Upcoming & Annual Events in Buffalo
Buffalo loves a good party. And good food. And being outside. We love traditions, parades and annual events – the days that bring together locals, homesick ex-pats and hip visitors who have picked up on Buffalo’s fun-loving vibe. Now it’s your turn to party like a local. Plan your trip around one of Buffalo’s signature events.
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Traditions are big in Buffalo. Attend an iconic annual event and have a quintessential Buffalo experience.
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There’s nothing Buffalo loves more than a fun way to wrap up the work week — so get out this weekend and join the fun!
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Dyngus Day Parade 2025
04/21
Memorial & Paderewski Drive
Free
Be there for this display of cultural and ethnic pride, as the Polish community celebrates Dyngus Day! This parade gathers…
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Featured Event
Buffalo Porchfest
05/17
Elmwood Village
Free
Buffalo Porchfest is a grassroots music festival that turns porches into stages for local bands and musicians for an afternoon!…
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Buffalo Pride Parade
06/01
Elmwood Avenue & Forest Ave.
The Pride Parade is back! So, grab your most fabulous attire and get ready for a celebration unlike any other.…
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“The Space She Keeps – The Women of the Martin House”
02/14 – 06/02
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House – Barton House
Explore an exhibition that gives voice to the remarkable women who historically lived and worked at our National Historic Landmark.Through…
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Blue Monday
08/30 – 12/15
Tacoma Performing Arts Center
Free
Chicago Jack and the Heptones play with weekly Special Guests. Join us in the Grand Room in the lower level…
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Exhibition: Hi-Vis
02/21 – 06/09
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
This exhibition celebrates artists who have worked with the Buffalo AKG’s Public Art Initiative in its first ten years.The Public…
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Exhibition: Steina: Playback
03/14 – 06/30
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Steina: Playback presents the first solo exhibition in over a decade of Steina, the pathbreaking media artist whose work traverses…
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Exhibition: That Which Binds Us
11/09 – 05/12
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced That Which Binds Us, a new exhibition of recently acquired artworks made using fabric and…
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Paintings from my Watercolored Soul
03/26 – 05/04
Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
Included with admission
Created by artist, Fritz Raiser!For over 40 years, my professional commitment has been transparent watercolors. Born and raised in Buffalo,…
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Pollinators and Flowers from Around the World
03/10 – 04/28
Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
Included with admission
Just as pollinators spread life and vibrancy by helping flowers bloom in the Botanical Gardens, Stitch Buffalo facilitates the cross-pollination…
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Spring Flower Exhibit
04/04 – 04/28
Included with admission
There’s no better time at the Botanical Gardens than spring! The brilliantly colorful blooms of our annual Spring Flower Exhibit…
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Val’s Dyngus Day Weekend
04/19 – 04/21
Dyngus Day Weekend Event 2025 – join us for The WORLD’S LARGEST DYNGUS EVENT FOR ALL GENERATIONS. We are the…
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AWOLNATION – The Phantom Five Tour
04/22
Town Ballroom
$45
Funtime Presents:AWOLNATION with Bryce Fox VIP packages are available & this is a ticket upgrade and DOES NOT include…
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Bflo Bisons vs. Rochester AAA Baseball
04/22 – 04/27
Sahlen Field
Come on out to the ball game downtown as the local Buffalo Bisons take on Rochester Red Wings during this…
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Earth Day Seedling Event
04/22
Hard Rock Cafe
Free- Plants are $2 each
Join us and Greenroots Gardens of WNY for our Earth Day Seedling Event! Come on in between 12PM and 3PM and pot,…
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Momix: Alice
04/22
Center for the Arts
MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton. With nothing more than light, shadow, props, and…
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Mossome Mosses
04/22
Tifft Nature Preserve
Earth Day is April 22 and what better way to celebrate than Tifft’s SciNight: Mossome Mosses! Discover the tiny and…
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“Ink & Insight: 20 Years of Adam Zyglis Cartoons
10/18 – 05/31
Buffalo History Museum
For the past two decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis has created more than 4,000 pieces of visual commentary…
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Brit Floyd: Wish You Were Here-50th Anniversary World Tour
04/23
Shea’s Buffalo
BRIT FLOYDWISH YOU WERE HERE: 50th Anniversary World TourBrit Floyd returns to the stage in 2025 with their biggest and…
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Civil War Roundtable
04/23
$12 general admission/ free for museum members
04/23/2025 @ 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Most think of Ulysses S. Grant as the commanding general in the Civil War and a…
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Doctor Lonnie Smith Jazz Festival
04/23
The Caz
$15
Global Concepts Charter High School, the Pappy Martin Jazz Legacy Collectives’ Love Supreme School of Music, Lackawanna High School, and…
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A Night of Latin Jazz with Guabaza
04/24
PAUSA Art House
Join us for an unforgettable evening as Guabaza takes you on a musical journey that blends the rich traditions of…
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Burn This
04/24 – 05/18
Road Less Traveled Productions
General: $50-$55Student (Fri/Sat/Sun): $30 Student Thursday: $10 Group rates available for parties of 10+. Military/AAA $5 discount on general tickets.
The place is a Manhattan loft shared by Anna, a lithe young dancer-choreographer, and her two gay roommates her collaborator,…
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