AP 4.8.15


In honor of the upcoming Rock Hall inductions, the Music Box Supper Club has put together Rock Week: Decade by Decade. Both local performers and touring artists will celebrate a decade a night from the ’50s through the present, with one night devoted to Cleveland hitmakers and another to the music of inductees. The Chardon Polka Band (pictured) will be doing polka versions of ’90s hits. Fri 4/10-Fri 4/17.

* Beloved local folksinger Tim Wallace dies following two-week hospice hootenanny. Sun 3/29.
* Deliciously Wicked North Coast Men's Chorus performs spring concerts. Sat 4/11-Sun 4/12.
* Clarence Bucaro comes home to the Beachland with a new album. Sun 4/12.
* The Calder Quartet continues its Transformer Station residency. Tue 4/14
* The Akron Symphony celebrates freedom at E.J. Thomas Hall. Sat 4/11.
* Local indie rocker Alam Madej debuts new CD at the Euc. Sat 4/11.

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AP 4.8.15


With the first hints of green poking up in the garden, maybe you've got the urge to learn something new to do this year. Grace Brothers' annual Sustainable Living weekend offers free classes in backyard beekeeping and chicken raising, decorating with succulents and integrating edibles and ornamentals. And this season's seeds are in! Sat 4/11-Sun 4/12.

* No one in the whole region is more excited about the benefits of hemp as food than Jeremy Koosed of Plant Kingdom Snackery -- guarantee! Let him tell you all about Let It Grow, his hemp specials weekend. Thu 4/9-Mon 4/13.

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