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SUMMARY:Rock For The Cure Matt Schofield\, The Kensingtons\, Kurts Back\, Flashback & The Trash Pandas - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmebs & The Against The Storm Foundation \nRock For The Cure \nSaturday\, August 15\, 2026 3pm Gates \n$25.00ad/$30.00 at the door \nMatt Schofield\, The Kensingtons\, Kurts Back\, Flashback & The Trash Pandas. \n \n \n  \nThe 9th Annual Rock for the Cure will be on Saturday\, August 15\, 2026\, at the Sportsmens Park and Sportsmens Tavern\, located at 326 Amherst St in Buffalo.  The Against the Storm Foundation will host this event with proceeds supporting this foundation. The Against the Storm Foundation exists to help fight blood cancers and support other causes that will improve the health and quality of life for people in need. Headlining will be Matt Schofield (British blues guitarist\, and inductee of the British Blues Hall of Fame). Other performers include the Kensingtons (the Sportsmens Americana Music Foundation 2018 Band of the Year)\, Kurts Back (Classic Rock and Alternative music from all era’s of music)\, Flashback (Rock and Roll band specializing in tunes from the 60’s through the 90’s)\, and The Trash Pandas 716 (High energy classic covers). This will be a great night of music for a great cause!
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/rock-for-the-cure-matt-schofield-the-kensingtons-kurts-back-flashback-the-trash-pandas-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Blues,Classic Rock,Fundraiser,Genre,Rock,Sportsmens,Sportsmens,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages,The Cave
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SUMMARY:SAMFest Lilly Hiatt\, Twang Gang & More - MOVED INSIDE TO SPORTSMENS
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens & The Sportsmens Americana Music Foundation present \nSAMFest 2026 \nLilliy Hiatt\, Twang Gang & More \nSunday\, August 2\, 2026 2pm Sportsmens Park \n1pm Gates\, 2pm Showtime \n \n \n  \nThe search for answers—where she’s been\, who she’s become\, what it all means—lies at the heart of Hiatt’s striking new album\, Forever. Written and recorded in Hiatt’s new home just outside Nashville\, the collection grapples with growth and change\, escape and anxiety\, self-loathing and self-love. The songs are intensely vulnerable here\, full of diaristic snapshots and deeply personal ruminations\, but they’re also broad invitations to find yourself in Hiatt’s unflinching emotional excavations\, to see your own humanity reflected back in her pursuit of something larger than herself. Hiatt cut the album with her husband\, Coley Hinson\, who produced and played most of the instruments on the record\, and the result is a raw\, unvarnished work of love and trust that walks the line between alt-rock muscle and singer/songwriter sensitivity\, a bold\, guitar-driven\, at times psychedelic exploration of maturity and adulthood from an artist who wants you to know you’re not alone\, no matter how lost you may feel. \n  \n“I think of this album like a hand to hold\,” says Hiatt. “I wanted to open up the door and let people in on what I’ve been going through\, but I also hoped that by telling the truth about the joy and pain and love and grief I’ve experienced\, it might strike a chord with somebody else navigating their way through all those things\, too.” \n  \nBorn in Los Angeles and raised in Tennessee\, Hiatt first earned buzz with a pair of early solo records before breaking out with 2017’s Trinity Lane. Produced by Shovels & Rope’s Michael Trent\, the record helped Hiatt earn dates with the likes of John Prine\, Margo Price\, Drive-By Truckers\, and Hiss Golden Messenger in addition to festival slots everywhere from Pilgrimage to Luck Reunion. NPR called the album “courageous and affecting\,” while The Independent raved that it showcased Hiatt’s “gift for unpicking knotty lyrical themes in a personalised blend of countrified rock music\,” and Rolling Stone hailed it as “the most cohesive and declarative statement of the young songwriter’s career.” Hiatt delivered on the album’s promise with her similarly well-received 2020 follow-up\, Walking Proof\, and\, unable to tour due to the pandemic\, quickly returned to the studio again for 2021’s Lately\, which The Boston Herald said showcased her “knack for plainspoken\, poetic lyrics” and Uncut proclaimed to be “captivating.” \n  \nWhen it was finally time to get back on the road\, though\, Hiatt found herself feeling overwhelmed and bewildered. The world seemed to be changing faster than she could keep up with\, and rather than embracing what should have been her triumphant return\, Hiatt instead began retreating from everything she’d worked so hard to build. \n  \n“I fell in love\, got married\, adopted a dog\, all the things I’d always dreamed of doing\,” she reflects. “But I felt like an outsider watching myself stumble though it all\, just constantly critiquing myself to the point where I became so paralyzed I could hardly leave home.” \n  \nHiatt tried therapy and antidepressants\, talked to friends and family\, wrote dozens and dozens of songs about her feelings\, all in the hopes of quieting her racing mind. \n  \n“There was this intensity where I felt so jacked up all the time\,” she explains. “Eventually I just realized that my life was