Four Artists Engage With Music and Ideas at Collaborative Concert at CMA

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 12:44P Anastasia Pantsios

Moor Mother Fri 3/24 @ 7-9PM The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium will be hosting a free concert called Toward a Different Kind of Horizon , a collaborative concert with four artists: Moor...

Percussion Quartet Performs Grammy-Nominated Multimedia Work in Akron

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 12:08P Anastasia Pantsios

Tue 3/28 @ 7:30PM Sandbox Percussion is a quartet of musicians who performances and collaborations draw on visual and aural stimuli to engage audiences with classical music. Its 2021 album Seven...

Ex-Cleveland Musician Dame Drummer Comes Home to Screen His Award-Winning Movie

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 11:52A Anastasia Pantsios

Tue 3/28 @ 7:30PM Damon Jamal Taylor’s career has been red-hot since he moved from Cleveland to Oakland, California in 2012. His 2022 film Black Daddy: The Movie , on which he served as executive...

New Akron Arts & Education Venue Opens With Concert & Workshop by NY Jazz Vocalist

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 11:32A Anastasia Pantsios

Thu 3/23 @ 4PM A new venue is opening in Akron called the Creative Arts Collaborative Center that “will have all types of arts events that will bring students, professionals, and community members...

John Carroll Radio Station WJCU Hosts Six-Hour Throwback Event

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 11:07A Anastasia Pantsios

Tue 3/28 @ 6PM-midnight Once upon a time — a very long time ago — the John Carroll University radio station then known as WUJC, broadcast from the now unoccupied Clock Tower studio on campus. Its last...

Sixty Bowls Art Gallery in a Pasta Shop Opens First Ever Show By Cleveland Artist

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 10:51A Anastasia Pantsios

Fri 3/24 @ Sat 3/25 @ 5-9PM Gary Thomas, founder of Ohio City Pasta, has a new thing going on in his space at 3125 Detroit Avenue in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. It’s a gallery he’s calling the...

“Sinfully Yours” Celebrates 20-Year Career of Cleveland Burlesque Queen Bella Sin

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 10:26A Anastasia Pantsios

Sat 3/25 @ 8:30PM Twenty years ago, a teenage immigrant from Mexico did her first burlesque performance at a club called Onix, in Denver, Colorado, where her family had settled after emigrating from...

PHOTOSTREAM: St. Patrick’s Day Parade by Anastasia Pantsios

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 9:48A Anastasia Pantsios

Fri 3/17 It seems like most of Cleveland gathers downtown for the St. Patrick s Day parade — even on a drizzly cold day like this year. It s always a diverse crowd too that comes to see the biggest...

Rising Young Jazz Vibes Player Joel Ross Performs at Tri-C Metro Campus

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 6:06A Anastasia Pantsios

Fri 3/24 @ 7:30PM For those inclined to think of jazz as moribund old peoples’ music, there’s evidence all round that that’s not true. Look at the bustling high school jazz all-stars program at Tri-C,...

Music Photographer Joe Kleon Offers Photos to Raise Money for Cat Rescue

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 5:51A Anastasia Pantsios

Fri 3/24-Mon 4/3 Sun 3/26 @ noon-3PM Most people who know Joe Kleon know that he’s the premiere concert photographer currently working in this area. They may or may not know that he is also a major...

Akron’s Zach Friedhof Releases His 32nd (!) Album

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 5:48A Anastasia Pantsios

We’re really struggling to keep up with Akron singer/songwriter/peace advocate/kirtan and meditation leader Zach Friedhof as he moves into 25 years in the area music scene. Our notes show that last...

Local Hip-Hop Duo Smokescreen Plays Album Release & Farewell Concert @ Grog Shop

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 5:27A Anastasia Pantsios

Sat 3/25 @ 8PM The hip-hop duo Smoke Screen — Rodney Mynatt aka Mooke and Tommy Sheridan aka Chemist — have been a notable presence in the local music scene since 2008 when they played one of the...

Cleveland Arts Prize Offers Tours of Area Art Collections

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 5:23A Anastasia Pantsios

Work by Amber D. Kempthorne Tue 3/28 If you’ve got a passion for art and want to help bankroll the nonprofit Cleveland Arts Prize, which had been making monetary awards to people and organizations in...

Photographer Gina Washington Workshop Invites People to Explore Their Identity

Cool Cleveland Events 3/21 5:20A Anastasia Pantsios

Sat 3/25 @ 1-2:30PM Much of Cleveland area photographer Gina Washington’s work deals with family roots and identity, asking (and answering) “who am I?” And, as her bio says, “By working and connecting...

Judge in the Murdaugh Murder Trial, a CSU Grad, Speaks at His Alma Mater

Cool Cleveland Events 3/20 7:13P Anastasia Pantsios

Tue 3/28 @ noon For those enthralled with true crime stories — one of the most popular podcast and social media topics — the story of the downfall of South Carolina’s powerful Murdaugh family, which...