By Patrick Gormley The SAM Foundation, in partnership with the Old First Ward Community Center and teaching artist Donna Kerr, has launched a 10-week music program for 35 youth at…
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We’ve added three new teaching artists. Donna Kerr put on a 60-minute workshop for 35 youth at the Valley Community Center. Brian Overdorf conducted a week-long ukulele class at the…
By Patrick Gormley The SAM Foundation’s education programs are matching the mercury and heating up this summer. Programs at Fantastic Friends of WNY, The Valley Community Center and the Old…
By Patrick Gormley The SAM Foundation was proud to present the Floyd Fried Memorial Scholarship at Sportsmen’s Tavern on Wednesday, May 22. This annual award is presented to an outstanding…
Greetings, Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation members! I am thrilled to share some information with you about a wonderful program called Nurs’n Blues. Nurs’n Blues is a program conceived of by…
By Patrick Gormley February was a month of firsts as the SAM Foundation welcomed new music educator Victoria DeVito and new program partner Fantastic Friends of WNY. As a fresh…
Ten Week Acoustic Blues Guitar Workshop! With Buffalo Music HOF member and Berklee School of Music Alumnus Jim Brucato! Explore the fingerpicking styles of the great acoustic bluesmen of the…
By Paul | March 27, 2017 Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar but could never find the time; kids, career, life, just kept getting in the way?...
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By: Jason Hall | January 28, 2016 The Sportsmen's AMF is pleased to announce that we are again partnering with that wonderful community asset and resource, The Valley Community Center...
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By Jason Hall | January 28, 2016 Back in the spring of 2014 the inspiration for BSW (buffalostringworks.org), a music club aimed at benefiting the under-served population on Buffalo’s Westside,...
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