Live Music Line-up
Friday 5:15 - 10:00pm
Grace Strumberg
5:15 - 6:15pm
Grace Stumberg is a singer/songwriter based out of Buffalo, New York. Stumberg's style can be described as indie folk with a very percussive style of guitar playing. Her voice transcends spirit and holds both power in range as well as an effortless dynamic of soul. Grace also serves as backup singer for folk legend Joan Baez and has traveled the world sharing the stage with artists such as the Indigo Girls, Robert Plant, Josh Ritter, and more. She has been mentioned in the Rolling Stone Magazine recognizing her performance at the Beacon Theatre for Ms Baez's 75th birthday party. She continues to travel with Ms Baez while performing in her home town of Buffalo, NY and anywhere there are ears.
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Creek Bend
6:45 - 8:00pm
Creek Bend is a Bluegrass band based in Buffalo, NY that has been serving up good, hot bluegrass music for over thirty years. Their favorite engagements each year have been playing and producing local concerts with the greatest names in Bluegrass music including; The Johnson Mountain Boys, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, the Bluegrass Cardinals, Tony Trischka, Lynn Morris, the Country Gentleman and Bill Monroe (some 40 - 50 shows total). Their highly successful concert series not only allowed them the opportunity to present the best that Bluegrass has to offer to the audiences of Western New York and Southern Ontario but it has given Creek
Bend the truly unique opportunity to watch
and learn from the best.
Yellow Jack
8:45 - 10pm
ROWDY ROOTS MUSIC FROM THE LAST 200 YEARS
Fiddle tunes, Appalachian murder ballads, bluegrass standards, folk revival anthems, union songs, ballads
and spirituals can be found shoulder-to-shoulder in our eclectic live sets with more modern fare like the Grateful Dead, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Avett Brothers, Michelle Shocked, Old Crow Medicine Show,
the Carter Family, Bright Eyes, Violent Femmes,
Pete Seeger and really too many more.
Main Stage
Acoustic Stage
The Echoes
6:15 - 6:45pm
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The Echoes cover folk rock and some classics. From
Simon & Garfunkel to Brandi Carlile, they play with a passion for harmony in their favorite music. The Echoes are made up of Andy Bannister on guitar/vocals, Marissa Bannister on violin/vocals, Katie Berquist on keys/vocals, John Lehner
on bass, and the legendary
Howard Wilson on percussion.
The Echoes
8:15 - 8:45pm
The Echoes cover folk rock and some classics. From
Simon & Garfunkel to Brandi Carlile, they play with a passion for harmony in their favorite music. The Echoes are made up of Andy Bannister on guitar/vocals, Marissa Bannister on violin/vocals, Katie Berquist on keys/vocals, John Lehner
on bass, and the legendary
Howard Wilson on percussion.
Saturday 12-10pm
Main Stage
Kickstart Rumble
12 - 1pm
The members of KsR all have a passion for music that comes out on stage. KsR is still delivering its own brand of music with a vintage sound. There's always dancing and their fans are definitely not shy. Everything else aside, one thing is for sure, they guarantee a high energy show filled with All-American Rock and Roll!
KICKSTART RUMBLE is:
Michael Pinelli - Vocals, Guitar
Jeff Schaller - Drums, Vocals
Matt Schutt - Bass, Saxophone
Dan Delano - Keyboard, Saxophone
Johnny Hart and the Mess 1:30 - 2:45pm
Johnny Hart and the Mess celebrate the history of rock n roll while paving the way for a new era. With influences from across the board, the band has its roots soaked in rock, but wanders off the beaten bath and delves into various veins of music and sound. Most fittingly is the "Alt Rock" nomenclature because it is so broadly defined. At any given point, the band can sound like a pop band, a blues band, a country band, a jam band or a funk band. Suppose it depends on the day, the night and the crowd.
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Having shared the stage with acts like Fitz and the Tantrums, Shaed, Grace Potter, The Sheepdogs, Andy Frasco, Neal Francis, Joey Harkum and many more, Johnny Hart and the Mess have solidified themselves as a " Soulfully urgent Alt Rock Powerhouse".
Leroy Townes
3:15 - 4:30pm
More about the band coming soon
Crikwater
5:00 - 6:15pm
Born in the rustbelt Irish American neighborhood of South Buffalo, NY in 2010, Crikwater have become the premier Irish American Traditional Folk Band in Western New York. The pub-scene veterans offer up a mix of fiery fiddle tunes, rowdy pub sing-a-longs, elegant ballads & original songs, and have appeared numerous times at both the Buffalo Irish Festival & South Buffalo Irish Feis & Expo.
Boasting four multi-instrumentalists and an energetic live show, Crikwater stays true to folk conventions while adding to the venerable Irish and American folk music traditions with arrangements that include multi-part vocal harmonies and intricate musicianship.
