Music is returning in a big way to the former Tralf Music Hall.
A new entertainment venue, to be called Electric City, will open Feb. 23 in the fully renovated former music hall space, with 12 shows already announced and many more to follow.
SaveLive, the new owner, formed in 2020 to bring independently promoted shows to secondary and tertiary markets such as Buffalo.
The company works with a dozen booking agents around the country, including Buffalo promoter David Taylor, and will help book other upstate and Western New York venues, including Artpark, UB Center for the Arts, Shea’s Performing Arts Center and the Kodak Theatre in Rochester.
The Tralf will reopen in September, with plans to present shows there through March of 2022, when it will close temporarily for expansion and remodeling.
“We have access to acts that typically would drive right through Buffalo to go from Boston to Toronto or Detroit,” Taylor told The Buffalo News. “We’re a pass through, and now we intend to be a stop for them.
“I think it’s going to be one of the best concert venues, if not the best of its size, in the Northeast,” said Taylor, a longtime concert promoter who in August 2021 brought “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” to the Eastern Hills Mall,…
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