Having worked with Johnny Hart for many years, with several groups, I have grown a deep appreciation for his musicianship, stagemanship, and frontman abilities. A […]
Elias Benavides
A goofy kid from Buffalo's lower west side who loved to play the guitar and loved live music. Has moved on to sound engineering, stage lighting, anything live music. Now he's writing about musicians on BR too. Why am I talking in the third person?
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About three years ago I was handling the stage production for an event called Vibrations. This event featured live music, art, and creativity produced and […]
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In response to Jeff Miers’ piece in last Friday’s Buffalo News, I was compelled to pen a commentary on it. This is something I wouldn’t […]
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Many years ago, I met up with my wife at the former Thursday at The Square, where we saw a group called Be Arthur perform. […]
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As a young lad, I picked up the guitar at age 11, and a whole new world opened up to me. It was then, that […]
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I was following up on a conversation in preparation for an upcoming event, when the publicist I was talking to invited me to another event […]
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A few years back, I was running the live entertainment for a local music club when the Grace Stumberg Band (GSB) popped up on the […]
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A few days ago, I was enjoying some vino with my neighbors, when the discussion switched (as is usually the case) to music. They asked […]
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Pat Martino Returns to Buffalo
It wasn’t that long ago that the jazz great c performed in Buffalo for the first time in 30 years. That first time back, he […]
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Buffalo based fashionista and entrepreneur Brittany LaBella held her third fashion show in as many years this past Sunday. Hosted at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, […]