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I know some of you are interested in this music - yer VulTru

The library is located in Hudson's new shopping area just west of the square a couple blocks.
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Solas (formed in 1994) is the top traditional Irish band in the U.S.  Very authentic and extremely good.

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Solas
8:05 p.m., Sunday, March 6, 2011 (doors open at 7 p.m.)
The Kent Stage
175 East Main Street
Kent, Ohio
$10 in advance; $12 at the door
More info/tickets:
http://www.kentstage.org/

Solas members:
Seamus Egan – flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, tin whistle, low whistle, guitars, bodhrán
Winifred Horan – violins, vocals
Mick McAuley – accordions, concertina, low whistle, vocals
Eamon McElholm – guitars, keyboards, vocals
Máiréad Phelan – vocals



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Thanks to Françoise Massardier-Kenney for information about this series of interesting new films from Spain showing at Kent State this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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Kent State University presents a Spanish Festival, a series of four recent films from Spain, Friday through Sunday, March 4-6, 2011. The films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles in the Michael Schwartz Center auditorium.

Following each film, the audience is welcome to participate in a discussion. Admission is free and parking is available at no charge in the Michael Schwartz Center parking lot.
 
Featured films include:
 
• Friday, March 4, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.: Volver (To Return, dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
   --dark drama set in the La Mancha region of Spain, featuring excellent performances
     by some of Spain's top actors
• Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.: El Bola (Pellet, dir. Achero Mañas, 2000)
   --drama about an abused young boy who finds comfort in a new friend
• Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.: Celda 211 (Cell 211, dir. Daniel Monzón, 2009)
   --violent prison drama
• Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.: Un Novio Para Yasmina
   (A Fiancé for Yasmina, dir. Irene Cardona, 2008)
   --romantic and funny ensemble drama about Moroccans living in Spain

All films are in Spanish with English subtitles and are free and open to the public.

For directions to campus and a campus map, please see: http://kentstate.kent.edu/directions/kent/travel.asp

Parking is available in the Michael Schwartz Center parking lot and the Kent State Student Center parking lot. The Schwartz Center is located at the corner of East Summit Street and Morris Road.

Organized in collaboration with the Department of History and the Institute for Applied Linguistics, the Spanish Festival is made possible with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and funding from departments in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
For more information and a description of the films, visit: http://appling.kent.edu/newsdetail.cfm?newsitem=0BD2D523-F93C-E857-33F6AEBF299032DB or contact Françoise Massardier-Kenney, fkenney AT kent DOT edu, or Rebecca Pulju, rpulju AT kent DOT edu.
 
Françoise Massardier-Kenney
Director, Institute for Applied Linguistics
Professor of French, MCLS
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242
Phone: (330) 672-2150



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Dan has been leading a big band rehearsal for a year now.  Personnel vary week to week, but the music is always interesting.  It's a full big band, 18 pieces or so, plus percussion.  Although it's a rehearsal band, they play all charts straight through, so it's more like a very loose concert .  Akron's finer players show up.  Worth a visit.

You can enter the store from the front or the back.  It's right next to the old Professor's Pub.

yer VLUuert
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8-10 at the Ohio Music Shop, 118 E Main St, Kent.  Frank Castellano will be back in town this week singing a few great arrangements with the band.  Also, I'm very excited to play with the amazing George Lawrence on drums... He's a powerhouse and really adds a rock edge to the band.  Returning this week will be the great horn section from the "Wanda Hunt Band", Steve Wendelken on sax, Tim Coyle on trumpet and Larry Dickerhoff on trombone.  They're not only excellent ensemble players but also very exciting soloists. Dave Banks will be high on top of the trumpet section and Mike Delaney ripping some great guitar solos.
WARNING, this band doesn't play all the old Glenn Miller type stuff your parents and grandparents love.  We're playing modern high-energy arrangements that are very progressive and challenging.  We don't rehearse the same section over and over, we play the song all the way through.  Nothing like this within 100 miles.  If you haven't been out yet, it's time.  Support LIVE music.  No cover, come and go as you like.  See ya there, Dan


