Live Brazilian Music Show

Outstanding Jazz singer from France performing with her pianist at Nighttown, a must see show. Tickets at Nighttown.com.

it’s never too early to start planning where you’ll be when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. Kiss 2019 goodbye in a festive atmosphere of live Brazilian Jazz and Samba, with Joshua Smith on Tenor Sax and Dylan Moffitt on drums to keep the beat going. Chef Michael Symon's inventive and creative menu will get you to experiement a modern spin of dishes throughout the evening.

This time of the year is marked with this blended gig mixing live Bossa Nova with Jazz, when California based virtuoso tenor saxophonist Joshua Smith comes around to visit his family. We enjoy playing together in several special occasions and I am looking forward to this one.

A new holiday tradition is growing in one of Cleveland’s most historic areas on the West Side. For the fourth year in a row, Wintertide at Gordon Square will bring a holiday street party to West 65th and Detroit – bigger than ever. This year’s festival takes place from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday Dec 14th. It features an expanded main stage, beer garden, fire pits and s’mores, pop-up musical acts in shops and restaurants, strolling performers, Kids Zone, photos with Santa, and free trolleys to Cleveland Bazaar Holiday! at 78th Street Studios. Free admission.

Oh yeah a good House Concert before my trip to Brazil will hit right on the spot. The new CD has been promised to be ready by the 12th, so I am counting it in for the night. I invited my best man virtuoso trumpeter Jacob Wynne to play with me and give you a good treat by blending Bossa Nova and American Jazz together. We have been playing together for over 10 years and Jake is fantastic, he has a lot of great work into this CD as well. I will open only 45 seats for this event, so it is important that you please get your tickets here on the icon below so I can keep control of the numbers. BYOB Doors at 7:30pm. $20 donation

3 percussionists including Dylan Moffitt, Liam Smith and Moises Borges playing for a conscious dance in 5 rhythms oriented by Laura Branco. $20.

Join us for a rare artistic pop-up collaborative with visiting artists, The Visitors, from the 10-time Tony Award and Grammy winning Broadway musical, The Band's Visit along with Cleveland's own Moises Borges

Experience original and traditional music and dances from the artists’ collective backgrounds including Middle Eastern, African, Jewish, Latin, Celtic and World Jazz styles, celebrating the deeply human ways music and laughter can connect us all.

$10 Admission

The Visitors: Ronnie Malley: Oud George Crotty: Cello Tony Bird: Violin Evan Francis: Woodwinds Mark Van Ziegler: Bass Alejandro Farha: Guitar Roger Kashou: Percussion Shai Wetzer: Percussion

Come out and enjoy a fine evening of live Brazilian Bossa Nova by Brazilian musician Moises Borges performing solo at Nighttown's stage. $15.

This free Annual Festival is a day for honoring your heritage, celebrating your identity, and displaying them proudly. The day includes music and dance performances, art activities for every ability, in-gallery experiences, cultural displays, and dialogues featuring our city Global community members, uniting them with the context of the Museum's Global art collection. The day also includes eight and naturalization ceremony ceremony and a lineup of short films from the New York International Children's Film Festival. Free admission.

This will be on the side patio with room for dancing, fun party with my primary musicians band and we will have a DJ in between sets to keep the dancing going. $15.

Come learn about composting at home, making your own beer from hops to glass, what it takes to start an urban orchard from a local pawpaw farmer, and the initiatives that the City has in place to ensure Cleveland is focused on sustainable initiatives. Vendors include The Cleveland Brew Shop, Rust Belt Riders, Cleveland Office of Sustainability, Justin Hushner and Blue Dragon Craft. Green Corps will also be on hand with fresh produce to purchase (cash only). And, please bring your own empty and cleaned beer bottles to create an upcycled hummingbird feeder!

We had a great run on this beautiful patio this summer with live Brazilian Music, and today we are calling you in for our last one, as the weather is beautiful and the caipirinhas are delicious. Come out and enjoy Brazilian cuisine and great live music tonight at 6, bring your love.

Grammy Award Winner and former Oberlin Professor, trumpeter Kenny Davis and I have a good two decades playing together blending Jazz, Bossa Nova and Samba, and as he doesn't go out to play as often anymore and he just turned 78, I would love to invite you guys in for a intimate setting musical treat. Kenny has a extensive musical career which includes playing with Sammy Davis Jr, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, The OJs, Temptations, Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, Steve Wonder, and many other stars. In that opportunity I will continue the fund raising for the indigenous people in Brazil (they really need some help right now) by giving you the chance to acquire some of their necklaces and artifacts, although they will benefit from the proceedings. I will limit it to 40 people and you can get your tickets online here at $20. Doors at 7:30pm BYOB. Plenty street parking.

Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center is honoring our SIU director Dr. Barbara Gripshover at the Noche de Luz 20-year celebration. All are invited to join NLURC in recognizing the great impact Dr. Gripshover has made in improving the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS. This year’s celebration will feature a beautiful garden setting in Bratenahl, delicious Puerto Rican food, and live music from Moises Borges. Tickets are $75/each or $140/couple at http://bit.ly/Noche2019 . For more information visit www.nlurc.org

Every Sunny Sunday this summer we will have live music in the very nice back patio of the restaurant, weather permitting. Free admission.

Now in its 17th year, SPARX CITY HOP celebrates the connectivity of our community. This renowned one-day event draws 20,000 patrons annually to explore what makes our city so special, connecting them to more than 100 galleries and artist studios, restaurants, several markets and dozens of retail shops.

Every Sunny Sunday this summer we will have live music in the very nice back patio of the restaurant, weather permitting. Free admission.

CELEBRATE 104 YRS OF SINATRA WITH THEIR 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW!

Featuring: Lou Armagno – Vocals; Mike Elkins – Piano; Marc Paige – Sax; Jim Mass – Bass; & Ricky Exton – Drums; and guest Moises Borges – Guitar & Vocals

Come Fly with Lou Armagno & Sinatra Selects” as they celebrate their 5th anniversary in Cleveland, which began on our very own Nighttown stage! And to help make the evening special, they have invited Cleveland’s favorite Brazilian vocalist & guitarist Moises Borges for some classic Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, style Bossa Nova tunes!

Mofongos, Mojitos y Musica ! Free admission. Kids friendly.