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Violinist leading string revolution

By Joel Sensenig Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Mark O’Connor is on a personal mission to change the American classical music landscape, one string at a time.

The acclaimed violinist brings his mission to Toledo this weekend with performances at 8 p.m. April 8 and 9 at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle.

O’Connor will perform with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, led by guest conductor Tito Muñoz.

O’Connor, known for blending classical music tradition with American folk elements to create his own brand of sound, will perform his own composition, “Old Brass, Concerto No. 6 for Violin and Orchestra.” Also on the program will be an all-string piece, Morton Gould’s “Spirituals for Strings,” and Aaron Copland’s “Billy the Kid Suite.”

Much of the 49-year-old O’Connor’s career has been dedicated to bringing strings back to prominence in the American classical music landscape.

“I do feel that the strings could play a more important role, and actually I feel it is playing a more important role as we speak,” O’Connor said. “It’s moving in the right direction. I mean, we can’t get much lower with strings in our environment and culture than it has been.”

The string revolution also needs to hit the compositional side of music, O’Connor said. “There’s been a lot of composing done in the last 100 years in the American scene that involves wind playing, brass playing, piano, guitar, voice, but it’s been really lackluster in the string department,” O’Connor said. “All the really exciting stuff is happening in the winds and concert bands.

It’s great for them, but the strings, we’re kind of spinning around in circles saying, ‘What about Mozart?’

“The strings have been sort of the antiquated branch of classical music. I feel like if string players can rise up again and contribute creatively with vision, there is a potential for a new Amer-

ican classical music that would evolve the totality of our tradition into something that has not been completely tapped into yet.”

Part of the way O’Connor — who has worked with the likes of classical legends Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Mayer, as well as pop stars Alison Krauss and James Taylor, the latter two for an upcoming holiday album — has further shaped the American classical music scene is through education.

He regularly gives residencies, lectures and demonstrations and teaches workshops at prestigious music programs across the country. His book series, “The O’Connor Violin Method,” guides students through a carefully planned succession of pieces that develop the techniques necessary to become a proficient, wellrounded musician.

“The O’Connor Method is based upon my findings and research that I’ve experienced throughout my entire life — life of learning and also my life as a professional musician,” he said. “One of its hallmarks is that it uses all American literature and features some of the hallmarks of the American system of music-playing, which includes more creativity and more improvisation, and the cross-pollination of people and cultures. The violin was a huge part of that up until recent times. My aim is to reinvigorate the string music environment with some things I think were left out.”

For most of 2011, O’Connor has been on tour, playing his music with city orchestras. It’s a position O’Connor feels fortunate to be in.

“I love the fact there’s 80 people playing together. The power of people playing together, it’s an incredibly attractive thing for me as a musician to negotiate,” he said. “It’s an incredible feeling to be on the stage with the best musicians in a particular city, and it’s even more thrilling to have them all playing a piece that you’ve written.

I relish the opportunity to be able to put American string-playing right in the middle of the orchestra in a new way, something that has been thought through, that an artist like me has thought about not for weeks, not for months, but for years and decades. That kind of effort has not really been done before with American stringplaying and orchestra. It’s a very unique position I hold.”

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MARK O’CONNOR Tickets for the 8 p.m. April 8 and 9 performances at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle are $20-$50 ($5 for high school and college students with ID) and are available by calling (419) 246-8000, visiting www.toledosymphony.com or stopping by the Toledo Symphony box office, 1838 Parkwood Ave., located near the Toledo Museum of Art at the corner of Monroe Street. The box office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. O

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Rush brings ‘Moving Pictures’ to Toledo Classic rock band is working on new CD.

By Alan Sculley Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson remembers one overriding feeling that came with the making of “Moving Pictures,” the 1981 album that became the band’s most popular release — fun.

“It was a very positive experience,” Lifeson recalled in a recent phone interview. “Sometimes records can be quite difficult. (The 1984 album) ‘Grace Under Pressure,’ for example, was a very hard record to make. It seemed to take forever.

Again, we were at Le Studio (in Quebec) and it was very cold. We just really struggled with that one. But ‘Moving Pictures’ was quite the opposite. We had a lot of fun and we had great direction. We did some writing in the studio. All the sounds came together. There was a great buoyant feeling to the whole experience.”

The flashback to “Moving Pictures” is relevant now, nearly 30 years after the album’s release for a couple of reasons. First of all, Rush is playing that album, which sold more than 4 million copies and included the hit singles “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight,” in its entirety on its current tour. The band will play Downtown Toledo’s Huntington Center on April 13.

There seems to be a parallel between the “Moving Pictures” project and the experience Lifeson and his band mates (singer/bassist Geddy Lee and drummer Neil Peart) have had so far in working on a new studio CD, tentatively called “Clockwork Angels.”

“We’ve got this great feeling of promise for this album and some of the material on it,” Lifeson said. “It’s going to work out really great.”

For now, though, the focus is on the live show, which figures to be a typically epic evening of Rush music for fans. As on recent tours, the band is playing two sets totaling around three hours.

But there are some new twists to the show, one of which is playing “Moving Pictures” in its entirety.

The idea was proposed by Peart after seeing Steely Dan on a recent tour.

“He was really impressed with the fact that they were doing different albums night to night,” Lifeson said. “That’s perhaps a little ambitious for us.”

So Rush decided to do just one of its albums on the tour. The band had already settled on doing “The Camera Eye,” the longest song on “Moving Pictures” for this tour, so that helped make the decision on which album to perform.

“We thought it would be a nice way to incorporate doing that song, a little more of a special presentation,” Lifeson said, “The other stuff from that album, we’ve been doing for awhile on and off, but it was nice to condense it all into the album and present it that way.”

Today, 30 years down the road, Lifeson feels “Moving Pictures” still holds up well.

“I guess it’s the wide-eyed nature of the album,” he said. “The songs are all quite cinematic lyrically and musically. It’s kind of a very up record, sonically it’s up. ‘Limelight’ has that big, bold kind of sound, as does ‘Red Barchetta’ and it has those typical kind of dynamics that we’re known for, (as on) ‘Tom Sawyer’ of course.

I guess it has all those elements that were in the right balance. Yeah, you can try as hard as you want and you can’t always do that.”

There are other new twists to the live set.

“There are two new songs we’re doing (“Caravan” and “BU2B”), plus a bunch of stuff we haven’t done in a while, like ‘Presto,” Lifeson said, mentioning the title track of the band’s 1989 CD. “I’m not sure we’ve ever played ‘Presto’ live. So yeah, [there are] a couple of treats. ‘Time Stand Still’ (from the 1987 album “Hold Your Fire”) is back after taking a long rest. And the sets are very differently paced from each other, so I think there’s quite a different feel between the two sets.”

Visually, fans can expect a new video presentation, with plenty of new footage, and a highdefinition screen at the back of the stage to put it all in sharp focus. Then there’s the light show.

“There’s a large what we call spider over the stage that kind of spreads across the stage from above with articulating arms or legs, and it moves around and it’s really quite dramatic,” Lifeson said. “So there are really lots of great lighting ef-

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fects. You know, it’s a whole presentation with us.

It’s not just about the music.”

The timing for Rush’s tour is a bit unusual for the band. Traditionally, the band has only toured after a CD has been released or between album projects. This tour comes in the midst of writing and recording “Clockwork Angels.”

“The idea was to get back on the road, tour, and then come right back into continued writing and then recording in tour shape,” Lifeson said. “There’s nothing that compares to the kind of shape you get into playing wise when you’re on tour.”

