For 35-plus years, Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear have been making music together. But as founding members of Donna The Buffalo, they’ve done more than just perform on stage — they’ve built an expansive and engaged community that celebrates different music styles and traditions.
While Donna The Buffalo has amassed a following of its own over the years — a devoted pack called “The Herd” — the band’s been remarkably influential as the team behind the successful Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival, which will celebrate its 33rd go in 2025.
The band members have helped foster a scene that extends from their homebase of Trumansburg, New York, to like-minded music festivals all over the world. And Donna The Buffalo itself has headlined many a gathering over the course of time, recording almost a dozen studio albums along the way.
Listen to Donna The Buffalo’s 2018 studio album, Dance In The Street, via Spotify:
Donna The Buffalo packed Rams Head on Stage on March 30 in Annapolis, entertaining a giddy crowd of supporters with a terrific set that featured songs from across the decades and had many in the room on their feet, grooving right at the dinner table.
Below are home-rolled/developed/scanned black-and-white 35mm film shots along with color digital images of Donna The Buffalo performing at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis the night of March 30, 2025. All photos copyright and courtesy of Casey Ryan Vock.
