Buffalo Events Party Like A Local

Upcoming & Annual Events in Buffalo

Buffalo loves a good party. And good food. And being outside. We love traditions, parades and annual events – the days that bring together locals, homesick ex-pats and hip visitors who have picked up on Buffalo’s fun-loving vibe. Now it’s your turn to party like a local. Plan your trip around one of Buffalo’s signature events.

Things to Do Today in Buffalo

In Buffalo, there’s always something fun and exciting happening. Check out what’s going on today.

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MAY 04

Cinco de Mayo Patio Festival ’24

Deep South Taco – Ellicott Street

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May 04

Airness

Lancaster Opera House

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May 19

Combo Art Class @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

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May 04

Oklahoma!

O’Connell & Company

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May 04

Pour Me a Strong One Acrylic Paint Class

Freedom Run Winery

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May 04

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

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MAY 04

Williamsville Food Tour

The Roaming Table

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May 04

Curious George: Let’s Get Curious

Buffalo Museum of Science

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MAY 04

Tim McGraw

KeyBank Center

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May 04

Feed the Fish

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

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May 04

Exhibition: After the Sun-Forecasts from the North

Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building

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May 04

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Shea’s Smith Theatre

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May 04

Crowns

MusicalFare Theatre

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MAY 04

Jon Lehning Presents: The Music Of Hiatus Kaiyote

PAUSA Art House

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MAY 04

Derby Day at duende

duende at Silo City

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May 04

Exhibition: After the Sun – Forecasts from the North

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

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MAY 04

The Seven Wonders

Buffalo Iron Works

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MAY 04

Buffalo Derby Day Party + Whiskey Release

Buffalo Distilling Co.

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May 11

Assembly House 150 Tours

Assembly House 150

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May 04

Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf

Alleyway Theatre

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May 04

Once

Shea’s 710 Theatre

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May 04

Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

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May 04

“Return to the Rainbow City: Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition” Exhibit Opening

Buffalo History Museum

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May 04

Rare Abraham Lincoln Artifacts on Display

Buffalo Presidential Center

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May 04

Exhibition: Robyn Tsinnajinnie – “A Shared Experience”

K Art Gallery (contemporary Indigenous art)

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May 04

Lights and Flights: A Candlemaking Event

Freedom Run Winery

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MAY 04

Derby Day at Buffalo RiverWorks!

Buffalo RiverWorks

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MAY 04

Steve Martin & Martin Short: The Dukes of Funnytown!

Shea’s Buffalo

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May 04

The Price

Irish Classical Theatre Company at Andrews Theatre

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May 04

Beyond the Glass Wine Tasting & Tour @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

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May 04

Chooi Brothers and Bach

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

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May 04

Exhibitions: Total Solar Eclipse + Astral Visions

Burchfield Penney Art Center

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May 04

Freedom Art Walk @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

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May 31

Babushka!

Alleyway Theatre

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May 04

Exhibition: “Before and After Again”

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

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May 10

Martin House/Graycliff Experience

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House

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APR 20

Orchid Repotting with the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

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May 04

The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence

Road Less Traveled Productions

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May 14

Open Art Nights

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

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May 07

Photography Days

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

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May 04

The AI at Delphi

First Look Buffalo Theatre Company

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May 04

Go, Dog, Go!

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May 17

Legends on the Lawn Trolley Tour

Forest Lawn Cemetery

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May 04

Exhibition: Sin Wai Kin: It’s Always You

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

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MAY 04

Steve Martin and Martin Short

Shea’s Performing Arts Center

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May 04

Total Solar Eclipse and Astral Visions

Burchfield Penney Art Center

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MAY 04

EXTC – Terry Chambers and Friends

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May 04

Alex Boeschenstein: Silent Terminalia

The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

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May 04

Exhibition: The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now

CEPA Gallery

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May 22

Larkin District Walking Tour

Flying Bison Brew Company

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Buffalo Signature Events

Traditions are big in Buffalo. Attend an iconic annual event and have a quintessential Buffalo experience.

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Things to Do This Weekend in Buffalo

There’s nothing Buffalo loves more than a fun way to wrap up the work week — so get out this weekend and join the fun!