I just put some great photos that Brad Bolton took of the band over the last few weeks.  Here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=52098&id=1806122556&l=4e7f9483c8


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Thanks to Dan Wenninger and Lisa Miralia for information about this event.  All Go Signs is an unmarked warehouse space on the west side of Cleveland.  1Way is a monthly new/free music showcase curated by Wenninger and All Go Signs proprietor Chuck, which presents and documents local experimental, new, and free music.  There's no information about groups 2 and 3 online, but I have been assured that both will be very good, and interesting.

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1Way monthly new/free music series presents:
Three groups:
1) 9 p.m. - Oblique Orchestra (free jazz trio with Dan Wenninger, tenor saxophone;
Bill Nichols, double bass; and Carmen Castaldi, drums)
2) 10 p.m. - The Thermite Project (Wadsworth-based poet Daniel Bellinger's poetry/performance art group; their performance will be a soundpoetry/performance art/music piece by Bellinger with music by Wyatt and Amanda Howland, Nate Scheible, and secret surprise guests)
and
3) 10:30 p.m. - Pedro Speaks (original poetry over prerecorded music mash-up)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
All Go Signs warehouse
1935 West 96th Street (off Madison), 3rd floor
Cleveland, Ohio
Doors open at 8 p.m., music starts at 9 p.m.
Oblique Orchestra plays at 9 p.m.; Jacob Wynne Quartet plays at 10 p.m.
Free; BYOB
http://www.myspace.com/events/View/8817796/1Way-at-AllGoSigns
http://www.myspace.com/onewayallgosigns (website not updated)
http://www.allgosigns.com/ (website not updated)

Oblique Orchestra pages (with audio):
http://www.myspace.com/obliqueorchestramusic
http://web.mac.com/wenninger_d/Oblique_Orch/Oblique_Orchestra.html
Oblique Orchestra videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=%22oblique+orchestra%22&aq=f



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An interesting concert of 20th- and 21st-century works for string quartet by the New York City-based JACK Quartet (Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violins; John Pickford Richards, viola; and Kevin McFarland, cello), which is in residence at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.  It's interesting that this quartet also plays Medieval and Renaissance music, something that is very unusual for a modern string quartet to do, although they won't on this concert.

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Guest Recital:  The JACK Quartet
8 p.m., Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Warner Concert Hall
Conservatory of Music
Oberlin College
77 West College Street
Oberlin, Ohio
Free
http://new.oberlin.edu/calendar/index.dot?id=2713878
http://www.clevelandclassical.com/021511jackqprev

Program:
György Ligeti (1923-2006) - String Quartet no. 2 (1968)
Aaron Cassidy (b. 1976) - Second String Quartet
Lewis Nielson (b. 1950) - Le Journal du corps
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) - Tetras (1983)

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times). David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience," and NPR listed their performance as one of "The Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010." The Washington Post commented, "The string quartet may be a 250-year-old contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartet are keeping it thrillingly vital." Alex Ross (New Yorker) hailed their performance of Iannis Xenakis' complete string quartets as being "exceptional" and "beautifully harsh," and Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times) called their sold-out performances of Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 3 In iij. Noct. "mind-blowingly good." The quartet's recording of Xenakis' complete string quartets appeared on "Best Of" lists from the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New Yorker, NPR, and as "one of 2009's most impressive recordings" from Time Out New York.

JACK has performed to critical acclaim at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (Netherlands), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Donaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), Library of Congress, Miller Theatre, Morgan Library & Museum, and Kimmel Center with recent and upcoming performances at the Ultraschall Festival (Germany), Da Camera Society (Los Angeles), Monday Evening Concerts, Town Hall Seattle, Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims (France), Arcana Festival (Austria), Wigmore Hall (United Kingdom), and Strathmore Hall.

