"When The Lights Come On Again"

After brainstorming ways to help benefit the musical community and venues, Ariel Karas and Brent Kirby decided to create an original song collaboration between different musicians in Cleveland.  They asked musicians, many of who were Cleveland Rocks Music Relief Fund recipients, to donate their time and effort to write an original song in support of Cleveland venues and musicians. Kirby facilitated an online democratic process through email where the participants individually gave song titles, which they voted on to arrive at the song title “When The Lights Come On Again”. Then he fielded different song part ideas (verses, chorus, etc) from the participants, which he then combined to create a verse, bridge and chorus. With that Kirby asked the participants to sing the chorus, a verse with words/melody/phrasing all their own, and then the chorus again. The content gathered, Kirby went to Jim Stewart Recording with Jim Stewart engineering, and pieced all of it together, editing the participants verses, pre-chorus, and chorus to create a complete track. The right of the song and distribution will be given to the non-profit Cleveland Rocks and will use the materials created to promote donations to Cleveland Rocks, and put a regional and possible a national spotlight on our Cleveland music community.