passing me by\, that the love I was living in required presence to accept. So I started doing the little things you have to do to show up for the people in your life: listen\, grow\, change. I learned to expand my world.” \n  \nHiatt left the bustle of Nashville for a more rural setting outside the city and scrapped all the material she’d been working on\, starting from scratch with Hinson in pursuit of something that would resonate more with the new chapter she was embarking upon. The pair worked quickly\, tackling the writing and recording of each song one-at-a-time from the ground up and sending the material off to Paul Kolderie (Radiohead\, Pixies) to mix as they finished it. \n  \n“Paul brought so much enthusiasm and dimension to the project\,” Hiatt explains. “Every time we had a song tracked\, we’d share it with him and then he’d get really excited about it\, which was really affirming and encouraged us to turn right around and get started on the next one.” \n  \nThat excitement is plain to hear on Forever\, which opens with the brawny “Hidden Day.” “I’m gonna find a place where no one needs nothin’ from me\,” Hiatt declares on the electrifying track\, which fantasizes about a secret 24 hours where the world stops tugging at your sleeve long enough to let you catch your breath. Like much of the album\, the song—which was written with Scot Sax and co-mixed by Jon Debaun—is grounded in concrete details from Hiatt’s personal life\, but it’s also a conversational tune rooted in intimacy between the singer and her audience: “I stumbled upon a day I wanna tell you about\,” she declares. “It’s our little secret\, you better keep it to yourself.” The breezy\, lo-fi “Ghost Ship” reminds us of the common ground we share no matter our superficial differences (“I’m looking for something\, and you are\, too”)\, while the driving “Shouldn’t Be” meditates on the universal need to stand in your beliefs without requiring the validation of others\, and the dreamy “Somewhere” longs to escape from the weight of judgment\, both internal and external. \n  \n“I’ve always been fascinated with escape in my writing\,” Hiatt reflects. “A lot of these songs like to imagine a moment or a place where you can become untethered from reality\, from the mundane\, from yourself. Sometimes just being with the person you love is all it takes. \n  \nIndeed\, the power of real and lasting love—how it can change you for the better and sustain you at your lowest—is woven into the very fabric of Forever.  The twangy “Man” revels in the security of knowing where you stand in a committed relationship; the playful “Kwik-E-Mart” celebrates the ordinary moments that take on new meaning when shared with a partner; and the blistering title track takes stock of what matters once you’ve found what you’ve been looking for. “I can be anyone out here\, but I can’t be in love / With a restaurant or a new haircut\,” Hiatt sings over a wall of fuzzed out guitars. “Nice to be a loner\, no one knows you’re hurt / But I wanna be by your side\, I wanna be by your side forever.” \n  \n“I wrote ‘Forever’ on tour in San Francisco after playing this festival where they put me and the band up in this amazing hotel\,” Hiatt recalls. “I couldn’t have been happier to be there\, and there was a time in my life when I would have wanted nothing more than to stay forever. But in that moment\, I realized the thing I was most excited about was getting back to my house and my dog and telling my husband all about it.” \n  \nUltimately\, that revelation is what Forever is all about. If you can slow down enough to live in the moment\, if you can quiet the outside world enough to hear to your own heart\, if you can blow away the haze and learn to see what’s right in front of you\, you just might find that reality is more beautiful than any dream.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/samfest-lilly-hiatt-twang-gang-more-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Fundraiser,Genre,Rock,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages
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SUMMARY:The Smiths Etc(The Smiths)\, Disintegration (The Cure)\, The Killing Moon(Echo & The Bunnymen) - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nThe Smiths etc – Tribute to The Smiths\nDisintegration – Tribute to The Cure\nThe Killing Moon – Tribute to Echo & The Bunnymen \nSat\, Aug 1\nSportsmen’s Park\n334 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\nDoors 4 PM • Show 6 PM\nRain or shine \n \n“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”\n“Friday I’m in Love”\n“The Killing Moon” \nExperience the music of three of the most influential bands of the ’80s alternative era—performed live. \n 
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/the-smiths-etcthe-smiths-disintegration-the-cure-the-killing-moonecho-the-bunnymen-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Genre,Rock,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages,Tribute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260718T190000
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SUMMARY:Harvest & Rust - A Neil Young Experience - Sportsmens SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED INDOORS
