Borderland Band Camp 2025 – Dress Rehearsal Concert

Borderland Band Camp is a summer music program for middle-school and high-school teens with a BIG goal–to prepare developing young artists to share the stage with professional teaching artists for two stage performances, culminating in a spot on the Homespun Stage at Borderland Music + Arts Festival.

This August, our second voyage of Borderland Band Camp featured 17 of the most talented kids in town coming together to play and write all kinds of music together on drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, vocals, keyboards, trumpet, French horn, saxophone, percussion, and more.

Come check out a preview of their LIVE set! They’re going to rock your socks off.

Monday, September 8 @ The Cave
71 Military Road, Buffalo, NY 14207
All Ages | Doors at 7:00pm | Show at 7:30pm
$5 Cover (all ticket sales go to the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation)

Campers and Teaching Artists should arrive as close to 5pm as possible.

The Band

DRUMS & PERCUSSION: Damone Jackson (teaching artist), Joey Hunt, James Mancini, Leela Mascia, and Joel Will
BASS GUITAR: Alex Overton (teaching artist), Benny Keller, Andrew Pyc, Ko Resnick, and Marko Wilondja
ELECTRIC GUITAR: Jeff Miers (director and teaching artist), Danielle Bitsindou, Graham Catlin, Olin Mofardin, and Marko Wilondja
KEYBOARDS: Joe Bellanti (teaching artist), Eric Crittenden (director), Archer Levin, and Zeki Ozay
HORN SECTION: Jacob Jay (teaching artist), Alex DeJesus, Evelyn Horning, Joey Hunt, Benny Keller, Zech Thompson
VOCALS: Blaise Mercedes (teaching artist), Xeni Anastasopoulos, Gracie Crittenden, Evelyn Horning, Andrew Pyc