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Lottery League: So, let's review.


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 12:20 p.m.
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By way of introduction: hi, I’m Ron. I’m the Art Director at Scene and a musician participating in the 2010 Cleveland Lottery League, a massive, apparently bi-annual experiment in indie rock deck chair rearrangement. Its draft event is tonight (Fri, 02/05/2010) at the Beachland Ballroom. It's $5 a head for civilians, and it ought to be a hoot ... I am not a first-timer — I was involved in the 2008 inaugural iteration of this monstrous undertaking, wrote about it for the then-extant

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Freedom Songs


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 12:18 p.m.
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Just add music ... Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, and of course, Cleveland’s reggae community isn’t going to let the day pass without recognizing the towering Jamaican music legend who died of cancer at a tragically young age in 1981. Luckily, his birthday falls on a Saturday this year. The Caribbean Flavor is presenting Songs for Freedom: A Bob Marley Tribute and Live Show tomorrow night, with doors at 8 p.m. and show at 9. Admission is $8 ... One of Cleveland’s newer reggae

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So, let's review.


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 11:29 a.m.
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By way of introduction: hi, I’m Ron. I’m the Art Director at Scene and a musician participating in the 2010 Cleveland Lottery League, a massive, apparently bi-annual experiment in indie rock deck chair rearrangement. Its draft event is tonight (Fri, 02/05/2010) at the Beachland Ballroom. It's $5 a head for civilians, and it ought to be a hoot ... I am not a first-timer — I was involved in the 2008 inaugural iteration of this monstrous undertaking, wrote about it for the then-extant

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MATT HAIMOVITZ IS COMPLICATED


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 10:55 a.m.

It's amazing what you can say just by juxtaposition. For example, that cello virtuoso and occasionally straight up trippy musician Matt Haimovitz—as seen here ... is performing this cello concerto (Shostakovich No. 1, as seen here with Tina Guo and the State of Mexico National Symphony) ... for free with City Music Cleveland in churches around town this weekend ... I heard him Wednesday night at Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights. You like heavy metal? You think words like

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Aloha Release New Album, Play Grog Shop in April


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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 12:00 p.m.
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Say hello to Aloha ... Atmosphere-soaked rockers Aloha, who used to call Cleveland home but are now spread out across the country, have a new album coming out on March 9 ... Home Acres is their fifth LP, and judging by the two tracks recently posted on Brooklyn Vegan, the quartet appears to be heading in a less dense, and more dynamic, direction ... We've always considered Aloha one of Cleveland's most unheralded bands. Then again, it doesn't help that only one member still lives here, making

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Mystery of Two Set Up Residency at Arts Collinwood


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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.

Following a time-honored tradition, Mystery of Two are colliding art and punk. From Wire’s 1977 debut Pink Flag to No Age’s latest 2009 EP Losing Feeling , art-punk purveyors have been pushing rock music into more visceral visual forms, painting new sonic boundaries using jagged guitar stomps, atmospheric effects, avant-garde arrangements and many times visual arts to back it up onstage ... Every Saturday evening in February (starting this weekend and continuing the 13th, 20th and 27th),

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TRAILER-PARK GOLEM


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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 4:00 a.m.

Theater Ninjas and CPT animate a mud baby ... by Christine Howey ... When children are stressed, they often resort to creating imaginary friends or escaping into stories populated with anthropomorphic animals and goblins. That's exactly what a 10-year-old girl does in Anna Bella Eema, the fascinating but ultimately frustrating play now at Cleveland Public Theatre.  This co-production with Theater Ninjas features a torrent of finely crafted narration, handled mostly by both the youngster named

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BACH IN THE FLATS


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Published Jan. 6, 2010 at 4:38 p.m.
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In my conversation with Cleveland Orchestra principal flutist Joshua Smith we talked about the influence of classical rhetoric on the work of baroque composers. You can hear that in his most recent CD, J.S. Bach Flute sonatas, which he recorded with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour ... We were talking about music and language—specifically about his upcoming recital of Telemann’s flute fantasies with Laura Perrotta reciting William Shakespeare—but I had to ask about another art form. The cover

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BAROQUE IN ENGLISH


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Published Jan. 6, 2010 at 4:00 a.m.

Flutist Joshua Smith on music and rhetoric ... by Michael Gill ... If you ever thought you were hearing voices in a Baroque melody or that the solo instrument in a given sonata was trying to explain something—to ask if you'd considered it this way and that, or given adequate consideration to the other — then you have an idea what Cleveland Orchestra principal flutist Joshua Smith has been thinking lately. "Part of the essence of Baroque style is that all these composers were so well versed

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Cleveland Music Sales: The Decade in Numbers


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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 1:40 p.m.
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Check out this week’s Scene for a rundown of the Northeast Ohio’s ten biggest music-related stories of the decade. It covers the changing music business and the careers of the scene’s top-selling artists, including the Black Keys, Kate Voegele and Chimaira ... (R&B singer Avant, a 1995 graduate of the Cleveland School of the Arts, hasn’t been an active presence on the day-to-day scene over the decade. His five albums have sold a combined 3.3 million copies and 864,000 digital songs.)

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