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Seating Charts

Seating in both theaters is under cover. Only the lawn area in the Evans Amphitheater is open air.

Arts Festival

The Cain Park Arts Festival is a juried fine arts and fine crafts event, featuring the work of up to 130 artists.

GroundWorks Dancetheater

Verb Ballets

Leading Ladies on Stage

A collection of Cleveland powerhouses take the stage for an evening of iconic songs made famous by the leading ladies of Broadway. Big belting and intimate storytelling will be on display for this unforgettable "one night only" event.

Soul Asylum - Back in Your Face

Soul Asylum is an American alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their 1993 hit "Runaway Train" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Juliana Hatfield has just released her 19th solo album of original material, Blood – it’s the latest entry in a wonderfully varied career that sees her rightly enshrined as indie-rock royalty.

15th Annual Multi Music Fest

Stokley Williams also known simply as Stokley, is an American singer, record producer, and percussionist. Williams is best known as the lead singer and studio drummer of the band Mint Condition. SWV is an American R&B vocal trio from New York City, New York whose members are Cheryl Gamble, Tamara Johnson and Leanne Lyons. Formed in 1988 as a gospel group, SWV became one of the most successful R&B groups of the 1990s.

Black Squirrel Winds

TUESDAY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

Cleve. Chamber Collective with Inlet Dance Theatre

Cleveland Chamber Collective performs three pieces in the first half of the concert with Inlet Dance Theatre presenting a new ballet, Caliban Ascendant, after intermission.

Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience

For 38 years, two- time GRAMMY award winning artist Terrance Simien and 8th generation Louisiana Creole has been shattering the myths about what his indigenous Zydeco roots music is – and is not. Leading his Zydeco Experience bandmates – long time members Danny Williams, keyboards and Stan Chambers, bass, horn players, Lance Ellis, sax and Curtis Watson, trumpet, and newest member (2019), drummer Ian Molinaro – Thompson – Simien has become one of the most respected and accomplished artists in American roots music today.

Paula Cole

Paula Cole is an American singer-songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her song "I Don’t Want to Wait" was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson’s Creek.

Indigo Girls

On their 16th studio album, Indigo Girls create Look Long—a stirring and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers chronicling their personal upbringings with more specificity and focus than they have on any previous song-cycle.

Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

Named for the classical god of music, healing and the sun, this period-instrument orchestra was founded by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, and is dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell’s passion for drama and rhetoric.

Tom Chapin and the Chapin Sisters

In the long rich history of Family Groups in American Roots Music, the Chapin Family has a special place. When this family of performers comes together, magic happens. This concert features original and traditional songs, as well as classic story songs by the late, great Harry Chapin.

Naturally 7

Naturally 7 is an American music group with a distinct a cappella style they call "vocal play," which, according to group leader Roger Thomas, is "the art of becoming an instrument using the human voice to create the sound."

Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland

The two-day outdoor festival features 10 acts with a lineup that celebrates both the roots of jazz and the forward thinkers in the genre today. Festival highlights include an energetic, world-infused performance by Banda Magda; extraordinary piano trios led by Christian Sands and Emmet Cohen; vocalists ranging from a 21-year-old recent Sarah Vaughan Competition winner to veteran Grammy Award-winning vocalist Catherine Russell; three thrilling horn players; and the explosive salsa of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

Amythyst Kiah

Amythyst Kiah endlessly redefines the limits of roots music in its inventive rhythms and textures. With an unforgettable voice that’s both unfettered and exquisitely controlled, Kiah gracefully interlaces political commentary and personal revelation, ultimately offering a raw yet nuanced examination of grief, alienation, and the hard-won triumph of total self-acceptance.

Mary Bridget Davies

Cleveland born and bred Mary Bridget Davies, “The Blues Siren,” took over the lead role in A Night With Janis Joplin on tour, stayed with the show when it moved to Off-Broadway and eventually Broadway in 2013. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance. She performs with her own band, The Mary Bridget Davies Group, and is also an interpreter of Janis Joplin's music.

Anne E. DeChant

Anne E. DeChant is an American rock singer/songwriter/guitarist originally from Cleveland but now based in Nashville. Her career began with the band Odd Girl Out in the early 1990s before releasing her first solo project in 1996.

Dancing Wheels

The Dancing Wheels Company will bring to the stage the enchanting and frolicking Shakespearean production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream choreographed by Catherine Meredith.

Miko Marks

A prolific songwriter, originally from Flint, Michigan and now residing in Oakland, California, Marks stands as a powerful embodiment of the underrepresented voices of Black women in country music specifically and a strong reminder of where the music is rooted.

Under the Streetlamp

Under the Streetlamp delivers an electrifying show full of classic hits from the American Radio Songbook, creating their own arrangements of these timeless classics

Inlet Dance Theatre

Musical Memories

To celebrate Cleveland Heights' Centennial, this concert extravaganza will reunite beloved cast members for showstopping numbers from decades of musical productions at "Your Summer Arts Park."

Back on Broadway

Students from Baldwin-Wallace University's acclaimed Music Theatre program, under the direction of Victoria Bussert, perform in this special cabaret highlighting songs from shows re-opening this fall on Broadway.

Kolade-Xcope

This original collaborative and creative work will bring together world-renowned Hip Hop dance company, Raphael Xavier, and Northeast Ohio's hip-hop community.

Singing Angels

The mission of the Singing Angels is to engage youth from all communities in quality music and performing arts education that teaches teamwork, builds confidence, and provides a foundation for life.

Ron Davis & Friends

FREE Sundays in the Park

Olympic Brass

Free Chamber Music Series

Inlet Dance Theatre-Kids Matinee

BlueWater String Ensemble

Free Chamber Music Series

88bit

Free Chamber Music Series

duo ANIME

Free Chamber Music Series

BlueWater Brass Quintet

Free Chamber Music Series

Evelyn Wright Quartet

FREE Sundays in the Park

Trial by Fire 216

Free Chamber Music Series

The Pat Harris Quartet

FREE Sundays in the Park

The AirChiefs

FREE Sundays in the Park

Iron Toys

Free TUESDAY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

Brent Kirby & Ray Flanagan

FREE Sundays in the Park