Borderland Band Camp 2025 LIVE @ Borderland Music + Arts Festival

Join us at Borderland Music + Arts Festival for the festival stage debut performance of Buffalo Music Club’s Borderland Band Camp 2025! Middle-school and high-school students who participate in our first Borderland Band Camp during August will share the stage with some of the best musicians that Buffalo has to offer.

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—and they’re going to rock your socks off.

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

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.

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