Buffalo Music Hall of Fame has new place to call home
September 29, 2021
The collection of Buffalo’s finest and most celebrated musicians now has a new place to call home right in the city’s Black Rock neighborhood.
The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame has been around since 1983, but until now, it did not have a centralized location to conduct business. Hall of fame inductee and board of directors’ member, Eddie Tice is very excited to have the space.
“It’s nice now that we have a place. We’re not homeless anymore,” Tice said.
Walking into the building is like taking a trip down memory lane of Buffalo music history. Guitars, photographs and other memorabilia of inductees line the walls of the room.
The building is located on Amherst Street next to the Sportsmen’s Tavern. It was acquired by the hall of fame thanks to the venue’s owner, Dwayne Hall.
“We were very lucky. If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have this space,” Tice said.
They plan on hosting collaborative community events with the Hall family and the venue in the near future.
“We would like to turn it into a little music Mecca down here. I don’t see why not, something’s happening every single night,” Tice said.
For more information on news and events for the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, check out the their website.
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JOan Nic(K)ola (Lutz) De-DiStefano Phillips • Oct 6, 2021 at 2:02 pm
Ah to set the record straight –as a matter of speaking– I am proud of the BMHF to be housed in such a nice place as next to the Sportmans Inn. It was surely one of my favorite spots when I was a musician. Which brings me to reveal that the person who played at the Hard Rock cafe in Niagara Falls was NOT NICK DISTEFANO of the Road. All the same if anybody is around that remembers me , I was the drummer for the ROAD from 1967 (after Michael Bennett left to go on Broadway) (Mellow Brick Rode) until 1971 when I went to harvard Law schol and became a lawyer. I incidently was the one who copoywrote the Roads 3 albums of which included a song I WROTE “Love Is All”. Not someone who lives in Nashville. Kama Sutra records was started and owned by Maria Callas the opera singer because I owned a radio station in NIagara Falls NY called WJJL AM along with my father JOhn Lutz and his Uncle John Laux and of course managed by my husband John Phillips. I was in NYC/Brooklyn at the time when The Road last played. I was being screened for cancer surgery. I had sort of recovered and in the time of covid it returned and Inwas told I couldnt travel. I now travel with a walker to get around and miss the food from WNY especially the Pizza and Beef on wecks. NYC is getting a bad place to be. Take care WNY sorry I had to let WJJL go but it was more important to have an airport that a radio station. Am trying to rebuild again for my descendants who are great musicians of their own . Love & Peace to all my friends. Take care be safe!