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May 04

Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

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MAY 04

Derby Day at duende

duende at Silo City

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May 05

The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence – Sunday Matinee

Road Less Traveled Productions

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May 04

The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence

Road Less Traveled Productions

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May 04

Freedom Art Walk @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

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May 11

Assembly House 150 Tours

Assembly House 150

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May 04

Feed the Fish

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

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MAY 04

Tim McGraw

KeyBank Center

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MAY 04

The Seven Wonders

Buffalo Iron Works

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MAY 04

Cinco de Mayo Patio Festival ’24

Deep South Taco – Ellicott Street

Learn More

May 04

Exhibition: Robyn Tsinnajinnie – “A Shared Experience”

K Art Gallery (contemporary Indigenous art)

Learn More

MAY 04

Buffalo Derby Day Party + Whiskey Release

Buffalo Distilling Co.

Learn More

May 04

Beyond the Glass Wine Tasting & Tour @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

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May 04

Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf

Alleyway Theatre

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May 17

Legends on the Lawn Trolley Tour

Forest Lawn Cemetery

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May 04

Pour Me a Strong One Acrylic Paint Class

Freedom Run Winery

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May 05

Artisan & Farmers Market @ Freedom Run Winery

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May 22

Larkin District Walking Tour

Flying Bison Brew Company

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May 04

Exhibition: After the Sun – Forecasts from the North

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

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May 04

Airness

Lancaster Opera House

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MAY 04

Steve Martin and Martin Short

Shea’s Performing Arts Center

Learn More

May 04

The AI at Delphi

First Look Buffalo Theatre Company

Learn More

May 04

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Shea’s Smith Theatre

Learn More

May 04

Exhibition: “Before and After Again”

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Learn More

May 04

Once

Shea’s 710 Theatre

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May 04

Total Solar Eclipse and Astral Visions

Burchfield Penney Art Center

Learn More

May 04

Exhibition: After the Sun-Forecasts from the North

Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building

Learn More

May 05

Yoga & Wine @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

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May 04

Lights and Flights: A Candlemaking Event

Freedom Run Winery

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May 04

Rare Abraham Lincoln Artifacts on Display

Buffalo Presidential Center

Learn More

APR 20

Orchid Repotting with the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

Learn More

May 04

Exhibition: Sin Wai Kin: It’s Always You

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Learn More

May 04

Crowns

MusicalFare Theatre

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May 04

Oklahoma!

O’Connell & Company

Learn More

MAY 04

Steve Martin & Martin Short: The Dukes of Funnytown!

Shea’s Buffalo

Learn More

May 04

Exhibitions: Total Solar Eclipse + Astral Visions

Burchfield Penney Art Center

Learn More

May 04

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Learn More

May 04

Exhibition: The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now

CEPA Gallery

Learn More

May 04

Go, Dog, Go!

Learn More

May 14

Open Art Nights

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

Learn More

May 10

Martin House/Graycliff Experience

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House

Learn More

May 04

The Price

Irish Classical Theatre Company at Andrews Theatre

Learn More

May 07

Photography Days

Buffalo Botanical Gardens

Learn More

MAY 04

Williamsville Food Tour

The Roaming Table

Learn More

MAY 04

Jon Lehning Presents: The Music Of Hiatus Kaiyote

PAUSA Art House

Learn More

MAY 04

EXTC – Terry Chambers and Friends

Learn More

May 04

Chooi Brothers and Bach

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Learn More

MAY 04

Derby Day at Buffalo RiverWorks!

Buffalo RiverWorks

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May 04

Alex Boeschenstein: Silent Terminalia

The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

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May 04

Curious George: Let’s Get Curious

Buffalo Museum of Science

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May 04

“Return to the Rainbow City: Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition” Exhibit Opening

Buffalo History Museum

Learn More

May 19

Combo Art Class @ Freedom Run Winery

Freedom Run Winery

Learn More

May 31

Babushka!