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, JACK is focused on the commissioning and performance of new works, leading them to work closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, James Dillon, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Sharp, Beat Furrer, Caleb Burhans, and Aaron Cassidy. Upcoming and recent premieres include works by Alan Hilario, Peter Ablinger, Gregory Spears, Elliott Sharp, Jason Eckardt, and Hannah Lash. The quartet also offers fresh interpretations of early music, including works by Don Carlo Gesualdo, Guillaume de Machaut, and Josquin des Prez.

JACK has led workshops with young composers at the University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), New York University, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, Eastman School of Music, University at Buffalo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom), University of Washington, University of Victoria (Canada), and Manhattan School of Music. In addition to working with composers and performers, JACK seeks to broaden and diversify the potential audience for new music through educational presentations designed for a variety of ages, backgrounds, and levels of musical experience.

The members of the quartet met while attending the Eastman School of Music, and they have since studied with the Arditti Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Muir String Quartet, and members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain.

John Pickford Richards holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts Academy and Eastman School of Music where his primary teachers were David Holland and John Graham. He is a member of Alarm Will Sound, bringing him into close contact with such composers as John Adams, Wolfgang Rihm, Meredith Monk, and Steve Reich at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Roxy. John has performed as soloist with the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Ossia New Music, and performed the solo part to Luciano Berio's Chemins II at the Lucerne Festival Academy under the direction of Pierre Boulez. He taught for three years at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and is now living in New York.

Ari Streisfeld began playing the violin at age six and grew up studying with Philadelphia Orchestra members Paul Arnold and Yayoi Numazawa. He received his bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music studying with Zvi Zeitlin and his master's degree from Northwestern University studying with Almita Vamos. He was a member of Dal Niente and has worked with composers Steven Mackey, Bernard Rands, Robert Morris, Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Ricardo Zohn Muldoon, and David Liptak. Ari attended the Music Academy of the West, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival Academy. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and currently resides in Cambridge, MA while pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts at Boston University studying with Peter Zazofsky.

Christopher Otto studied composition at the Eastman School of Music with Martin Bresnick, David Liptak, and Robert Morris. As a violinist, Christopher has premiered many compositions and worked with such composers as Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, and Steve Reich. Christopher has participated as composer and performer in such contemporary music festivals as the Lucerne Festival Academy, Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Karlheinz Stockhausen Courses, Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance at the Mannes College of Music, June in Buffalo, and Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Michoacán.

Kevin McFarland is currently infiltrating the New York City new music scene as a recent transplant from his hometown of Lancaster, PA. As a freelance musician, he has recently appeared with ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, Dal Niente, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Signal, and the Wordless Music Orchestra. He is also a member of the Tarab Cello Ensemble, a new music cello octet, with whom he has recorded for Bridge Records. Kevin holds a degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied composition with David Liptak, Robert Morris, and Ricardo Zohn Muldoon, and cello with Steven Doane. At Eastman he performed often with new music ensembles Ossia and Musica Nova and premiered over one hundred student compositions. He continues to compose both acoustic and electronic music and lives in Brooklyn.

Official site:
http://jackquartet.com/


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This traditional Irish session is held two or three times per semester at Hiram College and usually draws at least two or three dozen musicians of all skill levels, including some of the best local Irish musicians.  Note:  this is held at a college, so there will be no Guinness (though there will be potluck refreshments, including tea).  Listeners are welcome.  Thanks to Tina Dreisbach for info about this one.

