Craig Finn & The Band of Forgiveness w/ James Felice live in Asbury Hall
Schedule
Tue Oct 21 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States, New York 14202 | Buffalo, NY
Tuesday, October 21, 2025DSP Shows presents Craig Finn & The Band of Forgiveness with support from James Felice live in Asbury Hall
7pm Doors, 8pm Show
Tickets: On sale Friday 5/16 @10am EST. General Admission Standing: $30 advance, $35 day of show at TixR.com or in person at the Babeville Box Office M-F 11a-5p (in person: fee free cash sales, 3% credit/debit card fee)
Craig Finn is a Minnesota-bred singer/songwriter based in New York City, best known as the singer of The Hold Steady. Finn spent the ’90’s leading Minneapolis indie band Lifter Puller, which released 3 albums and an EP. After relocating to New York, he joined with Lifter Puller member Tad Kubler to form The Hold Steady in 2003. The Hold Steady quickly achieved critical acclaim and a worldwide fanbase with their unique pairing of dense lyrical narratives with big rock guitars. The Hold Steady’s ninth album, The Price Of Progress, was released in March 2023, commemorating the band’s 20th Anniversary.
Craig Finn released his 6th solo album Always Been on April 4. Produced by Adam Granduciel (The War On Drugs), the album features musical performances by Granduciel and members of The War on Drugs, Kathleen Edwards, Sam Fender, and more.
Always Been tells the story of a man who becomes a clergyman despite a lack of faith. The songs detail his rise, fall, and eventual redemption, while also shining a light to sharply reveal the other characters that populate the world he moves through. A limited edition, 92-page companion book Lousy With Ghosts accompanies the album and features 11 works of fiction by Craig Finn. These stories take place in the same universe as the record, giving deeper looks at the characters within.
Finn released his first solo album in 2012 with three additional solo LPs put forth from 2015 – 2019: Faith in the Future, We All Want The Same Things, and 2019’s I Need a New War – which coalesced into a sign-of-the-times musical trilogy. Finn’s fifth album, A Legacy of Rentals was released in 2022 and received universal critical acclaim.
That’s How I Remember It is Craig Finn’s podcast series, launched in 2022. Co-produced and distributed by Talkhouse, the podcast series examines the connection between memory and creativity. Each episode features a discussion between Finn and one creator – including musicians, authors, filmmakers, and more – about the role memory plays in their art. These exclusive conversations reveal the different ways each creator synthesizes their remembered life experience to tell stories about themselves and the world we live in. Podcast guests have included George Saunders, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Marr, Jason Isbell, Duff McKagan, Adam Duritz, Ben Gibbard, and many more.
James Felice (of the Felice Brothers) opens the show!
Chances are that by now you’re already familiar with the Felice Brothers of Catskill, New York, one of our brightest burning lights in the family band firmament. Exuberant, spirited, often disarmingly whimsical and rooted in the hootenanny, the various combinations of brothers and chosen family members that have made up the workhorse band have been at it for nearly twenty years, gone from beloved subway buskers to touring act and festival stage mainstays over the course of ten albums. They are famously Connor Oberst’s favorite band – they’ve backed him up and put out records on two of his labels. Throughout the Brothers’ run, James Felice has always cut a distinctive figure on stage – just to the right of his brother Ian, pulling to and fro the bellows of an accordion, head thrown back in ecstatic vocal harmony. But the lunch pail road dogs are getting older, these days it’s a lot less fun to sleep on a bus, what kind of real work can you do when playing songs has been your whole life? Just as he appears in the album art, James is at the party alone now, spilled wine running down the tablecloth, the sun rising in the distance budges a foot in the door.
