DtB will play 3 days at Skippers in Tampa for NYE 12/30/11-1/1/2012
Fri-Sun, Dec 30- Jan 1, 2012 – Tampa, FL – Skipper’s Smokehouse
Wed-Thu, Jan 4-5, 2012 – Key West, FL – Green Parrot
Fri, Jan 6, 2011 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live
Sat, Jan 7, 2012 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza “Live”
Announcing Virginia Key Grassroots Festival in Miami Feb 10-12th
I am thrilled to announce that Americana roots rockers Donna the Buffalo return to Florida for a 3 Day New Year’s Eve run at Skippers in Tampa! They will also stop in at The Green Parrot in Key West on Jan 4-5th, Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale on Jan 6th and the Plaza “Live” on January 7th in Orlando.
DtB will return to Florida for the 1st annual Virginia Key Grassroots Festival in Miami from February 10-12th and will be back in Northern Florida at Live Oak for Suwanee Springfest in March of 2012!
Donna the Buffalo‘s feel-good, groove-oriented, danceable and often socially conscious music all began over twenty years ago with roots in old time fiddle music that evolved into a soulful electric Americana mix infused with elements of cajun/ zydeco, rock, folk, reggae, and country. Donna the Buffalo is known for touring the country remaining fiercely independent as one of the industry’s most diverse roots-music bands and has “earned a reputation as one of the most respected, eclectic and hardest-working acts today,” praises Encore.
“Donna the Buffalo is in the enviable position of being a homegrown entity, a group that finds itself outside the coloring lines of the accepted formula, a formula that is now in the past tense…People doing what they love, and better, sharing that passion to the benefit of the public, is the strongest business formula ever written. Donna the Buffalo is living proof of that.” states Beat Magazine. Edd Hurt with the Nashville Scene writes, “Folkies with a superior sense of rhythm are rare enough, but folkies with a good beat and a healthy disrespect for eclectic clichés are a national treasure..they’ve never sounded better…”
The dynamic songwriting tandem of vocalists Jeb Puryear and Tara Nevins have penned over 180 songs in their collaboration with DTB and have many more in the making. Although never writing a set list for live show, the Erie Times notes, “they stick to a pattern…usually alternating between Puryear’s rhythmic, Dylan-influenced, guitar-centered songs and Nevins’ breezy, melodic, accordion-driven gems like the folksy Tides of Time and infectious Locket and Key.” As of late, Nevins and Puryear have also been known to perform as a duo on air and at live shows, which is always enjoyable to the fans to hear their favorite DtB songs in stripped down arrangements.
Donna the Buffalo has been working on a 10th album with Puryear on guitar, Nevins on fiddle, guitar, accordion, and scrubboard, keyboardist Dave McCracken, bassist Kyle Spark, and new Atlanta-based drummer Mark Raudabaugh. Donna the Buffalo has released nine albums and are affiliated with several others, including a Puryear’s 2007 solo album Hopes and Dreams and a 2003 release, Wait Til Spring, with Jim Lauderdale. The band’s 2008 release Silverlined, on Sugar Hill, rose to #8 on the Americana Music Chart.
Co-DtB bandleader and American roots traditionalist, Tara Nevins, released Wood and Stone, her first solo album since Mule to Ride in 1999 on Sugar Hill Records on May 3rd, 2011. Wood and Stone showcases her ever-evolving repertoire as she journeys both back to her own “roots” and head-long into new territory. The album was produced by Larry Campbell with guests including Levon Helm, Jim Lauderdale, Allison Moorer, Teresa Williams and more.
“… her music takes on the spirit of the [Levon Helm] Barn like a well-worn and cozy Gypsy jacket that was tailored to her shoulders,” says Brian Robbins with Jambands.com. In a another recent review of the album, Wildman Steve wrote, “If heroes and heroines of rock ‘n’ roll are defined by their uniqueness, they definitely broke the mold when they made Tara Nevins.” You can find out more at www.TaraNevins.com.
As an extension of this community and the band’s own dedication to live roots music, Donna started, and are still the driving force behind, the 20+ year old
Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, NY, the bi-annual
Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival in Silk Hope, NC and February 2012 marks the first year for the
Virginia Key Grassroots Festival in Florida. DtB are regulars at MerleFest (NC), Suwanee Springfest & Magnolia Fest (FL), All Good (WV), Floyd Fest (VA), and The Great Blue Heron Festival (PA) amongst others. You can also see them in 2011 at Nateva (ME), Del Fest (MD), DuneGrass (MI), Head Jamz (TN), Targhee Bluegrass Fest (WV), Smilefest (NC) and a variety of other venues across the nation.
Over the years and through their travels, Donna the Buffalo as a band and its individual members have had the opportunity to play music with and/or record with musicians such as Jim Lauderdale, Preston and Keith Frank, Railroad Earth, Bela Fleck, John Paul Jones, Bill Kreutzmann, The Avett Brothers, Del McCoury, Tim O’Brien, Pete Wernick, Abigail Washburn, Mamadou Diabate, Los Lobo, Rusted Root, Claire Lynch, David Hidalgo, The Duhks and Amy Helm, just to name a few.
With over twenty years of playing to celebrate, hundreds of gigs ahead of them, and an ever-evolving grassroots sound; it looks like Donna the Buffalo is riding a cloud that is truly Silverlined.
DtB Upcoming Shows
Fri- Sat, Dec 2-3, 2011 –
Floyd, VA- Sun Music Hall
Sun, Dec 4, 2011 –
Annapolis, MD – Rams Head Tavern
Thu, Dec 8, 2011 –
Ann Arbor, MI – The Intersection
Fri, Dec 9, 2011 –
Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
Sat, Dec 10, 2011 –
Kent, OH – Kent Stage
Fri, Dec 16, 2011 –
Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
Sat-Sun, Dec 17-18, 2011 –
Ithaca, NY – Castaways
Fri-Sun, Dec 30- Jan 1, 2012 –
Tampa, FL – Skipper’s Smokehouse
Wed-Thu, Jan 4-5, 2012 –
Key West, FL – Green Parrot
Fri, Jan 6, 2011 –
Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
Sat, Jan 7, 2012 –
Orlando, FL – The Plaza “Live”
Thu, Jan 19, 2012 –
Greensboro, NC – The Blind Tiger
Fri, Jan 20, 2012-
Knoxville, TN – The Bijou Theatre
Sat, Jan 21, 2012 –
Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
Sun, Jan 22, 2012 –
Huntsville, AL – Crossroads Café
Tue, Jan 24, 2012 –
Birmingham, AL – WorkPlay Theatre
Wed, Jan 25, 2012 –
Nashville, TN – 3rd & Lindsley
Thu, Jan 26, 2012 –
Carborro, NC – The Cat’s Cradle
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 –
Falls Church, VA – The State Theatre
Sat, Jan 28, 2012 –
Morgantown, WV – 123 Pleasant Street
Thu, Feb 2, 2012 –
West Chester, PA – The Note
Fri, Feb 3, 2012 –
Buffalo, NY – The Tralf
Sat, Feb 4, 2012 –
Unitca, NY – Uptown Theatre
Sat-Sun, Feb 10-12, 2012 –
Miami, FL– Virginia Key Grassroots Festival
Fri, March 23, 2012 –
Charleston, SC – The Pour House
Sat-Sun, March 24-25,2012 –
Live Oak, FL – Suwanee Springfest
Thu-Sat, April 26-28, 2012 –
Wilkesboro, NC – Merlefest
More shows tbd…
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