By Elmer Ploetz Jimmy Calire will be playing with an all-star cast led by Doug Yeomans when he returns to Buffalo on March 8 for Szelestfest 6, the annual event…
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By COURTNEY S. LENNON (Courtney S. Lennon is a Buffalo-based writer whose specialty is Texas singer-songwriters. So when Wayne “The Train” Hancock came to town, we asked her to write…
By ELMER PLOETZ A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Peter Haskell was a Raven. But he was one of the first to play with Stan Szelest…
With this, the second of my monthly installments writing up something about folks on the local scene, I’m happy to present this profile of noted songwriter, 2015 SAM Foundation songwriter…
Congratulations to Bill Smith, the winner of this year’s Jim Lauderdale Songwriter of the Year. This award was named after Jim Lauderdale at our inaugural awards presentation in 2015. Jim…