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Sean Moore Memorial Irish Session
Sunday, February 13, 2011
   2 p.m.—“slow” playing from sheet music for those who want to learn tunes
   3 p.m.  playing/singing, all invited
Frohring Recital Hall
Frohring Music Hall
Hiram College
11746 Dean Street (junction of Routes 82 and 700)
Hiram, Ohio
Free
http://www.hiram.edu/music/calendar.html
For more info, contact Tina Dreisbach at dreisbachts AT hiram DOT edu or (330) 569-7539

Coming spring session:  Sunday, April 10, 2011



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The Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble, featuring guest vocalist Xue "Snow" Yu (and, on Sunday, Professors Song Xin and Zhao Xian, professional musicians visiting from Henan University in China) will perform for two Chinese New Year events at area universities this Saturday and Sunday.  There's an article on the Kent State event here:
http://kentwired.com/students-bring-chinese-new-year-to-kent-state/

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1) Case Western Reserve University Chinese Spring Festival Banquet
6 to 11 p.m., Saturday, February 5, 2011
Excelsior Ballroom
Thwing Center (second floor of Thwing East)
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
Free for CSSA members who have paid their $10 annual membership fee; $10 for CSSA members who have not paid their $10 annual membership fee; $10 in advance for non-CSSA members; $15 at the door for non-CSSA members; free for children under 10 and seniors above 60
To reserve tickets, contact Jean Wang at anne18wjy AT gmail DOT com or by phone at (216) 501-1739.
More information:
http://cwrucssa.org/spring2011/CSSA-spring2011/Welcome.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142520655805595
Venue map:
http://studentaffairs.case.edu/thwing/facilities/floorplan/

Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble , featuring guest vocalist Xue "Snow" Yu, will perform for the 2011 Case Western Reserve University Chinese Spring Festival Banquet, in celebration of the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Rabbit). The event is sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA).

Other performances will include solo and choral songs by Case Western Reserve University students, Chinese dances by dancers from the Chinese Professionals and Entrepreneurs Association's Great Wall Enrichment Center, a lip-syncing performance by Richard West, an Indian dance by members of the Indian Graduate Student Association, a kung fu performance by members of the Great Wall Kungfu Center, a skit that includes xiangsheng (crosstalk), and a guzheng solo by Angela Wang.

The event will feature a video about China, a traditional Chinese dinner (including some authentic homemade dishes), cultural demonstrations (including seal carving, Chinese teapots, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese knots, Chinese calligraphy, and Chinese watercolor painting), and workshops (in Chinese dumpling making and using chopsticks) will be presented in the 1914 Lounge (located on the second floor of Thwing East) from 6 to 8 p.m.

There will also be a free raffle, for items such as a tailored qipao (Chinese dress) or Tang-style men's suit by tailor Siyan Wei of Siyan Dress Workshop, a gold or silver Dufonte women's Rhombus Bezel watch by Lucien Piccard, and cash envelopes in the amounts of $1 to $40.

2) Kent State University Chinese New Year Festival
5 to 8:30 p.m., Sunday, February 6, 2011
Ballroom
Student Center
1065 Risman Plaza Drive (off East Summit Street)
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
$7 (which covers the cost of the dinner); tickets will be available at a table in the Kent State University Student Center between Monday, January 31 and Friday, February 4, 2011. Attendees are strongly encouraged to purchase their tickets in advance so that the organizers know how much food to prepare and how many tables to set up. Tickets purchased at the door on the day of the event will cost $10.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174649215911053

Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble , featuring guest vocalist Xue "Snow" Yu, will perform for the 2011 Kent State University Chinese New Year festival. The ensemble will perform from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m., following the dinner, which will be served at 5:00 p.m. The dinner will include three traditional Chinese dishes as well as American foods.

Also joining the ensemble will be two very special guest musicians: erhu player Song Xin (宋新) and pipa player Zhao Xian (赵娴), both of whom teach in the Art College of Henan University, in Kaifeng, Henan, China. They will be passing through northeast Ohio as part of a tour sponsored by the Confucius Institute (the University of Akron's partner institution being Henan University).

The event is sponsored by the Kent State University Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) and Taiwanese Student Association.

