CYOA BFLO: 7/3 to 7/9
CYOA Buffalo is a weekly, lightly-curated arts / music / cultural events newsletter, founded 2014. Email me if you'd like to submit an event, or if you just want to send a cute and encouraging message. 💓Mario
Friday July 3
Opening | Alisha Lezama: Juicy, Sweet, and a little checked out… - The Good Stuff Gallery
Opening | Emma Stanton: I <3 NY - Intersection Cafe
BPO: Sound & Sky on the Waterfront - Terminal B @ Outer Harbor
The World’s Largest Rubber Duck - Canalside
Spiria, Ant Hill Kids, Harepin Turn - Area 54
Mini Marching Machine, Cowboy Vampires, Green Schwinn, Different Planets - Nietzsche's
Taiste the Band, Mike Prince, Pharaoh Simba - Mr. Goodbar
Happy Hour with the Maze Piper Drum Trio - Milkie's
The Foxy Thrills Presents Hot & Bothered: A Summer of Sin - Milkie's
Saturday July 4
Americanarama 4th of July Celebration - Sportsmens Park
4th of July Funtacular: A Benefit for the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter - Milkie's
4th of July Mega Jam - Nietzsche's
The Glam Vamps Present: TRASHMERICA - Hot Mama’s Canteen
Vintage Sample - No Fun Lo-Fi Bar
Sunday July 5
John Bacon Quartet - Gene McCarthy’s
Sunset Sundays: MADDS - Riverworks
Shaky Jake: Summer Funk & Soul - No Fun Lo-Fi Bar
Monday July 6
Organ Fairchild & The Brass Machine - Ralph Wilson Park
Placid State, Wide Cage, DGI-DGI - Area 54
Todd Rundgren: Damned If I Do Tour - Riviera Theatre
Tuesday July 7
Bidwell Parkway Concert Series with Letter to Elise
Food Truck Tuesday with Blaised & Confused - Larkin Square
BPO @ Beaver Island State Park
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band - Asbury Hall
Wednesday July 8
Members & Friends Preview | FIT: Buffalo Fashion, Identity, and Transformation - Burchfield Penney
Live at Larkin with Dirty Work: A Tribute to Steely Dan - Larkin Square
Westcott, Harris, & Dr. Jazz - Nietzsche's
Latitude w/ Donna DeLano-Kerr - Nietzsche's
Shea’s Mighty Wurlitzer 100th Anniversary Concert featuring Richard Hills - Shea’s
Canalside Lecture Series: The Seneca Chief Returns
Hejira: A Night of Joni Mitchell - Electric City
Thursday July 9
BICA School Reading Group: Schiller’s Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education Of Man - BICA
Thursday & Main: Lazlo Hollyfeld - Fountain Square
A Tribute to the Bari Sax Heroes with John Troy Group - Pausa Art House
Overgrowth, Science Man, War Bond, Numbskull - Area 54
Adam Bronstein & ABTrio - Nietzsche's
Papa Muse + Farrow Songwriter Showcase - Nietzsche's
David Cloyd, Chelsea O’Donnell w/ Buffalo String Collective - Duende
Tasha Taylor - Sportsmens Tavern
Ian McCuen, Christina Stock, Makeout Tactics, Passion Tax - Milkie's
Ongoing
Carolyn Lazard: Pain Scale and Red - AKG (ends 7/6)
Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters - Artists Group Gallery (ends 7/10)
Diane Bush: Main Street - CEPA (ends 7/17)
Good Impressions: 18th Annual Book Arts Members’ Show - WNY Book Arts Center (ends 7/18)
To Be Native: Works by Kaycee Colburn - El Museo (ends 7/24)
Yayoi Kusama: One with Eternity - AKG (ends 7/26)
Kindred - K Art (ends 7/26)
Objectile Adventures: The Floor - UB Hayes Hall (ends 7/26)
Emerging Visions: Buffalo State Student Work - Burchfield Penney (ends 7/26)
Clayton Pond: A Retrospective - UB Anderson Gallery (ends 7/31)
Rachel Shelton: Slow Looking - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 8/1)
Warren Quigley: Erratic - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 8/1)
Deb Stewart: Propagation and Endurance - Buffalo Arts Studio (ends 8/1)
Gabriel Martinez: Sites of Encounter - Rivalry Projects (ends 8/14)
The Connector - TENfold Gallery (ends 8/16)
Erin Long Loganathan: Dear Life - Hunt Art Gallery (ends 8/22)
Buffalo on Film II - CEPA Gallery (ends 8/31)
Medina Triennial 2026 (ends 9/7)
With us at the center of our world: animals, domestications, dreams - Squeaky Wheel (ends 9/11)
Camp Everything - Burchfield Penney (ends 9/27)
A VAST, tiny WORLD: Burchfield's Insects & Spiders - Burchfield Penney (ends 9/27)
Valeria Cray: Surface Tension - Burchfield Penney (ends 9/27)
Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/23/27)
Hardwired: Foundational Works in Digital Art - Castellani Art Museum (ends 1/9/28)