Summer Events

Young Audiences WNY teaching artists are busy offering programs year round, and can often be found performing at public events that are not affiliated with Young Audiences WNY.  There are many opportunities to see these teaching artists in performances throughout the summer, many of which we have listed below.

Public Events featuring Young Audiences WNY Teaching Artists:

RobinROBIN BROX

  • July 28, 7:30-9:30:  Buffalo Infringement Festival, Saucebox Poetry Reading  -- Saucebox is a small press and occasional performance series featuring women artists. For Infringement 2010, Saucebox will feature poets Robin Brox, Janna Willoughby, Soma Feldmar, Morani Kornberg-Weiss, Florine Melnyk, and more. At Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen Street, Buffalo. All events are free and all-ages.

GLENN COLTON

  • August 3, Noon: M&T Plaza Event Series, One M&T Plaza in downtown Buffalo

MICHELE COSTA / theatreFigüren

  • The Edge -- theatreFigüren's newest production for the 2010 Buffalo Infringement Festival. A puppetry love letter to the city of Here and it’s inhabitants.  With their toes tenaciously perched on the ledge of rusty grandeur, they manage to prevail with quiet declarations of “Yes!”
    Admission is $2. This production is appropriate for ages 8 - 108.
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    • July 29th, 5:30 pm: RustBelt Books
    • July 30th, 6:45 pm: RustBelt Books
    • July 31st, 4 pm: Crane Library

THE HILL BROTHERS

  • August 4, Noon: M&T Plaza Event Series, One M&T Plaza in downtown Buffalo

MANYA FABINIAK

  • August 4, Noon- 3 pm:  Manya Fabiniak presents her interactive Visioning Power of Mandalas workshop during Explore & More Children's Museum's Amazing Mandalas! event. Admission is $5 for adults and children over 1, and is free for children 1 and younger.

SARAH HOOPER

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  • August 1: Rochester Puerto Rican Day Festival
  • August 3: Elmwood Village Association's Picnic in the Parkway (Bidwell Pkwy)

IN JEST

  • August 6, Noon: M&T Plaza Event Series, One M&T Plaza in downtown Buffalo

ljpLATIN JAZZ PROJECT

  • August 3, Noon:  UB Summer Concert Series
  • August 3, 7 pm: Elmwood Village Association Free Summer Concert Series, Bidwell Parkway
  • August 23, Noon: M&T Plaza Event Series, One M&T Plaza in downtown Buffalo

tmjMELISSA KATE / TAYLOR MADE JAZZ

  • July 31: Queen City Jazz Festival
  • August 9:  Veterans Appreciation Day, USS Little Rock

GERALD MEAD

  • Exhibits through August 28: Gerald Mead has a solo exhibition of his work on view at Exhibit A Contemporary Art, a gallery in Corning, NY through August 28 and he is part of a four-person exhibition titled "Curiouser and Curiouser" at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY that is on view through August 25.

LadiesFirstLADIES FIRST

  • July 31, Noon: The Ladies First Jazz Big Band is playing  at the 5th Annual Queen City Jazz Festival Broadway and Michigan to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Colored Musicians Club.(Free)
  • August 7, 5-7 pm: The Ladies First Jazz quintet is playing at Church of the Advent, ($10 for BBQ dinner)
  • August 29, 10 am:The Ladies First Jazz Trio is playing  at the Elmwood Arts Festival at the Wilson Farm Tent (Free)
  • August 29, 7 pm: The Ladies First Jazz Big Band is playing at Niawanda Park in the Band Shell for the summer concert series. (Free)

Larry MossLARRY MOSS

  • August 6:  Hungerford Urban Artisans' First Friday (Open house at 1115 E. Main Street, 14609)

 

MIKE RANDALL AND FRIENDS

  • Mike RandallAugust 5, Noon: M&T Plaza, Children's Week
  • August 7, 11 am: Delavan-Yorkshire Library, Reading Is Magic!
  • August 19, 7 pm: Salamanca Library, Reading Is Magic!
  • August 26, 7 pm: Anderson Lee Library, Silver Creek, NY. Reading Is Magic!

DAVE RUCH

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  • August 28, 2 pm:    Canal Street String Band at Elmwood Ave Festival of the Arts, Buffalo NY
  • August 28, 6-8:30 pm:    Open Maritime Music Session + Learn to Play Hambone, Buffalo NY
  • August 29, 6 pm & 7:15 pm:    Erie Canal Harbor, Buffalo NY

SMUDGE FUNDAES

  • August 7, 2:30-3:30 pm: Buffalo Blues & BBQ Festival, Children's Tent, Lasalle Park

sueSUSAN ROZLER

Performances at Allegany State Park from July 19-23
Directions: take the 219 to 17(towards Jamestown), Quaker exit. That road leads you right to the Quaker amphitheater.

  • July 29, 7:30-8:30 pm: Red House Beach House (Rain-Beehunter shelter)
  • July 21, 7;30-8:30 pm: Quaker Amphitheater
  • July 22, 1:30-2:30 pm:  Red House Beach House
  • July 23, 7:30-8:30 pm: Quaker Amphitheater
  • July 25, 5-8 pm: Root Five (w/Joe Rozler -Sid Winkler Duo), at 4914
  • July 28, 7 pm: Lockport Library/Great Garage Concert. Meet the Garbophone (a xzylophone made out of car parts and saw blades)!