Events

The Divi Romē Band is back at Duende! Come down for all original afrobeats, reggae, and afri-jazz. 

Friday, July 26th 7-9pm // Backyard Stage

*Weather Permitting*

Mimosas & Minuets Chamber Music Series presents

The Jon Lehning Saxophone Quartet

Tom Stahl and The Dangerfields is a 2017 Buffalo Music Hall of Fame & award winning original folk rock band from Buffalo.

Saturday, July 27th 6-8pm // Backyard Stage

*Weather Permitting*

SUN JUNE

Late Night Show @ Duende in partnership with Just Buffalo's Silo City Reading Series

9:30pm // Backyard Stage

$10 online // $15 at the door

Check them out 

The first two minutes of Sun June’s third album, Bad Dream Jaguar, is a reverie - Laura Colwell’s voice floats above a slow-burn, sparse synth, conjuring a tipsy loneliness, a hazy recollection, a disco ball spinning at the end of the night for an empty dance floor. Sun June’s music often feels like a shared memory – the details so close to the edge of a song that you can touch them. And as an Austin-based project, their music has also always felt strangely and specifically Texan – unhurried, long drives across an impossible expanse of openness, refractions shimmering off the pavement in the heat. 

But on Bad Dream Jaguar, Sun June is unmoored. The backdrop of Texas is replaced by longing, by distance, by transience, and a quiet fear. The only sense of certainty comes from the murky past. It’s a dispatch from aging, when you’re in the strange in-between of yourself: there’s a clear image of the person you once were and the places you inhabited, generational curses and our families, but the future feels vast, unclear – and the present can’t help but slip through your fingers.

There’s a constant push-and-pull in Sun June’s songwriting. Vocalist and band leader Colwell and guitarist Stephen Salisbury have shared songwriting duties since the band’s inception, but Bad Dream Jaguar is the first time they collaborated from afar. Salisbury left Texas for North Carolina in 2020, shifting the way the band recorded, and beginning a long-distance relationship between him and Colwell. It gave more room to Sun June’s other members – lead guitarist Michael Bain (whose lithe guitar parts Colwell credits as imparting that “dust ol’ Texas sound”), bassist Justin Harris, and drummer Sarah Schultz – to explore other projects. And for Colwell, it made it easier to explore songwriting as an individual, living and writing songs alone.  -- Keeled Scales 

Sunday Jazz Series presents

John Bacon Jazz

Join in and enjoy live music 4-6pm every Sunday at Duende!

Sunday, July 28th 4-6pm // Backyard Stage

*Weather Permitting*

Steve Marino & Damion

with Patchwork and Just Platinum

$10 at the Door

Every Monday

!!JOIN US!! Monday-Wednesday from 4-6pm for $1 off WINE and DRAFTS

Join Duende favorites Sue Kincaid and Grace Strumberg on Thursday, August 1st 6-8pm for a night of live music in the backyard!

Ron Davis aka LeeRon Zydeco is a professional musician with over fifty years of experience in recording and live performance. His credits include the Four Tops, Spencer Davis, Otis Rush, Bernard Purdie, Sean Costello and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. He has played keyboards with significant Buffalo bands such as The Lonely Souls, Full House, Barbara St. Clair, Spoon and the House Rockers, Posse, Blue Ox, and Argyle Street Band. He is a prolific composer who continues to blend his interest in diverse musical styles into his writing and playing. Ron has released ten albums of original music that are featured in the multimedia section of this site.

Friday, August 2nd 7-9pm // Backyard Stage

Mimosas & Minuets Chamber Music Series presents

Hope Wilk, harp

Saturday, August 3rd 1-2pm // Main Bar Stage

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A highly regarded musician and artist, Hope Wilk was most recently named a fellow of The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performances Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School.

Originally from New York; Hope has played harp with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, she has participated in music festivals such as The Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA.

Hope holds degrees from The Royal Conservatory's Glenn Gould School and New England Conservatory of Music, where she was awarded The John Cage Award for her commitment to contemporary music performance.

As a soloist, she has garnered acclaim for her performance of Ginastera’s Harp Concerto by being titled first runner-up in concerto competitions with The Boston Pops and The NEC Symphony. Additionally, Hope was a prize winner in the American Harp Society's National Competition: Young Professional Division and most recently a quarter finalist in the Dutch Harp Festival’s World Harp Competition. --- www.hopewilkharpist.com

Sunny Side provides a full New Orleans style jazz band experience with 3 part harmonies, a solid rhythm section, and an energetic vocalist and dancer. 

Expect to become part of the experience as Sunny Side engages with energy and sound of what makes New Orleans such a special city. Be prepared to dance and sing.

Saturday, August 3rd 7-10pm // Bin Floor Stage

$5 at the Door

Duende Backyard

Tom Roberts is a Buffalo NY born and bred musician whose sound is deeply rooted in traditional blues, folk, and country, and incorporates elements of 60s/70s fold and rock and 90s/00s alternative.

With Tom on vocals/guitar his music is a reflection of a growing connection to his roots and a playful dedication to his craft.

