Buffalo musician, writer, artist, and innovator Mark Freeland passed away four years ago next month after losing a battle to cancer. Born on May 1, 1957, Freeland was a graduate of Kenmore West High School and Empire State College. Anyone who was into the Buffalo music scene in the over the last few decades surely had heard one of Freeland's many bands, including Pegasus, Pegas, Pegasonics, Electroman, The Fems, and of course Freeland solo. Freeland's art had been featured in the Albright Knox Art Gallery and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Pain Clinic. Tonight's bill of musicians paying tribute to Freeland range in musical styles from grime punk to samba, to acoustic covers of both Freenland's music and some of his favorite songs. Tonight's Tribute/Birthday celebration for Mark Freeland begins at 9:00pm at Nietzsche's. Cover is only $5 and all proceeds go to the Give for Greatness foundation. Check out the truly bizarre yet awesome video of Freeland performing on Buffalo's Off Beat Cinema in the nice Artvoice piece fellow Buffalo musician Jamie Moses wrote after Freeland's passing(is that Keith Radford in the video?). For more information on Freeland's work and life, visit his tribute site here.
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10:00pm - Ed Koban / Emile Lattimer
10:30pm - Pillow Queen
11:00pm - Cowboys of Scotland
11:30pm - Hylofi
12:30am - David Kane's Crap
1:00am - The Disobedient Quartet
1:30am - The Fucking Hotlights
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