Buffalo Community: Musings on Music * Upcoming Events * Links to the Deep End

By Seamus Gallivan

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Here are a few of my favorite forms of social connection – shoveling snow as mutual aid, showing up for parkway revival, and showing out in the spirit of Martin Luther King. Click on the graphics to get involved!

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Musings on Music

Beau Fleuve Back at AKG

Beau Fleuve Music & Arts has been presenting an array of artistic displays for nearly a decade, intentionally diverse with an emphasis on up-and-comers – of most recent note is the headliner of last year’s Beau Fleuve Fest at the Central Terminal, Durand Bernarr, just winning a Grammy.

Beau Fleuve also emphasizes Buffalo-based artists, and all of these core values will be on display this Friday with the return of The Love Within at AKG – see below for a look and listen at a few of the performers, and say hey if you see me there!

Brandon Williamson at the Buffalodown: Living the Dream

Saranaide

Joel Nicholas (keys) of the Brothers Band is a Buffalo-based up-and-comer

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Events in the Week Ahead

Thanks to all who’ve submitted their events! Welcoming submissions with a flyer and link to seamus@reconnecter.org

Kindred calendars

The Buffalo Hive – arts

Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) – arts

Buffalo Community Calendar – activism

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Links to the Deep End

• Investigative Post has stayed all over ICE and immigration in Buffalo –
  ICE frees UB scientist arrested at Peace Bridge, ICE now targeting Afghans, rule followers, and in a followup on the panel we presented in November, UB reports New Immigration Clinic Trains Advocates, Defends Rights.
• Former Buffalo News reporter Jerry Zremski, writes now on his own, How to be a better citizen in 2026 – “My advice after 36 years covering Washington? Ignore all political advertising. Re-examine your news diet. And get involved in your local community.”
• Investigative reporter Charlie Specht and his reporting partner Sean Mickey onHundreds of NY State Police Misconduct Records Now Public.
• Buffalo native and national politics reporter Dave Levinthal writes about A Florida Man story with a White House twist.
• Finally, simple social connection on a local level – props to Christa Glennie for creating Le Social Club, gathering people at restaurants on weeknights: “It’s simple: Have a seat. Order a drink. Make a friend or strike a match.” 

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