Every day Monica Power supplies her picks for cool events happening in Western New York; you can also find her at her Facebook page.

Greg Zeis at Hamburg Brewing Company. 10am – 1pm

Custode and Parisi at Jazzboline Restaurant & Bar. 10am – 230pm

Hot Club Express at The Terrace at Delaware Park. 1130am – 230pm

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra‘s Jingle Bell Jam at Kleinhans Music Hall. Fernanada Lastra, conductor. Seasonal souvenir for kids and appearance by Santa. 12 – 2pm

Annual Christmas Party at Kettles with music by Michael Hund Live. 12 – 4pm

Annual Gem Show at Feel Good Rocks Buffalo. 12 – 9pm

Max Davis Music at An Afternoon with Santa at 42N At The Flats. 1 – 3pm

Screening of “It’s A Wonderful Life” directed by Frank Capra at The Screening Room Cinema & Arts Cafe. 1 – 3pm – $7

Portrait Drawing Sessions with artsis Sky Vance and Dana Hatchett at Allen Street Art. 1 – 3pm

meet the Bacons at The Gin Mill, Ellicottville NY. 1 – 4pm

Mind the Gap: Builing Multigenerational LGBTQ+ Community with Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project at E. H. Butler Library. Speed story sharing and oral history recording. Entertainment by Chevon Davis, Xo’Lei Moon, and DJ Chango. 1 – 4pm

Banjo Juice Jazz Band at Jack Rabbit. 1 – 4pm

Buffalo Friends of Folk Music presents Nan Hoffman and Joe Tumino at Meeting House Events. Collecting food pantry donations of non-perishable items. 2pm

A Musical Afternoon with Bohdan Shutka at Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. 2pm

A Very Wooden Holiday Extravaganza at Duende at Silo City featuring Wooden Cities performing live to silent Christmas films that map the full range of the silent film era, filmed between 1898 and 1925. Megan Kyle, oboe, Zane Merritt, guitar/voice, Michael McNeill, piano, Evan Courtin, violink, Brendan Fitzgerald, percussion, Ethan Hayden, trombone, and Katie Weissman, cello. 230pm – $10

Jingle Bills Holiday Party at Hot Mama’s Canteen featuring Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists throughout the game and a Holiday Halftime show. 425pm

Pure Ink Poetry Slam at Ujima. 12 slots for the slam and 4 spots for open mic. Signup at 6, slam at 630pm – $5 for slammers, $10 for spectators

Ann Philippone Musician‘s Sunday Piano Party at Nietzsche’s. 6pm

Joseph Aloysius at Johnny D’s Restaurant. 6 – 9pm

Oso Oso, The Weather Might Say Otherwise, Flycatcher, and RILEY the band at Mohawk Place. Doors at 7pm

Michael Hund Live at Prohibition 2020. 7pm or after the Bills game

Jazz Caché at Nietzsche’s. 8pm