Waterloo Makes Music
Waterloo Makes Music is a free concert series on Waterloo as a gift to all the music lovers in the community, and a celebration of Cleveland’s amazing musical legacy.
Our Waterloo Makes Music series of concert and livestream music presentations, grew from 2021’s three live events to 2022’s fifteen live events featuring thirty bands and solo artists. A total of eighty-nine musicians were engaged for these performances. We also cultivated more performance spaces in the Waterloo Arts District in 2022, engaging audiences in Praxis Fiber Workshop, on The Tower Stage, The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern stage, and our newly opened Cleveland Rocks Shop Stage.
The Waterloo Makes Music series expanded in 2022 from a summer concert series held on the first Friday of the month during Walk All Over Waterloo Art Walk to a year long program, offering more opportunities to showcase local talent within the community. Your support allows us to again pay musicians and the production team needed to mount our Waterloo Makes Music series.
The 2023 Waterloo Makes Music series is made possible with support from
Sun, February 5, 2023
Songwriters in the Round:
Morgan Mecaskey, Clare Feorene, Taylor Lamborn
2-4pm • Cleveland Rocks Shop (15801 Waterloo Rd)
Sun, March 5, 2023
TBA
2-4pm • Cleveland Rocks Shop (15801 Waterloo Rd)
2022 Waterloo Makes Music artists:
• January 22: J.Wolfe, Jacob Boardman
• April 2: Maura Rogers & The Bellows, Chris Allen
• May 6: Shirley Cook, Ava Preston Trio
• May 21: Jackie Warren and Sammy DeLeon, Moises Borges
• June 3: Birth, Ryan Fletterick and Nolan Covano (Oregon Space Trail of Doom)
• June 18: Apostle Jones, 1800-SOS
• July 1: Nancy Redd and the Sounds of Jazz, Erin Neal & the Chill Factors
• July 16: Martini 5-0, Michael Eric Schirch
• August 5: Rust Belt Riviera, MOSSOM
• August 20: Anita Keys, Blues Chronicles
• September 2: Non Bruises, Aaron Civil War
• September 17: DLHR, The Burnished
• October 7: Maíra Vianna, Sarah Arafat
• November 4: Ray Flanagan, Kevin McCarthy
• December 2: Anthony Taddeo
2021 Waterloo Makes Music artists:
• June 4: Eddie Baccus, Sr., Eugene Ross
• July 2: Erin Neal and the Chill Factors, Non Bruises
• August 6: MoKo BoVo, The Covemen
• September 4: Nancy Redd-Shelton, Mary Martin and the 9th Street Tuna Band
2020 Waterloo Makes Music artists:
• June 19: Erin Nicole Neal, The Covemen
• July 17: The Smeltztones, Shawn & Shelby
• August 7: Maura Rogers & The Bellows, Non Bruises
• September 4: anitakeys, MoKo BoVo