Friday
April 21, 2023

Rick Beato Live Show at Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Crickets Theatre

Purchase Your Show Tickets and Meet and Greet Tickets.

High school and college students may pick up a free ticket at the Buddy Holly Hall box office with their student ID.

Musical
Kick-Off

Thursday
April 20, 2023

Join us Thursday at 7:00pm for a great night of music to feature: Austin Dean Ashford, Jeremy Couture and All About Alice. Tickets $10 for general admission. Grab your tickets at the Cactus Theater box office or order online.

High school and college students may pick up a free ticket on a first come first serve basis at the Cactus Theater box office with their student ID.

Saturday
April 22, 2023

Classes and workshops will be offered as tracks to students, emerging musicians and established (pro) musicians. A combined lunch will offer networking and a panel on emotional health.

All sessions run simultaneously from 9:00-4:00pm with some combining. All tracks are $35 and lunch is included in your registration.

Schedule

Thursday
April 20th

7:00 PM
Musical Kick-off at the Cactus Theatre

Friday
April 21st

5:30 PM
Rick Beato Live Show at Buddy Holly Hall

Saturday
April 22nd

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Workshops at Assigned Locations

Register for Workshops

Traveling to Lubbock?

A courtesy block for Buffalo Grass Fest guests is available at the Cotton Court Hotel.

About the
Buffalo Grass Fest

Launched in 2022 as an initiative by the Lubbock Music Friendly Community Committee, this program seeks to grow and expand outreach to music students and musicians – teaching great business skills, technical music work, and offering networking opportunities. The Buffalo Grass Fest is the signature event of these efforts. The Buffalo Grass Fest has a fund with the Community Foundation of West Texas to ensure the spirit of collaboration among the groups who are involved in the effort. The fund was established to raise private dollars to support the project each year – the purpose of the event will be to educate – it is not a fundraiser for any organization.

 

Rick Beato

Rick Beato is an American musician, educator and YouTube personality and currently has over 3 million subscribers on the platform. The videos on his “Everything Music” channel regularly receive over a million views and has had over 500 million views, or to put it another way, people have been listening to Rick talk about music for the equivalent of 6,500 years to date.

Born into a large family in Fairport, NY he began playing guitar at the age of 13 when a broken ankle left him off his feet in the middle of a Rochester summer. He would go on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Ithaca College and then earn a master’s degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1987.

He has worked as a musician, college professor, songwriter, and record producer. In his work on YouTube he’s has interviewed Sting, Pat Metheny, Brian May, Eric Johnson, Ron Carter, Victor Wooten, John Scofield, Larry Carlton, Vinnnie Colaiuta, Bernard Purdie, and Peter Frampton among others.

Purchase Your Show Tickets and Meet and Greet Tickets.

High school and college students may pick up a free ticket at the Buddy Holly Hall box office with student ID.

Workshop Registration

Registration is now closed.