Folkface Fest V 2021: A Folkface Odyssey It’s been a long year with almost no activity from the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation. It’s been a mighty struggle for music venues…
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It seems like forever ago since I went out to hear live music and felt the excitement of a great performance and mingled with friends and fellow music fans. Yeah,…
This month I want to tell you about Music Garden Sessions. This is an exciting new venture in supporting original music from WNY. Music Garden Sessions is a video-recorded concert…
As we’re now into the ninth month of the virus, it’s long past time to check in with some of the great musicians and performers who have made it all…
For me, in recent years, experiencing the joy of live music is often what has driven me to recorded music, not the other way around. That’s not the way it…
Here we are, over five months into quarantine, or whatever this is. I hope all of our members and their families are safe and healthy. So much has changed in…
As bad as this is being completely cut off from live music, it has presented me with opportunities to catch up on some books I’ve meant to read, movies or…
On Sunday, March 7, we went out to see Crikwater at Duende. On March 8, the SAM Foundation’s annual Szelestfest was really something with Jimmy Calire coming in from LA…
So here we are. You’re all getting The JAM in your email on Wednesday, April 1, but this isn’t an April Fools’s Day joke. There won’t be any free tickets…
The SAM Foundation Board of Directors recently approved the idea of expanding distribution of The JAM in the coming months. We’ll try to increase the content, add a calendar of…