Eclectic Mayhem

The group, which was originally formed in 2010, consists of all Cleveland born and raised members including: Pat Conley (Vocals, Drums), Dan Cooley (Guitar), Nate Dreher (Bass) and Jonathan Khouri (Piano, Keyboard). Since it’s formation, Eclectic Mayhem has garnered support from powerful live performances that display inventive musicianship, novel songwriting, and rock vocals that put forth raw energy and catchy hooks.

On first glance, that band is not what you would describe a “typical” band. Lead vocalist Pat Conley also doubles as the band’s drummer. “It’s definitely something different that people aren’t use to seeing,” said Conley referring to his role in the band. “I think it’s something that makes us stand out in addition to our sound, you don’t see a drummer who is also singing lead vocals, it’s definitely memorable.”

The band describes themselves as melodic grunge and progressive. “While our music is true rock and roll, we write all our own material with an ear for innovation,” said Dan Cooley, lead guitarist. Crowd favorite “Let You Down,” is a perfect example of what sets the band apart from others, featuring a distinctive style and sound that will stick in your head long after listening.

To celebrate the release of the album, the band will be hosting a CD release party on May 24th, at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland. The show will also feature guests 123wow and Jazmine Trio. Doors open at 8:30pm and tickets are $6.00.

For more information on Eclectic Mayhem or to arrange interviews, please contact Becki Cooper at info@rebeccaadelevents.com or via phone at 440-227-8794. For photos, music and videos of the band, please visit their Facebook page or their website.

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Five Oaks (Mass Woman's Club)

The houses on Fourth Street, which span more than a century of architectural excellence from the 1830s to the 1930s, were home to Massillon’s entrepreneurs and bankers, to prominent families who hosted President McKinley, and to humanitarians who harbored fugitive slaves.

The tour is open to everyone and reservations are not necessary. The $5 fee may be paid at the beginning of the tour. The walk will begin at the corner of Fourth Street and North Avenue, N.E., in front of Five Oaks. In case of rain, the tour will be cancelled. Free street parking is available.

Additional Fourth Street walking tours will be offered on June 9 and September 9. The June 9 tour will be held in combination with a tour of Five Oaks—the finest of the mansions in the historic Fourth Street district.

Historic downtown Massillon and Massillon Cemetery walking tours are also slated for this season. A complete list of walking tours may be found at www.margyvogt.com.

Vogt’s book, Fourth Street: A Century of History & Design, will be available at the tour.

For more information, contact Margy Vogt at 330-832-8469 or vogt@sssnet.com.

Bethesda

The last year has been a remarkable year for Bethesda. After the release of their EP ,”Dreamtiger and Other Tails,” the band has signed several contracts with MTV, VH1, Showtime and Discovery networks, was the first band featured for the new Rock Hall Sessions by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, filmed and released a music video (“Dreamtiger”) under the direction of Cory Sheldon (Eisley’s “Memories” and “The Valley”), played unofficial showcases on sixth street during the SXSW festival in Austin, TX, and launched a successful fan-funding campaign on Kickstarter to help fund their up-coming release.

Deeply rooted in the traditions of folk storytelling and the high energy of a punk rock show, Bethesda’s enchanting vocals, led by Shanna Delaney, and rousing melodies has made them a band to watch. Blending influences from seemingly unblendable musical genres, Bethesda has been able to paint pictures of human drama, the struggles of life, the beauty of nature, and the few truths they know to be true with poignant lyrics and musical movements that can take you from apathy to exhilaration in an instant. This vibrant combination has aided Bethesda in developing a loyal following. About Bethesda: Bethesda is the husband and wife team of vocalist Shanna Delaney and rhythm guitar player Eric Ling, drummer Justin Rife, bass player Dan Corby, lead guitarist Jesse Scaggs and violinist and keyboardist Christopher Black. Up Coming Local Shows of Note: May 19, 2012 at Musica w/ Paper Route May 30, 2012 at the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern w/ Plants and Animals July 21, 2012 The Burning River Festival in Cleveland August 22, 2012 at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Abraham’s piece, “Having no Alternative/ Gone too Far”

Legation, a gallery
1300 West 78
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Street
Cleveland, OH 44102
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Artist Lynda Abraham’s fascination with human behavior drives her to invent contraptions that alter human behavior, challenging the artist physically and her audiences mentally. On Friday, May 18, in legation gallery, she and three other performance-based artists will provoke Cleveland’s collective conscience.

