page_title: Sahlen Field
section_title: Concerts
hierarchical_section_title: Sahlen Field / Notable events / Concerts
caption_attribution_description: Dierks Bentley
context_page_description: Sahlen Field is a baseball park in Buffalo, New York. Originally known as Pilot Field, the venue has since been named Downtown Ballpark, North AmeriCare Park, Dunn Tire Park, and Coca-Cola Field. The home of the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons of the International League, it opened on April 14, 1988 and can seat up to 16,600 people, making it the highest-capacity Triple-A ballpark in the United States. It replaced the Bisons' former home, War Memorial Stadium, where the team played from 1979 to 1987.
  The stadium was the first retro-classic ballpark built in the world, and was designed with plans for Major League Baseball expansion. Buffalo had not had an MLB team since the Buffalo Blues played for the Federal League in 1915. However, Bisons owner Robert E. Rich Jr. was unsuccessful in his efforts to bring an MLB franchise to the stadium between 1988 and 1994. Due to travel restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays are currently playing their 2020 home games at Sahlen Field.
  Sahlen Field was also home to the Buffalo Nighthawks of the Ladies Professional Baseball League in 1998 and the Empire State Yankees in 2012.
context_section_description: The Buffalo Bisons have presented a yearly post-game Summer Concert Series at the venue since 1988. The Summer Concert Series has included headlining performances by Aretha Franklin (1991), Bill Cosby (1997), Bo Diddley (1990), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (1995–2019), Chicago (1990, 1994),  Chubby Checker (1992), Eddie Rabbitt (1988), Foreigner (1994), Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (1990), Gloria Estefan (1988), Huey Lewis and the News (1991), Kansas (1996–1997), KC and the Sunshine Band (1995), Loverboy (1997), Michael McDonald (1992), Reba McEntire (1993), Styx (1996), The Beach Boys (1988–1995, 2000–2001), The Doobie Brothers (1994), The Monkees (2001), The Temptations (1989), The Turtles (1992), Tommy James (1992), Tony Bennett (1999), Village People (1995) and Willie Nelson (1989).
  The Budweiser Superfest music festival took place at the venue in July 1989 and included performances by Guy, Kool Moe Dee and New Edition.
  The Bluestime Jam music festival took place at the venue in August 1995 and included performances by B.B. King, Etta James and Jimmie Vaughan.
  The third-annual WEDG Edgefest music festival took place at the venue in June 1997 and included performances by Buck-O-Nine, David Usher, Goo Goo Dolls, Moist, Saturn Battery, Sloan, Tugboat Annie and Weezer.
  WKSE presented their annual Kiss the Summer Hello music festival at the venue from 2001 to 2002, and again from 2009 to 2013. Kiss the Summer Hello included headlining performances by 98 Degrees (2001), Ashanti (2002), Carly Rae Jepsen (2012), Emblem3 (2013), New Boyz (2010), The Veronicas (2009) and Travie McCoy (2011).
  WYRK has presented their annual Taste of Country music festival at the venue since 2001. The 2015 event headlined by Dierks Bentley set the all-time attendance record for concerts at the venue with 27,000 fans. 
  WEDG staged their tenth-annual Edgefest music festival at the venue in May 2003, and it included performances by Cold,  Finch, Hed PE, Klear, Powerman 5000, Seether, Smile Empty Soul, Staind, The Juliana Theory and Trapt.
  The second-annual Buffalo Niagara Guitar Festival took place at the venue in June 2003 and included performances by California Guitar Trio, Chris McHardy, Doug Yeaomans, Hubert Sumlin, Jim Weider, Johnny Hiland, Larry Coryell, Murali Coryell, Savoy Brown, Sid McGinnis and The Yardbirds.
  Counting Crows headlined a show at the venue in August 2007 as part of their Rock 'n' Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour. They were supported by Collective Soul and Live.
caption: Dierks Bentley, who headlined Taste of Country before a record crowd in June 2015
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