Calendar Spotlight: Upcoming Events...

FRI • 5/23

Club Diablo - 9pm Lair of Minotaur, Hyperion Blast, Grady’s Ax, Corpus Dei

Colored Musicians Club - 7pm The Trughettostoriez Performing Arts Troupe & Just Buffalo present “The Road to Freedom.” Feature film about the Underground Railroad with dinner, discussion, dancing. $7

Merlin’s - 11pm Concubine, Painkillers, Thrown to the Wolves. $4

Mohawk Place - 10pm Powersolo, with the Found and Chylde. $7

Nietzsche’s - 10pm Scythian

Parkside Lodge at Delaware Park - 4-8pm Picnic in the Park. Hot dogs, chips, live music, croquet & lawn bowling demonstrations, kids activities & more. $8/adult; $3/kids; $20/family four-pack. Contact 838-1249 ext. 30 or www.BuffaloOlmstedParks.org for details

Riviera Theatre - 7:30pm La Scala & Friends Opera Series presents “Il Trittico” (May 23-24). $20/general; $18/students/seniors

Town Ballroom - 7pm (doors). $5 Biil Friday: Five bands, five bucks. HURT, Agent Me, A Thousand Shades of Cold, Aediem

Tralf Music Hall - 8pm The Corrections, with the Bob Fera Band and Rob Lynch & the Adjustable Friends. $10/presale (Ticketmaster) or $12/day of show

SAT • 5/24

Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society - 5-8pm Party on the Portico with music by John & Mary and the Valkyries

Club Diablo - 9pm Rock Rehab: Frailty, Paralyzm, Third in Line

Club Infinity - 2pm Southside Johnny & The Jukes, with Beautiful Bones, Harvey and the Hurricanes, Weekend w/ Mike McGuire, the Chris Squier Band, the Complete Uknowns, Mark Winsick, and Azim Hyzy

Eastman Theatre (Rochester) - 8pm Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Season Finale: “Carmina Burana” (May 22 & 24). Featuring the Rochester Oratorical Society, guest soloists and a cast of hundreds. Pre-concert chat with RPO Director Christopher Seaman at 7pm. Tickets $22 & up (www.rpo.org)

Kenneglenn Nature Preserve - 10am-4pm Wilderness Survival Basics. $45/adults; $20/youth. Pre-registration required, contact 655-7622 or deaheartwood@aol.com

Kleinhans - 9pm BPO Pops Series presents the Glenn Miller Orchestra

Merlin’s - 11pm Sleeping Kings of Iona, Besnyo, Tulip Juncos. $4

Mohawk Place - 8pm Justin Townes Earle. $10

Nietzsche’s - 9pm Jamie Notartamus performs a “Tribute to the Many Musical Sides of Bob Dylan.”

Showplace Theatre - 8pm The Paror Mob, with the Thermidors and Mother Red opening the show. $8/advance (Ticketmaster) or $10/day of show

Sportsmen’s Tavern - 9:30pm Yvonne Schmidt

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Nobody Lives Forever CD Release Party

Worthington Business Complex - 9am-6pm First Annual Great Lakes International IronFest (May 24-25). Conference spots available at $45/day or $80/both days. Contact ironfest.nysdb.org to register & for full event schedule. Exhibitions by artists and craftsmen from Western New York, Ontario, PA and Ohio are free & open to the public. Auction from 7-9pm on Saturday.

SUN • 5/25

Rock & Roll Heaven - 5pm WNYMusic.com Benefit for Juvenile Diabetes. Featuring the Transonics, the Audience, Dee Adams, MiddleMan, the Buzz, Chylde, the Guest Speaker, Kryszt/Kyle Kryszak, A Hotel Nourishing, Bela’s Shadow, Suckerpunch, and Spellcaster. $5. Proceeds go the the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

Soundlab - 9pm Joe Lally (of Fugazi); 9pm The Helio

MON• 5/26

Brounshilde VFW Post - 1-4pm Memorial Day benefit show with the Bravuras Band

Nietzsche’s - 9-10:30pm Monday Night Songwriter Showcase with featured artist Mary Milne

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Close To Home, Victory At Last. $8

TUE • 5/27

Shea’s Performing Arts Center - 7pm Nickelodeon’s “The Backyardigans Live! Tale of the Mighty Knights.” $15-$38 (box office, Ticketmaster)

WED • 5/28

WBFO XPO Wednesday Concerts - Allen Hall (UB South Campus), 8pm Edreys Wajed

THU • 5/29

Inspiration Point - 7-9pm “Walking the Seasons: Summer.” Learning and exploration of Summer and its corresponding element, Fire. With licensed acupuncurists Patricia Mahone and Barbara Simpson, Rev. Tara Welty & more. Free (donations welcome). Call 883-8670 to register

Sportsmen’s Tavern - 7:30pm Brennan Leigh. Davey O. opens the show