The Buffalo News
By Aaron Besecker
NEWS NIAGARA REPORTER
Some familiar faces will perform as part of two popular, free concert series this summer.
Organizers this morning unveiled Artpark's complete summer lineup, which also includes performances by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and an Elvis musical starring Sally Struthers.
The picturesque venue on the Lower Niagara River became the first entertainment spot in Western New York to release full details on its free summer concert series, which are held on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
The announcement was made at the Barton Hill Hotel & Spa on Center Street.
Here's the lineup:
Tuesday in the Park
Series' concerts are free and start at 6:30 p.m.
June 15: War
June 22: Jimmie Vaughan & the Tilt-A-Whirl Band (featuring Lou Ann Barton)
June 29: America
July 6: The Guess Who
July 13: Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band
July 20: Creedence Clearwater Revisited
July 27: George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Aug. 3: Little Feat
Aug. 10: Doobie Brothers
Aug. 17: Foreigner
Aug. 24: Sara Evans
Aug. 31: The Machine performs Pink Floyd
Wednesdays at Artpark
Series' concerts are free and start at 6:30 p.m.
July 14: Katherine McPhee
July 21: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
July 28: John Brown's Body
Aug. 4: The Sadies
Aug. 11: Willie Nile Band
Aug. 18: Sloan
Aug. 25: The Trews
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Summerfest
8 p.m. July 24: Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
8 p.m. July 31: Beethoven, Coriolan Overture and Symphony No. 5
3 p.m. Aug. 1: Brahms, Academic Festival Overture; Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
Big Band Series
2 and 8 p.m. June 21: Glenn Miller Orchestra
2 and 8 p.m. July 26: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Big Band Show
All Shook Up
Starring Sally Struthers
8 p.m. Aug. 12
8 p.m. Aug. 13
2 and 8 p.m. Aug. 14
2 p.m. Aug. 15
2 and 8 p.m. Aug. 19
Other performances
8 p.m. May 22: Alice Cooper & Rob Zombie
7 p.m. June 2: Les Claypool & The Avett Brothers
7 p.m. July 8: Furthur
8 p.m. July 17: Great Big Sea
8 p.m. July 22: The Flaming Lips
8 p.m. July 23: Celtic Woman
8 p.m. Aug. 27: Bachman & Turner
For ticket information, call the Artpark box office at 754-4375 or go online to www.artpark.net. Tickets are also available through tickets.com outlets or by phone at (800) 223-6000.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Artpark Announces New Concerts
The Buffalo News
Rockin' at Artpark
Veteran rockers Bachman & Turner will bring their "Forged in Rock" tour to Artpark's mainstage theater for a show at 8 p.m. Aug. 27. Tickets are $59.50 for indoor reserved seating or $45 lawn seats and go sale at 10 a.m. on May 7 at the Artpark box office and through tickets.com. For tickets and information, call (888) 223-6000 or visit www.artpark.net.
Rockin' at Artpark
Veteran rockers Bachman & Turner will bring their "Forged in Rock" tour to Artpark's mainstage theater for a show at 8 p.m. Aug. 27. Tickets are $59.50 for indoor reserved seating or $45 lawn seats and go sale at 10 a.m. on May 7 at the Artpark box office and through tickets.com. For tickets and information, call (888) 223-6000 or visit www.artpark.net.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tragically Hip to play four Artpark shows
The Buffalo News
By Jeff Miers
NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC
The Tragically Hip — Canada’s most popular rock band and a huge fan favorite in Western New York — will perform four shows in five days at Artpark this June, The Buffalo News has learned.
The band, which sold out two shows at the Lewiston venue last summer, will launch its tour there at 7 p. m. June 2 and continue with shows at 7 p. m. on June 4, 5 and 6, according to promoter Fun Time Presents. Fun Time’s Artie Kwitchoff and Donny Kutzbach will announce the concerts today.
Tickets for all four shows are $59.50 apiece and will go on sale at noon Friday through Tickets.com and the Artpark box office. All seats are reserved pavilion seating.
The tour is to promote the Hip’s 12th studio album, “We Are the Same,” to be released April 7.
The Tragically Hip performed its first area show within the relatively intimate confines of Nietzsche’s in Allentown back in 1989. The band, led by Gordon Downie, has been performing here ever since, in venues ranging from the Town Ballroom, to Darien Lake Performing Arts Center to HSBC Arena, building a sizable and incredibly loyal Buffalo audience in the process.
Since its formation in Kingston, Ont., where it cut its teeth in a manner similar to many Buffalo groups — covering the songs of famous acts in tiny bars and gradually sneaking in more and more of its own material — the Tragically Hip has grown into one of the most successful bands ever in Canada, selling out arenas from Vancouver to Toronto.
Buffalo has long mirrored Canada’s Hip-mania. And though the Hip has amassed a vast fan base here and in other border cities such as Detroit, in most other parts of the United States, it remains more of a cult act, routinely playing in midsize clubs.
“We in Buffalo know what Canada knows,” said Kutzbach. “This is one of the last great rock bands of our era. There is a definite artistic side to the band; they’re great musicians, and Gord Downie is a wonderful poet. But there’s also always that salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar aspect to what they do. It’s real, genuine rock ’n’ roll, and that’s something to value, because it’s so rare today.”
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By Jeff Miers
NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC
The Tragically Hip — Canada’s most popular rock band and a huge fan favorite in Western New York — will perform four shows in five days at Artpark this June, The Buffalo News has learned.
The band, which sold out two shows at the Lewiston venue last summer, will launch its tour there at 7 p. m. June 2 and continue with shows at 7 p. m. on June 4, 5 and 6, according to promoter Fun Time Presents. Fun Time’s Artie Kwitchoff and Donny Kutzbach will announce the concerts today.
Tickets for all four shows are $59.50 apiece and will go on sale at noon Friday through Tickets.com and the Artpark box office. All seats are reserved pavilion seating.
The tour is to promote the Hip’s 12th studio album, “We Are the Same,” to be released April 7.
The Tragically Hip performed its first area show within the relatively intimate confines of Nietzsche’s in Allentown back in 1989. The band, led by Gordon Downie, has been performing here ever since, in venues ranging from the Town Ballroom, to Darien Lake Performing Arts Center to HSBC Arena, building a sizable and incredibly loyal Buffalo audience in the process.
Since its formation in Kingston, Ont., where it cut its teeth in a manner similar to many Buffalo groups — covering the songs of famous acts in tiny bars and gradually sneaking in more and more of its own material — the Tragically Hip has grown into one of the most successful bands ever in Canada, selling out arenas from Vancouver to Toronto.
Buffalo has long mirrored Canada’s Hip-mania. And though the Hip has amassed a vast fan base here and in other border cities such as Detroit, in most other parts of the United States, it remains more of a cult act, routinely playing in midsize clubs.
“We in Buffalo know what Canada knows,” said Kutzbach. “This is one of the last great rock bands of our era. There is a definite artistic side to the band; they’re great musicians, and Gord Downie is a wonderful poet. But there’s also always that salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar aspect to what they do. It’s real, genuine rock ’n’ roll, and that’s something to value, because it’s so rare today.”
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