Trillium Trio, a woodwinds group, will play at the Arts Collinwood Gallery as a part of the M4M, Music for Miles Chamber Music Concert Series.  Join us for an afternoon of delightful music on Sunday, November 20th at 4pm.  The Cafe will be open for drinks, coffee, soup, sandwiches and more! This is a no cover performance.

 

This Saturday, October 29th at 7pm, get  your Halloween spirit on with this smart, quirky independent film entitled “Zombie Dearest”.  This film is the second in a series of films being shown at Arts Collinwood in partnership with Independent Pictures.  The critics called it Creepy and Hilarious!   This film will be shown in the Nan and Miles Kennedy Art Center and is free to the public.  Art School music classics will be played in the Cafe afterwards along with some seasonal food and drink specials!

Zombie Dearest is a romantic black comedy with its very own take on the modern zombie; a scary, quirky comedy that delivers cult horror in an award-winning indie film (Winner, Audience Favorite at The First Time Film Festival in Los Angeles). What Zombie Dearestlacks in blood, guts and gore, it more than makes up for with comic characters, outrageously funny situations and memorable dialogue, making it “Frightening and Hilarious” (Dan Goldberg, producer of The Hangover ), a fun diversion for everyone from the dedicated Zombie Walk aficionado to fans of Shaun of the Dead, Fido or Zombieland. If you like your humor with a pinch of current affair, watchZombie Dearest … very independent, very original… a cult classic in the offing.  Click here for more on this creeper www.zombiedearest.com.

On Wednesday, October 26th, Arts Collinwood will host a Beachland Ballroom concert featuring the music of Hamell on Trial in the Nan and Miles Kennedy Art Center.

Hamell on Trial is a one-man punk band bringing you (mostly) loud, fast music informed by politics, passion, energy and intelligence, played by a guy with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of humor.  2011 launches Hamell into new territory, captivating audiences not only by his award-winning performances, but also a Kerouac-esque story of social commentary through years on the road.  Ed’s live show contains no boundaries, bringing you more of his wildly genius infused rants while still being able to silence the crowd and break a heart or two. Visit www.beachlandballroom.com to purchase tickets. Doors open at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:30pm.

Chamber music comes to the Arts Collinwood Gallery and honors Arts Collinwood founder and friend, the late Miles Kennedy.  Miles and Nan Kennedy’s son, Simon and his wife Catharine are sponsoring this series.  The M4M Chamber Music Series begins on Sunday, October 16th at 4pm with a string performance by the International Composer Collective.  Visit this dynamic organization’s website at  www.intercompcollective.com for more information about the group led by composers, Tim Mauthe and Sam Cave.   The program will include the following pieces:

Breezes and Rogue Winds for Guitar Duo by Tim Mauthe

Robert Sharpe and Danny Rectenwald, guitars
7 minutes

Easter Music by Sam Cave
Satoko Hayami, piano
2 minutes

Three Movements for Solo Violin by Tim Mauthe
Anthony Bracewell, violin
18 minutes

INTERMISSION

The Dissection of the Angel’s Eye by Sam Cave
Ludek Wojtkowski, violin; Danny Rectenwald, guitar; Zack Zydek, bass
12 minutes

Toccata Kaléidoscopique by Calogero Panvino
Satoko Hayami, piano
9 minutes

Free Speeches by George Holloway
Michelle Abraham, violin; Tim Mauthe, viola; Schuyler Slack, cello;
Satoko Hayami, piano
7.5 minutes

Singer/songwriter Charlie Mosbrook is a well-loved Cleveland icon. He will treat guests at the Arts Collinwood Café to an intimate evening of song on November 12th at 9 pm in the Cafe. For for more about Charlie and some samples of his songs visit his site at http://charliemosbrook.blogspot.com/.

Beatboxing – The Fifth Element of Hip Hop, is an award-winning documentary film directed by German filmmaker, Klaus Schneyder and is the first of a four-film series to be shown at Arts Collinwood over the next few months in collaboration with Cleveland-based, Independent Pictures.  The film will screen in the Nan and Miles Kennedy Art Center at Arts Collinwood on Friday, September 16th at 7:30 pm and is 56 minutes long.

It was in the late 70s that a youth culture evolved in the poorer parts of New York which combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. Apart from the four classic elements of Graffiti writing, DJing, Breakdancing, and Rapping, the musical side of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element called ‘Beatboxing’.

From the hardship of poverty and the lack of instruments, a pioneer was inspired to imitate drum rhythms with his mouth – his brilliance creating the term ‘Human Beatbox’. Very soon other Hip Hop artists picked up his style and added this technique of music making to their own shows, but at that time beatboxing never left the realm of Hip Hop culture.

At the end of the 80s the first big wave of beatboxing was over and beatboxing only existed in an underground scene. It took until the late 90s that the art of Human Beatboxing was explosively revived. At that time the Internet had emerged and offered new ways of communication for young artists. All of a sudden beatboxers from all over the world were given the opportunity to connect and share their knowledge on websites through videos and online tutorials.

Since then Human Beatboxing has become a global phenomenon, which is organized and celebrated in the annual Beatbox Conventions and through Beatbox Competitions, that are being held in an increasing number of countries every year.

The documentary aims at providing a full picture of this incredible art form starting with its genesis within Hip Hop Culture and continuing with its further developments and its use in various musical fields in several countries throughout the world.

