Keep an eye out for these upcoming events... As always, check our on-line events calendar for continually updated, full events listings.

FRI • 7/11

Chautauqua Institution - 8:15pm Linder Eder and The Duke Ellington Orchestra. $37 (357.6250 or www.tickets.ciweb.org)

Club Infinity - 4pm The Buffalo 100 (July 11-12). Local rock festival to showcase unsigned bands

Dunn Tire Park Plaza - 5pm Friday Night Bash Free Concerts. Pre-Game Plaza party with music by Pirate Dreams (Jimmy Buffet tribute)

Merlin’s - 11pm Problems with Dragons, Severe Severe, Like a Panther, Bela’s Shadow

Mohawk Place - 10pm Handsome Jack, London vs. New York, Tracy Morrow & the Magi Chippie. $5

Nietzsche’s - 9pm Oui Reunion

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Lights In Amity, Ghost of A Stranger. $8

SAT • 7/12

Amherst Museum - noon The 5th Annual Car Show. Free admissionNiagara Falls Orchard Parkway Garden Walk - 9am-3pm Walk starts at Harris and Lever Florist (1225 Main St., Niagara Falls) where you can pick up your map and guide. Free

Artpark - 8pm Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Summerfest Series: “By George By Gershwin!” (www.bpo.org/www.artpark.net)

Art Dialogue Gallery/WNY Artists Group - 11am Lecture Series: “The Art of Collecting Art” by Donald J. Siuta. $25. Call 885-2251 for reservations

Darien Lake - 7pm Martina McBride with special guests Jack Ingram & Chris Young. $33.75 (lawn) -$54.50 (LiveNation.com, Ticketmaster)

Merlin’s - 11pm KLD, Type: Relevant, Smells Like Laundry; 11pm KLD, Type: Relevant, Smells Like Laundry

Mohawk Place - 10pm The Missing Planes CD Release Party with the Gifted Children and the Failures Union. $5

Nietzsche’s - 10pm Dr. J & the Stems, the Cat Jugglers, Indecent Tease. $5

SUN • 7/13

Artpark - 3pm Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Summerfest Series: The All-American—John Philip Soousa (www.bpo.org/www.artpark.net)

Buffalo Indie Market - 11am-4pm Monthly event at the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery. Discover handmade, one of a kind jewelry, stationery, pottery, handbags, with live music & more.Visit www.buffaloindiemarket.com for details

Fisherman’s Park - 9am-5pm 6th Annual RodandPiston.com Super Cruise Car Show. Automotive vendors, food, music, and prizes (awards ceremony at 4pm). Free to spectators. Proceeds benefit the Buffalo City Mission

LaSalle Park - 10am Run for Rover. 5K Run/Walk for people at 10am; 1 mile walk with pets at 11am. Registration begins at 8:30am. Contact 884-5624 or www.PetEmergencyFund.org for Roycroft Campus - 1-4pm  Basic One-Color Screen Printing. $40 (Class fee $30 + $10 materials). Contact 655-0261or www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com to registerdetails

Water Street Music Hall (Rochester) - 6pm (doors). Less Than Jake, with Big D & the Kids Table and Suburban Legends. $17/advance (Ticketmaster) or $20/at dooAges 13+

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Hawthorne Heights, Goodbye Houston, Crush the Everlasting, A Fine Farewell. $13/$15

MON • 7/14

Club Infinity - 6pm (doors). Teddy Geiger. $13/advance (852-5000/www.ticketmaster.com) or $15/day of show. With special guests Hilary McRae, the Scott Harris Project, Standard of Living

Nietzsche’s - 9-10:30pm Monday Night Songwriter Showcase featuring Rose Bond. Followed by open mic with Michael Meldrum

TUE • 7/15

Artpark - 6:30pm First Niagara Tuesday in the Park Free Concert Series: Blue Rodeo

Bidwell Summer Concerts - 7pm Babik. Free

Hallwalls - 8pm Pecha Kucha Night

Ninth Ward (downstairs at Babeville) - 7pm Stacy Clark. Tickets at 852-5000/www.ticketmaster.com

Tralf Music Hall - 8pm Boris, with Torche, Wolves in the Throne Room. $15/presale (852-5000/www.ticketmaster.com) or $17/day of show

WED • 7/16

Artpark - 6:30pm Wednesday at the Gorge Free Concert Series: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys with ‘Lil Brian & the Travelers

Chautauqua Institution - 7:30pm The Golden Dragon Acrobats. $16 (357.6250 or www.tickets.ciweb.org)

Roycroft Campus - 1-4pm Rock On, Rock Painters. Rock art workshop series with Lin Nowicki. $35. $25 plus $10/materials. Registration required, contact 655-0261or www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com

THU • 7/17

Thursday at the Square - Downtown, 6pm Mickey Hart Band featuring Steve Kimock & George Porter, Jr., with Tea Leaf Green. Free

Xtreme Wheels - 6pm Sky Eats Airplane, A Skylit Drive, Breathe Carolina, Emarosa. $10/$13