Abraham’s piece, “Having no Alternative/ Gone too Far”, will be performed at 6:30 and 8:30pm. One part sculpture, one part performance art, the piece explores electrical indulgence and its effect on the consumer. As a literal part of the work, the artist propels her contraption, which inflates, creates sound and lights up as it devours electricity with accompanying audio spewing commentary from alternative energy nay-sayers (Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Rudolph Giuliani and others). Symbolic of America’s over-inflated sense and sensibility of “power”, Abraham’s piece highlights the dark side of our reliance on electricity. Abraham, a resident of Queens and creator of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Hope Street artist community, has been on the Cleveland art scene for a year. She is one of three artists past and future to participate in a residency designed and supported by local experience artist Melissa Daubert, an Ingenuity Fest board member.

Ryan McDaniel, a current Cleveland Institute of the Arts student, will be performing from 7-8:30pm. Ryan will be producing one of his “Anxiety” installations, consuming space in the gallery with a repetitive process of breathing into paper bags, referencing an escape to his own anxiety through hyperventilation. He then secures the bags to walls, ceilings and floors, creating surreal places that allude to a sense of comfort.

Ryan Charles Ramer, a member the Cleveland Composers Guild, will be performing new musical pieces, “Songs for Soprano and Toy Piano.” Ryan was awarded an Individual Excellence Grant from the Ohio Arts Council this year, and was contracted to organize two Cleveland performances. Ryan, the composer and accompanist, will be performing with Jaclyn Surso, the Soprano, in the gallery from 6:00- 6:30pm.

Anita Artzner, who will teach the Latin dance workshop at Choreographers Showcase

On the stage at the Lincoln Theatre, workshops will include Break Dance with Ike Odimgbe from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., Ballroom with Jonathan Green from noon to 1:15 p.m., Dance Mix with Nicole Garlando from 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., and Modern with Emily Dottavio from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Classroom workshops on the second floor of the Lincoln Theatre will include Kids Creative Movement with Courtney Oberlin from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., Jazz with Kim Lawver from noon to 1:15 p.m., Latin with Anita Artzner from 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., and Hip-Hop with Desmond Beasley from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops are open to everyone. The fee for each adult workshops is $10 per session or four workshops for $30. The Kids Creative Movement workshop tuition is $7 per person. By joining The Ananda Center for the Arts at the $25 level, new members will be entitled to one free workshop. Free parking is available on city streets surrounding the Lincoln Theatre and in nearby city lots.

Participants can reserve spaces by downloading the registration form at TheAnandaCenter.org/choreographers-showcase. Contact Holly Herron at holly@theanandacenter.org with questions about the workshops.

The workshops will be followed at 6:00 with the performance segment of the day of dance—a juried showcase of choreography by The Ananda Center Dancers, MAX Dance Pro, Natasha Price, Desmond Beasley, The Canton Ballet, Emily Dottavio, The Raja Group, David Jon Krohn, Anita’s Adult Ballet Academy, Andrew Fulmer Dance Studios, The University of Akron, Nicole Garlando, Courtney Johnson-Benson, Ike Odimgbe, and Erin LaSala.

The day of dance will conclude with the 7:30 grand finale performance by the Versatile Dance Company, an Akron-based nonprofit troupe of dancers, male and female, who have a passion and gift for dance. Led by Artistic Director Mitchel Federan, they work to accomplish goals and achievements new to the dance world. The company’s shows feature a variety of dance genres—contemporary, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip-hop, and acrobatics. Versatile Dance Compamy shows touch peoples’ hearts, raise money for charities, and shine light on the importance of giving back to the community. Their original production, Praying For Abbey, raised $15,000.00 to help fight childhood leukemia; Speaking A Dead Language, earned $10,000 for two local battered womens shelters.