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nHarvest & Rust – A Neil Young Experience \nSHOW HAS BEEN MOVED INDOORS \nSaturday\, July 18\, 2026 7pm Sportsmens Park \n5pm Gates\, 7pm Showtime \n$25.00 + Online Fee \n \n  \n  \n \n  \nHarvest & Rust has earned acclaim as one of the premier Neil Young tribute bands in the Northeast USA\, praised for their stirring and authentic performances. Their concerts are a journey through Young’s prolific career\, featuring songs from his solo work as well as his time with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby\, Stills\, Nash & Young. With a commitment to variety\, the band ensures that no two shows are alike\, mirroring Young’s own approach.\n  \n\n\nThe band promises a dynamic setlist spanning Young’s expansive catalog—from the acoustic intimacy of “Harvest” to the raw energy of “Rust Never Sleeps.” Led by frontman Garrett Lechowski\, the band features Matt Cahill (guitars\, piano)\, Andy Gordon (pedal steel)\, John Kiernan (drums)\, and Jim Reynolds (bass). Known for their authentic renditions\, Harvest & Rust captures the essence of Neil Young’s music\, delivering both beloved hits and deep cuts with precision and passion.​  With 19 previous sell outs (including their last performance at Sportsmen’s)\, you’ll want to order your tickets early.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/harvest-rust-a-neil-young-experience-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Genre,Rock,Sportsmens,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Tribute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T190000
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SUMMARY:GROSH Plays Led Zeppelin - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nGROSH Plays Led Zeppelin -Sportsmens Park \nSaturday\, July 11\, 2026 5pm Doors\, 7pm Showtime \n$20.00 + Online Fee \nRain or Shine\, Bring a Chair \n \n 
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/grosh-plays-led-zeppelin-sportsmens-park-2/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Genre,Rock,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages,Tribute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260704T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260704T210000
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SUMMARY:Americana-rama 250th Independence Day Celebration - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nAmericanarama 250th Independence Day Celebration \nSaturday\, July 4\, 2026 2pm Sportsmens Park \n$20.00 + Online Fee \n \nBill Kirchen & Too Much Fun \nTwang Gang \nThe Steam Donkeys \nTen Cent Howl \nRain or Shine event. Bring a chair.
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/americana-rama-250th-independence-day-celebration-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260626T220000
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SUMMARY:JAMES McMURTRY & The MARTIAL LAW REVIEW - Sportsmens Park
DESCRIPTION:Sportsmens presents \nJAMES McMURTRY & The MARTIAL LAW REVIEW \nwsg/ BettySoo \nFriday\, June 26\, 2026 $30.00 + Online fee \n5pm Doors\, 7pm Showtime Rain or shine \n \n \nJames McMurtry \nThe Black Dog & the Wandering Boy \nA Lone Star sheriff hunts quail on horseback and keeps a secret second family. A\nmechanic lies among the spare parts on the floor of his garage and wonders if he can\nafford to keep his girlfriend. A troubled man sees hallucinations of a black dog and a\nwandering boy and hums “Weird Al” songs in his head. These are some of the strange\nand richly drawn characters who inhabit James McMurtry’s eleventh album\, The Black\nDog & the Wandering Boy. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller\, he teases\nvivid worlds out of small details\, setting them to arrangements that have the elements of\nAmericana—rolling guitars\, barroom harmonies\, traces of banjo and harmonica—but\nsound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same\nbreath\, the album adds a new chapter to a long career that has enjoyed a resurgence as\nyoung songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence. \nAs varied as they are\, these new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family’s\npast: a stray sketch\, an old poem by a family friend\, the hallucinations experienced by\nhis father\, the writer Larry McMurtry. “It’s something I do all the time\,” he says\, “but\nusually I draw from my own scraps.” As any good writer will do\, McMurtry collects little\nideas and hangs on to them for years\, sometimes even decades. “South Texas Lawman”\ngrew out of a line from a poem by a friend of the McMurtry clan\, T.D. Hobart. Driven by\ngravelly guitars and a loose rhythm section\, it’s a careful study of a man whose feelings\nof obsolescence motivate him to take drastic action in the final verse. “Dwight’d stay at\nour house way back in the ‘70s\, when we lived in Virginia. During one visit he wrote this\npoem about his father’s attitude toward South Texas. He wrote it down on cardboard\,\nand I came across it recently. There was a line about hunting quail on horseback\, and\nthat was the seed of the song. I’ve lost the poem since then.” \nThe rumbling title track\, a kind of squirrelly blues\, features two mysterious figures who\nappear only to those slipping from reality\, yet it’s never grim nor especially despairing.