The event will also feature a video about China, and other performances will include additional songs by Xue Yu, Chinese pop songs, a dance by Hou Yanshu, a kung fu demonstration and choral song by members of the Taiwanese Student Association, an opera performance by a CSSA member, hip-hop, and a dating/talk show.

Article about event:
http://kentwired.com/students-bring-chinese-new-year-to-kent-state/


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Jeffrey Heisler, a very fine young classical saxophonist (he received a D.M.A. from Bowling Green State University in 2010), recently took over the position of saxophone professor at Kent State University.  A committed performer of new music, he will present a program of all 20th and 21st century compositions for alto saxophone and piano, along with I-Chen Yeh, who is a great player too.  (That is, if the weather holds out; Kent State was closed yesterday and today; call the School of Music Thursday before 5 p.m., at (330) 672-2172, and/or check http://www.kent.edu/advisory/ , to make sure, before you go.)

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Jeffrey Heisler, alto saxophone; with I-Chen Yeh, piano
present
Chamber Music for Saxophone and Piano
8 p.m., Thursday, February 3, 2011
Carl F. W. Ludwig Recital Hall
Music and Speech Center
Kent State University
East Main Street and Horning Road
Kent, Ohio
Free
http://mustec.bgsu.edu/~jheisler/PERFORMANCES.html
http://dept.kent.edu/music/CalendarPages/admin/archive.asp

Program:
Baljinder Sekhon (b. 1980) - Gradient (2008)
Michael Djupstrom (b. 1980) - Walimai (2005)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937); trans. J. Heisler - Sonatine (1904)
Philippe Leroux (b. 1959) - SPP (2001)
William Bolcom (b. 1938); trans. J. Heisler - Graceful Ghost Rag (1970)

Program notes:

Baljinder Sekhon is an active composer, percussionist and teacher whose works range from ensemble to solo pieces to electronic music.  His recent awards include the Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize (2007 and 2009), Audio Inversions Composition Contest, Brian M. Israel Prize, Percussive Arts Society Composition Competition, Belle Gitelman Award, and a Morton Gould Young Composers Award from ASCAP.  Baljinder has received fellowships to the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.  He is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the Eastman School of Music.

The title "Gradient" has to do with finding common colors between two seemingly incongruent instruments – saxophone and piano.

Michael Djupstrom completed his master's degree in composition at the University of Michigan in 2005, where his teachers included prominent composers Bright Sheng and William Bolcom.

Walimai is the title character of Isabel Allendae’s “The Children of the Moon” short story collection.  Allendae’s story serves as the inspiration for the next piece.  During the course of the story, Walimai is responsible for the death of young woman and his punishment is to carry the tremendous weight of the young woman’s soul inside his body.  As the two are bound to each other, the woman’s spirit weighs more heavily upon Walimai.  And what makes Walimai’s suffering even more intense is a powerful love that develops between them.  To release his suffering, Walimai must help her spirit leave the earth. As their spiritual connection weakens, Walimai is released of the tremendous burden of the woman’s soul.  At the end of the story the woman’s soul is sent free and Walimai returns to his people with a sense of peace.

Philippe Leroux graduated from Paris Conservatoire Supérieur where he studied with Iva Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel. In addition, he also studied with Olivier Messiaen, Franco Donatoni, Betsy Jolas, Jean-Claude Eloy and Iannis Xenakis.  Leroux currently teaches electronic music composition at IRCAM.

