Sometimes the best reason to make the drive to Buffalo on a Thursday is a show that feels like it belongs in a much bigger room. Maggie Baugh plays Buffalo Iron Works on May 14 — 8 PM, tickets from $30 — and this is exactly the kind of club stop you will want to be in the room for.
Baugh grew up in Boca Raton, Florida. She started on violin at six, performed at Carnegie Hall at eleven, and moved to Nashville at eighteen. Her TikTok series “Finish the Lick” — where she takes a musical phrase and completes it across unexpected genres on multiple instruments — has accumulated more than 40 million views across platforms. It’s the best possible preview for what to expect live: someone who can go anywhere musically and make it feel effortless.
Her 2023 debut Dear Me landed at No. 19 on the iTunes US Country Charts and pulled 500,000-plus streams its first day, earning placement on Spotify’s “Next From Nashville” and Apple Music’s “New In Country.” Keith Urban personally recruited her as a touring multi-instrumentalist — a credibility signal that speaks for itself. She has since performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Today Show, the Kelly Clarkson Show, the Grand Ole Opry, and at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The Buffalo Iron Works show is part of the Entertainers Heart World Tour behind her upcoming self-produced sophomore album — a record she’s taking from dive bars to theaters to festivals. Per her Songkick tour calendar, this is her next listed US stop before a UK festival appearance in July, which makes it a genuine destination show for Western NY country fans before the rooms get bigger.
Opening the night is 12/OC, brothers Will and Reid Nichols from Portland, Maine — named Act of the Year 2025 across all of New England, 16 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Maine’s premier country radio station, and fresh off Dylan Scott’s tour in March 2026. They have opened for more than 50 Nashville recording artists. This is a genuinely stacked bill.
Show is Thursday, May 14 at 8 PM. Tickets start at $30 — grab them before this one sells out.