Lifeson said the band has nine songs in various stages of completion for the new CD. At this point, the CD is shaping up to be a musically varied work.

“There is the epic song, ‘Clockwork Angels,’ which is really taking shape. It’s a multiparted piece, very dynamic,” the guitarist said. “Then there’s some stuff that’s very melodic and on the

softer side, on acoustic, with a strong melody. So there’s great diversity there.”

Lifeson, of course, would be happy if the rest of the “Clockwork Angels” project were to go as well as things went in making “Moving Pictures.”

The project went well despite the first recording session being done in the dead of one of the colder winters in Quebec. The weather meant arriving at Le Studio was a welcome daily ritual.

“You’re undressing 13 layers of clothes you had on, and you just wandered into the control room with a cup of coffee or a cup of tea and listened to what you were doing and it was so great for us,” Lifeson said. “We were so happy with the direction and the sound of what we were getting. In that respect, our work was a very positive influence on our day-to-day existence up there, which is what it’s all about when you’re in a studio, especially in a residential studio. So we always had that to keep us going.” O

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That ’70s dance

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Former Toledo radio host Denny Schaffer is bringing back the funk at the Disco Party Dance MS benefit for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Northwest Ohio Chapter on April 15 at the Erie Street Market Civic Center.

“I’m really excited about coming back. I’m happy to be a part of it and help raise money,” Schaffer, who now lives in Atlanta, said.

For about 10 years, Schaffer organized disco parties to raise money for various charities, but this SCHAFFER one is special for him.

Tricia Courtney Tischler, his former “Breakfast Club” co-host on 92.5 FM, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) more than 10 years ago. Tischler joined the MS Society in 2003 as the director of media for the Northwest Ohio chapter.

“I just dearly love this woman and respect her,” Schaffer said. “I see how MS has impacted and affected her life and I want to do more.”

Schaffer was considering throwing another disco party since it had been about five years

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Denny Schaffer returns to host MS benefit.

since the last one and Tischler was trying to find fundraising ideas for the organization that provides support and assistance to people living with MS. Dance MS then fell into place.

“During a time when the economy is struggling so much and our clients are struggling twice as much,” Tischler said, “our donations are down and our need is higher. To have an additional event like this to help us raise money is very perfectly timed.”

The MS Society holds Walk MS events and a Bike MS event each year, but this benefit will have a much different vibe.

“People will not be disappointed when they come,” Schaffer said. “It’s a night of incredible music, incredible atmosphere and you’ll feel like it’s the ’70s again.”

Tischler said she doesn’t like going to bars or large parties, but the disco parties, thanks in part to the infectious music, are “a whole different ball of wax.”

“You dance until you’re sweaty and tired and have an awesome time with your friends,” she said.

Before Schaffer worked in radio, he was a discotheque DJ in the ’70s. With help from a couple friends, he will be spinning tunes so people can boogie all night long.

“All of the stuff I learned back then, I’m doing today,” he said.

Schaffer said he is looking forward to re-

turning to Toledo and seeing familiar faces and old friends.

He’s excited about throwing another party and seeing people who used to come to his disco parties during the ’90s bring their kids, who are now old enough for the 21 and up event.

Tischler said there is not a featured speaker and people are not asking guests for more money after it begins.

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The 3DS takes about three and one-half hours to charge using the included cradle station and the battery life does not allow double-digit hours as the DS Lite did. Each replaceable battery pack can be charged approximately 500 times. The wireless option can turn off to save battery life. A headphone jack is located in the middle and the surprisingly strong sound speakers are located on both sides of the 3-D screen. New control features include the 360-degree circle pad control and a select, home and start button strip below the bottom screen. The microphone is now on the right side of this strip and slots for wrist straps are on the far right and left.

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Comic books fans are a forgiving bunch. Tardiness and mistakes, two factors that would kill most other consumer products, tend to be overlooked by readers if a series is deemed a hot one — especially if it has an “X” in its title. Just last week, Marvel released the newest issue of “Ultimate Comics X,” a monthly book that’s late by several months and featured a glaring mistake: one whole page was printed without words. The company’s website, Marvel. com, issued an explanation, but appeared to be unconcerned with the snafu.

Jim Collins of JC’s Comic Shop explained the book’s draw, despite its problems.

“Written by Jeph Loeb and with stunning art by Arthur Adams, this is not your father’s X-Men comic,” he said. “The Ultimate line takes place in one of Marvel’s many alternate universes, one that was recently changed forever. Magneto was responsible for the deaths of millions, resulting in new laws regarding mutants being passed. Jean Grey is carrying

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“For myself, the high point of this series is Art Adams. Each panel he illustrates shows storytelling and detail that 90 percent of comic artists out there wish they had. This comic has fallen late recently, but once you see Art’s work you can understand why.”

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”Follow men’s eyes as they look to the skies.” — “JACOB’S LADDER,” RUSH

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Calling all creatives: Help re-design Toledo

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shift has occurred within the hearts and minds rative, numbering in the hundreds and possibly thousands, invite all Toledo Free Press Star readers of many in Toledo’s creative community.

During the past four years, a budding and Northwest Ohio residents to actively engage in helping to build and broaden group of well-educated, pasthe economic and cultural base sionate social and artistic of the Great Lakes region. entrepreneurs has been A small and dedicated few of laying the foundations Toledo’s creative community refor a cultural and economic cently assembled to share our colchange in Downtown that has lective and individual histories, and the potential to redefine what most importantly, our thoughts Toledo stands for to its citiregarding what we need to sustain zens and the Midwest. and grow our sphere of influence Our city has a diverse and within the city and region. talented population of visual Through sharing our diaartists, designers, musicians/ JULES WEBSTER logue with readers of Toledo producers, poets, writers, STACY JURICH Free Press Star, we hope to social activists and cultural inspire others to get involved in entrepreneurs who have the artistic and creative commucarved out career niches for nity, to be the positive change themselves spanning across we’d like to see for ourselves artistic disciplines. and the future of Toledo and the We share a collective surrounding area. identity, strengthened The late Allan Kaprow, a wellby the affirmation of known artist, critic and writer on the dissolucommunity and rooted in the collective discoveries made as we transform our inner pas- tion of boundaries between art and life, famously sions and strengths into physical manifesta- stated that acts of passive regard, even with a tions of visual art or economically productive trained eye and critical mind, do not signify participation. Stated otherwise, to see and observe is business enterprises.

We have all heard glorious stories in the not the same as to be involved.

Consider this an invitation to fully participate media of second-tier, Rust Belt cities reemerging from post-industrial distress to be- in the reshaping of Toledo. O come centers of economic development and cultural meccas for artists and innovators. Al- Jules Webster is owner of Shine Ceramics and The though it may not be obvious to those who live Art Supply Depō, a fine art supply store coming in in the suburbs, this story of urban rejuvenation July to Downtown Toledo. Stacy Jurich is a community organizer and freelancer. Both women are is our story — Toledo’s story.

Those of us who have a lead role in the nar- Toledo Free Press Star columnists.

Re-Design

Toledo

Editor’s Note: Comments have been edited for length.

JULES WEBSTER: Welcome, thanks for coming. So what do we need to sustain and what do we need to grow this creative movement?

