This performance will feature Joshua on Saxophone joined by two beloved cohorts, Cleveland drumming luminary Carmen Castaldi and stalwart bassist Aiden Plank. 

This trio plays a combination of free improvisation, jazz standards, and original compositions. The sound of the group embraces all things melodic, open, and communicative. At times fiercely swinging, at times breathtakingly minimal and microtonal. It is an organic entity. 

The Root is a home base, a place of musical pilgrimage for Joshua Smith (Lakewood native now based in California) to return to and perform at. He played some of his first gigs at The Phoenix way back in the mid 1990's and continues to make music within to Root's walls over 20 years later. This will also be Joshua's first performance with his recently replaced 1947 Super Balanced Action Saxophone,  contributed to by many Cleveland supporters after his other horn was stolen early this summer. 

Join us for an exciting night of music bringing together all things old and new

Smomid is a project by musician and electronic instrument builder Nick Demopoulos.
http://www.smomid.com
The project is named after the first instrument Nick built, called a Smomid, which is an acronym for String Modeling Midi Device. He has since gone on to built musical robots, a Smomid Table and several versions of what he calls a Pyramidi. Nick also created software that works with his instruments and allows him to approach music in a totally unique way, from the samples and sounds used, to the way beats are played, to the way loops are recorded and manipulated. Smomid has performed at Lincoln Center in New York, The Knockdown Center, the Newark Museum, the 2017 NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit and been featured on the Discovery Science Network, Guitar World, Create Digital Music, Metal Injection, Bomb magazine, the Arduino Blog, and Popular Noise Magazine among other media outlets. 

Chase Castle is an Americana songwriter and poet located in Cleveland, Ohio. With Appalachian influences surrounding his music, Castle’s organic songwriting approach is a unique blend of folk and classical music. Castle has collaborated with artists such as Garth Hudson (The Band, Bob Dylan), Tommy Ramone (The Ramones), and Hannibal Means (Nina Simone), and has played venues from Maine to Kansas.

The Moonlighters are a Cleveland area folk band that include musicians such as
Katie Morrow (cello),
John Bukovac  (mandolin)
Erin August (violin)
Sean Burnham (trumpet).
http://www.chasecastle.com

Classical Guitar

Homestead is a community organization celebrating music + art through continual gatherings.

Homestead Collective is Caitlyn Deviney + Ben Morris, two intentionally-independent, nonconformist musicians currently based just outside Philadelphia. Their influences include Nickel Creek, Billie Marten, Josh Garrels, and Drew Holcomb. Memorable melodies and intricate instrumentation combined with haunting, honest lyrics - they write stories in songs that we all want to tell.
https://homesteadcollective.net/
  They will be accompanied by artist Jill Hager, who will be selling her work. jillhager.com

Cultivated on the porches and back yards across the tracks on West King Street in St. Augustine, Florida, the West King String Band's sound is rooted in studious interpretations of traditional bluegrass, mastered by the likes of The Del McCoury Band, Bill Monroe, and Old & In the Way combined with the energy and drive of their rock and roll idols.
https://www.westkingstring.com

Jack Studer - Guitar

Jesse Harman - Upright Bass

Andrew Fox - Mandolin

a Contemporary Folk/Americana songwriter from Buffalo, NY.
www.daveyo.com

Sign up for a 20-minute appointment with Rev. Tiger K'Lynn

Appointments begin at 11 am and run on the half-hour.

As Tiger, who is also a medium, reads your tea leaves, she receives "messages from spirit" that she will identify as such. Feel the motive of the messages and its consequences -- always take the best and leave the rest. 

$20 for 20 minutes

Call, email, or stop in to set your appointment.

 This is a unique system of divination using gemstones combined with astrology.
Josie has been reading for 15 years and also does astrological birth charts.
Each session 20 minutes for $15

Justin has toured all of over the United States with a fire burning in his soul. He has performed in many markets nationally, and can mesmerize the house into silence and attention when he plays. As a solo singer-songwriter, Justin Payne is intense, incendiary. He sings his songs like they're the last ones he'll ever get to sing, pouring sweaty, passionate performances into his shows, and his heart's truth into his words.
http://interstellarvagabond.bandcamp.com/releases

Zach Wilson is Singer/Songwriter from NW Ohio (ex-Echo Room, Boothill Boys, Swamps, A Gun For Hire)
take a listen!:  https://zachwilson.bandcamp.com/

Maticic is a singer/songrwriter playing acoustic Americana style music.

Facebook.com/maticicmusic
Instagram: @maticicmusic
Twitter: @maticicmusic

Songs have definitely been written by happier men.
Ye Ole Remedy blends bluegrass with elements of devil music.
 

A night of music with Luca Mundaca, Brazilian singer & songwriter.
www.lucamundaca.com

Known for a powerful voice, well written songs, and an accessible and friendly stage presence his 20 years of stage experience shows the minute he smiles and picks up his guitar.