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Liam Caulfield - Bouzouki, Mandolin, Bodhran, Harmonica,Whistle, Voice
Matthew Sperber - Guitar, Harmonica, Fiddle, Voice
Charlie Coughlin - Fiddle, Mandolin, Button Box, Whistle, Voice
Peter Zalocha - Banjos, Mandolin, Guitar, Voice
Ten Cent Howl
6:45 - 8:15pm
Back before computers and cell phones and i-everything, when we were still trying to find our way, in the corners
and pockets of our country when things were simpler, though always complicated by the human condition,
there was music. It spoke of the lives of our families; the older generations before you or me, before Mom
and Dad, before Grandma and Grandpa. It was the feeling of the soft blades of grass between your toes on a warm summer day; of a tall cold glass of lemonade after a back-breaking day of work in the hot sun. It was dancing with
your best girl under the stars. It was the voice of life and family and experience and love and heartbreak. It is where we come from and who we are; our roots. Generations later,
Ten Cent Howl has distilled that distinctly American experience into song once more.
Ten Cent Howl is:
Bill Smith - Vocals, acoustic guitar
Jerry Hall - Bass, vocals
Peter Ramos - Drums
Charlie Wesley - Electric guitar
Sasha Pack - Keyboards
Uncle Ben's Remedy 8:45 - 10pm
The sound of Uncle Ben’s Remedy is rooted in the small towns of western New York, where community still matters and music is a part of every event. The boys learned to play and sing in this small town atmosphere, giving their music the honest, back porch feel of the country music they love. Uncle Ben’s Remedy is Ben Westlund, Harmony Griffin, Shawn Huestis, Brendan O’Connor and Jimmy Royce, playing all sorts of traditional and rock n’ roll instruments and stomping the floors; all while singing their hearts out in service to the song. Available on iTunes and Google Play and available for streaming on RDIO, Spotify and other outlets, the band released their debut EP “Yesterday’s Clothes” in 2015 and followed by releasing their full length album, “Not Far From the Tree” in April of 2016. Spurred on by local airplay of their single “Fire in the Field”
on Buffalo’s Country, Classic Rock, and Alternative
stations, UBR quickly sold the first 2500 copies of their record out of their converted school bus, playing
every small town and honky-tonk they could find.
Acoustic Stage
Brothers Blue
1 - 1:30 pm
Old-Timey Blue Country String Grass Music! A Finger Lakes born trio of songwriters that flirt with Bluegrass, Celtic, and swampy Cajun country sounds as they weave three-part harmonies over a tapestry of fiddle, banjo, and guitar virtuosity. Featured as emerging artists both by the Greyfox Bluegrass Festival and the Golden Link Folk Singing Society, their performance is well-rounded and polished like river rocks, always reflective of the hills and lakes they came from. Their tight huddle around the microphone and contemplative songs leave a lasting impression on the lucky listener.
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Brothers Blue
2:45 - 3:15pm
As teenagers, Benny Haravitch and Matthew Sperber began learning songs together on an acoustic guitar they brought on bicycle trips throughout the Finger Lakes region. Growing up together in Honeoye, NY, the boys came to appreciate playing music early on. Matthew made his way to Buffalo, NY where he met Irish fiddler Charlie Coughlin, and the trio was forged. Together they spread the joy of fiddle tunes, the strength of community, and the living tradition of folk music.
Leah Rankin4:30 - 5pm
Leah Rankin is one of the leading cellists playing traditional Irish music today. She has played alongside some of the most reputable musicians in the Irish music world and has appeared on close to a dozen albums in a variety of genres. Notable live performances include The Ferryman on Broadway, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the NYC Irish Center, The American Irish Historical Society, NYC Irish American Writers & Artists Salon, NYC Tartan Week, BB King Blues Club, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Fairport Music Festival, South Buffalo Irish Festival, Dublin Irish Festival, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and all three stages at Carnegie Hall. Learn more about Leah and her public relations firm promoting the Celtic arts at www.batcellopr.com.
Leah Rankin
6:15 - 6:45pm
Leah Rankin is one of the leading cellists playing traditional Irish music today. She has played alongside some of the most reputable musicians in the Irish music world and has appeared on close to a dozen albums in a variety of genres. Notable live performances include The Ferryman on Broadway, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the NYC Irish Center, The American Irish Historical Society, NYC Irish American Writers & Artists Salon, NYC Tartan Week, BB King Blues Club, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Fairport Music Festival, South Buffalo Irish Festival, Dublin Irish Festival, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and all three stages at Carnegie Hall. Learn more about Leah and her public relations firm promoting the Celtic arts at www.batcellopr.com.
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8:15 - 8:45pm
More about the band coming soon.