STACY JURICH: Just to recap what scene we have here: we have poets, muralists, Hip-Hop artists, visual artists, activists, entrepreneurs. We have people to document the creative class with video, recording studios, writers. We have potters, all kinds of musicians, people with access to radio, newspapers, TV. IMANI LATEEF: Space is the thing we need the most. It’s nice to have the galleries and a lot of friendly venues, but you only get a space like Artomatic for a couple weeks. We need a space like Artomatic that’s there 365 days a year that we can work in if we wanted and that’s a community-type space for events. There’s so much talent in the city, but all the talent is forced to go to only a handful of places.

DUSTIN HOSTETLER: There’s so much talent out there, but most people are working from their homes. People are creating stuff in really isolated situations. Why things like Artomatic are so successful is because for a short amount of time you showcase stuff that normally you are keeping to yourself or selling outside of Toledo. That’s why [Jerry Gray’s] gallery [Bozarts] is so successful, because it’s focusing on these people who are producing lots of work, but that were doing it mostly behind closed doors. It’s a venue where there’s no pretenses — just show them what you got. We would benefit so much from some sort of more accessible workspace ...

BEN LANGLOIS: Like a library, but for art ...

DUSTIN HOSTETLER: ... Where you could go in and use materials and interact with people. That’s the benefit of Artomatic.

KC SAINT JOHN: And maybe opening it up to educate, encouraging the community to come in ...

DUSTIN HOSTETLER: Teaching music because the schools aren’t doing it. It’s the same idea.

It’s opening up venues where we’re taking over some of this stuff because it’s not available otherwise.

IMANI LATEEF: It might not be a matter of finding space as much as introducing ourselves as a body to these organizations that need us, like going to the Boys & Girls Club, or going to a Y ...

BEN LANGLOIS: Or the Catholic Club on 17th. There are already kids going there every day.

That’s a captive audience, information sponges.

LILD: But more than that — and I can only really speak from the Hip-Hop end of it — there needs to be confidence instilled in the artists here. It takes a lot of confidence to take constructive criticism and until the people in the arts here realize they are good enough to make it — Lyfe Jennings made it, Anita Baker is from here. Part of what I’m doing is showing that it’s not about where you’re from or what they say about your CD, it’s about what you do.

The artists here don’t believe they can go anywhere.

Once they get popular here, they stop because they’re afraid to go to the next city and start over.

STACY JURICH: Other people need to realize there is so much talent here, so that everyone doesn’t have to look to the big cities for the new music or a new CD or a cool scene — they can look here.

DUSTIN HOSTETLER: Not only does the public need to appreciate the talent, but the venues and the promoters need to appreciate the talent is as good or better than the talent they are bringing in. It’s easier for me to get an art show in New York than it is in Toledo; it’s easier for bands to get a gig in Detroit or Ann Arbor than it is in Toledo. It’s a grass is always greener thing.

KC SAINT JOHN: I see a lot of bands saturate the market here. I also see bands that don’t go out of town. You can count on your friends only so often.

You’ve got to put your heart on your sleeve, go to another town and then see if your music will stand.

Gig swap. This is something I always tell bands.

Get out there and start networking and working together because, just like this group here in Toledo, there are groups that are trying to do the same thing there, so definitely keep pushing things out of Toledo,

The artists at the roundtable Ryan Bunch Bunch

Gray

Hostetler

Ide

Performing and Literary Arts Coordinator at the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo. Music Editor at Toledo.com. Community events coordinator. Former Arts and Entertainment Editor at Toledo City Paper. Poet. Southeast Michigan native. Old West End resident.

More info: acgt.org, Toledo.com

Jerry Gray

Owner of Bozarts. Artist. Writer. Vocalist.

Bartender. Advocate. Toledo Free Press Star columnist.

Dustin Hostetler Jurich

Langlois

I. Lateef

Y. Lateef

Graphic artist (under moniker UPSO). Publisher of art magazine Faesthetic. Partner at design agency Studio Sans Nom. Runs

Pretend Records. Board member at Arts Commission of Greater Toledo and Old West End Historic District Commission. Co-owner and manager of Grumpy’s Deli. Toledo Free Press Star contributor. Toledo native.

More info: dustinhostetler.com

Tim Ide

Filmmaker. Farmer. Founder of Justajunkie Films. Partner in TiMe To Productions.

Producer of the DVD series/TV show “Miserable City ... you’re in good company,” an ongoing project documenting Toledo’s music and arts scene. Toledo native.

More info: miserablecity.tv (soon to be live)

Stacy Jurich

Activist. Traveler. Community organizer.

Advocate of sustainable living. Co-founder of nonprofit Toledo Choose Local. Organizer of Toledo Green Drinks. Board member for Toledo Bicycle Co-op and Urban Environmental Institute. Toledo Free Press Star columnist. Sylvania native.

More info: toledochooselocal.com, greendrinks. org, toledobikecoop.org, ueitoledo.com

Ben Langlois

Musician. Music teacher. Creator of Old West End Records. Toledo native.

More info: oldwestendrecords.com

Imani Lateef

Graphic designer. Poet. Event promoter.

Adminstrator and contributor to local events blog Groundleveltoledo.com.

Co-owner of former Ground Level Coffeehouse. Raised in Toledo.

More info: myillwork.com, groundleveltoledo.com

“Live for yourself ... there’s no one else” — “ANTHEM,” RUSH

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Toledo is a car culture. People are gonna go where they want to go. If they want to come Downtown and check out whatever, they’re gonna get down here.

Jason QUICK

Artists discuss the Toledo scene during a roundtable discussion at The Blarney.

STAR PHOTO BY JOHN POLLOCK

bringing things through. And document. Record everything. When you go play your show in Chicago, record your show in Chicago. You can’t have a “Live in Paris” CD if you don’t go to Paris and play.

JULES WEBSTER: We’re all doing really amazing things and we all need to do a better job of documenting and then sharing that documentation. It would do a lot for all of us and get us into the suburbs. We’ve got to get us and our business and our art and our music and our poetry into the ’burbs. And get the ’burbs to come Downtown.

RACHEL RICHARDSON: And not even all the way out to the ‘burbs. When you [Tim Ide] said part of your show would be to document the architecture of a home in the Old West End, why aren’t we documenting architecture in Old Orchard or on the East Side or on George Street Corridor? We need to include the rest of Toledo into this.

I’m being told from a lot of different directions that the Old West End is a very exclusive club and we don’t let anybody in and that is really working on my nerves because I know that I try really hard to include everybody. But I might also be guilty of never going to Perrysburg or Sylvania. I need to work on it myself, but we all need to make Toledoans feel welcome, not just people who hang

Yusuf Lateef

Working Visual Artist (painting/drawing). Operates collaborative Web gallery Lateefinstereo.com with brother Imani.

Raised in Toledo.

More info: igotppls.com/lateef

lilD

Radio host. Entertainment blogger at thewordeyeheard.com. Toledo Free Press Star columnist. Toledo transplant from Louisiana.

More info: facebook.com/thewordeyeheard

Nathan Mattimoe

DJ. Producer. Musician. Sculptor. Member of Detroit-based Bang Tech 12 international DJ collective. Works with Old West End Records. Toledo native.

More info: bangtech12.com

out in Downtown and in the Old West End. One of my major goals is to revitalize Downtown; that’s still in my mindset. That’s because I want the people from Sylvania and Perrysburg to come and spend their money in Downtown. But we need to make them feel welcome if they are going to come and spend their money with us.

