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Think Twice Radio: An Evening With Lenny Revell, McCarthyizm, & Scott Celani (June 14)

Lenny Revell

Three of Buffalo’s best-known acts will co-headline a concert this weekend to benefit the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame and the Colored Musician’s Club. Presented by Think Twice Radio, one of the leading forums for local artistic expression (visit thinktwiceradio.com), the concert should appeal to a variety of musical tastes, furthering the mission of the beneficiaries: The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame has been recognizing and rewarding the efforts of musicians in Western New York since 1983, and the Colored Musicians Club—from its heyday during the 1930s and 1940s, hosting the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald—has been promoting jazz in Buffalo for so long it has become legendary. McCarthyizm has won Best Original Rock Band at the Buffalo Music Awards the past two years (2006-2007) with its Celtic influenced rock; piano-man Lenny Revell (pictured) fuses pop, smooth rock, and soul in the manner of Elton John or Billy Joel, earning a solid reputation not only in his hometown but at some of the most popular piano bars and clubs in the Big Apple; rocker Scott Celani has been a fixture on the local music scene for the past six years, gaining huge popularity and gigging around town so often it would be difficult to have missed him. These are also three musicians who are charitable as well as talented, donating proceeds from this concert to give back to the community that has nurtured and advanced their careers.

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6:30pm (doors); 7:30pm (concert). Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main Street (852-2860/tralfmusichall.com). $10/presale

(ticketmaster) or $15/day of show