[BLOCK PARTY] Maybe the Elmwood Village’s annual Porchfest block party is so popular because by the time it rolls around, after approximately six months of winter, folks are dying to explore their neighborhoods again—and the Elmwood Village, with its historic homes and beautiful architecture, is a great place to explore. For those who don’t know how Porchfest works, folks around the Elmwood Village sign up to host local bands on their porch.
Buffalo has always been an ardently flourishing music town, filled with people who want to help the scene and benefit worthy causes. Recently, those passions have escalated, as two individuals came together to start a new music and philanthropic movement in the Buffalo area. That’s where musician Max Muscato and event planner Alea Conte come in. The friends, who met each other three years ago by chance at one of Max’s concerts at Mr. Goodbar, started a nonprofit called Rock Autism this past October.
STACEY ROBINSON’s Imaginary Spear, 2015, is part of Our Community: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection, at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street) through May 28
EP: Eighty Dollar Kleenex by Bold Folly
Recommended if you like: The Flaming Lips, Lightning Bolt, Shellac
Walking into the new vape shop on Elmwood, 180 Smoke Vape Store, isn’t exactly like walking into your typical vape store. It feels more like walking into an Apple store with its sleek countertops, matching mod stools, and glass cases full of vaping accessories. Behind the counter is a huge array of what I guess you’d have to call craft vape juice. The company makes its own juice and almost strictly sells that.
[CLASSICAL MUSIC] This weekend at Kleinhans Music Hall, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Choir present a treat: a performance of Carl Orff’s powerful and magical Carmina Burana, the composer’s adaptation of a collection of secular medieval poems. It is, apart from his musical education program for children, the work for which Orff is most famous, and rightly so.
[SKATE PARTY] Swinging into the summer months with wheels on hardwood, the Well Rounded Peoples Party comes back on the second Sundays of May through July, starting this Sunday at Skateland. It’s a family-friendly afternoon event, running from 2-5pm with jams, grooves, and ballads curated by the ever in-demand DJ Sike.
[INDIE] A solid line up of indie and alternative rock is set up for Nietzsche’s this Wednesday, May 16 thanks to the folks over at NYS Music. Come early and stay late for rock band THIS, folk punks The Great Lakes, Toronto-based folk-pop band Citizen Jane, and post punk band Church Girls.