RYAN BUNCH: I’m interested in getting our story out to people because they need to come down and see what’s happening. But the other thing that needs to happen is while we’re expanding out we really need to focus on expanding inward; Toledo is a very culturally segregated place. It’s not incredibly diverse. I get that comment a lot that when you look around a table, it’s predominantly white faces. That’s one of the things I loved about the Ground Level.

When you walked in that place, everybody was just cool and it didn’t matter, and that was a really rare thing. I think about this a lot. And I don’t know what the answer is. Part of it is we don’t have any mass transportation. We don’t encounter each other on a regular basis in our daily lives, so we kind of live two separate lives. We live at separate parts of the neighborhoods and we don’t cross paths very often.

As we’re trying to draw people from the suburbs to come down and see our events, we need to think

Jason Quick

Singer-songwriter and guitarist. Contributor to OWE Records.

Rachel Richardson

Musician. Activist. Co-founder and codirector of nonprofit Independent Advocates, which works with domestic violence victims.

Founder and project coordinator for Art Corner Toledo. Toledo Free Press Star columnist.

Product of Toledo.

More info: iatoledo.org, artcornertoledo.com

Kc Saint John

Musician. Glass artist. Fire artist. Owner of Lost Peninsula Arts and Glass and Support Your Local Talent. Former record executive and major label talent manager. Does special events at Toledo Museum of Art. Manager of collaborating artists group The Glass Dojo.

Toledo Free Press Star columnist.

More information: www.kcsaintjohn.com

about who’s already down here, who’s two to three blocks away that’s not coming to the event, that doesn’t know it’s happening right next door to them.

NATHAN MATTIMOE: Collaborating, I think that’s the key to that. I don’t know the HipHop scene in Toledo and I love Hip-Hop. I would love to see more live Hip-Hop at [Ottawa Tavern] or Frankies. It’s opening our minds to different cultural aspects in Toledo. That’s the neat part of Old West End Records. It’s not genre-based at all; it’s completely diverse. Thinking outside of the Old West End and the Ottawa Tavern and these specific hubs is really important because it’s sad to me to get content. Being content is going to be the worst thing that’s gonna happen because we’ll never grow, we’ll never change and we’ll never evolve. We’ll just be cool with what’s been tried already.

JASON QUICK: Toledo is a car culture.

People are gonna go where they want to go. If they want to come Downtown and check out whatever, they’re gonna get down here.

JERRY GRAY: This might not come as a shock but a more diverse audience is ideal. A more intelligent audience is what it creates. We need to organize ourselves; we need to organize people, whether it’s patrons, or audience, or artists, or ourselves, our information, we need to document ongoingly, and have the stuff we’ve already documented to put ourselves in context. I have a lot of ideas about starting a digital cultural archive. We could have all our portfolios on two or three terabytes, and that’s a couple hundred bucks. If we set that all up in a formatted way where people could sift through to find the information they want, it can be done fairly easily. People could pay to submit their information, people could pay to buy the information It could become an institution in a moment.

RYAN BUNCH: Rachel mentioned that we get criticism for being cliquey or exclusionary. I’ve thought about that and I was really concerned about it and then I kind of arrived at the conclusion that that perception comes from a group of people who are working really hard to take control of their neighborhood, and our neighborhood is primarily

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Downtown. I think you can’t revitalize a city from Old Orchard; it’s not a hub and it’s never going to be. This is the hub, this is the city, this has to live and live really strong before any of that is going to succeed. So if those people are upset about it, then they have a responsibility to take control of their own communities and their own neighborhoods.

JERRY GRAY: I’ve been attacked for not being diverse enough or hospitable enough.

STACY JURICH: Just to comment on what Bunch said about the culture of being culturally segregated, we need to take responsibility amongst ourselves before we start trying to convince suburban people to come Downtown. We need to step out of our own comfort zones. I went to the Peacock Café to hear Hip-Hop, first time I’ve ever been there. And because you [lilD] are writing in the paper and I am aware of those HipHop shows, I went to the Peacock Cafe instead of going to the OT like I do every other day of the week. So I think if we want to see Hip-Hop, we need to go to where that’s playing instead of trying to get it to come to the OT. JULES WEBSTER: Maybe we could all just try to be a little more friendly, try to welcome people to our events that we’ve never met before. I actually had someone at Bozarts once who asked me if I worked for the City of Toledo. (laughter) I was like ‘Welcome to Toledo, glad you’re here!’ But I’d like to encourage everyone to do that. One thing I also think we need to work on is financial responsibility for artists, changing that perception of the lazy, unemployed, hard to get a hold of, won’t return phone calls artist. I think a lot of us have probably been that at some point in our careers. I think we’re all past that now, but if we could just kind of keep working on that and keep encouraging that and encouraging financial responsibility and savings. One thing I’m hearing from everyone is we all want another space to hang out in and be a part of, but we’re not going to be able to rent a space or create a space if we don’t have some savings to pull together. n Round Table CONTINUES ON 14

Har Simrit Singh

Artist. Muralist. Owner of Intuition Clothing Company.

More info: www.intuitionclothingco.com

Jules Webster

Potter. Owner of Shine Ceramics. Ceramics instructor at Space 237 Galleries. Pro-Toledo Apparel designer. Preparing to open a Downtown art supply store called The Art Supply Depo. Toledo Free Press Star columnist.

Toledo native.

More info: www.artsupplydepo.com, shineceramics.com, space 237.com

lilD

Mattimoe

Quick

Richardson

Saint John

Singh

Webster

Wyte

Mighty Wyte

Songwriter. Audio producer. Owner of production company Unfeher Advantage. Toledo Free Press Star music writer. Born in Toledo.

More info: mightywyte.com

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”In a while, will the smile on my face turn to plaster?” — “MR. SOUL,” RUSH

n Round Table CONTINUED FROM 13 KC SAINT JOHN: You touched on something that I advocate all the time: The 5-Foot Rule. If you come within 5 feet of anybody the rest of your life, you reach out and say hi. It just opens up a friendliness. And then I want to touch on something with the Old West End. Can someone tell me what the heart of the Old West End is and why it’s so awesome? The Toledo Museum of Art. We have got something that’s the most amazing thing and for those of you who aren’t aware, the Old West End is also the largest collection of Victorian houses in the world. People all over the world know the Old West End. They don’t know everything else, but if we can get them in, we can educate them. The art museum is free and it’s ours. Classes, the art, a priceless collection. I mean, you can walk down and have multimillion dollars around you.

IMANI LATEEF: That’s not the thing I would tell people about the Old West End. The thing I’d tell them is that all the artists live in the Old West End. Everything progressive comes out of the Old West End or Downtown. For the most part. Yeah, the art museum is cool, but the real value in that area is the fact that the Collingwood Arts Center is there, the artists, the actual people who create the value for Toledo, are there. The art museum, they’re bringing art from all over the world and rarely would an Old West End artist show there.

TIM IDE: I’d just like to make one comment about social networking. One thing that we can do to promote the entire scene in general is when someone puts something up, share that. I have 2,300 friends and I haven’t added a friend in months. I get friend requests every day because I’m building a little buzz. Just click share. It only takes a second and so what? I’m friends with pretty much everybody in here, and when I look at your page we have 82 in common, but you got 380 or whatever, so it’s not the same people.

Spider that around and we’re reaching now thousands of unique individuals and it only take a second. Yeah, I know 180 of my people have already seen it, but the other 2,000 haven’t, so it goes a long way for really free, quick promotion to where you see somebody’s doing something, spam that out for them, knock that out quick.

