Buffalo, NY — TRIMANIA is back! After a seven-year hiatus, TRIMANIA_REBOOT returns on March 29, 2025, at the Tri-Main Center with an impressive entertainment list to make up for lost time. The event is put on by Buffalo Arts Studio—the first tenant at Tri-Main Center back in 1991. TRIMANIA is the Studio’s only major fundraiser for 2025.
TRIMANIA_REBOOT is an epic celebration of art, culture, and music that transforms the six-floor building into a night of music, art, and energy, featuring live bands, DJs, dancers, poets, visual artists, and performers of all kinds to build your own adventure.
Over 150 musical and spectacle performances will span across 5 hours and 600,000 square feet. The diverse spectrum of Western New York talent will be on display including belly dancing, Irish dancing, aerial dance, comedy, live painting, jazz, hip-hop, vinyl DJs, drag performances, and more.
An Americana Blues room curated by Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation will feature bands such as 10 Cent Howl, Dead Elvis, and Miller & The Other Sinners. A house and techno space curated by Casual Hand Production Company will feature musicians such as U-Lock, Armageddon Party, and J Victor, alongside projection art by N3wtr0n and performances by the Buffalo Flow Collective.
SNEAKVIBING MEDIA, a hip-hop platform dedicated to highlighting the city’s vibrant rising voices, will curate an intimate showcase of rap and R&B artists such as Stinlo, Suave Neek, Bumble, and 12:03. Eat Off Art, a collaborative of artists, educators, and entrepreneurs housed in the Tri-Main, will host hip-hop artist DJ Lisa Lux along with jazz performers, Alex McArthur and Walter Kemp 3 with DJ Sike.
In addition to these curated sets, guests can expect to hear many of their favorite local bands spread throughout the building. Participating musicians include Diyené, Spud, tuesday nite, Letter to Elise, Michael DeLano, MYQ Farrow Acoustic Trio, Velvet Bethany, Pink Droid, Johnny and the Man Kids, Ian McCuen, and many more. Guests will also be wowed by dazzling performances from groups such as The Glam Vamps, Hayatidance and The Kind Killers, Buffalo Improv House, Buffalo Fashion Runway, and more.
Tickets are now on sale for $45, with VIP tickets available at $100. To purchase a ticket, read the full entertainment list, and learn more information, visit the event page on Buffalo Arts Studio’s website at https://www.buffaloartsstudio.org/trimania_reboot/
Last, but definitely not least, a huge thank you to our sponsors:
Beyond Support Network; Buffalo F.A.T.H.E.R.S.; Buffalo Fashion Runway; Buffalo Hive; Buffalo Spree; Casual Hand; Counsel Financial; Cultrue, Inc.; Dolce Panepinto, Attorneys at Law; Dyke Nyte; Earthbound Films; Eat Off Art; Explore Buffalo; Freed Maxick; Get Fokus’d Productions; Greyline Outdoor Advertising; Gold Standard Bass; In-Room Plus, Inc.; Iroquois Construction Services; Lawley Insurance; Lipsitz, Ponterio, & Comerford; M&T Bank; Marketing Tech; Mohawk Place; Montante Solar; Mower; Music is Art; Napoli’s Clothing & Shoes; Nash Connors Attorneys; Nutrl Vodka Seltzers; Polaner Selections; Resurgence Brewing Co.; Rigidized Metals Corporation; SE2 Silent Disco; Sneak Vibing Media; Sportsmen’s Americana Music Foundation; Telesco Creative Group; Tri-Main Center; Try-It Distributing; Valspar; Valu Home Centers; WBFO The Bridge; Wegmans.
About Buffalo Arts Studio
Buffalo Arts Studio was established in 1991 to provide affordable studio space and impactful exposure for visual artists while also offering arts education and meaningful arts access for the entire community. Located on Buffalo’s east side, Buffalo Arts Studio has enriched a previously underserved area through dynamic and engaging arts programming, educational opportunities, and community events. To plan a visit, go to BuffaloArtsStudio.org.
Buffalo Arts Studio is supported by The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Erie County Cultural Funds, John R. Oishei Foundation, M&T Bank, National Endowment for the Arts, Ovation TV & Spectrum Stand for the Arts Award, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Arts & Culture Initiative, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and through Arts Services Inc.’s Creative Impact Fund program thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature and the Office of the Governor, and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts.
(Top) Buffalo Fashion Runway
(Bottom) Diyené