Michelle Gaw is a singer/songwriter that has been writing and performing for six years. She has a wide range of musical influences including folk, soul, jazz, and indie. Fiona Apple, Amy Winehouse, Malvina Reynolds, and Norah Jones are some of the artists that inspire her music. Michelle focuses primarily on relatability and wordplay in her songwriting. She strives to make her audiences think differently about life’s subtleties. Using guided imagery and word painting, Michelle’s songs take listeners through vivid experiences.

 Pianist Mike Tedesco joins guitarist Kirsten Maxwell on tour.  Both singer/songwriters hail from NYC and perform both as solo artists and as a duet.
http://www.miketedescomusic.com

http://www.kirstenmaxwell.com/

Performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qXqPWPJYhM

Dan Holt has been writing, performing and recording his brand of blues for over 20 years. He was the winner of the Black Swamp Blues Society Blues Challenge in 2015 and the Dayton Blues Society Blues Challenge in 2016 and was a quarter finalist in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN in 2016 and 2017. In addition to performing at venues across the United States and parts of Canada, Dan has released nine solo albums with his tenth, "Driftin,'" scheduled for a fall 2018 release.

http://danholtmusic.com/

Perfectly Imperfect: An exploration of life through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. 

Freshman at Magnificat High School
Lakewood Resident

“My entire education has been filled with challenges and setbacks.  I must learn things my own way, visualize what I am learning. Photography is a way that I can express myself in a community of artists that don’t judge, I connect with creative people and feel most at home when I can freely express and create”. 

“Lately I have been exploring portraits, non-traditional ways to capture people’s unique beauty.  I have spent the last two summers at Camp Woodward exploring new ways of expressing myself in digital media, film, and most recently photography”. 

I am considering going into the Arts and possibly Public Relations.  Travel is very important to me as you will see through my photography from our 2016 trip to Portugal, Maine’s rustic beauty, and in my own backyard of Cleveland Ohio.   I am inspired by different things at different times. Photography lets me be in the moment.   

Hosted by Special Guests Academy Award® Winner Octavia Spencer and Betsie Norris from Adoption Network Cleveland.
Hailed a “Best Book of the Year” by Publishers Weekly, The Baby Thief was written by nonfiction author and Lakewood resident Barbara Raymond. 
   Raymond, author of the award-winning book, says, “I’m excited to bring this important story to light to a wider audience.” The Baby Thief tells the long-buried story of Georgia Tann, who, operating out of Memphis, Tennessee from 1924 to 1950, was widely known as an “angel of adoption.” Tann was, in reality, a child trafficker who stole thousands of children from poor people and sold them to wealthy people across the United States. Her friendship with a political boss ensured that, even after her death, only two robbed parents ever got their children back. Tann’s legacy continues today in the form of sealed birth certificates that often prevent adopted adults from finding their birth families and learning their health histories. Some adoptees have died because of this. Barbara Raymond was the first person to discover the connection between Tann and the secrecy in adoption that has hurt so many Americans. Betsie Norris, Executive Director of Adoption Network Cleveland, spent decades working to change legislation to finally allow access to original birth certificates to adopted people in Ohio. Adoption Network Cleveland is co-sponsoring the event along with Author Barbara Raymond. Octavia Spencer, an Academy Award®-winning actress of The Help and Oscar® nominee for the 2017 movie Hidden Figures, will appear as a special host of Raymond’s book signing. As an actress and a producer, Spencer is drawn to compelling stories and has optioned the rights to the book and will produce a movie based on Georgia Tann and The Baby Thief.

Jackie Warren, Sammy DeLeon, Patricia Bussert, Neil Chastain and special guest.
Improvising on Cuban and Brazilian themes.
Bring your dancing friends.

http://www.whetherman.net/

What do you get when you cross a traveling troubadour with a seasoned, bucolic folk artist? Enter Whetherman, the moniker of 32 year-old independent singer-songwriter Nicholas Williams who has artfully bridged the gap between American-made sounds spanning folk, blues, country, soul, and bluegrass with a timeless tinge. In the last decade, Williams has produced eight full length albums, including the highly anticipated 'This Land' releasing June of 2017, earning his keep amongst international independent artists. His music aims at the heart center, with earnest and poetic lyrics that accompany infectiously melodic vocals, alongside effervescent percussive guitar and rolling harmonica, creating a rustic sound that is all his own. 

Britton Roberts was born and raised on the not so mean streets of Cleveland Ohio. His father a guitar strumming preacher man and his mother skillfully wielding violin in one hand and the Good Book in the other, Britton’s destiny laid out before him like the felt board characters of his youth.

https://www.facebook.com/BrittonRobertsNoise/

http://keithrea.com/
Keith is a singer-songwriter based in Longview, Texas. He travels throughout the United States and just finished recording his second project for national release "Life's an Open Road". 

Native Harrow is a thinking woman’s folk music - the songs of Devin Tuel.

http://www.nativeharrow.com

Devin’s music has always been informed most clearly by the music of late 60’s Laurel Canyon, from the folk rock choir of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and The Mamas and The Papas, to the psychedelic head trip of The Byrds and The Doors and the earth shattering confessions and investigations of Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and Devin’s first musical love, Joni Mitchell.

Jackie Warren, Sammy DeLeon, Patricia Bussert and special guest. 
Improvising on Cuban, Latin & Brazilian music.