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Cleveland’s Downtown Busker Program returns for second year

June 20, 2023 // Downtown Cleveland Inc., is bringing back the Downtown Busker Program for its second year.The official street-performance program features 20 pre-selected “pitch” (the area buskers perform) locations and guides for potential buskers to help them find their perfect “pitch.”Each pitch location was selected by Downtown Cleveland Inc. to maximize pedestrian visibility near hot spots and offer room for creative freedom in performing. [Cleveland.com]

Cleveland Rocks aims to amplify music scene with campus in Waterloo Arts District

June 15, 2023 // When Music Saves, the record store next to the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, closed its doors in 2017, Cindy Barber had a plan to revive the space. Barber’s nonprofit bought the storefront in 2018, and after launching a fundraising campaign, is now turning it into a retail space for local music called Cleveland Rocks Shop. [Ideastream.org]

Students gain arts industry experience in Kaboom Collective

April 28, 2023 // Young creatives ages 15 to 25 are working on Hollywood-style recording projects as members of Northeast Ohio’s Kaboom Collective. Students work with a variety of industry professionals in the arts, from musical composition to script writing to digital animation. But at the collective’s center is its studio orchestra led by Kaboom Collective Co-Founder and Cleveland Arts Prize winner Liza Grossman. [Ideastream.org]

Cleveland Scores Highest Among Midwestern Communities on Two Key Measurements of Arts Vibrancy

April 13, 2023 // Analysis from the 2022 Arts Vibrancy Index reveals Cleveland, Ohio with a score in the top 1% of communities on measurements of Arts Dollars. The city shows particular strengths in the amount of earned revenue generated from artistic programs and the total compensation paid to arts and cultural employees per capita – higher than all other large midwestern communities on these two sub-measures. [CulturalData.org]

14 Record Stores to Check Out in Greater Cleveland

April 14, 2023 // Dig through crates and find your next great listen at Northeast Ohio’s vast variety of independent record shops. [ClevelandMagazine.com]

Ideastream.org – April 14, 2023 – Former Boddie Recording studio considered for landmark status in Cleveland

The Boddie Recording Company was the city’s first Black-owned studio, operating from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Landmarks Commission voted Thursday to approve landmark status for the company’s former headquarters, a house at 12202 Union Avenue in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.

Cleveland.com – March 22, 2023 – Rock Hall seeks early-stage city approval for $100M expansion plan to enable groundbreaking this year

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hopes to break ground by late this summer or early fall on a $100 million expansion and renovation that riffs on the triangular forms of the city’s iconic lakefront landmark.

GlideMagazine.com – January 25, 2023 – Colemine Records Unearthing Decades-Old Fred Davis Soul/Blues Tunes On ‘Cleveland Blues’

Colemine Records has seen to it that Davis and these forgotten recordings don’t go to waste. The label will release the album Cleveland Blues this spring and you can listen to the infectious single “Wine Hop” today.

ClevelandMagazine.com – March 6, 2023 – The Treelawn to Continue Waterloo Road’s Arts-Driven Transformation

The Treelawn Social Club opened in December, with other components — including a 600-capacity ballroom, a beer garden and bocce ball courts — yet to come.

ClevelandMagazine.com – March 1, 2023 – These Women-Owned Venues Lead Cleveland’s Arts Scene

As Women’s History Month begins, we turn our attention to those who have pushed boundaries, smashed stereotypes and created a path for future generations of artists and creators — and all right here in Cleveland. The conversation wouldn’t be whole without hearing from those women who fight for the arts both on and off stage. Here, we look behind the curtain at the owners of many of Northeast Ohio’s biggest venues: the women carving out safe spaces for performance and culture in every corner of the city.

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