In SPP - a reworking for saxophone of a 1993 piece for flute and piano titled PPP - there is nothing resembling a conventional duet or even an improvisatory dialogue. Like two pistons (or often three: saxophone, right hand, left hand) they pound delicately, and so pervasively that when the saxophone breaks into its sole recognizably melodic statement, the effect is simply astonishing. Surrounding this singular moment, phrases expand and contract in a manner wholly plastic, growing and shrinking before our ears. A similar emphasis on gradual or progressive change infects both timbre and pitch as the saxophone moves smoothly from breathy sounds to clear ones or slides from one note to a neighboring note. Composer Julien Copeaux considers the three “P’s” of Leroux’s original title to represent three paradoxes: a strange stasis that is revealed only through transformation; a taming of potentially disruptive elements by reiterating them rather than dismantling them; and finally an understanding that repetition that holds even greater power over the listener after it has ceased than while it is ongoing. Leroux’s iterative processes are too varied to be hypnotic. Instead, a precisely coordinated, ever-changing flux - between the rapid shimmer of trills or tremolo and the carefully measured rhythmic divisions that make up most of the score - invites active, not passive hearing. As Copeaux puts it, “violence [is] substantiated by the captivating force of fascination.” - note courtesy of San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

More information about the performer:
http://mustec.bgsu.edu/~jheisler/Jeff_Heisler_Concert_Saxophone.html


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The Year of the Rabbit (or, if you're Vietnamese, the Year of the Cat) is coming up tomorrow, so here is a huge list of Chinese/Vietnamese New Year events coming up in northeast Ohio beginning this weekend (and it's still only partial, as most of the events sponsored by Chinese student organizations at local universities aren't listed).  There's something for everyone, including many lion dance performances in restaurants throughout the Cleveland area.

http://www.ocagc.org/home.html



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Frank Vignola is a world class contemporary acoustic jazz guitarist in the style of Django Reinhardt.  His show at Happy Days on February 4 should be memorable. 

$17, $12 for members.  Doors open at 7 pm, concert starts at 8:00.  More info below - yer VulTUr

The enormously talented jazz ensemble the Frank Vignola Trio takes to the stage at Happy Days Lodge as part of the Cuyahoga Valley Heritage Series. The show begins at 8 p.m. on Friday, February 4, 2011 in Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP). The Heritage Series, presented by the National Park Service and Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association (CVNPA), celebrates the cultural legacy of the Cuyahoga Valley. The series is sponsored by Courtyard Marriott- Akron/Stow, 89.7, WKSU, Lloyd L. & Louise K. Smith Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, and Cable 9. Doors open at 7 p.m.

General seating admission is $17 adults, $12 CVNPA members, and $5 children ages 3 - 12. Advance sales are available until 3 p.m. on Friday for that weekend’s show by calling 330-657-2909 or stopping at Park Place in Peninsula. For updated ticket availability information, call the Cultural Arts Hotline at 330-650-4636, ext. 228. The hotline is updated at 2 p.m. the day of every concert and is intended to inform callers of sold out events or weather related cancellations. One of the most highly sought after acoustic guitarists, Frank Vignola has demonstrated his mastery of every genre from fusion and commercial pop jazz to hard bop, post-bop, swing, rock, and blues. Named by jazz guitar legend Les Paul as one of the top five guitarists of all time, Vignola has toured and recorded with Bucky Pizzarelli, Les Paul, Lionel Hampton, Ringo Starr, Madonna, David Grisman, and Mark O’Connor.

Frank Vignola and his trio shatter the barriers between popular music and traditional jazz to create a powerful new acoustic string music experience. His amazing virtuosity mixes high-energy, unique renditions of famous classical pieces, great American popular songs, and contemporary tunes.

Happy Days Lodge, located at 500 West Streetsboro Road (State Route 303) in Peninsula 44264, 1 mile west of State Route 8, is a restored Civilian Conservation Corps structure that provides a rustic ambiance for folk and traditional concerts, theater, lectures, and special event rentals. For more information on rentals, call CVNPA at 330-657-2909 ext. 119.

CVNPA is a nonprofit organization created to engage public support for the park and provide services to enhance public use and enjoyment of the park. For more information about CVNPA and its membership program, visit www.cvnpa.org or call 330-657-2909.

CVNP encompasses 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Managed by the National Park Service, CVNP combines cultural, historical, recreational, and natural activities in one setting. For more information visit www.nps.gov/cuva or www.dayinthevalley.com or call 330-657-2752 or 800-257-9477.