Bring back Spectra to Manage Canalside Concerts vs. Rich Products “Be Our Guest”
This year Be Our Guest has done everything it can to ruin the Thursday Canalside concerts including:
- FREE Thursday Concerts are now gone for good, increasing from FREE to now $5 to $40 once Be Our Guest took over
- Starting two weeks later- June 28 vs. June 13
- There is only ONE concert on a Thursday
- No longer every week, now gaps
- Three less concerts that in 2017 and 5 of the 9 you will have to pay $10 to $40.
- Here’s the schedule for 2019:
- June 28 – Twiddle and Ripe (Friday)
- June 29- T.I- $10 (Saturday)
- July 12- Get the Led Out (Friday)
- July 18 – Psychedelic Furs and James (Thursday)
- August 6- Incubus- $10 (Tuesday)
- August 10 – Nelly (Saturday)- $40
- August 27 – Social Distortion and Flogging Molly- $15 (Tuesday)
- Here was the schedule for 2017:
- 6/15 Gary Clark Jr
- 6/22 Sheila E
- 6/30 The Buffalo Philharmonic and Strictly Hip
- 7/6 The Tea Party
- 7/13 Ghost Face Killah w/ Slick Rick
- 7/20 Eric Paslay
- 7/27 Theory of a Dead Man
- 8/3 Dark Star Orchestra
- 8/10 Robert Randolph and The Family Band
- 8/17 USS – Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
- Back to back concerts- ie June 28 and 29
- And that doesn’t include Be Our Guest management that has had only ONE exit in the past, so-called security that was really a bunch of early 20-somethings running around with a T-shirt that said security, and worst of all the city signed a five-year contract with Be Our Guest (we call that in-breeding). Perhaps there is a breach of contract clause- FREE Thursday Concerts are not on Thursdays and 5 of 9 are no longer not even $5 for $10 to $40.