Tickets for the 6:00 Choreographers Showcase performance including the 7:30 Versatile Dance Company finale are available for purchase online or at the door for $15. Seniors (age 60 and older), Ananda Center members, and students with ID can purchase $10 tickets at the door. For a complete schedule, more information, and tickets, visit TheAnandaCenter.org/choreographers-showcase.

The Choreographers Showcase is funded in part by grants from ArtsInStark and the Stark Community Foundation.

The Ananda Center for the Arts is a visual and performing arts organization that enriches its community and nurtures the creativity of its youth. The nonprofit organization provides a venue for local artists of all genres to teach, learn, collaborate, and celebrate the arts in Massillon. For more information about The Ananda Center for the Arts, visit our website at www.TheAnandaCenter.org.

Standing Clown Figure

The exhibition will open on Saturday, May 19, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., with a party like Museum fans have grown to expect. The free indoor/outdoor reception will include food, beverages, and music by The Bizarros. The event will be free and open to everyone; no reservations will be required.

Featuring an array of artwork, artifacts, furniture, and oddities, the exhibition will highlight some Massillon Museum visitor favorites like Oscar the skeleton as well as some lesser or never-before-seen objects, such as the 1928 permanent wave machine, Frieg’s turtle soup sign, Odd Fellows artifacts, a hippopotamus hide shield from Abyssinia, and circus costumes. The main gallery will become a stage set for presenting these objects in a theatrical manner. Visitors will navigate the space as if they were walking through a story.

“The story is that of a fictional family of present day, whose possessions and decorating style might suggest an earlier era,” explained Massillon Museum Executive Director Alexandra Nicholis Coon. “Living together in a weird but wonderful house, their personalities will shine through the artifacts on exhibit. Visitors will be led through the space as if it were a house—room by room. Each “room” will represent that of a different family member.”

The Massillon Museum collections—numbering more than 100,000—are diverse. Some of the objects in its care are without any companion or ancillary examples from which to form a focused exhibit. Others challenge the staff to find a place for them on permanent display or in traditional formats. “Whale ribs in a natural history museum with other like objects would not seem out of place in a themed gallery or exhibition,” said Coon. “In the collection of the Massillon Museum, they challenge the staff to find their interpretive value. We are proud of who and what we are: an art and history museum with a wide range of collections!”

The Odditorium exhibition will present an opportunity to view unusual objects in a unique way. The Museum is drawing on the talents of Museum staff and local artists to present these artifacts and the narrative in a way that intrigues and educates audiences, while it introduces them to the rich history of the Museum’s collecting over a period of seventy-nine years.

The exhibition is the brainchild of Dan Kane, arts and entertainment editor of the Canton Repository. In 2009, he and then Museum Curator Alexandra Nicholis co-curated the exhibition, Stark Naked Salon. A hit with more than 1,400 in attendance for the opening reception, Stark Naked set a precedent that the Massillon Museum could challenge traditional doctrines of exhibit aesthetics and interpretation while maintaining the tenants of its mission statement. The information was accessible yet engaging, and drew new faces to the Museum.

From the mind of Dan Kane, the Massillon Museum staff, and a team of partners such as Craig Joseph (Translations Gallery) and Kevin Anderson (Anderson Creative), comes The Odditorium!

The exhibition continues through August 26. It coincides with The Big Read: Western Stark County Reads the Short Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. In addition to nearly twenty events that are part of The Big Read, events that augment the exhibition will include: Addams Family Values at the Lions Lincoln Theatre at 10:00 p.m. on May 19; The Ridges concert on Friday, May 25; Bill Homan’s “Cryptozoology” Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday, June 26; a behind-the-scenes gallery talk with the MassMu staff on June 27; a cryptozoology presentation by Jill Malusky at Massillon Public Library on August 2; the “Miniature Madness Dollhouse” Do the Mu workshop on August 4; and Jumanji at the Lions Lincoln Theatre on August 18 and 19.

The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East in downtown Massillon. Free parking is available on adjacent streets, in nearby city lots, and in the city parking deck on South Erie Street. For additional information, call the Museum at 330.833.4061 or visit massillonmuseum.org. A visit to the Massillon Museum is always free.

Zak Keith

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The Belt Notches

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Save Me, Joe Louis!

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