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Jazz In The Rubber City Rolls On This Weekend

Nathan-Paul Davis at RCB&J
Nathan-Paul Davis at Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival

With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, northeast Ohio returns to the comfortable (clambakes, sweaters) and maybe less comfortable (fretting about the Browns) routines of early autumn. Hey, traditions are traditions, and they don’t change much–unless you’re a NEO jazz fan in which case you’ll want to add the Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival to your list.

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“Local, Organic” Hingetown Jazz Festival Returns Saturday

Trumpeter Garrett Folger leads a quintet at the 2023 Hingetown Jazz Festival. photocredit: Amber Rogers, Local 4 Music Fund

Labor Day is a circle-the-date weekend for jazz in the Midwest with free festivals in Detroit and Chicago. The organizers of the Hingetown Jazz Festival would like to add their event to the list, and judging by the success of the inaugural all-day, all-free festival last year, they just might have a chance.

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Monika Herzig’s Band Of Sheroes Lands at BOP STOP

Monika Herzig Sheroes
Monika Herzig’s Sheroes: (from left) Rosa Avila, Gina Schwartz, Herzig, Reut Regev, Jamie Baum

When shooting wrapped on the new Superman film last month, it wasn’t the end of Superhero Summer in Cleveland. That will have to wait for this weekend when the stars won’t be heroes, they’ll be Sheroes. That’s the name of the all-female-identifying supergroup that pianist, educator and author Monika Herzig will bring to BOP STOP Friday.

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Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO Aug. 22 – 28

Samara Joy
Samara Joy

Friendly experiencers,

An experiment this week: I’m issuing Countdown as a video-only post. Let’s see how it works. What do you think?



I couldn’t live without Jim Szabo’s essential, weekly Northeast Ohio jazz calendar , NEO’s most complete list of jazz and jazz-adjacent events. If you haven’t visited it lately, what are you waiting for?


NOTE: This article was written by a real human being. No artificial intelligence or generative language models were used in its creation.

Red beans and ricely yours,

jc

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