IMANI LATEEF: As far as documenting where this all started, the first Artomatic was definitely the starting point, the way I see it. Because it did bring all these different genres together in one spot, artists networking far more than they ever did previously. We had Hip-Hop represented, we had the Toledo Ballet, we had every other genre represented. At that point it really pushed the whole creative scene that much further.

And I don’t know if anyone mentioned it, but I think Marc Folk being on the Arts Commission sort of changed the energy for me. I think that’s when things started to really change. I’ve been an artist my whole life, but until around that time, I never actually got a call or an email from the arts commission saying we want you to be involved in this. So they were reaching out to me more and reaching out to other parts of the community, keeping that up is important.

YUSUF LATEEF: I don’t mean to get metaphysical (laughter) — RACHEL RICHARDSON: Oh, please do!

YUSUF LATEEF: But I think we need a soul. There’s so much body and mass and talent

Kc Saint John and Mighty Wyte discuss Team Toledo.

STAR PHOTO BY JOHN POLLOCK

— the body of everything, it’s here. We need to — whether it’s virtual space like the Internet or actual space like a building — whatever we infuse into that has to be a soul that beams out, you know what I mean? Wherever it goes, it just beams out there like a beacon. I can’t wait to say ‘I told you so, I told you so,’ because I saw this coming years ago, just in meeting people and watching people and what they were doing. I saw that, man, this place is just a giant and still growing. But I think right now it’s at a point where we see this thing, now we’ve got to put a name to it, we need to put a face on it. And I think expand it even further than any type of Internet social networking could ever do. It could be something as small as a bumper sticker, it could be a word, it could be a name, like Julie’s shirts, ‘Team Toledo.’ Actually, what did it for me was ‘Chicago Doesn’t Need You.’ That was the shirt that did it for me. I want to wear that to Chicago, you know what I’m saying?

MIGHTY WYTE: What I keep noticing, regardless of what angle we approach it from, is attitude and opinion. Whether it be the attitude of local artist saying I can’t do it, I can’t go to Chicago and be successful, or the opinion of people saying the art crowd is cliquey and not accessible, it all boils down to the way we think.

We are the art community, and I think the biggest thing we can do — and we can start doing now, we don’t have to wait for a place or wait for somebody to do something else — is encourage interdependency. What can I help you with? I need CD art, or you need somebody to help you record music, you need somebody to help you master. I need someone to help put a website together. It’s OK to ask for help. If everybody’s accessible and OK with each other, and quick to ask for help, it lightens the mood and everybody’s happier. … Interdependency. It’s free, we can do it now, it’ll change the mood of everything and it’s so easy to do.

BEN LANGLOIS: We’re already aware we’re all working the same audience and that audience is relatively small still. So we are all competing in a way for that same audience at times. The only way around that problem is if we have a show or an event that is competing, we both need to be

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Marc Folk being on the Arts Commission sort of changed the energy for me.

IMANI LATEEF

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working just as hard to promote the other one.

Just so that the audience in general can be bigger.

DUSTIN HOSTETLER: Five years ago, we didn’t have the problem of there being too many things to do, and I think now we have that all the time and that’s an awesome problem to have. It’s a big-city problem. And you’re right, if I go to your event and you remind me there’s that thing going on across the street afterward, I might actually do a little bar-hopping or I might actually drive across the city and check out more than one thing because God forbid we have multiple experiences in one night with multiple groups of people and spend our money in multiple places.

IMANI LATEEF: Maybe if we promote a collective event for each month, so basically your show is our event and we’re using all of our personal resources to promote your show ...

YUSUF LATEEF: Possibly, or maybe this particular event is the official Team Toledo event of that night and that’s what we are all doing. So even if we’re sharing other nights, that night no, it’s the official night and maybe we intentionally keep the crowd for two or three different acts ourselves. We act like our own promoter.

MIGHTY WYTE: Organized crime works because it’s organized (laughter) STACY JURICH: OK, final comments.

Thirty seconds each.

JULES WEBSTER: One thing I want to say is that what we don’t have is more support from

channels 11, 13, 24 and FOX. I want television coverage of our groups. I feel like we don’t have it.

LILD: I just think we all need to know each other better. Let’s just continue to diversify. Let’s just go to each other’s events and be more supportive and send that support out to the rest of the community.

NATHAN MATTIMOE: We can’t be afraid to crosspromote. We can’t be afraid to be like, ‘I know you’re doing this, but here’s this flier.’ You go to Detroit, fliers are everywhere, from every single other bar; you do that in Toledo and it’s like, Oh my god. It’s just the way it is. Don’t be afraid of that and don’t be afraid of bar owners that are just trying to make their place the hub of culture in Toledo because it’s not gonna happen.

RYAN BUNCH: I think the best way to spread the message is to be an individual ambassador. As much as we’re talking about helping each other promote each other’s events and pushing that outward, I think that’s great, but I think we should also make the personal commitment to once a month visit an area of town that we don’t go to, be it the South End, Old Orchard, or wherever, and go to an event there and talk to people at the those events and tell them what we’re doing. The best way to get people to come down here is to have a conversation with them in a place that they feel comfortable. I’ll take that challenge.

JERRY GRAY: Shake hands more often, stay friendly, just keep doing what you‘re doing and you’ll become more in demand and, as you do, so will your friends, and as they do, so will their friends. Everything’s going a lot better than what I’ve ever seen in Toledo.

DUSTIN HOSTETLER: I’m with Jerry. I don’t think anybody’s doing anything wrong, I just think we need to do more of what we’re already doing.

HAR SIMRIT SINGH: One thing I was thinking about this whole time is when I lived out West it was really cool because there are a lot towns out there that were built upon certain industries and some of those industries’ times came and went. There’s just this void that’s left there, and it tends to draw creative people into it. It’s kind of what’s going on in Toledo, but on a larger scale. It’d just be cool to see Toledo follow that energy and move into something bigger and better. Not only just for Toledo but even this region, kind of becoming a cultural mecca for this whole Midwest area and have that be Toledo’s new identity versus Jeep or whatever else that Toledo’s known for. Transvestites on “M*A*S*H” or whatever. (laughter) Let’s redefine it. It’d be cool to see something come out of it.

YUSUF LATEEF: One thing about Toledo is we have a work ethic like crazy. There are more scrappers (laughter), a scrap yard in every corner. I used to scrap. Talk to everybody in a 500-yard radius and somebody scraps. And it’s a small city and there’s still scrap! (laughter) So it’s just like that’s the spirit of Toledo right there. You don’t need a lot to make it. We really create from what’s here. I think that’s the spirit of Toledo and I see it everywhere. We don’t have shit but we got shit. (laughter) JULES WEBSTER: OK, we’re out of time.

MIGHTY WYTE: Thank you Stacy and Jules for putting this together. This is the catalyst. We all want better things for our city and this is it.

We’re getting together and doing it instead of just talking about it. I’m excited. O

“All the hope and glory/All the sacrifice in vain.” — “BRAVADO,” RUSH

Compiled by Whitney Meschke Events are subject to change.

MUSIC The Ark This small venue offers a showcase for lesser-known acts.

316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor. (734) 761-1451, (734) 761-1800 or www.theark.org.

O David Brombert Quartet, Angel Band: 8 p.m. April 7, $35.

O Steppin’ in It: 8 p.m. April 8, $15.

O Mr. B’s Piano Celebration: 7:30 p.m. April 9, 3:30 p.m.

April 10, $25.

