1,200 attend Blue Thursdays concert finale in Medina

Thurman Brothers played music from Allman Brothers at State Street Park

Photos by Tom Rivers

MEDINA – The Thurman Brothers, a band from Niagara Falls, played to a crowd of 1,200 people in the Blue Thursdays finale for 2025.

The Print Shop and Orleans Renaissance Group have teamed up to organize the concerts since their debut in 2022. The lineup includes eight bands, some of the top blues performers in the Rochester and Buffalo region.

The concerts draw big crowds to State Street Park on Thursday evenings.

This trio is the driving force behind the concert series. Pictured from left include Micheal Fuller of The Print Shop, Chris Busch of the Orleans Renaissance Group, and Dameon Heslor of The Print Shop.

Busch books the bands, and he said many of the top performers in the region reach out to ORG to be in the series.

“Not only has this series become established in Medina, but it has become established in the Western New York blues community,” Busch said.

It was about a year ago when Ken Daluisio, owner of the Print Shop in Medina, died unexpectedly. Daluisio helped promote and run the concerts.

Fuller and Heslor are the owners of The Print Shop and they have continued Daluisio’s passion of the concert series. The Print Shop put up 1,500 signs within a 25-mile radius of Medina, promoting the concerts. They also sell Blue Thursdays merchandise and run raffles to help promote the series.

Fuller said they have also hired a professional sound person for the concerts which has helped the music resonate deeper into the sprawling crowd.

Fuller said there is a shortage of parking for the event. The park fills up by 5:45 p.m., before the start of the concerts at 6 p.m. A shuttle service could help with that issue, he said.

The concerts typically bring in 600 to 800 people, but Thursday’s finale had about 1,200.

The band had some of the people up on their feet and dancing.

About a dozen vendors sell food and merchandise at the concerts, including Dubby’s Wood Fired Pizza.

Most of the concert-goers bring their own lawn chairs and listen the music on the lawn at the park.