Akron is a great symbol of how to bounce back. This week, they’ve announced Live at the Locks, a festival-style concert series right downtown in the thick of it. An Akron band is reuniting, and festivals are bouncing back all around the region, like Tremont’s Greek Festival, summer concerts are bumping at Wade Oval Wednesdays and the Metroparks’ many stages. There’s a Memorial Day vinyl party and a plant sale at the Clark-Fulton Greenhouse, and you can catch a documentary on street safety for bikes.
We’re personally involved in a few exciting projects this week. Join us at the Music Box for The Power of Words, organized by Regina Brett & Derdriu Ring to raise money for CPL. Some 30 writers, artists and well-known figures have three minutes on the stage. Hint: I’m gonna sing about a one-night stand with a poet. Then we’re up to the Akron Civic Theatre Knight Stage on Sat 5/23 for the encore performance of The Birth of Punk in NEO with 5 seminal and up-and-coming bands from the region celebrating our region’s claim on forging the prototype of what became punk. Come on over.
Come to the Rubber City to hear Bizarros, The Robert Conn Band, Patty No!, Vanity Crash/Queue Up and Massive Hotdog Recall as they give honor to their predecessors and play some of their fresh material. In between acts, get schooled on our region’s proud history with short video documentaries. Not to scare you, but you might learn something while having the time of your life in the mosh pit. Photos by Cori Amato, Tom Apathy & Dr. Michael Polsinelli.