Alleyway Theatre

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Featured Event

Buffalo Porchfest

05/18

Elmwood Village

Free

Buffalo Porchfest is a grassroots music festival that turns porches into stages for local bands and musicians for an afternoon!…

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Food Truck Tuesdays

06/04 – 08/27

Larkin Square

Free

Food Truck Tuesday returns to Larkin Square on Tuesday June 4th and runs through August 27th, 5 PM – 8…

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First Fridays at the AKG

09/01 – 12/06

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

M&T First Fridays at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum are set to begin again on September 1st, from 10 am…

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“Return to the Rainbow City: Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition” Exhibit Opening

05/02 – 12/29

Buffalo History Museum

Admission is pay-what-you-wish

This May, the story of Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition returns to the Buffalo History Museum the Exposition’s only planned permanent structure.…

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Airness

04/19 – 05/05

Lancaster Opera House

When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group…

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Alex Boeschenstein: Silent Terminalia

04/12 – 06/29

The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

Silent Terminalia is the latest iteration of an installation comprised of variable groupings of freestanding obelisks, fabricated out of pine,…

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Beyond the Glass Wine Tasting & Tour @ Freedom Run Winery

03/16 – 05/25

Freedom Run Winery

$19.95

Join us Saturdays at 2 p.m. March, April, and May, for our Beyond the Glass Wine Tasting & Tour, conducted…

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Buffalo Derby Day Party + Whiskey Release

05/04

Buffalo Distilling Co.

Free

Buffalo Derby Day Party – Featuring Kentucky Derby viewing and the Golden Grain Whiskey Release!

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Chooi Brothers and Bach

05/03 – 05/04

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Bach’s Double Violin Concerto is a family affair featuring BPO concertmaster Nikki Chooi and his equally virtuosic brother, Timothy Chooi,…

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Cinco de Mayo Patio Festival ’24

05/04 – 05/05

Deep South Taco – Ellicott Street

Buffalo’s favorite Cinco De Mayo Party is back… Join us for our 8th annual 2 day event! Great bands, great…

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Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

05/01 – 11/01

Clinton Bailey Farmers Market

For fresh locally grown produce and flowers this season visit us at the Clinton Bailey Farmer’s and Flea Market. The…

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Crowns

04/17 – 05/19

MusicalFare Theatre

Hats become a window into a jubilant celebration of American history and identity.

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Curious George: Let’s Get Curious

01/20 – 05/12

Buffalo Museum of Science

$16-19

The world’s busiest monkey is coming to Buffalo!  Visitors will hone their math and science skills as they make their…

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Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf

04/26 – 05/18

Alleyway Theatre

Blanche and Stanley.George and Martha.Willy.And plenty of other surprise guests. The hijinks begin from the moment the lights come up…

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Derby Day at Buffalo RiverWorks!

05/04

Buffalo RiverWorks

Free

Put on your finest fascinator and head to Buffalo RiverWorks for the Kentucky Derby!Join the Buffalo RiverWorks Kentucky Derby Watch…

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Derby Day at duende

05/04

duende at Silo City

Party starts at 4pm at Watu Cantina.  Win a prize for the best Derby hat!

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EXTC – Terry Chambers and Friends

05/04

$25

For almost four decades, XTC fans could only dream of witnessing the sensational XTC classic songbook played live. That dream…

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Exhibition: “Before and After Again”

03/08 – 09/30

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum has announced a landmark exhibition that will respond to the tragic slaying of ten members…

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Exhibition: After the Sun – Forecasts from the North

04/26 – 08/19

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

The exhibition surveys a generational response to the precarious state of our natural environment. Historically, art from the Nordic region…

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Exhibition: After the Sun-Forecasts from the North

04/26 – 08/19

Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building

After the Sun Forecasts from the North, a new exhibition that will survey a generational response to the precarious state…

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Exhibition: Robyn Tsinnajinnie – “A Shared Experience”

03/22 – 07/27

K Art Gallery (contemporary Indigenous art)

K Art Gallery invites you to the opening of Robyn Tsinnajinnie’s solo exhibition, “A Shared Experience.” Witness her journey from…

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Exhibition: Sin Wai Kin: It’s Always You

03/01 – 08/12

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

It’s Always You, 2021, encourages viewers to reflect on the performance and commodification of identity in our present moment. The…

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Exhibition: The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now

01/20 – 05/31

CEPA Gallery

The Power of Resilience and Hope & Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now. will feature 30 contemporary, regional, and…

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Exhibitions: Total Solar Eclipse + Astral Visions

02/09 – 06/30

Burchfield Penney Art Center

Total Solar Eclipse & Astral Visions will include depictions of the sun, moon, and constellations by Charles E. Burchfield, alongside stunning…

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