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Review: The Blues Came To Kent

Windy City to California Cool: Blues Rockers Ronnie Baker Brooks and Coco Montoya @ Kent Stage on November 24, 2024 by Melissa Durse I had the good fortune and (finally)…

Stone Temple Pilots, +Live+ And Soul Asylum Tear It Up At Blossom

On a beautiful fall night at Blossom Music Center this week, The Jubilee Tour came to town and shook up the quiet start of the night with some great music…

Joan Osborne Takes Kent Stage Crowd On A Journey

Joan Osborne had the crowd at her concert at The Kent Stage “eating out of her hands” and after her approximately 70-minute set, the crowd definitely wanted more. The 13-song…

Pat Travers Rocks The Kent Stage

The Kent Stage was devastated by a Category 8 magnitude Rock N’ Roll Earthquake delivered by the Pat Travers Band Saturday night This trio of musicians played bombastic set of…

Graham Nash Wows Sold Out Crowd At Kent Stage

Graham Nash’s “MORE EVENINGS OF SONGS & STORIES” Tour 2024, is exactly what the sold-out crowd got at The Kent Stage Friday night. Graham Nash sounded better than ever. Not…

Albert Lee And Jeremy Clyde Give Fans A Night Of Stories And Songs

Another incredibly fantastic “Story Tellers” type show at The Kent Stage this past Saturday evening. Albert Lee & Jeremy Clyde joined their talents for over an hour and one half…

Fans Welcome Back John Sebastian & Jimmy Vivino

“DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC…”? You do if you were at The Kent Stage for last night’s concert with John Sebastian and Jimmy Vivino. Absolutely a “magical” evening of music…

John Fogerty And George Thorogood Rock The Northcoast

THE ROCK N’ ROLL CAPITOL OF THE WORLD got ROCKED last night with a sold-out concert at Jacobs Pavilion. John Fogerty, George Thorogood & The Destroyers and Hearty Har (John…

Eric Johnson Shreds At Kent Stage

In 1990, Eric Johnson released his Grammy Award winning album, “Ah Via Musicom”! The meaning, or translation of the name of this album, is the best description of Eric Johnson’s…

Pete Best Hits A High Note With Fans

Original The Beatles drummer, Pete Best and The Pete Best Band transformed The Kent Stage into the Casbah Coffee Club last night with songs from the early years of The…
As a lifelong fan of blues and rock, especially music that's a perfect mix of both, I enjoy sharing the photos I take and the stories that I write about the shows with other fans. I've been doing this for 21 years now, starting out with a Joe Bonamassa show at a small venue to which I brought a cast-off digital camera and a homemade spaghetti dinner for the band. Since then I've had the good fortune to photograph many regional shows and festivals, big and small, witness and share the stories of the music makers, had a photo used for an album cover, and was in the documentary, A Year in the Pit: A Journey into Music Photography, and I'm very happy to be here as a contributor at ClevelandRockandRoll.com

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