In the wintery weather of Western New York there are many things to do this weekend to shake off the cabin fever. Here are a few picks from BuffaloVibe to ensure a good time.
Buffalo Auto Show
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center
Thu Feb 06 – Sun Feb 09
Explore the cars you’ve always wanted at WNY’s Premier Automotive Event! See a wide range of foreign and domestic vehicles, and enter for a chance to win a new car. Bring the whole family downtown to this annual Buffalo event. See official site for more details.
Ari Shaffir
Helium Comedy Club
Fri Feb 07 – Sun Feb 09
Shaffir has also been featured on the HBO show Down and Dirty with Jim Norton, ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats: Without Ron Parker, Skeptic Tank, Opie and Anthony Show, The Nasty Show and he has been touring nationally with Joe Rogan. More details here.
The Manhattan Project
Waiting Room
Fri Feb 07
Since exploding on to the scene in 2010, The Manhattan Project has become one of the fastest growing live electronic duos in the northeast. TMP continues their sonic-boomtronic assault in 2013, blowing up clubs, amphitheaters, festival main stages, and after-parties across the country! Drawing influences from house, dub, drum n bass, techno, and lounge, The Manhattan Project brings sophistication to the dance floor with their original compositions, high energy beats and mind melting textures. Armed with an arsenal of keyboards, synths, electronic and acoustic percussion, they seamlessly merge analog and digital sounds to create a sonic style all their own. See site for more details.
Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Kleinhan’s Music Hall
Sat Feb 08
Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A blazing rock band and show so hot, it carries its own health warning! It’s Bagpipes. It’s Rock. It’s Bagrock. AC/DC meets the poet Robert Burns. Where rock anthems sit comfortably alongside the great tunes from the glens and the mountains of Scotland.
It’s The Red Hot Chilli Pipers -- an 8-piece ensemble consisting of pipers, guitarists, keyboards, and drummers -- who have been rocking the world from New York to Beijing to Melbourne and everywhere in between. Click here for more details.
A Woman of No Importance
Irish Classical Theatre Company
Thu Jan 16 – Sun Feb 09
Peer through the window of time and see Hester, a beautiful, young, American; spend a weekend at an English country house party in the company of upper-crust nobility. Her love, Gerald, has just been offered an exciting post working for the rich, fascinating Lord Illingworth. When Gerald’s mother Rachel arrives, revealing a shocking secret about Lord Illingworth’s past, the plot takes turn to the Wilde side and sizzles with scandal. More information here.
Gift of Gab (Blackalicious)
DBGB’s
Sat Feb 08
Hip-Hop duo from Sacramento California brings their MC skills to Allentown. In the wake of Blazing Arrow's critical hosannas, Gift of Gab branched out with a number of guest appearances, recording with the likes of DJ Vadim, British hip-hoppers New Flesh, and Michael Franti & Spearhead. In early 2003, he underwent emergency eye surgery necessitated by complications from diabetes, but fortunately made a full recovery. Seeking outside collaborators to keep himself fresh for the third Blackalicious album, Gift of Gab embarked on a solo project for Quannum with two Seattle-based producers, Vitamin D and Jake One. Advance single "The Writz" appeared in late 2003, and the album itself, 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up, arrived in the spring of 2004. Reviews of the production work varied widely, but overall the record -- a smooth, mellow affair -- solidified Gift of Gab's position as one of the top MCs of his time, underground or otherwise. Click here for more details.
G. Love & Special Sauce
Town Ballroom
Sun Feb 09
G. Love & Special Sauce is an alternative hip-hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are known for their unique, "sloppy", and "laid back" blues sound that encompasses classic R&B. More info. here.