The documentary features artists from New York, California, Florida, Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium, Canada, Austria and Germany, who demonstrate their amazing techniques, which often seem impossible to audiences at first sight, but see for yourselves…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtop6MCENsY&feature=player_embedded .

Members of the multi-cultural chamber music ensemble, Halo Ensemble, will be performing on Saturday evening, August 12th at 7 pm in the Gallery at Arts Collinwood.  Join Arts Collinwood for a white wine tasting and casual gallery talk at 5:30 pm for a $10 donation and stay for this incredible music experience featuring Erica Ward, violinist, Laura Hairgrove, flautist and Peter Elhardt, cellist.  They will continue their music in the Cafe afterwards.  For more information about Halo Ensemble visit www.haloensemble.com.

Arts Collinwood is proud to present Jim Gill & Cathy Miller to our Gallery for a special performance  - Friday, June 10. Music begins at 7:30pm. Join us in the cafe for dinner, or our wonderful Happy Hour, and then witness the amazing chemistry of Gill and Miller.

About Jim Gill

“Jim Gill writes with more depth than your average poet and
has a quiet intensity much like Greg Brown and John Gorka.”
–Jeff Niesel, Cleveland Free Times Music Review

The latest iteration of singer/songwriter Jim Gill finds him joined by accomplished fiddle player Cathy Miller. The two met at a concert in July of 2010 and have been performing together ever since. Cathy brings a wealth of talent and expertise to Jim’s music. Her adept fretwork, and their combined stunning vocal harmonies, are reaping praise from audiences all over Ohio. To learn more about Cathy, visit her website through the link above. To learn more about Jim, read below!
“Absolute killer voice! ”
–Nancy Lackner , Three Rivers Productions

Over the course of a music career that began in 2001, Jim Gill has shared stages with notable artists as varied as John Gorka at The Village Folk Festival, Peter Mulvey at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Tommy James and The Shondells at The Ritz Theatre in Tiffin, Ohio and Mary Gauthier as part of the Six String Concerts series staged in the Columbus Performing Arts Center which plays host to the top acoustic folk and roots artists in the country. Jim has also enjoyed performances with local Ohio stars like Michael Stanley,Alex Bevan, Zach, Carlos Jones, Kate Voegele and Michael Doc Dreyfuss to name just a few.

About Cathy Miller

Cathy is performing exclusively with the extremely talented singer/songwriter Jim Gill. They primarily play original music in the folk/rock vein, and perform all across Northeast and Central Ohio.

She is a former member of the progressive rock band Uzizi, combining centuries-old sacred harp singing with a modern 5-piece band. Cathy was a founding member of Los Angeles-based Pushing Air, and played fiddle in the bluegrass bands Taproot and The Crooked River Fire Brigade.

Past performances include  The Chieftains (traditional Irish), Mo’ Mojo (zydeco),  as well as playing for three seasons in The Huntsville Symphony.

She is a versatile artist, able to teach and perform folk, classical, Irish, blues, bluegrass, Scottish, and jazz styles. In recent years, she has performed at all manner of functions including bookings with various bands, studio recording, ceilidhs, weddings, funerals, corporate functions, classical orchestral concerts, and old-time ice cream socials.

Cathy studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and is a graduate of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She studied with John Kochanowski, Kathryn Plummer and members of the Blair String Quartet. She has been teaching private violin, viola and fiddle lessons in the Cleveland, Ohio area for the last sixteen years.

An Evening with John Kalman + Chris Anderson

8pm

Since we have such a diverse audience and lots of space we thought: “lets hold two music events in the same night!”

Cleveland Hero, and all around good dude John Kalman has been writing songs for years, but with stints in several of the more popular bands in Clevo- Roue’ and currently Founding Fathers – He never really played them in public. This year John made his first solo record – A Backward Poet Writes Inverse, and we loved it. So here we are its National Record Store Day, and we asked Mr. Kalman to play.

The music starts at 8pm with Chris Anderson opening.
We can’t think of a better way to spend our early Saturday evening. Guess you won’t have to leave Waterloo on Record Store day!

No Exit New Music Ensemble performs a wonderful evening of new work at Arts Collinwood Gallery this Saturday, April 16.

The performance begins at 7pm, and is FREE and Open to the Public.

No Exit is gearing up for it’s most ambitious series of concerts yet. The group was formed by Cleveland composer Timothy Beyer to serve as an outlet for the commission and performance of contemporary avant-garde concert music.

“ We’ve placed a strong focus on championing the work of both

talented young composers and spotlighting local composers who

represent the best that our region has to offer,” explains Beyer.

“Our goal is to present exciting programs to Northeast Ohioans,

music they’ve most likely never heard before. We really want to

challenge our listeners to experience music in a different way.”

To that end, No Exit’s April series of concerts promises to be a

truly unique musical happening. Beyer says, ” With this program

we want to create an environment in which our patrons can really

become immersed in what’s going on.”

The concerts will feature works by Morton Feldman, Andrew

Rindfleisch, Nicholas Underhill, Timothy Beyer, Kaija Saariaho

and two world premieres, both commissioned for No Exit – Steve

Antosca’s electro-acoustic piece Exit and a multi-media

collaboration between composers James Praznik and Derrik

Balogh titled Almost a New Man.