Buffalo’s Italian Heritage Festival is coming back this year after the COVID-19 pandemic kept it from happening in 2021. “Bringing it back, bringing it back a little bit different, I think is going to be really exciting,” said Lindsey Lauren Visser, who’s the Deputy Director of the Italian Cultural Center.

“I think it’s just been something that people have been constantly talking about waiting for it to come back and just the energy surrounding it is, unless you’ve been to it, there’s no way to describe it.”