Monthly News-May 2021
Mark Panfil Article for Jam May 2021 “One morning, one morning, one morning in May” words to a beautiful ballad recorded by the Country Gentlemen among many others. May flowers are an annual promise...
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Monthly News- April 2021
“Oh they tell me of a place where no storm clouds rise! Oh they tell me of an uncloudy day!” Hello present and future bluegrass music fans! April is bringing newfound hopes for live...
Monthly News- March 2021
‘Tis the season for renewed hopes of windows opening both figuratively and literally. The third US sanctioned vaccine was announced this week and new cases of Covid are steadily declining. As we are slowly...
Monthly News- February 2021
Welcome February! Well we ain’t at the end of the cloud of Covid but we are sighting breaks in the clouds up ahead. First off, February marks the birthdays of some of Bluegrass music’s...
Buffalo Bluegrass monthly news January 2021
Happy New Year 2021. I don’t think anyone could have predicted this past year back at the 2020 New Years celebrations. To start on a bright note, last week WXRL radio featured a tribute...
December 2020- Notes
Welcome December 2020! You are family, music, the excitement of children, the joy of giving and the hope of a better year in 2021. In Bluegrass, this December marks an anniversary worth noting. Seventy...
Buffalo Bluegrass monthly News Nov 2020
Bluegrass Round up November 2020 “Route 104 along the shores of Lake Ontario. The peak of Autumn’s blaze is just a memory” the opening words to the song Thanksgiving, written by Carl Eddy and...
Buffalo Bluegrass monthly News
Bluegrass Roundup October 2020 by Mark Panfil Well, summer has slipped away and the colorful majesty of fall is upon us. The Country Gentlemen from the Washington DC area recorded the song “God’s Coloring...
Buffalo Bluegrass Notes September 2020
Hello to all of you fans of Bluegrass music in the greater Buffalo area. July and August opened up some live Bluegrass in our area and out in the country too. Bluegrass lunches at...
Buffalo Bluegrass notes August 2020
Well, it’s been a heck of a spring and summer so far.Virtually every Bluegrass festival and music festival since March has been canceled. Countless gigs have been postponed and we went into quarantine. But...
Bluegrass Roundup May 2020
By Mark Panfil Hello friends of bluegrass and live music in general in the Buffalo area. Well, it’s been a month since I last wrote for the JAM. Now as I write this, I...