The Travesties & Canela – The Big Easy in Buffalo Local Series

The Travesties & Canela
The Big Easy in Buffalo Local series
Sportsmen’s Tavern
Thursday April 30, 5pm doors, 7pm show
$15

The Travesties (garage folk) & Canela (tango/string quartet), performing separately and together. Sally (of The Travesties) will be writing a string quartet arrangement for a Travesties original song and Vanessa (of Canela) will be writing a full rock band arrangement for a Canela original – to be performed by both bands together!

Buffalo-based folk rock band THE TRAVESTIES breathe fire into folk songs old and new, including a treasure trove of Americana and Irish music. Songwriter Tyler Bagwell is a historian with a busker’s voice in search of couplets within the notion that “history rhymes.” Fiddler Sally Schaefer is an ethnomusicologist with wide-ranging folk and traditional music interests. Together, with bassist Patrick Jackson of Folkfaces and drummer Marc Smith of BTPM The Bridge, they invent and reinvent songs highlighting events, people, and places of local and national note.

CANELA is not your ordinary quartet. Augmented by bass and percussion, we take a fresh look at what a string ensemble can accomplish and communicate when traditional boundaries of genre and style are reimagined.

Since 2007 The Big Easy in Buffalo has brought New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture to the Western New York region several times a year for free and low-cost live performance, as well as music education and mentoring for local musicians, students, and the community. Through The Big Easy in Buffalo thousands of students, dozens of local bands, and countless audience members in Western New York have been exposed to this unique American culture. The Big Easy in Buffalo is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Hochul and the NYS Legislature, Erie County, Goldfarb Financial, Erie County Legislator Michael Kooshoian, Buffalo.FM, Dick & Jenny’s, National Fuel Gas Co., and Sportsmen’s Tavern.

Cover poster by S Schaefer, featuring public domain art “The Old Violin” by John Frederick Peto (c. 1890).