The Vans Warped Tour spent two decades proving that genre lines are a management problem, not an audience problem — that the same crowd willing to bake in the afternoon for a metalcore set would push forward, sunburned and hoarse, for the pop-punk headliner two stages over. The festival returned in 2025 after its original run, with a 2026 cycle spanning five festival cities. Running alongside that revival, Warped Tour Emo Night offers the club-scale version: a Halloween-night singalong built around the catalogs that crowd still knows by heart, landing at Evening Star Concert Hall in Niagara Falls on October 31.
About the Show
This isn’t a band performing its own record. The format is a communal singalong event built around throwbacks from My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, A Day To Remember, Pierce The Veil, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Mayday Parade, Sleeping With Sirens, All Time Low, and Underoath. Performing are individual members of active regional and touring acts, not full-band sets. Ryan Ridley, bassist of Buffalo’s Until I Wake (Fearless Records), leads the billed performers; the band’s sophomore album Renovate arrived in December 2024 after appearances at Download, Welcome to Rockville, and Upheaval that year. Harrisburg’s If Not For Me is represented by vocalist Patrick Glover, whose band draws from August Burns Red and Killswitch Engage while incorporating melodic rock elements, appeared at Warped Tour Long Beach, and released its major-label debut Everything You Wanted in 2024. Rounding out the lineup: Tim The Truth; Corey Papaj of Rochester post-hardcore acts An Easy Death and City Divide; Josh Raymond of Western NY deathcore outfit SCVRECRVW; and Derek Gregoire of Creating A Sinner.
The show is part of “Breaking and Entering,” a 2026 initiative between Vans Warped Tour and Emo Nite designed to amplify regional talent and restore the musical discovery that organizers say is core to Warped Tour’s legacy. Emo Nite grew from a spontaneous party in a Los Angeles dive bar to a circuit now active in more than 50 cities globally. Photo City Presents, the Rochester-based promotion company, is organizing the Niagara Falls stop.
Venue & Logistics
Evening Star Concert Hall sits at 8810 Niagara Falls Blvd in Niagara Falls — accessible from the Buffalo corridor and a familiar haul for Rochester-area fans who follow the Photo City Presents circuit. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. This is an 18-and-older event. Tickets are non-refundable.
Tickets
Tickets are priced at $14–$25, available at PhotoCityPresents.com. Buy tickets