BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:244041@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260911T081824Z DTSTART:20260923T190000Z DTEND:20260923T220000Z SUMMARY:The Nighthawks DESCRIPTION:“\\;Established 1972”\\; by The Nighthawks\\,is an album that represents 50 years of Washington DC’\\;s road warriors g oing strong.\\nOn this landmark anniversary\\, founder\\, lead singer and harpmaster Mark Wenner is still at the helm\\, while drummer Mark Stu tso\\,guitarist Dan Hovey and bassist Paul Pisciotta all share vocals and songwriting\\, making this lineup one of the strongest ever. Decades of gigs and countless rabid fans have earned them the name “\\;The Best Bar Band In The World.”\\; More than a bar band or blues band\\ , as they’\\;re frequently labeled\\, this is a band that played wit h Carl Perkins in addition to Muddy Waters.\\nIn March 2020\\, with a bra nd-new recording to promote\\, The Nighthawks did something previously un thinkable: They stopped in the middle of a Florida tour and drove home. L ike so many other people\\, the band members found themselves out of work as the coronavirus swept the country. Itching to play\\, The Nighthawks found a couple of spaces large enough to stay apart while woodshedding ne w material. Previously\\, the process had been a streamlined one: The ban d would rough out a dozen new tunes in an afternoon and perform them ever y night for a year or two before recording. But now there was time\\, ton s of it. Weeks turned into months.\\nProduced by the Nighthawks and longt ime compadre David Earl\\, they took advantage of the pandemic slowdown to hunker down in Earl’\\;s Severn Sound Studios in Annapolis\\, Ma ryland and crank out fourteen new tracks in classic Nighthawks style.\\nD an Hovey wrote a very relevant rocker\\, “\\;You Seem Distant.̶ 1\\; Mark Stutso followed with a full blast “\\;Coming and Going.& #8221\\; Florida friend Colin Kenny\\, a.k.a. Raiford Starke\\, wrote th e soulful “\\;West Memphis”\\; and the band stylistically too k it to Memphis. Stutso came up with “\\;Gas Station Chicken”\ \; and everyone contributed to bringing in the funk. Hovey added three m ore: “\\;Houseband\\,”\\; “\\;Fuss and Fight\\,”\\;  and the acoustic delight “\\;Driving.”\\; In between are Bri tish pub rock monster Gariant Watkins’\\; “\\;Nobody”\\;\ \; Jimmy Reed’\\;s “\\;Take it Easy\\,”\\; featuring pr oducer David Earl contributing the Eddie Taylor licks on guitar\\; Eddie Hinton’\\;s version of Sam Cook’\\;s “\\;I’\\;ll Com e Running Back”\\;\\; John Hammond’\\;s version of Mose Alliso n’\\;s “\\;Ask Me Nice”\\;\\; a wild version of the regg ae classic “\\;Johnny Too Bad”\\;\\; an outtake rendition of Elvis Presley’\\;s “\\;Ain’\\;t That Lovin’\\; You&# 8221\\;\\; a Hillbilly interpretation of the Coasters’\\; “\\ ;Run Red Run”\\;\\; and half a dozen others that fell by the waysid e. They’\\;d play\\, record\\, rearrange\\, and re-record til they g ot them just right.\\nIn the tradition they set forth on Rock and Roll\\, the band’\\;s debut 1974 recording and mission statement\\, the mat erial is not bound by genre other than the widest range of American Roots Music.\\n \\nDoors open 5pm\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united- states/buffalo/events/the-nighthawks-2026-09-23 LOCATION:visitbuffalo.com URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/the-nighthawks-2026-09-23 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR