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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/beachland-co-owner-cindy-barber-share
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SUMMARY:Beachland Co-Owner Cindy Barber Shares Her Story at Cleveland Stori
 es Program
DESCRIPTION:\n\nWed 4/8 @ 7PM\nCindy Barber will be Music Box Supper Club c
 o-founder’s guest for the next edition of its Cleveland Stories program\
 , and what a Cleveland story Barber has!\nWhen she and I\, both of us long
 time music journalists\, were working together at the Free Times in the 19
 90s\, she’d talk about how so many creative people – musicians\, artis
 ts and patrons of the arts — were moving into her North Collinwood neigh
 borhood\, and how she’d like to find a space — maybe a coffeeshop or a
  bar — to serve as a hangout for them.\nToward the end of 1998\, both of
  us left the Free Times. I went on to freelance online during the dotcom b
 oom and write for the Plain Dealer\, and she soon found her place: an old 
 Croatian home on Waterloo Road that the Croatians wanted to get off their 
 hands now that they’d moved to a new place in Eastlake. Just over a year
  later\, in March 2000\, she and her partners opened the newly named Beach
 land Ballroom and Tavern in that space. You can still see the building’s
  ethnic history\, something meaningful to Barber\, in the paintings depict
 ing peasant life in Croatia that still adorn the ballroom.\nIn the club’
 s 26 years\, it’s hosted a wildly eclectic array of artists from punk to
  folk\, blues to metal\, pop to one of Barber’s favorite genres\, Americ
 ana/alt country. It’s also hosted benefits\, makers’ markets\, memoria
 ls\, campaign rallies\, awards ceremonies\, burlesque and drag performance
 s\, and many other special events. It’s not only become the place to go 
 in North Collinwood\, it’s become the anchor Barber envisioned for what
 ’s now called the Waterloo Arts District\, attracting other businesses 
 — restaurants\, bars\, coffee shops\, fitness facilities\, retail busine
 sses\, galleries\, artist studios — to the once forlorn street.\nIn that
  time\, she’s also served on numerous boards and neighborhood groups\, f
 ounded a nonprofit called Cleveland Rocks: Past Present Future to give mus
 icians the tool and resources to advance their careers and helped organize
  area club owners to push back against an admissions tax that landed most 
 heavily on smaller venues such as hers. Along with Happy Dog owner Sean Wa
 tterson\, she co-organized the northeast Ohio branch of the National Indep
 endent Venue Association\, originally formed to help small entertainment v
 enues survive the COVID pandemic.\nThe program is free. They’ll be servi
 ng the regular dinner menu along with specials. Make a reservation here.\n
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CATEGORIES:Drinks,college,Music: Rock and
 Roll,Education,History,Eats,----WRITERS----,Music: Popular,Anastasia
 Pantsios,Preview,Free,RSS,Music: Jazz / Blues
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