Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert News

New show announcements, a handful of postponements, and a curated list of essential summer concerts in the coming weeks

Jul 03, 2024

Hello, music lovers. Hope you’re all having an awesome and musical summer.

I’m dropping a curated list of shows covering a two-week period this time around, as I’m taking some vacation time next week - my always-on-the-move son Declan is spending his break from SZA tour back home with us, and that time together has become even more rare and precious as the years fly by. So I’ll be avoiding burying my face in a computer or a phone, to get the most out of the experience.

While he’s home, Music is Art is presenting an Alliance Session on Monday, July 15, and they’ve asked me to lead a live Q & A with Declan, about his life in music, experiences on the road, etc - just to finally drive home the point that ‘child is father to the man’, I guess. Hah! This is happening at Music is Art (617 Main St.) at 7 p.m. It’s free and open to all. Oh, and BYOB, too!

In other Music is Art News, if you haven’t yet heard, this year’s MIA Festival has been moved to the Outer Harbor, Lakeside Lawn and Terminal B Ampitheatre grounds. You can read the whole story here:

Music is Art Festival moves to Outer Harbor

Jeff Miers

July 2, 2024

Music is Art Festival moves to Outer Harbor

When Robby Takac and his Music is Art team announced in early Spring that their annual MIA Festival would be relocating from its home of many years at Buffalo Riverworks and neighboring Riverfest Park to the grounds of the AKG Art Museum, their enthusiasm was palpable.

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There seem to be an abundance of tour postponements happening, from Neil Young & Crazy Horse cancelling their whole tour, to Pearl Jam, who had to shuffle some European dates after Eddie Vedder fell ill.

Closer to home, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers’ Spirit Trail 25th Anniversary show originally slated for Monday, July 8 at the Riviera Theatre, has been bumped to Monday, October 7 at the same venue. Read about it here.

The Heart/Cheap Trick double bill scheduled for August 11 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo has been indefinitely postponed, as Heart has bumped all its remaining tour dates to allow singer Ann Wilson some time to recover from surgery, and begin a program of preventive chemotherapy. All tickets will be honored on the rescheduled date, which will be announced “in the coming weeks,” according to KeyBank Center.

Here’s some suggestions for your live music diet over the next few weeks. I’ll see you all soon!

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