O Brendan James, Matt White, Lauren Pritchard: 8 p.m.

April 11, $15.

O Adrian Legg: 8 p.m. April 12, $17.50.

O Catie Curtis, Amy Speace: 8 p.m. April 13, $20.

The Blarney Irish Pub Catch local acts while taking in the pub’s modern Irish and American fare. 601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www. theblarneyirishpub.com.

O Rick Whited: April 7.

O Joe Woods & Friends: April 8.

O Kentucky Chrome: April 9.

Blind Pig A variety of rock, soul, pop and alternative acts perform at this bar. 208 S. First St., Ann Arbor. $3-$20 unless noted.

(734) 996-8555 or blindpigmusic.com.

O Fowl, Tru Klassick, Versatai, Eideal, JLR, J Classic, Eye-V, Beanzarelly: 9:30 p.m. April 6.

O Movits, October Babies: 9 p.m. April 7.

O The Appleseed Collective, Gun Lake, Match by Match, Lizzie Conner: 9:30 p.m. April 8.

O The Bang: 9:30 p.m. April 9.

O Big Krit, Freddie Gibbs, Smoke Dza, Gameboi: 8 p.m. April 10.

O Ron Pope, Ari Herstand, Zach Berkman: 7 p.m. April 11.

O Thunder St. Clair, Inkface, K-Dog, Stevie Tee, Tailor Hawkins, Squidula, Luminous Fridge: 9 p.m. April 12.

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Bretz Bar

The Distillery

Headliners

2012 Adams St. (419) 243-1900.

O Deja Dellataro and Felaciana Thunderpussy: Thursdays-Saturdays.

Karaoke is offered Tuesdays, but paid entertainers rock out Wednesdays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www.thedistilleryonline.com.

O Dave Carpenter: April 6.

O D.J. Brandon: April 7.

O Venyx: April 8.

O The Menus: April 9.

O Gregg Aranda: April 12.

O Kyle White: April 13.

All ages, all genres are welcome. 4500 N. Detroit Ave. Ticket prices vary between $5 and $15, unless noted otherwise.

(419) 269-4500 or www.headlinerstoledo.com.

O Jamboree Festival featuring more than two dozen bands on three stages; all ages show: 11 a.m. April 9, $30-$35.

O Neil Hamburger, Todd Barry, Brendon Walsh: 7 p.m. April 11, $15-$20.

O Skeletonwitch, Three Inches of Blood, NRR, Hammer Horde: 7 p.m. April 12.

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O Chris Shutters: 9:30 p.m. April 8.

O The Frostbite Band: 9 p.m. April 9.

This local, family-owned enterprise offers food, drinks and music in a sleek atmosphere. 405 Madison Ave. (419) 2463339 or icerestaurantandbar.com.

O Gerald Gibbs: 5 p.m. April 7.

O Ronn Daniels: 7 p.m. April 8.

O Jeff McDonald: 6 p.m. April 9.

Bronze Boar Be sure to check out this Warehouse District tavern’s namesake, overhead near the entrance. 20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www.bronzeboar.com.

O Jerod: Wednesdays and April 7.

O Open mic night with Chris Knopp: Mondays.

O Luke James: Tuesdays.

O 427: April 8.

O Dave Carpenter & the Jaeglers: April 9.

Caesars Windsor Consider hopping the Detroit River for this casino’s entertainment offerings. Ticket prices, in Canadian dollars, are for the cheapest seats; attendees must be 19 or older. Caesars Windsor Colosseum, 377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor, Ontario. (800) 991-7777 or www.caesarswindsor.com.

O Smokey Robinson: 9 p.m. April 9, $25.

Cheetah’s Den A different band performs each week. 702 E. Broadway St. (419) 754-1903.

O DJ Lamont: Tuesdays.

O Devious: Thursdays (also open mic night)-Saturdays.

Club Soda This university hot spot from back in the day hosts entertainment Fridays and Saturdays. 3922 Secor Road. (419) 473-0062 or www.toledoclubsoda.com.

O Bridges: April 7-9.

Dégagé Jazz Café Signature drinks, such as pumpkin martinis, plus live local jazz performers. 301 River Road, Maumee. $5 weekends for cafe seating. (419) 794-8205 or www.degagejazzcafe.com.

O Gene Parker & Friends: 7-10 p.m. April 6 and 13.

O Michael Peslikis: April 7 and 14.

O Cynthia Kaay Bennett: 7:30-11:30 p.m. April 8-9.

O Jason Quick: April 12.

Frankie’s Toledo’s venue for rock. 308 Main St. Tickets vary between $5 and $15, unless noted. (419) 693-5300 or www.

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O Auto Tune karaoke hosted by Ian Thomas: 9 p.m. Mondays, free.

O Rob Vance: 9 p.m. April 7.

O World Inferno Friendship Society, 7Deadly5: 9 p.m. April 8.

O Antiseen, the Infernal Names, Sworn Secrecy, Revangelicals: 9 p.m. April 9.

O Hundredth, No Bragging Rights, the Greenery, Legion, Legacy, Smash Your Enemies: 6 p.m. April 10, $10.

O Romance on a Rocketship, For the Foxes, Stay, Zenadare: 5 p.m. April 11.

O Rockabilly Riot, Al & the Black Cats, Death by Rodeo: 9 p.m. April 12.

O Lucian Townes, Angela Perley & the Howlin’ Moons, J.W. Carlson, Violent Stars: 9 p.m. April 15.

French Quarter J. Pat’s Pub Live entertainment after 9:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Holiday Inn French Quarter, 10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg.

(419) 874-3111 or www.hifq.com.

O Lazy River Band: April 8-9.

Kerrytown Concert House This venue focuses on classical, jazz and opera artists and music. 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor. $5-$30, unless noted.

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O Susan Chastain: 7 and 9 p.m. April 9.

O Ullman/Swell Four: 8 p.m. April 10.

O Mad About Chamber Music: 8 p.m. April 11, free.

O Gavin Creek, Robbie Roth: 10 p.m. April 13.

Mainstreet Bar and Grill Ronn Daniels performs weekly at this pub. 8-11 p.m. Thursdays, 141 Main St. (419) 697-6297 or www.toledomainstreet.com.

Manhattan’s This “slice of the Big Apple” in the Glass City provides entertainment most weekends. 1516 Adams St. (419) 243-6675 or www.manhattanstoledo.com.

O Vytas and Steve: 7-10 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Open mic with Bread and Butter: 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Mondays.

O Daniel Burris Trio: 6 p.m. April 7.

O The Eight-Fifteens: April 8.

O Vytas & His Eclectic Band: April 9.

O Tom & Kyle Turner: April 12.

O Quick Trio: 6 p.m. April 14.

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Mickey Finn’s A variety of genres to wash your drinks down with. Open mic nights, 9 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover; $5-$7 cover other nights. 602 Lagrange St. (419) 246-3466 or www.mickeyfinnspub.com.

O Literature & Music nights (writers will read and bands will perform): 8 p.m. Thursdays in April.

O Parallels, Arobaphobics, Radio Broadcast: 8:30 p.m. April 9.

M.T. Loonies Last Born Sons Band performs at 9 p.m. Thursdays; DJs take over on Fridays and Saturdays. 6648 Lewis Ave., Temperance, Mich. (734) 847-7222 or mtloonies.net.

Murphy’s Place Jazz — straight, smooth, bebop or traditional — all kinds are played here. 151 Water St. (419) 241-7732 or www. murphysplacejazz.com.