Wednesday August 7th 6-8pm // Backyard Stage

High energy jazz for all ages! Come down to Duende for Kidd Kyle & The Big Deal

Thursday, August 8th 6-8pm // Backyard Stage

Mimosas & Minuets Chamber Music Series presents

Equinox String Quartet

Saturday, August 10th 1-2pm // Main Bar Stage

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Join Equinox String Quartet for a series of contemporary works.

Jessica Anthony and David Spring, violins

Lizzie Seward, viola

Sam Godus, cello

Originally from New York; Hope has played harp with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, she has participated in music festivals such as The Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA.

Hope holds degrees from The Royal Conservatory's Glenn Gould School and New England Conservatory of Music, where she was awarded The John Cage Award for her commitment to contemporary music performance.

As a soloist, she has garnered acclaim for her performance of Ginastera’s Harp Concerto by being titled first runner-up in concerto competitions with The Boston Pops and The NEC Symphony. Additionally, Hope was a prize winner in the American Harp Society's National Competition: Young Professional Division and most recently a quarter finalist in the Dutch Harp Festival’s World Harp Competition. --- www.hopewilkharpist.com

Sunday Jazz Series presents

The Wazmopolitans

Don't miss The Wazmopolitans with Dave Wasik on drums, Bob White on keyboard, and Greg Millar on guitar.

Sunday, August 10th // 4-6pm // Backyard Stage

Sunday Jazz Series presents

The Wazmopolitans

Don't miss The Wazmopolitans with Dave Wasik on drums, Bob White on keyboard, and Greg Millar on guitar.

Join in and enjoy live music 4-6pm Sundays at Duende!

Join Daniel Campo at Duende on Thursday, August 15th at 6pm to celebrate the recent release of Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons.

This book signing event is free to the public and copies of the book will be available for sale.

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Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons

By Daniel Campo

Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. Postindustrial DIY tells their stories. The culmination of more than a dozen years of on-the-ground investigation, ethnography, and historical analysis, author and urbanist Daniel Campo immerses the reader in this postindustrial landscape, weaving the perspectives of dozens of DIY protagonists as well as architects, planners, and preservationists. Working without capital, expertise, and sometimes permission in a milieu dominated by powerful political and economic interests, these do-it-yourself actors are driven by passion and a sense of civic duty rather than by profit or political expediency. They have craftily remade these sites into collective preservation projects and democratic grounds for arts and culture, environmental engagement, regional celebrations, itinerant play, and in-the-moment construc­tions. Their projects are generating excitement about the prospect of Rust Belt life, even as they often remain invisible to the uninformed passerby and fall short of professional preservation or environmental reclamation standards. Demonstrating that there is no such thing as a site that is “too far gone” to save or reuse, Postindustrial DIY is rich with case studies that demonstrate how great architecture is not simply for the elites or the wealthy. The citizen preservationists and urbanists described in this book offer looser, more playful, and often more publicly satisfying alternatives to the development practices that have transformed iconic sites into expensive real estate or a clean slate for the next profitable endeavor. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, historic preservation, city planning, and landscape architecture, Postindustrial DIY suggests new ways to engage, adapt, and preserve architecturally compelling sites and bottom-up strategies for Rust Belt revival.

Mimosas & Minuets Chamber Music Series presents

Jon Lehning, saxophone & Harry Graser, piano

Saturday, August 17th 1-2pm // Main Bar Stage

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Sunday Jazz Series presents

The Susan Peters Jazz Band

Join in and enjoy the Susan Peters Jazz Band featuring  Abdul Rahman Qadir on drums, Sir Walter Jedermann on piano, Peter Piccirilli on upright bass, and special guest Dr. Jazz on Saxes!

Sunday, August 18th 4-6pm // Backyard Stage

Chris Panfil is a solo performer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Vocalist, Mandolin, fiddle, harmonica and various guitar styles are his palette. 

Writing, singing and playing his original Americana influenced songs are his passion. Pop/Rock, Country "chestnuts" are also his favorites.

Thursday, August 22nd 6-8pm // Backyard Stage

The Beau Fleuve Backyard BBQ, is our Friday Night event of our signature 8th Annual Beau Fleuve Music & Arts Celebration Weekend.

The BBQ dates back in American history with all of the nostalgic feelings from seeing family, friends and loved one coming over for good eats, drinks and vibes. Beau Fleuve Backyard BBQ will be providing all the nostalgia at our first home in Silo City .

TICKETS

Sunday Jazz Series presents

The Susan Peters Jazz Band

Join in and enjoy the Susan Peters Jazz Band featuring  Abdul Rahman Qadir on drums, Sir Walter Jedermann on piano, Peter Piccirilli on upright bass, and special guest David Schiavone on Saxes!

Sunday, September 15th 4-6pm // Backyard Stage

Enjoy live music 4-6pm every Sunday at Duende!

Sunday Jazz Series presents

The Susan Peters Jazz Band

Join in and enjoy the Susan Peters Jazz Band featuring  Abdul Rahman Qadir on drums, Sir Walter Jedermann on piano, Peter Piccirilli on upright bass, and special guest Mark Filsinger on trumpet!

Sunday, October 20th 4-6pm // Main Bar Stage

Enjoy live music 4-6pm every Sunday at Duende!