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Leanne Schmidt, a Buffalo native and Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performance Arts graduate, will return home to Buffalo with her Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company, Leanne Schmidt and Company. Schmidt’s work, Wonderland, is a journey that invites the audience to share in each character's neuroses influenced by dreams, fantasies and life’s most intimate and personal moments. The work is a reflection of the choreographer’s personal journey and first hand experience with a family member’s struggle with mental illness and draws heavily on images and experiences based on this. The choreography’s athletic and humorous nature makes this work accessible and humorous to all ages and audiences either seasoned in dance, or not.

Kick off Spring with the first monthly Party on the Portico. Guests enjoy live music, beer, wine, hors d’oeuvres, free tours of the History Museum, and great views of Mirror Lake and the Japanese Garden from the steps of the museum. John and Mary and the Valkyries, featuring former 10,000 Maniacs members John Lombardo and Mary Ramsey, will perform.

Kick off the weekend with a concert with celebrated Brazilian composer and pianist Luiz Simas, who has performed and recorded with top Brazilian artists including with guitarist Lulu Santos, bass player Fernando Gama and more. He will perform in a variety of genres from choro, a Brazilian ragtime, to Brazilian Pop and Jazz.

Playing the Buffalo music scene since 1994 Tom Stahl is well versed and well known. He brings his award winning vocals and band, Tom Stahl and The Dangerfields, to Pearl Street Grill tonight.

John J. Halperin, M.D., world-renowned authority on Lyme disease, will deliver the 17th annual C.K. Huang Lecture, “Lyme Disease: Facts and Myths.” The event will begin with a full buffet dinner in Room B5. A coffee and dessert reception will follow the lecture.

Infected ticks that spread Lyme disease have been found in Western New York. Halperin will describe the symptoms of Lyme disease, how the disease is diagnosed and treated, how to protect oneself from tick bites, and how to safely remove a tick. Halperin chaired the committee that published the American Academy of Neurology guidelines for treatment and diagnosis of Lyme disease. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is board-certified in internal medicine, neurology and clinical neurophysiology.

Come out to The Tralf and enjoy music from The Allan Holdsworth Band!

"Allan Holdsworth is widely regarded by fans and contemporary musicians as one of the 20th century's most prominent guitarists. He is one of a handful of musicians who has consistently proven himself as an innovator in between and within the worlds of rock and jazz music. Many of music's best-known instrumental masters cite Holdsworth as that rare and shining voice—a legendary player who continues to push the outer limits of instrumental technique and the electric guitar's range of tonal and textural possibilities. Particularly during the 90s, Holdsworth has enjoyed the recognition so many musicians strongly feel he deserves, given that he has developed his career outside the big label mainstream and has consistently produced his own recordings with complete creative control since the mid-80s. Despite the uncompromising nature of Holdsworth's predominantly genre-defying solo projects, he's no stranger to all-star jazz festival line-ups or large venue rock audiences. Musician Magazine placed Holdsworth near the top of their “100 greatest guitarists of all time.” There's never been a shortage of media attention or acclaim for Holdsworth's accomplishments and originality. An inductee of Guitar Player Magazine's Hall of Fame, Holdsworth is a five-time winner in their readers' poll."

The Evolutionary Girls Club (EVO) is an international artist-activist collective coming to Buffalo to present a multi-media extravaganza of videos, prints, performance, and installations. The aim of this socially conscious and outspoken group is to create an inclusive global artist community and "to work together to inform and expand each other and their surroundings." This diverse group has also done art exhibitions and workshops in Ukraine, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Japan, and Finland.

Performances will feature Buffalo's own MC Vendetta and the self-proclaimed Anti-racist Political Poet with an Attitude, Mel Kozakiewicz.

Chicago master musician Douglas Ewart is settling in for a week long Hallwalls Artist in Residence Project (HARP). Perhaps best known as a composer, improviser, sculptor and maker of masks and instruments, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, arts organization consultant and all-around visionary. In projects done in diverse media throughout an award-winning and widely-acclaimed 30-year career, Mr. Ewart has woven his remarkably broad gifts into a single sensibility that encourages and celebrates—as an antidote to the divisions and compartimentalizations afflicting modern life—the wholeness of individuals in culturally active communities. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1946, Douglas R. Ewart emigrated to Chicago, Illinois in the United States in 1963. His travels throughout the world and interactions with diverse people since then has again and again confirmed his view that the world is an interdependent entity. An example of his efforts both to study and to contribute to this interdependence is his use of his prestigious 1987 U.S.-Japan Creative Arts Fellowship to study both modern Japanese culture and the traditional Buddhist shakuhachi flute, and also to give public performances while in Japan. In America, his determination to spread his perspective is part of the inspiration behind his often multi-disciplinary works and their encouragement of artist-audience interactions. It is also the basis of the teaching philosophy with which he guides his classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has taught since 1990, and the basis of the perspective he has brought to his service on advisory boards for institutions such as The National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer (New York City) and Arts Midwest. His use of his current chairmanship of the internationally renowned Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) to celebrate and build upon the history and achievements of the organization is from this perspective a natural extension of the activities he has been engaged in for the past four decades.

Kryszt hosts a Ultra Violet Party tonight with audio stimulization by: Twist, Brandon Chase, Mike Parker, and N3WT vs. Anthrofear.

10 Years and Counting.....Peel Me A Grape is an evening of celebration, song, sarcasm and sass! Adonia's welcomes the return of Cabaret Chanteuse Kerrykate Abel and piano bar favorites Peter Davis and Chuck Basil for a reunion evening of piano bar entertainment with special guests TBA.

Ten years ago, when Adonia's was still called Stage Door (Secrets soon after), the piano bar was held upstairs in "Art's Attic" and these three multi-talented entertainers would meet and sing the night away, with plenty of company. This one-night-only tribute to those crazy nights ten years ago promises to be an evening to remember.

Join Aqueous in celebrating the release of Huemonxu's new cd.

Join Shadow Lounge jazz club, restaurant and martini bar as they kick off the weekend with a live show featuring Crystal Blue with Harry and Rosary.

Come out to Club W to celebrate with Huemonxu. Aqueous will open.

Kick off the weekend with The Habit, Little Man and Gentelmen Callerz.