In the music of Milwaukee’s breakout roots-country group Buffalo Gospel one hears the timeless qualities of the best traditional American country music. It’s stripped-down, authentic and incisive.  It tells stories of the human condition: of love and loss and broken dreams and the power of dogged persistence to overcome misfortune and heartache, in spare, direct discourse that cuts straight through to the core of our shared experience. Band founder, guitarist and singer Ryan Necci absorbed the records of his youth – the honest ballads, the trucker country anthems, the heartfelt weepers – and then found himself living the stories told by these songs. With a pair of critically acclaimed albums (including 2018’s “On The First Bell”) and a lineup brimming with top musical talent, this is a band at the peak of its powers.  The 2019 Sugar Maple Festival is pleased to present Buffalo Gospel, back home in Wisconsin after a tour of the Southeast US and ready to make believers out of everyone who hears them.

~written by Brad Wolbert

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