Join us June 19, 2013, at the Historic Beachland Ballroom, along the emerging hotspot of Waterloo Arts District, Cleveland. It’s here Chefs Brian Doyle of Beachland Ballroom and Brian Rosander of Rosander’s Berea will band together with Cleveland’s own Vanity Crash, performing an over-the-top popup, with all the sound and seasoning of a high fidelity feast.

For one night only, we can be heros. For one star studded night in June, Cleveland will set the culinary world on fire, for a Pop-Up in a glaze of Glam. Presenting Piggy Stardust and the Flavors from Mars, a foodie celebration meets rock show dinner theater — a recipe made for one storied stage.

Acclaimed singer, songwriter and bandleader Fred Eaglesmith is a genuine iconoclast and true original. It’s the natural result of following the cue of his musical career and now 19 albums with the January 2012 release of 6 Volts. The result is one of the most fascinating and musically rewarding careers in contemporary music.

As he has doggedly gone his own way as an independent musical artist, Eaglesmith has also enjoyed such high profile rewards in recent years as having his songs covered by country superstars Toby Keith, Alan Jackson and Miranda Lambert, among many other accomplishments.

Walter Trout’s backstory is a page-turner you won’t want to put down. Five decades in the making; it is equal parts thriller, romance, suspense and horror. There are musical fireworks, critical acclaim and fists-aloft triumph, offset by wilderness years and brushes with the jaws of narcotic oblivion. There are feted early stints as gunslinger in bands from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers to Canned Heat, and the solo career that’s still blazing a quarter-century later. 
The veteran bluesman has seen and done it all, with just one omission: he’s never made a covers album, until now. 
“Luther Allison’s Blues is my first,” Trout notes. “I’ve thought about doing this album for years. It was just time.”

Brickhouse Blues Band

The Clumsy Lovers have brought their mix of fiddle and banjo-fuelled, bluegrassified Celtic rock to North American audiences for over a decade. With more than 2500 performances under their belts, their high-energy shows have worn out dance floors and created a loyal following in 49 states and across their homeland of Canada.

In 2010 the Clumsy Lovers released “Make Yourself Known”, a 13-song collection showcasing the band’s penchant for mixing styles. From bluegrass rave-ups to pop-rock sing-a-longs, this album brings the Lovers live show energy to your living room.

But the Clumsy Lovers are still, first and foremost, a live band. Their spontaneous forays into musical mayhem can only be experienced in person, and after years of relentless touring the Lovers feel most at home on a stage.

We are very pleased to present The Hesitations, an old-school Cleveland soul group who first found success more than four decades ago, releasing 5 albums and many singles on the nationally-distributed Kapp label between 1964-1970. They went to New York in 1968 where they performed at the famed Apollo Theater along with Chuck Jackson. They toured Germany with Dick Clark with the USO show and performed with Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, The O'Jays, Sly and the Family Stone and many others. The group continued to perform until the late '80s when they disbanded. The Hesitations features 4 singers and excel at both up-tempo danceable soul as well as ballads.

Rare JuElle is a trio of Ladies that have had careers that most entertainers only dream about. Having been blessed with great talent, they have done amazing things in the entertainment field. Margaret Foxworth worked with the great Al Green for 28 years and traveled around the world as a backup singer, she was handpicked by Al Green himself. Cynthia Woodard was a member of The Blossems and traveled around the world with Mr. Entertainer, Tom Jones for over 15 years, she has also done work with The Mighty OJAYS, Lillie Greer, not having such a career as her two counterparts has had a great experience with a number of bands and has traveled around the country as well and is a star in her own right.

Ohio Sky is a Cleveland based quintet so surreal, it's unreal. They combine indie aesthetics with pounding rock rhythms and pop sensibilities to form a unique concoction as accessible as it is original. They are known for their boundless songwriting, their striking imagery, and for winning over crowds at highly energetic live performances. Their visceral, sonic vibrations range from heavy to light, and are always ethereal. Their honest experimentation with music gives their style a powerful poignancy rare to find in a band. You could say they're coming up, but you can't get higher than the Ohio Sky.

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15 60 75 The Numbers Band has been praised by almost every national music publication and several international publications since the beginning of their 30 years of live performances and recordings. Many fans are under the impression that the band remains obscure by choice. In fact, they have never been offered a contract from any recording company in the industry, ever. The music "cannot be categorized", "it is undefinable", "too original". The music industry is not about music anymore. It is about selling products the public can relate to. After all, it is a business. Even "alternative" music has become a label. The founder of the band, Robert Kidney, explains, "The music industry, the media, and the tellsusourvision (TV) are defining for the American public what is good music by only playing and supporting what is profitable. We are taught to disregard everything that is not familiar. We (The Numbers Band) give the people our best. Our effort goes into being creative, unique and original. We define our own sound. There are no rules because we don't play the game. We are not in it for the game, we're in it for the music."