NIAGARA FALLS -- The Bears Den at the Seneca Niagara Casino is an intimate venue, one with great sight lines no matter where you sit and a fairly limited number of seats. It is so intimate that John Hiatt, at his concert Monday night, talked about fe... more info

It was a rocky start for the Hard Rock at the Falls Concert Saturday night in the Hard Rock Cafe in Niagara Falls. more info

There is a moment in “Amadeus,” Peter Shaffer's drama about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, that is simultaneously wrenching and enchanting. That is when Antonio Salieri, Mozart's less-talented rival composer, hears Mozart's music for the first time. ¶... more info

7p.m. Wednesday: Cheektowaga Town Park. Paul Ferington conducts. Flutist Jilene VanOpdorp performs Mozart's Flute Concerto in G. Free. more info

Graced with glorious weather for a second straight Saturday, the Hard Rock Cafe Niagara Falls “Hard Rock at the Falls” free summer concert series continued last night with a four-band lineup headlined by second wave ska stalwarts The English Beat... more info

NIAGARA FALLS -- If rocker Huey Lewis was a dish at the Taste of Buffalo, he'd be meat and potatoes. Lewis admitted as much Friday in the packed Seneca Niagara Events Center when introducing bass player John Pierce -- a highfalutin' Hollywood residen... more info

It could be hard to keep a crowd dancing after two other bands' sets and a rainy day. more info

NEW ORLEANS -- Janet Jackson enthralled the Essence Music Festival audience Friday, kept them on their feet for more than two hours and reminded fans why seeing her in concert was worth waiting two years. more info

WASHINGTON -- England may be singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading's home, but she says she's most at home performing before American audiences. more info

As frontman with the Tragically Hip, Gord Downie is part performance artist, part poet and part rocker. Fronting that band, his closest kin is most likely post-Genesis Peter Gabriel. The Hip's music is simpler than Gabriel's, but Downie's performance... more info