UCA JULY 2006

Hi! We had a really great Open Mic session at U.C. Arabica last Wednesday night, thanks to all my pals who showed up to play: Noah and Rebecca, Elaine, Mike, Mirriam M., Nelson, Emily F. - thanks soooo much for coming out folks, it makes for a very special evening! I even made a few recordings that night, capturing several songs by Elaine, and a few songs of Emily's as well, maybe you will get to hear them soon! Depending on how 'things go' we may host a couple or a few open mic sessions this July, keep your eyes on the webpage for up-to-the-minute UCA entertainment calendar changes, augmentations, enhancements, etc.

July is gonna be good at the cafe with Matt Gerovac coming to town and playing the Grog Shop June 30 (with Xela and Mifune) and then UCA on July 1 he will play an acoustic solo show - Todd Carey will come to town and play UCA on Wed. July 5 - Allan S. from NYC will be in town at Bella Dubby in Lakewood for a show on Tues. July 11, then he is at the Barking Spider for a show Wed. July 12 - Luca Mundaca will play UCA on Sat. july 22 - and Chris Squier will be at UCA Friday July 28

Jim Snively has a brand spanking new EP out - he has been handing out 'sample discs' of tracks that have not yet been mastered or packaged however he is currently working on a packaging design and will have an actual professional grade CD package out in the very near future, I suppose he will have a CD release party, but he has not said anything about it yet - catch Jim Snively this Thursday as he hosts open mic at Poor Richards Tavern in North Ridgeville

More later ........

SUMMER SOLSTICE OPEN MIC

Hi Folks and Folkies! I hope your getting out of work and getting your butt outside ASAP during these sweet pre-summer days of sunshine and moonlight (we just had a nice full moon this past Sunday) - I have been, and since I am living in Lakewood I am less than 2 miles from the MetroPark entrance and I just dash home, change, and usually just ride my bike right down into the park for some riding. It's great, I love the park, and I love SUMMER! And here it comes - the first day of Summer (and the LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR - SUMMER SOLSTICE) is next Wednesday and or Thursday, June 21 and 22. To celebrate the coming of Summertime, University Circle Arabica will host the Summer Solstice Acoustic Open Mic Night starting early at 7pm and going until about 10 (or 11 if things really heat up). Please plan on attending, we will have good sound, finger foods for the artists, and I will probably struggle with some live recording gagetry as well. See you there!!!

FLIPSIDE AT ART HOP TREMONT TONIGHT

This Friday night June 9th (and the second Friday of each month) catch the Art Hop in Tremont. Tonight you will hear the sounds of Beth Highland and Mark Ronan's band "Flipside" outside Eye Candy Gallery on Professor Avenue. Flipside will play lot's of classic covers, and many original tunes, they have a clean folk rock sound with smooth blended vocal harmonies. Nice bunch of folks!

This is always a great night in Tremont with crowds of people walking about, particularly in the Summer with the galleries all open, the weather nice ... Pizza by the Slice at Edisons after 11 I think - although don't quote me on that exact time but it's something around there - why not pizza by the slice all night long? I don't know why not all night, ask them.

TORI SPARKS AT BARKING SPIDER JUNE 15

Tori Sparks , the singer songwriter from Austin who's name I have mentioned before, is on tour and coming through town on JUNE 15 - she has been swinging through NY and is creating a buzz as she works her way through some of NY best known venues (The Bitter End) - check out Tori's Travel News Tori and her travel mates will play the early opening set at Barking Spider on JUNE 15 at around 8pm. This will be a good set of tunes!

Hey, dig this: Chris Keffer has mastered the new Black Keys album right here in CLE OHIO at Magnetic North Studios! Not that this is news, the Scene or the Free Times already blurbed this, but I just think it's a kinda big deal.

JUNE IN CLEVELAND

Hi folks! You might notice I changed my blog template, and I know it needs customization, I will get to it ... what's been going on in YOUR life? I hope that yer havin' as much fun as I AM! What kinda fun have I been havin'? Well, let me run down a little list for you here:

WHAT I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO:
I have been listening to LUCA MUNDACA and NATE MILLER and WINTER TOOK HIS LIFE among other things ....

WHAT I HAVE BEEN READING:
News papers mostly, not much book reading right now.

It's been really warm and muggy in Cleveland this week, I have been riding my bike and walking around town, visiting the Phoenix Coffee Shoppe - they are trying to expand into a space upstairs of the shoppe, it's going to be real nice, I hope they can get the funds together to do the expansion. They have a CD coming out (thanks to Gary Hoopengardner) that they will sell to raise some money ... there are several local artists on the CD.