\nInstead\, McMurtry namechecks a “Weird Al” deep cut and depicts a tortured soul who\ndoesn’t have to work a nine-to-five. He finds a defiant humor in the situation at odds\nwith the gravity of the source material. “The title of the album and that song comes from\nmy stepmother\, Faye. After my dad passed\, she asked me if he ever talked to me about\nhis hallucinations. He’d gone into dementia for a while before he died\, but hadn’t\nmentioned to me anything about seeing things. She told me his favorite hallucinations \nwere the black dog and the wandering boy. I took them and applied them to a fictional\ncharacter.” \nSoon McMurtry had enough of these songs for a new record. “It happened like all my\nrecords happened. It’d been too long since I’d had a record that the press could write\nabout and get people to come out to my shows. It was time.” What was different this\ntime was the presence of his old friend Don Dixon\, who produced McMurtry’s third\nalbum\, Where You’d Hide the Body?\, back in 1995. “A couple of years ago I quit\nproducing myself. I felt like I was repeating myself methodologically and stylistically. I\nneeded to go back to producer school\, so I brought in CC Adcock for Complicated Game\,\nand then Ross Hogarth did The Horses & the Hounds. It seemed natural to revisit Mr.\nDixon’s homeroom. I wanted to learn some of what he’s learned over the last thirty\nyears.” During sessions at Wire Recording in Austin\, McMurtry observed firsthand\nDixon’s grasp of digital recording technology as well as his instinctual approach to\ntracking. “What Don’s really good at is being able to sense when it’s happening. He can\nhear when it’s going down. If I’m producing myself and I don’t have him\, I have to do\nthree takes and then go in and listen to them. Listening to those three takes can take\nabout 15 minutes. So Dixon’s ability to know when it’s happening is crucial\, because it\ncan cut 15 minutes out of the day. That can really save a session\, because you only have\nso many hours in the day and only so much energy.\nWorking with McMurtry’s trusted backing band—Cornbread on bass\, Tim Holt on\nguitar\, Daren Hess on drums\, BettySoo on backing vocals—they worked to create\nsomething that sounds spontaneous\, as though he’s writing the songs as you hear them.\nThey were open to odd experiments\, weird whims\, and happy accidents\, such as the\ncover of Jon Dee Graham’s “Laredo” that opens the album. It’s an opioid blues:\ntestimony from a part-time junkie losing a weekend to dope. “We were playing a benefit\nfor Jon Dee at the Hole in the Wall there in Austin\, and we thought it’d be good if we\nplayed one of his songs. We rehearsed the song in the studio\, and it sounded good. The\ndrums were ready. We’d already got the sounds up. Might as well record it.” \n“Laredo” is one of a pair of covers that bookend The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy\,\nthe other being Kris Kristofferson’s “Broken Freedom Song.” “I did that one a few weeks\nafter our initial sessions. It was just me and BettySoo\, then we added drums and bass\nlater on. Kris had just passed not too long before we recorded it. I guess that’s why I was\nthinking about him.” Like Hobart’s poem\, it’s a bit of inspiration excavated from deep\nwithin his own life. “Kris was one of my major influences as a child. He was the first\nperson that I recognized as a songwriter. I hadn’t really thought about where songs\ncame from\, but I started listening to Kristofferson as a songwriter and thinking\, How do\nyou do this? He was actually the second concert I saw. I was nine. He and the band were \nhaving such a good time\, and that really solidified for me that this was what I wanted to\ndo with my life.” \nOnce the album was mixed\, mastered\, and sequenced\, McMurtry recalled a rough pencil\nsketch he had found a few years earlier in his father’s effects. It seemed like it might\nmake a good cover. “I knew it was of me\, but I didn’t realize who drew it. I asked my\nmom and my stepdad\, and finally I asked my stepmom\, Faye\, who said it looked like\nKen Kesey’s work back in the ‘60s. She was married to Ken for forty years.” The Merry\nPrankster’s—Kesey’s roving band of hippie activists and creators—stopped by often to\nvisit Larry McMurtry and his family. “I don’t remember their first visit\, the one\ndocumented in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I was too young\, but I do\nremember a couple of Ken’s visits. I guess he drew it on one of those later stops. I\nremembered it and thought it would be the perfect art\, but I had to go back through the\nstorage locker. It’s a miracle that I found it again.”\nIt’s a fitting image for an album that scavenges personal history for inspiration. Even the\nsongwriter himself doesn’t always know what will happen or where the songs will take\nhim. “You follow the words where they lead. If you can get a character\, maybe you can\nget a story. If you can set it to a verse-chorus structure\, maybe you can get a song. A\nsong can come from anywhere\, but the main inspiration is fear. Specifically\, fear of\nirrelevance. If you don’t have songs\, you don’t have a record. If you don’t have a record\,\nyou don’t have a tour. You gotta keep putting out work.”
URL:https://sportsmensbuffalo.com/single/james-mcmurtry-the-martial-law-review-sportsmens-park/
LOCATION:Sportsmens Park\, 340 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Genre,Sportsmens Park,Sportsmens Park,Stages
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