The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, Inc., (BMHOF), a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, was established in 1983 by Rick and Marsha Falkowski as part of the Buffalo Music Awards. For information about Rick and Marsha Falkowski, click Here
The BMHOF was created to honor the region’s musicians and music history for the cultural enhancement and enrichment of the community. The BMHOF encompasses a population of over 1.3 million people from all five counties of Western New York including Erie, Niagara, Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. ~
Our mission at the Buffalo Music Hall of fame is to honor, preserve, and promote the diverse musical culture and heritage of Buffalo and Western New York through education, scholarship, and performance and to recognize, via formal induction into the BMHOF, those individuals and groups who have made a significant impact on the music scene locally, nationally and/or internationally.
Buffalo and Western New York has been the home of some of the finest musicians in the world ~
“Somewhere
over the Rainbow”
“Ain’t
She Sweet”
“When
Irish Eyes are Smiling” are songs
by just three of the more than 390 BMHOF inductees that have made an everlasting
impact on the music industry and beyond!
Perhaps names like Cory Wells, founder
of Three Dog Night, gold record jazz group Spyro Gyra, funk pioneer Rick
James, and the platinum selling Goo Goo Dolls… ring a bell?
We boast names such as 10,000 Maniacs,
singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco,
Las Vegas
stars The Scintas and Clint Holmes, and the Buffalo Bills Barbershop
Quartet – stars of Broadway and film in “The Music Man”. Also included are composers including Jack Yellen, Ray Evans and David Lee Shire and session musicians Gary Mallaber, Jim
Ehinger, Tom Hambridge and Tommy Tedesco, a member of the famous “Wrecking
Crew”.
These are just some of the award-winning musicians, singers, entertainers, teachers, music industry leaders, and songwriters that are apart of the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame and our Western NY Music Community!
We invite you to take a look at our complete list of Buffalo Music Hall of Fame Inducted members: