Review: Americana Music Festival, 9.2.07

The Americana Music Festival held Sunday featured 'Smooth' Mike's new combo Martini Five-O, Magnolia's band Cleveland Country Band AND Jennifer Parker (billed as Zahira) belly-dancing. They helped to make it a diverse and strong line-up.

Check out the online gallery: www.juanquirarte.com/AmericanaFest07

In 2005, Clint Holley played a pivitol role in organizing Cleveland’s first Americana music festival. The event was a raging success and so he is pleased to announce that a celebration of twang is returning to the Lake Erie city in 2007. The Cleveland Americana Music Festival takes place at Cleveland’s Parish Hall (W. 62nd and Detroit Rd.) on Sunday, September 2nd and features live performances by local and regional Americana acts.

Schedule:
5—5:30pm: Bill Crompton (side stage)
5:40—6:25pm: Cleveland Country Band (Magnolia's band)
6:25—6:55pm: Martini Five-O (Smooth Mike's band)
7—7:45pm: Tabloid Twangers (main stage)
7:50—8:20pm: Ryann Anderson (side stage)
8:30pm—9pm: Miss Firecracker (main stage)
9:10—9:25pm Bellydancing (Jenn)
9:30—10:15pm: Hayshaker Jones (main stage)
10:15—10:30pm: Belly Dancing (Jenn)
10:30—11:15: The Silvertones (main stage)
11:30—12:30: California Speedbag (main stage)

Americana Music Festival
Parish Hall Cleveland
6205 Detroit Ave. Cleveland, OH 44102 • 216-939-9099

April Azhar, Middle Eastern Dance Artist

April Azhar will be teaching:

A new 8 week session is starting August 2, 2007

Beginning Belly Dance - Tuesdays 6:30pm-7:30pm
$64 for 8 week session or $10/walk-in

Pilates : Tone and Strengthen - Tuesdays 7:30-8:30pm
$80 for 8 week session or $15 for walk-in

*Tuesday classes are held at One More Step Dance Studio 4431 Mayfield Road (2nd floor) South Euclid Ohio. (Above Hilcrest academy).

Starting September 17, 2007

Beginning Belly Dance - Mondays 6:30-7:30
$64 for 8 week session or $10 for walk-in

*Monday classes are held at Enchanted Grove 4122 Erie St. Willoughby, OH 440.942.0506

For more information or to register for classes, please visit www.AprilAzhar.com or contact April at the number below.

Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,
April

April Azhar
Middle Eastern Dance Artist
www.AprilAzhar.com
216-262-5702

Check out Samara's new website

Hello Friends-

This is an invitation to visit my new website featuring old & new Photography and Art from Samara...

www.flickr.com/photos/samarapeddle/

I would love any and all comments/suggestions...

And they are all for sale... so if you see something you like... just ask!

and check back often for new additions...

thanks.

peace & love-

samara

CONGRATS!! Ken and Susan 8.10.07

Ken Gross—former head of the Murray Hill Group's Akron Bureau (soon to be Darryl Nichols)—met Susan Mathias at one of the debaucheries Mark Common calls his Big Music parties. Lo, this short year and change later they are getting married! Best wishes, both of you, from your 'Art Homies'.

Juan

Car and Bike Cruise-in w/KB and the Riptides Sat Aug 11th

Car and Bike Cruise-in at Zeleznik's Tavern with KB and the Riptides Sat., Aug 11th. 4002 Jennings Road, Brooklyn OH. Surf, Blues, Twist.

Great Lakes Burning River Festival, Sat., August 11th

Saturday, August 11th, 1pm — 9:30pm: Great Lakes Burning River Festival. www.burningriverfest.org

Doug Wood will be performing at the Acoustic Stage @ 3pm.

For directions to Whiskey Island, go here: http://www.wendyparkfoundation.org

Roots Acoustic Pickin’ Circle Sunday August 5th at 2:00

It’s time for another “Roots Acoustic Pickin’ Circle”.

Last month’s circle was a lot of fun! We had some new faces in the crowd which was great!

The next pickin’ circle is this coming Sunday August 5th at 2:00pm.

Hope you can make it.

Rick

Roots of American Music
3475 Fairmount Boulevard
Cleveland Hts., OH 44118
216.321-9350

www.fairmountmusic.com

Here is a brief explanation of what they do: Roots of American Music is dedicated to ensuring that today's young people and our communities remain connected to the history and spirit of our country. Through preservation, performance and education through traditional music, we respect our nation's diverse heritage by building bridges of understanding between different generations, races and ethnic groups. Thanks, hope to see ya!

Rick Sockel
www.ohiocrossing.com

Pin-Up Paradise! Friday, July 20, 9 pm—2 am

Come help support Tonya Yanok and her team, the Rolling Pin-Ups, of the Burning River Roller Girls league (www.burningriverrollergirls.com). Donations goes towards venue rental for practices, uniforms, supplies, etc. (They pay to play!) "Help some girls out and have a great time!"

OnlyUndiesClub.com presents:
Pin-Up Paradise!
Friday, July 20
9 p.m. — 2 a.m.
FREE event, but donations appreciated.
Proceeds to benefit the Rolling Pin-Ups team.

Edison's Pub
2373 Professor Street
Tremont, Ohio 44113

Costume contest for best Pin-Up costume! (Yes, drag is welcome!)
Winner chosen and announced at 12:30 a.m.

Rolling Pin-Up merch! Raffle prizes... tickets for raffle $5 each or 3 for $10.

Sponsored by Southside Cleaners and Edison's Pub

Postcard from France

Hi all, A video hello from Debbie and Alan Steytler of dinner preparations at Juliette's mom's country cottage: www.steytler.com/images/dinner_prep.MOV.

GOOD NEWS on the Nicolas and Juliette front as well. Looks like they can stay longer on their way back thru Cleveland the last week of August. SO, Save-the-Date: Saturday Sept. 1st will be a Murray Hill Group Workshop/Party. Friends are invited to join us for the party/bonfire about 6pm. Hope you all can give them a great send-off to sunny LA!

Juan

Ingenuity, Cleveland's Art and Technology Festival 7.19—7.22

The 2007 Ingenuity Festival of Art & Technology starts in earnest Thursday with "Samba for 1,000 Drums," an outdoor percussion performance and parade. Brazilian drummer Marcus Santos is the composer and conductor of a performance that will bring together professional percussionists with local drum lines. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with the gathering of drummers at the student pavilion at Cleveland State University, East 22nd Street and Euclid Avenue. A parade of performers will move west on Euclid toward Playhouse Square at 6:45 p.m. The festival continues with evening dance, drama, musical and art performances at venues throughout the neighborhood. Weekend hours: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5 p.m.-midnight Friday; noon-midnight Saturday; and noon-10 p.m. Sunday. Playhouse Square, Euclid Avenue between East 14th and East 18th streets, Cleveland. One-day pass, $10; four-day pass, $25; all outdoor events free.

4th Annual TASTE OF TREMONT Sun. 7.22

Come down to the fourth annual Taste of Tremont. Professor Ave. is closed to car traffic and the street is lined with Tremont's finest restaurants, galleries and boutiques. Be sure to visit our friend Ricardo Sandoval at the Fat Cats booth. Also, enjoy the jazz 'musings' of SLAP. Fun for the whole family!

Cool music: Balkan Beat Box

Check out a fun concert video by Balkan Beat Box that can be found at their web site www.balkanbeatbox.com. This is much like the Grog Shop show I saw last Summer.

Juan

"Fuzzy" Mike showing @Cain Park Arts Fest 7.13—7.15

Come out to this year's Cain Park Arts Festival this weekend and stop to see "Fuzzy" Mike Pomerantz. He'll have his original oils and prints for sale. A group of us will be meeting about 1pm Saturday. Join us if you can, or go tonight or Sunday. Check out his web site, www.drippingcolors.com, for a preview of Mike's work.

Juan

COSE Arts @ Ingenuity, Cleveland's Art and Technology Festival 7.20

In the spirit of Ingenuity, Cleveland's Art and Technology Festival the COSE Arts Network is teaming up with NEOSA, COSE's Technology Network, to host an evening of stimulating networking, great entertainment and fun!

Join us for cocktails and appetizers on July 20, and celebrate the connection between the two worlds. Event admission includes a free pass to the evening's Ingenuity Festival events.

COSE Arts and Technology Happy Hour
Date: Friday, July 20
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Kennedy's at Playhouse Square
Cost: $10 members; $15 non-members (includes Ingenuity admission)
Register online today here or call 216.592.2222

KB and Carmen performing tango 4th of July weekend

Friday July 6th, 7:00 pm til ? The Jay Rossi Project 2007 Network Fundraiser Party, $7 admission includes appetizers,
at The Clevelander Bar and Grill, downtown Cleveland.
Tango performances by KB and Carmen with guest Pat Tamburro on accordion,
plus several music acts and magicians.
(we are extending an invitation to the local tango community to patio/sidewalk tango with us just like in the streets Buenos Aires Argentina, so please come out and join us). There will be a camera crew there filming for the Jay Rossi Time Warner Cable TV show !

Pass this info on to other Milongueros and Milongueras you may know...

For more information, please go to:
www.kbandcarmentango.com
or phone 216.749.3878

Sat., June 30th—Play until Dark @ Wendy Park

Play until Dark @ Wendy Park: Get the Towpath to the Lake. Cleveland’s only Sport and Recreation festival benefiting Wendy Park Foundation initiatives including getting the Towpath to the Lake! Includes live music and children's festivities and features Wendy's Ride, (at 10am) a FREE ride that takes participants along the proposed path to connect the Towpath Trail from Downtown Cleveland to Lake Erie. Advance tickets for Play Until Dark available online for $5.00, at the gate price is $8.00. Kids under 10 free.

www.playuntildark.org

Hodge Open Studios Fri. and Sat. June 22 and 23

The Hodge Artists' Live/Work Studios

Open Studios and Open Forum: A Group Exhibition

Friday, June 22 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday, June 23 1 to 6 p.m.

In conjunction with Artspace/Cleveland's Trolley Tour of Live/Work Space.

The 1905 Hodge Elementary School classrooms were converted into live/work units in the 1980s. The wide hallways now serve as gallery space in which the diverse, and ever-evolving group of resident artists present individual or collaborative exhibitions. Come explore a wonderful building, visit eight artist's studios and see the current group exhibition of guest artists. Plus, walk the Community Labyrinth created by artist Rafala Green.

Directions: The Hodge Artist Studios is located at 1075 E. 74th St. in the St. Clair-Superior Neighborhood. Entrance and parking in the back on East 76th. From St. Clair Ave. turn south on E. 76th St. Go one block. The Hodge School is the first right in the next block. Plenty of parking available!

Resident Artists: Kevin Busta makes welded steel sculpture. Recently he has been combining sculpture and painting to create unique installations. Pamela Dodds' large-scale representational paintings depict critical moments in relationships. They were exhibited recently at Asterisk Gallery in Tremont. Three paintings are also currently on view at Convivium 33- Josaphat Arts Hall. Well-known local ceramicist Andrea LeBlond is a member of Terra Vista Studios. Her larger, sculptural work will be on exhibit. SAFMOD Performance Ensemble creates a fusion of movement, enchanting audiences of all ages. The remarkable constructions of sculptor Charmaine Spencer, created from simple wood, rope and other utilitarian materials, has been exhibited at Spaces, Cleveland State University Gallery and Groop. Painter and draftsperson Lolita Wilson works in still life and abstraction.

Guest Artists: Bernadette Glorioso creates mystical abstract portraits. Jody Hawk's boxes of reconstructed photographed mementos evoke new perspectives on the familiar. Michel Ina collaborates with his clients to create unique custom furniture. "A chair is one of the most exciting things to design...," he says. Lorraine Johnson-Davis paints engaging genre scenes of family life. Michaelle Marschall's body print/paintings were recently on view at True Art in Collinwood.

Parade-the-Circle Online Gallery

Hopefully you made it to Parade the Circle June 9th. For those that went or those that wanted to go but couldn't make it; some of my best Parade the Circle pictures on an online gallery that can be found at: www.juanquirarte.com/parade

Doug Wood Upcoming (local) Schedule

DOUG WOOD UPCOMING (local) SCHEDULE:

Fri, June 8: The Galleria, Cleveland, OH
performing 11:30am-1:30pm @ the summer in the courtyard concerts

Fri, July 20: Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, OH
tentatively performing @ Kennedy's 5:30-8:30, part of COSE networking event @ the festival

Sat, August 4: Open Air Market Square, Cleveland, OH
performing 10am-12:30pm @ the square across from West Side Market

Sat, August 11: Burning River Festival, Cleveland, OH
performing TBA @ the Acoustic Stage at the Festival

early Fall tour starts Aug 29th @ Nebraska/Colorado

Doug Wood
Progressive Acoustic Guitarist from
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.dougwoodmusic.com
www.sonicbids.com/dougwood
www.myspace.com/dougwoodmusic
NEW DREAMCATCHER CD AVAILABLE AT http://www.cdbaby.com/dougwood3
DOWNLOAD FROM iTUNES AT: http://www.itunes.com
BOOKINGS AT: http://www.mamcollective.com

The Burning River Roller Girls 2007 Bout Schedule

THE BURNING RIVER ROLLER GIRLS 2007 BOUT SCHEDULE

SUNDAY APRIL 22ND - 3PM SOLD OUT

SATURDAY MAY 19TH - 6PM SOLD OUT

SATURDAY JUNE 30TH - 6PM

SATURDAY JULY 28TH - 6PM

SATURDAY AUGUST 25 - 6PM

CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT - SEPTEMBER 22 - 6PM

All events will take place at the Soccer Sportsplex in North Olmsted, 31515 Lorain Rd. (440) 979-9997

Tickets went on sale 3.26 for their 1st bout on April 22nd and for Season Tickets. Please use the link below to purchase tickets.

http://www.burningriverrollergirls.com/shop_index.html

Buy early, they are hoping—and expecting—to sell out!