O Glenda Biddlestone: 9 p.m. April 8.

O Kim Buehler: 9 p.m. April 9.

O Anna Givens, Clifford Murphy and Claude Black: 8 p.m.

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Omni This club is a venue for music (and music lovers) of all types.

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O Thunderstruck: 8 p.m. April 8.

O Damien, Local Anesthetic: 8 p.m. April 9.

One2 Lounge at Treo Live music starts at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. 5703 Main St., Sylvania. (419) 882-2266 or treosylvania.com.

O Damen Cook Trio, Mike Whitty Trio: April 8-9.

Ottawa Tavern Casual meals with weekend entertainment. 1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www.otavern.com.

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O The Devil Whale: 10 p.m. April 7.

O Gold, Mindfish: 10 p.m. April 8.

O Height With Friends: 10 p.m. April 9.

O Child Bite, Prussia: 11 p.m. April 13.

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Spicy Tuna This sushi bar offers occasional entertainment to accompany the fishy dishes. 7130 Airport Hwy. (419) 720-9333 or spicytunasushi.com.

O DJ Jimmy James: 10 p.m. Fridays.

O Karaoke: 10 p.m. Saturdays.

O Ronn Daniels: 7-11 p.m. April 7.

Tequila Sheila’s A corner bar-type hangout with DJ-provided tunes on Saturday nights. 702 Monroe St. (419) 241-1118.

O Open mic with Jason Kelley: 9 p.m. Thursdays.

O Hip-hop night: 9 p.m. Fridays.

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O Karaoke with Georgia Peach: Wednesdays.

The university’s music students and friends will perform the pieces they’ve been perfecting. (419) 530-2452, (419) 5302448 or www.utoledo.edu/as/music.

O Spring Festival of New Music: UT Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Concert Chorale. 8 p.m. April 6, Doermann Theatre, University Hall, 2801 W. Bancroft St. O Spring Festival of New Music: composer Mark O’Connor.

1 p.m. April 7, Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall, Tower View Boulevard and West Campus Drive.

O Spring Festival of New Music: electronic and mixed media. 8 p.m. April 7, Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall, Tower View Boulevard and West Campus Drive.

O Community Chorus Concert: 3 p.m. April 10, UT’s Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall, Tower View Boulevard and West Campus Drive.

O Jazz Night: 7:30 p.m. April 11, Crystal’s Lounge, Ramada Hotel & Conference Center, 3536 Secor Road. $3-$5. (419) 535-7070.

Tunes combined with pizza and booze, some would say it’s a perfect combination. 309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 8937281, (419) 740-2395 or www.villageidiotmaumee.com.

O Old West End Records: Wednesdays.

O Mark Mikel: Friday afternoons and Tuesday nights.

O Bob Rex: Sunday afternoons.

O Frankie May, Ben Barefoot: Mondays.

O Wilbur Shaw: April 7.

O Bobby May & Dry Bones Revival: April 8.

O Athens Wheeler: April 9.

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O DJs Folk, Mattimoe and Perrine: Fridays.

O The Earregulars: April 9.

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O Brave Youngster: April 8.

O Neon Black: April 9.

Jeff McDonald’s Big Band Revival Party 8 p.m. Thursdays, South Briar Restaurant, 5147 S. Main St., Sylvania. (419) 517-1111 or (419) 708-0265.

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If a single line of poetry can speak volumes, the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library’s latest event will send vibrations of language throughout Lucas County. The latest installment of Poetry Speaks @ Your Library will feature some of the area’s finest crafters of verse and a special appearance by renowned poet David Baker. The free reading will take place in the Main Library’s Huntington BAKER Meeting Room from 6 to 8 p.m., April 11. Other readers will include Matthew Sackman and Timothy Geiger.

“It’s especially gratifying to receive such a kind invitation from people I haven’t met before, to read my work for a school [and a library system] where I have had no previous association,” Baker said. “It’s all about the work, and that pleases me — to know that readers are aware and receptive of my poetry.

April is National Poetry Month, and I appreciate that people in Toledo wish to salute the art and its artists. That’s good news, especially in these very un-artful days.”

Baker is the author of several collections of poetry including “Never-Ending Birds,” published by W.W. Norton in 2009. His other works

include “Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems,” Arc Publications (UK), 2007, and “Midwest Eclogue,” W.W. Norton, 2005.

“I was a musician — a guitarist — who set aside one instrument for another one, the pen. I write poems, not collections. These are the days of ‘projects,’ but I don’t myself consider poetry a project, and I have never started a book from scratch, thinking I’m writing a book,” Baker said. “I try to reach for improvement or evolution each time.

“The biggest difference between my new book, ‘Never-Ending Birds,’ and the previous few books, is personal — it is a book about divorce in some very direct ways and in some less obvious ways, a book of anxiety and the loss of footing and the erasure of memory.

Likewise, it is about the restoration of imagination and one’s bearing, finding one’s way again in the world.”

Baker teaches at Denison University and in the Master of Fine Arts program for writers at Warren Wilson College. He also serves as the Poetry Editor of the Kenyon Review.

“We read thousands and thousands and thousands of poems every year for a few dozen publishing slots,” Baker said.

“I am reminded over and over that poetry is very essential for so many people.”

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BGSU expert to lecture on music Matthew Donahue was exposed to Louis Armstrong, Jeff Beck and David Bowie albums when he was young. He is sure his love for music today stems from those years.

The instructor in Bowling Green State University’s Department of Popular Culture is preparing to give a lecture at the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MIDSEM.) The conference will be April 8-10.

The conference’s theme is “Music in Everyday Life,” and will highlight “music as something that accompanies people’s mundane routine,” MIDSEM President Jeremy Wallach said. “[Music is] a tool, rather than an art form,” Wallach said. It is used to worship, help someone through their day and make a statement.

The keynote speaker will be Harris Berger, from Texas A&M University, who is known for his theories on performance studies. Berger and Wallach recently worked on an edited version of the book “Metal Rules the Globe” which analyzes heavy metal and globalization and will be out next January. Donahue’s talk will be April 9 at 1 p.m. He will be lecturing on his creative work with music, video and research.

“I’m absolutely thrilled and excited,” Donahue said. He said speaking at the conference brings a local aspect to it.

Donahue will talk about electric guitars’ effect on popular culture. He will be analyzing how

certain performers are associated with certain guitars, like Jimi Hendrix with his Fender and Slash with his Gibson.

He will also perform a medley of songs with his Electra guitar, his favorite brand. Electra guitars were popular in the 1970s and ’80s, but have since faded away, Donahue said.

Music has been a part of Donahue’s life for the past three decades. After collecting records as a teenager, Donahue worked at Toledo’s independent record store Boogie Records. He’s also been in a number of punk bands and is now involved with Mad 45, a solo punk act.

He currently teaches Introduction to Popular Music, Popular Culture in the Media and Popular Music in Film at BGSU. Donahue said he wants his lecture to convince people to pursue their dreams “regardless of the obstacles that life throws at you.”

The conference is a free event and will be in the Bowen Thompson Student Union.

“Music is one of those art forms that has the ability to send chills down your spine and I think that most of humanity has had this happen to them in their lifetime,” Donahue said. O — Matt Liasse

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Grammy-winning solo pianist George Winston will perform in Toledo on April 13 with proceeds benefiting the Toledo Northwest Ohio Food Bank.

The performance is set for 8 p.m. at the Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Blvd. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show.

