PORTLAND – Portland’s own Phantom Buffalo will kick off its summer 2006 tour with a show with fellow locals Diamond Sharp Friday, June 9, at SPACE Gallery .

Phantom Buffalo plays uplifting music. There is a heavy Byrds element in most of the songs on the band’s album “Shishimumu,” from the jangle (on almost all the tracks) to the use of pedal steel (“Anywhere With Oxygen”). MOJO Magazine picked “Shishimumu” as one of the Top 50 Albums of 2005.

The concert will begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets, $5, are available at any Bull Moose music store. This is an 18+ event. SPACE Gallery is at 538 Congress St. For more information, go online to www.space538.org.