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Turning 40 doesn’t have the big-deal, inflection-point significance of milestone birthdays like 21 or 65, but don’t try that argument on Bryan Kennard. The composer, flutist and organizer has plenty of highlights to mark as he heads into his fifth decade this week with a new big band and a celebratory concert at BOP STOP Sunday.
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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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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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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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If you are a singer looking to get discovered these days, you would probably head to a karaoke club, try out for one of those televised singing competitions or make a TikTok. April Varner who makes her Cleveland debut at BOP STOP Sunday, took a different path.
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