We are only starting to reach our potential, let alone our peak. Cle Cello Society’s benefit i Cellisti! features 15 members of the best orchestra in the world. Soupalooza helps feral cats with concoctions from local chefs. Bassist & composer Linda May Han Oh is at Oberlin’s Finney Chapel. The Darl Center hosts an astonishing wearable art fashion show. Marcia Custer combines the bizarre & the sublime as she activates a live show at SPACES. Heights Arts’ Ungallery presents work of six distinctive creators, while Cleveland Rocks PPF launches its new incubator class of seven diverse artists.
Akron’s Ruby & The Romantics’ song Our Day Will Come peaked at #1 in March 1963, and they have influenced generations since. The Secrets from Cleveland peaked at #18 with The Boy Next Door in 1963, The Poni-Tails from Brush High School peaked at #7 withBorn Too Late in 1958. Cleveland’s Tracy Chapman’s first album went multi-platinum and won 3 Grammys. Chrissie Hynde’s first Pretenders album peaked at #1 and is considered one of the best debut albums ever. Hear their back stories as a slew of area women bands & soloists cover them and perform their own originals at Our Day Will Come tomorrow Thu 3/19 at Music Box Supper Club. This region’s women haven’t even begun to peak.
-Thomas Mulready