Steve Forbert w/ Davey O. Live in 9th Ward, Buffalo, NY

Schedule

Sun Aug 11 2024 at 08:00 pm

Location

The 9th Ward | Buffalo, NY

DSP Shows Presents Steve Forbert live in the 9th Ward with special guest Davey O
Tickets on-sale Friday 6/21 @ 10am
General admission seated: $35
Tickets can be purchased at the link provided or in person at our box office
Steve Forbert is a true American treasure, a fact underscored by his 21st album, Daylight Savings Time. Like all his albums of original songs, it’s suffused with what venerated rock journalist Robert Christgau discerned as his “omnivorously observant” songwriting, marked by Steve’s gift for finding the deeper meaning and magic within the spectrum of everyday moments, as well as his abundant melodic and poetic enchantment.
As Forbert approaches the milestone of his 70th birthday, Daylight Savings Time contemplates and celebrates the proverbial ‘extra hour of daylight’ that comes with the time change. “Yeah to chirping crickets and to daylight savings time!” he sings on the album’s first single “Sound Existence,” “The best ain’t yet to come, but you could still get by just fine.”
Steve arrived in New York City from his Meridian, Mississippi hometown in 1976. He slotted seamlessly into the “new folk” revival in such Manhattan clubs as Folk City, The Bitter End, and Kenny’s Castaways while taking the stage at CBGB, ground zero of the burgeoning new wave/punk movement. He also busked on the streets of Greenwich Village and in the elegant confines of Grand Central Station.
He quickly won a major label deal with Nemperor/CBS Records and released his heralded debut, Alive on Arrival, in 1978. His next album, Jackrabbit Slim, released in 1979, brought wider renown to Forbert with its #11 pop chart hit “Romeo’s Tune.” It provided the stature for his troubadour existence, which has kept him active ever since as “a striking performer, very much worth seeing and hearing,” according to the New York Times.
Buffalo's own Davey O. opens the show! Davey O. is an award winning, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Buffalo, NY, who is currently touring in support of his August 2023 release “Some Days”. Included among his accolades - a selection as a 2013 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Songwriting Finalist, and a 2015 Mid Atlantic Song Contest Finalist, as well as having several of his releases included among the “best of” lists on Folk and Roots Radio for the years of their release. His work has received critical acclaim in the pages of “No Depression” and “Americana Highways”, and in addition to performing at some of the most prestigious listening room and concert club venues in the U.S. (among them - Caffe Lena, Godfrey Daniels, Cafe Veritas, Nazareth Center for the Arts, Passim), Davey has opened shows for a long list of notable artists, including Dan Navarro, Lucy Kaplansky, Amy Speace, Tracy Grammer, Eilen Jewell, Suzanne Vega, Eric Andersen, Cheryl Wheeler, Sloan Wainwright, Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Vance Gilbert, Peter Mulvey, The Kennedys, and Poco.

Where is it happening?

The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202-1871, United States,Buffalo, New York

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher Babeville

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