This week’s featured event is Slyfest 12, taking place from Friday through Sunday.
Three days of camping at the Heron, internationally renowned world music & dance performances across three stages, interactive drum and dance workshops, live art, swimming, F I R E, drum building, artist lectures, food & drinks, vendor village, & more! If this sounds good to you, don’t miss this year’s Slyfest 12! The 12th annual fundraiser designed to support the Slyboots School mission “To promote positive social change through cultural arts education and performance. To bring the world together, on the sly”
Performances include: The Slyboots Circus (Erico Ansuade of Ghana, Mohamed Diaby of Guinea, Alassane Sarr of Senegal, Kasumu JA of Nigeria, Devi Bollywood Dance, Buffalo Gamelan Club, and many more!), Toubab Krewe, Consider The Source, The Mike Dillon Band featuring Mike Dillon, Sophistafunk, Critt’s Juke Joint featuring DJ Logic, Brasilian Vibes featuring Arthur Lipner & Nanny Assis, Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra featuring Preach Freedom, Thunder Body, One World Tribe, Saranaide featuring Sara Rodriguez Jon LoRusso and the original On The Sly trio, Vitamin D, Folkfaces, Rhubarb, The Rockaz, Tiger Chung Lee, Space Junk, Mike Sisto, Masti Percussion featuring Bob Accurso, The Big Sauce Trio, The Brian DeAngelo Trio, La Marimba Buffalo featuring Tiffany Nicely, Amor and Heritage- Folkloric-Latino Dance, Borinquen Dance Theatre, The LEC, Jason Pfaff’s Music for Ultras featuring SCANTRON, Witty Tar Box, & more!
The Slyboots School of Music, Art and Dance Head Quarters is hiding in plain sight in Buffalo, and has proudly served the music, dance and art communities in WNY and CNY over the past decade, on the sly. As the Sly family grows from their humble roots in Fredonia, NY to engage larger communities in the Upstate New York area, we have been simultaneously branching out to address issues in our global village and utilize world music as a vehicle to unite people from around the world and manifest positive social change in our communities and beyond. September 2013 marked the start of the Slyboots School’s 7th US tour with the SAAKUMU Dance Troupe from Ghana, West Africa- performing at colleges and universities, clubs and schools all over the country. Slyboots has helped to expose an estimated 40,000 students to cultural arts programming EVERY year since 2006– that’s 560,000 lives inspired, on the sly.
Tickets are $25 per day, or $75 for a three-day pass presale, or you’ll be paying $50 a day or $100 for a three-day pass at the door (Ages 12 or under are free!) for Slyfest 12. Pick up tickets at any Slyboots class or at Terrapin Station, Buffalo Ironworks, or Funk N Waffles!
/// Other shows ///
- Aug 11th : Panadena’s Last Buffalo Show
- Aug 11th : Darling Harbor & Intent To Sell
- Aug 11th : Handsome Jack & Half Animal
- Aug 12th : Cryptfest IV
- Aug 12th : Eyes Of The Blind Album Release Party
- Aug 12th : Smokin’ Black Tar
- Aug 12th : Dieselboy & Emalkay
- Aug 15th : Until We Get Caught & Survival Kit
- Aug 16th : M Broz & Frankie Goodrich
Greg Burt is a Concert Promoter/Sound Guy/Music Supporter/Keyboardist/etc. He can be reached at Greg@FTMPEvents.com. For the full FTMP show calendar, visit www.FTMPEvents.com.