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Eight local singers and actors will transform a Downtown gallery into a Broadway caberet for three performances of the semiannual Broadway in the City musical review.

Set to live accompaniment, the production will take place in two acts and cover a range of musical selections from Broadway shows, ranging from blockbuster favorites to lesserknown gems, said producer and director Lindsey Marie Denham.

Performances are set for 8 p.m. April 29, 8 p.m. April 30 and 3 p.m. May 1 at 20 North Gallery, 18 N. St. Clair St. “We actually outgrew our first space, so we’re in a larger space now,” Denham said.

“We’ve got some really, really great local talent who have been performing all over the city in recent years and it’s in a beautiful art gallery Downtown. It’s a really fun date evening, a really fun girls’ night, or just a fun night to eat tasty food, drink some wine and have some fun.”

Cast members for the review will include Denhem, Victoria Monhollen-Clyce, Stefan Gearhart, Wesley Grudzien, Eric Hillenbrand, Ann M. Steck, Katie Zarecki and Ryan Christopher Zarecki.

Tickets are $20 and include the grazing buffet served prior to the performance and at intermission.

For tickets or more information call Denhem at (419) 343-1302. O — Sarah Ottney

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Winston, who also plays guitar, Hawaiian slack key guitar and harmonica, is best known for his seasonally themed piano recordings and his renditions of Vince Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” music. Collingwood Arts Center Program Director John Dorsey said people will recognize many of the pieces Winston will play.

“It’s rare I think that you get to see a Grammy Award-wining pianist perform in your community,” Dorsey said. “George, he’s a lot of fun. He does a lot of ‘Peanuts’ music so I think he’ll perform pieces that audience members are familiar with even if they don’t think they are. I think you’ll realize you are familiar with a lot of the WINSTON material and have good sense memories with it. He provides a really high-energy, spirited performance and I think people will enjoy it.”

Winston’s style is “two-thirds New Orleans R&B oriented, and about one-third melodic music played in his folk piano style,” according to the release.

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I’m pretty sure I can identify my job as a barista at the Cricket West location from ages 19 to 21 as the time and place that I learned about how communities come together. The regulars at Sufficient Grounds became a special kind of family.

I met people there who met each other there who still have coffee together all these years later. Marriages and children have come out of the coffee crowd that I was lucky enough to be a member of from behind the counter.

Rachel These people were real friends. They threw me a party every time I left town to go back and forth to college and even when I “moved” to Seattle for two weeks to be with the very best friend to come out of my time at Sufficient Grounds.

There’s no need to go into detail about that little adventure except to say that it didn’t take me long to figure out that Toledo was most definitely where I belong and that Carolyn, that best friend from SG, and I are still tight even though she stayed in Seattle.

She’s on my mind most of the time, even across the country, and something that she says has been occurring to me a lot lately. She sometimes laments growing older because when you’re a kid, you can be “suddenly silly” and no one judges or looks at you funny. Suddenly silly. You can jump up and down, or sing a weird little song or dance.

And if you’re a kid, who cares? What is strange about this for me, is that I don’t remember being all that silly as a kid. If I remember correctly, I took everything pretty seriously and felt kind of silly about being silly.

The older I become, the less I care if anyone is watching or judging. And I’ll bust a move pretty much whenever I feel like it.

I’m sure I have Carolyn to thank for helping with that because she and I were silly together. Worth noting is that it strengthened our bond to see each other in that otherwise hidden light.

How convenient that I live in a city where spontaneous expression seems to be more commonplace than not, as I don’t feel alone in

my outbursts most of the time.

Nowhere will you find a more concentrated example of suddenly creative, suddenly evocative, suddenly visceral, and — yes — suddenly silly, than Artomatic 419! 2011.

On April 2, more than 2,500 people in Toledo strengthened the city’s bond by being near one another as they were surrounded by art.

I spent 12 hours in the Warehouse District on Saturday, travelling between no less than four buildings filled with art and people. Each had its own distinct buzz.

At 407 Washington St., each room of each floor felt like a different kind of party. Music set the tone in some spots.

Poets engaged listeners in others. I’ve sincerely run out of enthusiastic adjectives to describe this scene. The first day of Artomatic 419! 2011 has been my favorite day so far.

And the very best part? There are two more to come!

For two more consecutive Saturdays, Toledo’s creatives are putting on our very best show for those who want to see what we’ve been up to. And for those who want to be involved in their own unique way, this is a perfect introduction.

I am not exaggerating when I say that no matter where you looked at Artomatic, people were smiling huge, broad smiles. The visual artists sold work. The musicians were listened to. The performers were watched.

The people listening and buying felt like they were a part of something real and took pieces of it home with them.

The local economy was affected by a surge in creative capitalism.

The staff of the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo and the steering committee members and volunteers gave each other high fives and hugs at a job well done.

And some anonymous visionary reminded us in spray paint that “Cities have souls too, ya know ... ” O

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hen we first meet Piketon, Ohio, resident Terry Brumfield in “The Elephant in the Living Room,” he explains his relationship to his pets. His first, Lambert, came to him at a traumatic time in his life. He had just suffered a terrible injury in an accident, and wasn’t sure if he wanted to go on. Then LamJEFF bert came into his life. We see the glow in Brumfield’s eyes, and we know that he’s being truthful when he says he loves Lambert like a member of the family. Lambert is a full-sized adult lion.

Brumfield keeps Lambert and Lucie, a lioness, in a small pen in the backyard. The cats seem docile and friendly, coming to Brumfield whenever called and allowing him to stroke their heads. They are still wild animals, though, a fact that becomes abundantly clear when Lambert escapes from his cage and is captured attacking cars in the road. Afterward, Brumfield is forced to keep both cats in an old, dilapidated horse trailer. As he stands by the trailer, he says he’s genuinely grateful that no one was hurt, because if someone had been, he would have had Lambert put down.

With tears in his eyes, he basically says that it would have killed him, too.

Brumfield is one of two fascinating people at the heart of Michael Webber’s remarkable new documentary. The other is an Ohio cop named Tim Harrison. Since 1996, he’s worked on cases of exotic, wild animals being kept as pets. He’s had a long career working with these creatures, fighting for reform and trying to find new homes for animals too dangerous to be kept in private ownership. He even knew a firefighter friend who was killed by one.

But hold on. This is not an “us vs. them” film, one that tries to bolster one point of view while condemning the opposite. Neither Harrison nor Brumfield is a “bad person,” and director Webber does not want us to sympathize with one over the other. Rather, as the movie progresses, we come to see two men who want the best for everyone, human and animal. It’s just that, as is often the case, they have wildly differing viewpoints as to what that means.

We follow Harrison to various events he encounters in his duties, from finding exotic pets that have been abandoned by owners to visiting shows and auctions where wild animals are sold to consumers with practically no care or responsibility. It’s harder for the average consumer to buy a bird at PetSmart

than it is for Harrison to buy one of the most venomous snakes known to man at one of these shows.

The story of the relationship between the two lead subjects is the heart of the film.

Harrison and Brumfield cross paths numerous times throughout, not always on the most pleasant of terms. Harrison wants Brumfield to reconsider keeping the animals, of course.

Brumfield won’t have it.

But as time goes on, it becomes apparent to us that these men are not enemies. Harrison is genuinely concerned for the welfare of the cats, and wants Brumfield to see that the way they’re living isn’t what’s best for them. Brumfield can’t imagine what could be better than the love he gives them, and what they give him.

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