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The Travelin' McCourys make their return to Buffalo Iron Works on Tuesday March 11th, 2025! Special Guests Folkfaces will open the show!The Travelin' McCourys
From a sourced deep, abundant, and pure, the river flows.
It’s there on the map, marking place and time.
Yet, the river changes as it remains a constant, carving away at the edges, making new pathways, gaining strength as it progresses forward.
The Travelin’ McCourys are that river.
The McCoury brothers—Ronnie (mandolin) and Rob (banjo)—were born into the bluegrass tradition. Talk about a source abundant and pure: their father, Del, is among the most influential and successful musicians in the history of the genre.
Years on the road with Dad in the Del McCoury Band honed their knife-edge chops and encouraged the duo to imagine how traditional bluegrass could cut innovative pathways into 21st-century music.
“If you put your mind, your skills, and your ability to it, I think you can make just about anything work on bluegrass instruments,” says Ronnie. “That’s a really fun part of this—figuring the new stuff out and surprising the audience.”
With fiddler Jason Carter, bassist Alan Bartram, and latest recruit Cody Kilby on guitar, they assembled a group that could take what they had in their DNA, take what traditions they learned and heard, and push the music forward.
In fact, the band became the only group to have each of its members recognized with an International Bluegrass Music Association Award for their instrument at least once.
There were peers, too, that could see bluegrass as both historic and progressive. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Allman Brothers Band, improv-rock kings Phish, and contemporary jam band Keller Williams were just a few that formed a mutual admiration society with the ensemble.
The band played the Allman’s Wanee Festival and guitarist Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam—an annual holiday homecoming of Southern music. An early-years jam with the Lee Boys was hailed by many as the highlight of the evening, and with the video catching fire online, earned a legion of new, young fans of their supercharged combination of sacred steel, R&B, and bluegrass.
There were unforgettable collaborations with country legends, jam band heroes, and contemporary artists, all of which helped solidify their reputation as musical explorers and torchbearers for bluegrass.
Folkfaces
This ain’t your grandpappy’s jug band. If you like your folk/jazz/blues/punk/Americana/bluegrass wild and weird, you’ve come to the right place. Folkfaces is a quartet that specializes in “rowdy jazz & bluesy roots.” Fronted by songwriter and founder, Tyler Westcott, Folkfaces has an irresistibly danceable energy and a unique versatility, being able to engage a crowd whether busking on the street, playing in a small barroom, or putting on a full electric show at a large music venue. The group plays a mix of original and traditional music, taking influences from what they refer to as “weird old American music.” Their energetic variety show and traveling music review explores a wide range of genres including country blues, traditional jazz, rock and roll, psychedelic, honky tonk, western swing, bluegrass, oldtime, & jugband music.
Folkfaces hosts an annual camping and roots music festival every Fall in Darien Center, NY called Folkfaces Fest. Past headliners include Pete Bernhard (of the Devil Makes Three), Rushad Eggleston, Dom Flemons, Bruce Molsky, Tony Trischka, Consider the Source, JD Wilkes, Cristina Vane, The Resonant Rogues, Scott H Biram, Abby the Spoon Lady, & Baby Gramps and many others. 2025 marks the 9th annual fest and it will take place October 2nd-5th at Cherry Hill Campground.
Folkfaces recently celebrated 10 years as a band in October 2022. Last Summer they released their 3rd album “PLUMS” on 6/30/23. Folkfaces continues to keep a busy schedule playing regionally at Festivals and beyond!
Rochester City news calls their music a “wonderful, time-warping collection of tunes.”
Buffalo Iron Works
49 Illinois St, Buffalo, NY 14203
Tickets: $25 ADV/$30 DOS
Doors: 7:00pm
Show: 8:00pm
Ages: 18+
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49 Illinois St. Buffalo NY 14203, 49 Illinois St, Buffalo, NY 14203-3028, United States,Buffalo, New York
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