Date and Time
Saturday, May 17th, 2025
7:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Based in Buffalo, NY, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Davey O. is a master storyteller of pure Americana that is crafted and drawn from a deep well of experience and human emotion. A twenty plus year journey of an unflinching poet’s look at life that has resulted in a collection of justly earned, highly introspective songs.
About the Artist
Davey O. is an award winning and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Buffalo, NY. His work has been recognized by his selection as a New Folk Songwriting Finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in 2013, as a 2015 Finalist in the 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, and as a 2016 & 2017 nominee for the Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation Jim Lauderdale Songwriter of the Year Award. His 2017 release, “A Bright Horizon Line” was well received by radio and by music publications around the globe, debuting as a Top 20 album on the Folk DJ Charts, and receiving glowing reviews in several music publications, including the pages of what is considered to be “the journal of Roots Music” – No Depression magazine.
His previous release, “No Passengers” (2014), was counted among the Top 100 Contemporary Folk Albums of 2014 on the Roots Music Reports, and among the “Best of 2014” lists of WHRW (Binghamton, NY), WAMC (Albany, NY), The Sundilla Radio Hour (Auburn, AL), WMSC (Montclair, NJ), Radio Crystal Blue (Tacoma, WA), WVPE (Elkhart, IN).
In June of 2020, Davey released a collection of new music via his website under the title of “The Share Project”, with all download proceeds donated to FeedMore WNY – his local food bank.
In August of 2023, Davey released a new 6 song EP titled “Some Days”, which has been receiving positive press in notable music publications such as “Americana Highways”, steady airplay on Folk and Roots radio throughout the Northeastern & Midwestern U.S., and was selected as a 2023 favorite by Folk DJ’s Charlie Silvestri of NJ based podcast “Up Close & Acoustic”, and Kelly Walker, host of the nationally syndicated NPR show, “The Sundilla Radio Hour”.
Davey currently resides in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, NY with his partner and their cats.
For more info, please visit – www.daveyo.com
