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SUMMARY:BABEL | Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:Just Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Amor Towles\nThursday\, March 18\, 2027\n7:30 pm\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\nAuthor Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Amor Towles. \nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Amor Towles graduated from Yale and received an MA in English from Stanford. After working as an investment professional for over twenty years he now devotes himself full time to writing. His novels Rules of Civility\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, and The Lincoln Highway\, and his collection of shorter fiction Table for Two have all been New York Times bestsellers. His books have collectively sold more than eight million copies and been translated into more than forty languages. A Gentleman in Moscow has made numerous “Best of” book lists including President Barack Obama’s annual book recommendations and was recently adapted as a limited series starring Ewan McGregor.
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LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \,  Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:SILKROAD ENSEMBLE featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant
DESCRIPTION:Kleinhans Music Hall is pleased to present\nSILKROAD ENSEMBLE featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant\nWednesday\, April 14\n8:00 PM | Doors at 6:30 PM\nMain Hall\nFEATURING ARTISTS\nCécile McLorin Salvant\, vocals\nMaeve Gilchrist\, harp\nMazz Swift\, violin\nNiwel Tsumbu\, guitar\nFrancesco Turrisi\, frame drums\, accordion\nKaoru Watanabe\, Japanese flutes and percussion \n  \n \nABOUT THE PROGRAM \nThe Silkroad Ensemble is ecstatic to announce GRAMMY-winning vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant as the special guest for a limited run of performances that promise to be rich\, surprising\, and full of musical discovery. \nThis bold collaboration began in 2023 with Salvant’s hauntingly original composition “Have You Seen My Man?”  —a standout track on Silkroad’s American Railroad album\, featuring Rhiannon Giddens and released on Nonesuch in 2024. The piece showcases Silkroad’s signature boundary-blurring artistry and group vocals—elements that will take center stage in this new program. \nExpect a powerful fusion of improvisation\, tradition\, and unexpected musical turns as Salvant joins the Ensemble to explore connections across cultures and histories. With family roots in Haiti and France\, she brings a deeply personal perspective to the idea of cultural exchange—shaped by a lifelong experience of moving between languages\, identities\, and stories. For Salvant\, Silkroad offers an exciting opportunity to engage with musical traditions beyond her own ones she’s eager to learn from\, challenge\, and reimagine. \nSalvant\, a multi-disciplinary visual artist\, notes “I make large hand-embroidered drawings on silk organza\, which has influenced the way I make and think about music and the interplay between disciplines and mediums.  I’m thinking about the ‘silk’ in ‘Silkroad’\, about the connections between textile and song across cultures and throughout history.” \n“Cécile McLorin Salvant’s musical vocabulary is a marvel.” —Associated Press \n“Salvant is rapidly moving beyond the boundaries of jazz\, and I’m gonna follow wherever she leads.” —Stereogum \n“In a groundbreaking experiment\, Yo-Yo Ma enlisted musicians from the lands of the Silk Road to form a multiethnic touring ensemble performing the music of its members’ countries\, “bridging geographic and cultural boundaries with the universal power of music.” —Classical Voice \n  \nABOUT SILKROAD \nA Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble\, Silkroad is a collective of artists representing dozens of nationalities\, traditions and ideas\, who use music and art to demonstrate how great beauty can emerge from great difference. The Ensemble strives to engage difference\, sparking radical collaboration and music with a purpose\, for a more hopeful and inclusive world. \n  \n \nABOUT CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT \nComposer\, singer\, and visual artist\, Cécile McLorin Salvant\, is passionate about storytelling and exploring connections between vaudeville\, blues\, folk traditions\, theater\, jazz\, and baroque music. An eclectic curator\, unearthing rarely recorded\, forgotten songs with strong narratives\, power dynamics\, twists\, and humor. \nShe won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010 and received Grammy Awards for three consecutive albums: “The Window\,” “Dreams and Daggers\,” and “For One To Love.” In 2020\, she received the MacArthur fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award. Her debut and follow up Nonesuch Records projects\, “Ghost Song” (2022) and “Mélusine” (2023)\, have also each received two Grammy nominations. \n \nABOUT MAEVE GILCHRIST \nEdinburgh born harpist and composer Maeve Gilchrist has been credited as an innovator on her native instrument and taken the Celtic (lever) Harp to new levels of performance and visibility. Currently based in Kingston\,  NY\, Maeve tours internationally as a solo artist and composer as well as being a member of the grammy-nominated Silkroad ensemble\, Arooj Aftab’s Grammy winning Vulture Prince Ensemble and as part of the multi-disciplinary quartet Edges of Light. She has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma\, Frankie Gavin\, Esperanza Spalding\, Bruce Molsky\, Ambrose Akinmusire and Solas. As a composer\, Maeve straddles the worlds of folk and classical with pieces including her original concerto for symphony orchestra and harp (a co-commission with Luke Benton)\, a three-movement Samuel Beckett-inspired piece for harp\, string quartet and sound samples which was premiered at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival in the spring of 2018 and a number of other pieces for harp ensembles and strings. She is a regular visiting artist at the Berklee College of Music and has had a number of  instructional books published by Hal Leonard and 80 days publishing. Maeve has released a number of albums to her name on the Adventure Music Record Label as well as being a featured soloist on the  Dreamworks blockbuster movie soundtrack\, How to tame your dragon: The hidden world.  Her most recent album\, The Harpweaver\, has garnered international acclaim including a five-star review from the Irish Times who described it as “buoyant\, sprightly and utterly beguiling….a snapshot of a musician at the top of her game”. \nMaeve is the co-music director of the WGBH holiday show\, a Christmas Celtic sojourn and the co-artistic director of the brand new Rockport Celtic Music festival; an innovative new festival focused on cross-curation and the outer-fringes of Celtic Music. \nABOUT MAZZ SWIFT \nCritically acclaimed as one of America’s most talented and versatile performers today\, Violin/Vox/Freestyle Composition artist Mazz Swift has engaged audiences all over the world with the signature weaving of song\, melody and improvisation that they call MazzMuse. As a singer\, composer and Juilliard-trained violinist who plays electronic and acoustic instruments\, Mazz has performed and recorded with a diverse accumulation of artists including The Silkroad Ensemble\, William Parker\, Butch Morris\, Jason Lindner\, James “Blood” Ulmer\, Vernon Reid\, Valerie June\, Whitney Houston\, DJ Logic\, Kanye West\, D’Angelo. Mx. Swift is a 2021 United States Artist and 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow\, currently working on a series of compositions that involve conducted improvisation\, and that are centered around protest\, spirituals\, and the Ghanaian concept of ‘Sankofa’: looking back to learn how to move forward. \nABOUT NIWEL TSUMBU \nNiwel Tsumbu​ is a guitarist and singer who grew up with the hip-swinging Soukous music from the Democratic Republic Of The Congo. Strongly influenced by guitarists such as Paco de Lucia\, Luambo Makiadi\, Baden Powell and Joe Pass\, Niwel Tsumbu has amalgamated these different styles and blurred the boundaries of African\, Classical and Jazz music with his amazing virtuosity\, passion and graceful guitar playing. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT FRANCESCO TURRISI \nFrancesco Turrisi has been defined as a “musical alchemist” and a “musical polyglot.” He has released five critically acclaimed albums as a leader and two as co-leader (“Tarab” a cross boundary innovative ensemble that blends Irish and Mediterranean traditional music\, and “Zahr” a project that looks at connections between southern Italian traditional music and Arabic music). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT KAORU WATANABE \nComposer and instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe’s work is rooted in traditional Japanese performing arts and infused with experimental and improvisational elements. His signature skill of merging the music\, literature\, and aesthetic philosophies of Japan with disparate styles and mediums has made him a highly sought-after collaborator\, working with such iconic artists as André 3000\, Yo-Yo Ma\, Wes Anderson\, Mikhail Baryshnikov\, Laurie Anderson\, Jason Moran\, and Japanese National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo. The son of two St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians\, Watanabe studied jazz at the Manhattan School of Music before moving to Japan to study noh-kan flute with Matsuda Hiroyuki and Edo Matsuri Bayashi with Suzuki Kyosuke in Tokyo. He then moved to Sado\, a remote island in the Sea of Japan\, where he undertook a rigorous two-year apprenticeship with the groundbreaking Japanese taiko performing arts ensemble Kodo. During this time\, he trained in traditional Japanese folk dancing\, singing\, drumming\, woodworking\, tea ceremony\, rice farming\, running\, Noh\, and Kyogen. Watanabe then became the first American to join the ensemble as a performing member\, serving as an ambassador of Japanese music on the world’s greatest stages and as artistic director of their annual music festival\, leading collaborations with luminaries such as Zakir Hussain\, Giovanni Hidalgo\, and Tamangoh. After a decade in Japan\, Watanabe returned to New York to pursue a solo career\, performing with and composing for top artists of their respective genres\, such as flamenco dancer Eva Yerbabuena\, Mongolian Official State Morin Khuur player Tserendorj\, multiple Grammy Award-winning rapper Residente\, visual artist Simone Leigh\, Rhiannon Giddens and the Silkroad Ensemble\, and many others\, all while championing the essential qualities of Japanese flutes and percussion. In 2024\, Watanabe launched Bloodlines Interwoven\, a multifaceted commissioning project\, festival\, and ensemble celebrating heritage\, immigration\, and diaspora through music\, cuisine\, and storytelling.
URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/silkroad/
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SUMMARY:Weird World of Frogs: Jonathan Kolby | National Geographic Live
DESCRIPTION:Early Bird Season Subscriptions Now Available! Subscribe and save 15% for a limited time. Click the link or call the Box Office at (716)885-5000 to reserve your tickets today. \nVIP tickets include complimentary beverages\, beer and wine along with light hors d’oeurves\, cheese\, and cracker plates\, and some sweets. \nBright colors and captivating calls are just the start with some of Earth’s most amazing species. Frogs can turn nearly invisible\, leap more than 20 times their body length\, and defend themselves with poison. We go on assignment with conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer Jonathan Kolby to discover all kinds of incredible abilities and springy biodiversity. \nAbout Jonathan Kolby:  \nJonathan Kolby became involved in wildlife conservation at the age of 15\, when he volunteered on his first expedition to document biodiversity in Southeast Asia. He has since been involved in 20 field expeditions spanning the globe\, from Honduras to Madagascar to Hong Kong. In 2007\, Kolby was awarded a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant to study chytrid fungus and amphibian declines in Honduras. After completing this project\, Kolby decided to dedicate himself to combatting global amphibian declines and extinction. He recently established the Honduras Amphibian Research & Conservation Center to specifically prevent amphibian extinctions in Honduras. Kolby completed his Ph.D. at James Cook University in Australia\, where he studied the global spread of amphibian chytrid fungus and ranavirus. Kolby has published over a dozen scientific papers\, written blog posts for National Geographic and the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group\, and currently runs a citizen science project on iNaturalist called “Saving Salamanders with Citizen Science” to help monitor for the emergence of salamander chytrid fungus in the United States. To make science more accessible to the general public\, Kolby actively uses photography and social media to help raise awareness about wildlife conservation issues. He also manages a YouTube channel featuring videos and short films produced for the Honduras Amphibian Research & Conservation Center. 
URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/frogs/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \,  Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Kleinhans Music Hall and JazzBuffalo present\nBranford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves\nCelebrate The Ballads of John Coltrane\nThursday\, April 22\, 2027 | 7 PM\nMain Hall\, Kleinhans Music Hall\nSome music asks to be heard. John Coltrane’s ballads ask to be felt. \nOn April 22\, 2027\, at 7 pm\, Kleinhans Music Hall and JazzBuffalo present an extraordinary and deeply moving musical event as two NEA Jazz Masters and multiple Grammy Award winners — Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves — come together to celebrate the timeless ballads of John Coltrane\, which they have recorded and will release on the centennial of Coltrane’s birth this September. \nThis is not a retrospective. It is not a recreation. \nIt is a living\, breathing artistic conversation centered on some of the most intimate and emotionally transcendent music ever recorded in jazz. \nAt the heart of the evening is the landmark 1963 recording John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman — a masterwork of tenderness and restraint that revealed Coltrane’s profoundly romantic and melodic voice. Pairing his searching tenor saxophone with Hartman’s velvet baritone\, the album remains one of the most beloved ballad recordings in jazz and American Music history — and the only studio album in which Coltrane featured a vocalist. \nIn this rare collaboration\, the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves revisit this sacred repertoire while honoring the broader lyricism\, depth\, romantic\, and spiritual resonance of Coltrane’s ballad legacy. \nThe collaboration will also be captured in a forthcoming recording of timeless ballads—including selections from the historic John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman—set for release this September in celebration of the centennial of John Coltrane’s birth\, offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience this deeply expressive music reimagined by Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves. \nAs part of a limited world tour — including Carnegie Hall in New York City\, The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto\, The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, Munich’s Gasteig\, and the 60th Barcelona Jazz Festival — Buffalo stands among a select number of U.S. cities chosen to host this remarkable engagement. \nThe Main Hall of Kleinhans Music Hall provides the perfect setting. Its warmth and acoustical clarity allow music of this intimacy to bloom fully — every breath\, every phrase\, every nuance suspended in space. \nBranford Marsalis brings commanding tone\, interpretive intelligence\, and emotional authority to Coltrane’s music. Dianne Reeves\, one of the most celebrated vocalists of her generation\, brings unparalleled expressive depth — her voice capable of both quiet vulnerability and soaring declaration. Together\, they illuminate the tenderness\, romance\, and quiet spiritual power that define Coltrane’s ballads. \nThis evening promises lyricism. It promises beauty. It promises emotional connection at the highest artistic level. \nFor Jazz at Kleinhans\, this performance represents a defining moment in our continued commitment to presenting world-class artistry in Buffalo — concerts that resonate long after the final note fades. \nBuffalo is proud to be one of the few cities welcoming this landmark collaboration. \nSeats for an event of this magnitude are expected to move quickly. \nEarly reserved seating is strongly encouraged. \nAbout Branford Marsalis \nFrom his initial recognition as a young jazz lion\, Branford Marsalis has expanded his vision as an instrumentalist\, composer\, bandleader\, and educator\, crossing stylistic boundaries while maintaining an unwavering creative integrity. In the process\, he has become an avatar of contemporary artistic excellence\, winning three Grammy Awards\, a Tony nomination for his work as a composer on Broadway\, a citation by the National Endowment for the Arts as Jazz Master\, and a 2021 Primetime Emmy nomination for the score he composed for the Tulsa Burning documentary. \nAbout Dianne Reeves \nFive-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves is one of the world’s premier jazz singers. With her improvisational virtuosity and unique jazz and R&B style\, Reeves won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings\, winning the first Grammy in a vocal category. She was featured in George Clooney’s award-winning film Goodnight and Good Luck\, for which she received a Grammy. Reeves holds honorary doctorates from DePaul University\, the Berklee College of Music\, and the Juilliard School. Like Marsalis\, she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts – the highest distinction awarded to jazz artists in the USA.
URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/marsalis-reeves/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \,  Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:BABEL | Tayari Jones
DESCRIPTION:Just Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Tayari Jones\nThursday\, April 29\, 2027\n7:30 pm\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\nAuthor Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Tayari Jones. \nOver the course of her award-winning career\, Tayari Jones’s novels and essays have explored the vagaries of birth and fate\, the bitterness of injustice\, and the persistent power of love. From her debut\, Leaving Atlanta\, to her latest novel\, the Oprah Book Club Selection and New York Times bestseller Kin\, Jones brings warmth and wisdom to themes of family\, friendship\, and what it means to be a girl and a woman in the American South. Hailed as “one of the most important voices of her generation” by Essence and as “a bard of the modern South” by the Los Angeles Times\, her vivid characters\, trademark humor\, and gorgeous prose have won her acclaim from readers and critics alike. \nPrevious books include An American Marriage—which was also an Oprah’s Book Club Selection—Silver Sparrow and The Unteling. \nJones is a graduate of Spelman College\, University of Iowa\, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/tayari-jones/
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