Fall Fest
🎟 Cost: $50
📅 Date: Thursday, October 23
⏰ Time: 6–9 pm
📍 Location: Duende at Silo City
We’d love for you to join us at the Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust’s annual Fall Fest—an evening to celebrate you and the incredible impact our community makes together.
Because of supporters like you, we’re reclaiming and restoring Western New York’s waterfronts—transforming brownfields into places where families can gather, neighbors can connect, and nature can thrive.
Come raise a glass with us and enjoy seasonal food and drinks, live music, and raffles—all in celebration of the future you’re helping create for our region’s waterfronts.
Your presence makes a difference. Together, we’ll ensure our waterfronts remain vibrant, welcoming spaces for generations to come.
Let’s celebrate the season—and the community spirit that makes this work possible! 🍁🎃
The Venue
We chose Duende at Silo City for a second year in a row because it exemplifies the potential that exists for brownfield sites in this area. We will be featuring tours of silo city during the event!
“Silo City sits on the south shore of the Buffalo River just 600 yards from Lake Erie, and is the grandest collection of concrete grain elevators in the world. Today the massive structures that provided grain and flour for much of the world stand as a legacy, connecting the water and the land to the sky. Reclaimed by wildlife and now engaged as a cultural space, Silo City has taken on a unique identity as a part of Buffalo’s work towards a more sustainable and dynamic city…” – @silocity
Live Music from Middlemen
Middlemen formed in 2013 when Buffalo teachers Tom Maynor and Dan Nolan turned years of playing with students and colleagues into a full-time passion project. What started as covers of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Wilco, The Band, and Tom Petty quickly grew into a catalog of original songs defined by driving folk-rock and soaring harmonies.
Since then, Middlemen have become a fixture on the Western New York music scene, performing at venues such as the Buffalo History Museum, Sportsmen’s Tavern, The Tralf, Nietzsche’s, Iron Works, Mister Goodbar, Charlie’s Boat Yard, Hoak’s, Penny Lane, Raclettes, Rohall’s Corner, The 9th Ward, and the Tudor Lounge.
They’ve also shared the stage with local favorites including Crikwater, Davey O, The Observers, and Workingman’s Dead—building a reputation as one of Buffalo’s most engaging and versatile live acts.
