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

Sunday, December 21 ~ Today in Local Music and Community: Scroll down to the ~~~~~~~~ for the list of events after the list of local holiday markets.

Buffalo Holiday Market Winter Market at the the Richardson Olmsted Complex, day 3 of 3. Markets every weekend for four weeks with different vendors every week. 80+ vendors 11am – 6pm

Christkindlmarkt at Hofbrauhaus Buffalo. Authentic European-style holiday market with local artisan vendors, visits with Santa, horse rides, and cookie decorating benefiting Hopeful Ways. 12 – 5pm

Lancaster Holiday Market inside the Lancaster Village Center. Indoor market every weekend through Dec 24th. 12 – 5pm

Last Minute Holiday Market at Jonnie B Wiley Sports Pavilion. 1 – 7pm

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Grace Lougen at Hamburg Brewing Company. 10am

Jacob Jay at Jazzboline Restaurant & Bar. 10am – 2pm

The (Holiday) Moods’ Three Jazz Trio Concert at Town of Tonawanda Public Library – Kenmore Branch. 1 – 2pm

Jingle Bills and Holiday Sing-along at Hot Mama’s Canteen. Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists playing every time the Bills score and at halftime. Holiday sing-along featuring Sallyanndra, Spuddington, and Ryan Kaminski Music. Bring an instrument or just sing along. Bills game at 1, sing-along 5 – 7pm

Buffalo Ecstatic Dance and Talking Circles at Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo. Doors at 2pm, opening circle at 230, dance 245-415, closing circle ends by 5pm. Family friendly. $5-$10 suggested donation or pay what you can

Pure Ink Poetry Slam at Em Tea Coffeecup Cafe. Open mic slots before the slam. Signup between 330 and 4, slam at 4pm – $5 for slammers and $10 for spectators

Diggie Mac’s Birthmas Bash at Mohawk Place. Featuring Diggie Mac, CBM, DeeZ, Lion Records, Motiks, The Impurity, Sevagoth, Fooled By Eve, JT Hush, Mark The Aquarius, OBV, Bones On The Altar, Jurassic Clark, and OOTO Entertainment. Doors at 4pm

The Charlie Brown Trio at duende at Silo City. Ed Croft, bass, Ivan Docenko, piano, and David Wasik, drums. Performances at 4 and 630pm – $10

Dillon Brucato Band at Sportsmens Tavern. 5pm – $10

Michael Hund Live at Prohibition 2020. 5pm

Jacob Nicholson at Nietzsche’s. 6 – 8pm

Easy Street Big Band Christmas Concert at Kenmore Alliance Church. 630 – 8pm

Jazz Cache at Nietzsche’s. 830pm