The original inspiration for the band Donna the Buffalo was simply old time community music shows, where the variety of styles you heard was only limited by the number of willing performers. That concept is more like a revue than an open mike, of course, but the idea has endured with the band since its founding in 1989 in their home base of Trumansburg, New York, a small, population 1700 town just north of Ithaca (and a short hop up the road from Podunk). Donna the Buffalo just [...]