed. August 13th - MuscialFare Theatre Company
Thurs. August 14th - Barbara Levy Daniels & Friends
Fri. August 15th - Caribbean Extravaganza
Kiss 98.5 Week:
Mon. August 18th - Bar-Room Buzzards
Tues. August 19th - Muhammad School of Music
Wed. August 20th - An Irish Celebration
Thurs. August 21st - Disco Duck
Fri. August 22nd - Taylor Made Jazz
WKBW-TV Channel 7 Week:
Mon. August 25th - McCarthyizm
Tues. August 26th - Kevin Doyle and Quimica
Wed. August 27th - Jim Tudini Big Band
Thurs. August 28th - Rod Nickson Project
Fri. August 29th - JJ Swing
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NSphere
Sounds like good fun. Even though it "seems unnecessary to bring it up" you should probably include the show times. I'm assuming they're from 12-1, but you should include it...
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heathersmiles
Be a dear and bring some quarters for the street beggars, they really need all the help that we can offer.
Your generous donation of just pennies a day can help the poor victims of circumstance and life. Just pennies a day can help to ease their pain through self-medication or could buy them a much needed metro fare to Niagara Falls. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you could help a mugging victim to get home, or reunite a mother with her children. Your donation might even get this turrets sufferer a much needed room at the hostel. Just think, your donation could make the difference between buying that bus ticket or spending the night on the street.
Won't you please give?
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benfranklin
Nothing like a free concert series article to bring out an anti city rant from the most-recently-anti-bar-posting- heathersmiles. We can only hope that heatherfrowns never makes an appearance. Had you stuck with backhanding the beggars I'd have given you a pass, but the mugging victim, mother with lost child, or turrets sufferer ...? Do you have a point, or are we just waiting for the meds to kick in while surfing the net?
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kooksapalooza
ba-zing!
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getzvileone
The series will be much better when M&T decides to take the rainy day cancellations and move it inside the Main Place Mall (or their own large front foyer). In years past performers who had the bad luck to have rain on their concert date would perhaps take the day from work only to earn nothing when it began to rain. They may now pay performers a portion of the promised earnings when a rainout occurs if the artists think to stipulate this.
Wouldn't a concert or two inside the mall help to energize that place? They could have the concert in the food court to help vendors there.
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Quinn
Getzvilleone - Do the acts get paid for performing?
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getzvileone
The pro acts do get paid for performing. (think of it this way- if a performer earns $100. for such an engagement, performs one community concert like this per week over 50-52 weeks per year, they gross approximately an amazing $5000. for the year.)
School and community groups may not get paid, I don't know.
M & T forbids performers from selling merchandise such as cds, but I don't know why (as does the Taste of Buffalo the pay for which is dismal). If they really wanted to help performing artists and the performing arts as much as they would like you to think, they could allow acts to sell their cds, etc.
The Thursday concert this week is the school Mr. Wilmers & M & T have adopted, so they support that school in a number of ways.
I teach at other Buffalo Schools and have offered my groups there to perform my original songs (for kids) and received no reply. Maybe that's because I'm in the BTF whose members Mr. Wilmers assails and whose wages he has lead the way in freezing over the last 4 years?
At least M & T on this series sometimes pays the performers more what than parking and lunch would cost. Thursday at the Square (also supported by M & T) has purged most local acts from their stage claiming the series has 'grown' [too big for its own britches?]. I played in a local well known 10 piece group at Thursday at the Square about a half dozen times in the 90s and we would earn about $100 per man for an hr. set and $150 when we were the headliner. In more recent years Stephen Joseph from Buffalo Place has claimed 'playing there will make your career' and offered me $250. for a 10-piece band. He called to make that offer when I was vacationing in Cancun and I made the mistake of calling him right back on my phone line to confirm the opportunity and was charged $35. for the phone call.
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heathersmiles
Benfranklin - Lighten up already!
Obviously you have never been approached by turrets guy, the guy who hangs out on Allen and then Main asking for money to buy a bus ticket home, or the guy who has told me the same sob story about getting mugged at least once a month for the past 2 years. I run into these people along Main as I get off the metro and head to work, and then sometimes as I take my afternoon walk or go to lunch. The same characters hang out on Main Street during the day then head to Allen, Elmwood or Chippewa later at night, and ask for money using the same lines for years.
I wouldn't mind if they came up with something original or even tried, but these guys just expect the money. Why can't they play an instrument or juggle or something for the change? It sounds like they are probably making out better than the performers on stage at the end of the concert.
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benfranklin
Heather, I'm of the opinion that pan handlers, or in some cases more elaborate story tellers, approach women far more often than men. I am in the Allen area on an almost daily basis, and I don't recall the last time I was asked for money. I do give George his bottles/cans, but he's a regular, and at least it seems like he's working for his change.
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bfloghost
bf you must look like an uber bad ass or look like bum yourself not to get asked for change. are you ever on allen at night? I can walk past the same dudes ten times & get asked ten times for change.
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