Satisfaction/The International Rolling Stones Show
The Kent Stage announces a new monthly concert series! Beginning it December we’ll present Throwback Thursday, a once-a-month series featuring the best tribute acts in the country! We kick it off on December 8th with Satisfaction/The International Rolling Stones Show celebrating the 60th Anniversary The Worlds Greatest Rock & Roll Band Live at the Kent Stage on Thursday, December 8th at 8pm. Tickets are $20 advance and $25 at the door. Performing up to 150 shows a year, this highly acclaimed production showcases the most authentic cast & costuming of its kind. The likes of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and cast bring a colorful performance to over 60 years of classic hits. They have been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, Showbiz Magazine, Las Vegas Today, CBS Sunday Morning News and hundreds of national newspapers, magazines, television & radio as the world’s greatest show honoring the Rolling Stones and their legacy! “One of the best tribute shows in the world” -Rolling Stone Magazine “Shined just like the real Stones on the strip” -Las Vegas Sun “They have you in the aisles like Jumping Jack Flash” -Showbiz Magazine “A must see. Get SATISFACTION!” -CBS News New York “Satisfaction is a spot-on portrayal to the Rolling Stones” -Washington Post
Carlos Jones & The PLUS Band with opener Shifter Kin!
THE UNDISPUTED CHAMP OF CLEVELAND REGGAE!Carlos Jones comes to The Kent Stage on October 28th!Carlos Jones & The PLUS Band with opener Shifter Kin!Friday, October 28th at 8 P.M.!Doors & Box Office will open at 7!Advance Tickets – $13 Date of Show – $16https://carlosjones.comTickets are available beginning Thursday, September 22nd at 10 A.M. EST at kentstage.org
Ace Frehley
ACE FREHLEYFriday Dec. 9th @ 8pm Classic rock hits from the original KISS guitarist and R&R Hall of Fame inductee. The success of Ace Frehley’s solo career, as both a recording artist and performer, has easily outpaced his former KISS band mates. His 2014 release Space Invader was the only post KISS solo album to crack the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart, and his acclaimed 2011 autobiography No Regrets went on to become a New York Times best-seller. Ace’s current album, Origins II, was released on September 18, 2020 and features guests Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Lita Ford, Bruce Kulick and John 5. With KISS on their farewell tour Ace is in the news just about every day – mentioned in every article referencing KISS as the original lead guitarist with most writers commenting that KISS is not the same without Ace.
A Tribute to Motown – All The Hits
A Tribute to Motown: All the Hits! An evening featuring the best of “Hitsville USA.” Don’t miss this high energy homage to The Temptations, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Martha & The Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, and Tammi Terrell & so much more!
Samantha Fish w/ special guest Jesse Dayton Band
An Acoustic Christmas with Over The Rhine
The Kent Stage’s favorite Holiday Tradition continues with An Acoustic Christmas with Over The Rhine. About Over The Rhine:Rolling Stone recently described Over the Rhine as a band “with no sign of fatigue, whose moment has finally arrived.” That’s quite a sentiment for a musical couple marking 30 years of writing, recording and life on the road. “Love & Revelation” is the sound of two songwriters at the height of their powers. Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler and their Band of Sweethearts – Jay Bellerose, Jennifer Condos, Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren and Bradley Meinerding – have never sounded more vibrant. While each of the songs can feel like its own short film, the album nonetheless coalesces into a feature-length immersive experience. Dim the lights. May we all be surprised by what we find: a new and much-needed infusion of love and revelation. www.overtherhine.com
Firefall & Atlanta Rhythm Section
Firefall & Atlanta Rhythm Section Saturday, November 19th at 8 P.M.FirefallFor founder Jock Bartley, Firefall is a 40 year labor of love. Their layered harmonies backed by driving rhythms transcends many genres from rock to country to AC and brought the band platinum and gold success with such hits as “You Are The Woman,” “Strange Way” and “Just Remember I Love You.” Other major Firefall radio hits include “Cinderella,” “Goodbye I Love You,” “Livin’ Ain’t Livin” and “Mexico.” Extensive touring with Fleetwood Mac, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, America and many others.Atlanta Rhythm SectionFor Atlanta Rhythm Section have entertained audiences all over the world with their many Top 10 hits. Along with contemporaries Lynyrd Skynyrd, they carry the mantle of “Southern Rock,” but by performing more musically diverse hits with a softer, pop flavor, they have a sound all their own. With multiple gold and platinum albums to their credit, the band had top hits like “So Into You,” “Imaginary Lover,” “Champagne Jam,” “Doraville,” “I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight,” “Do It Or Die” and “Spooky”.
The Wood Brothers w/ special guest: Steve Poltz
Western Reserve Folk Arts Association is proud to announce The Wood Brothers will be performing Live at The Kent Stage on Sunday, October 30th at 7:30 PM.! Celebrating their seventh studio album, “Kingdom in my Mind”, a recorded live audio to tape session, The Kent Stage is very excited for The Wood Brothers to make their return to our stage for the first time since 2015.Get to know a little more about the creative process behind “Kingdom in my Mind” The Wood Brothers didn’t know they were making a record. Looking back, they’re grateful for that. “If we had known, we probably would have been too self-conscious to play what we played,” reflects bassist/vocalist Chris Wood. “At the time, we just thought we were jamming to break in our new studio, so we felt free to explore all these different ways of performing together without worrying about form or structure. It was liberating.”Recorded live to tape, those freewheeling, improvised sessions became a vast pool ofsource material from which The Wood Brothers would go on to draw ‘Kingdom In MyMind,’ their seventh studio release and most spontaneous and experimental collection yet. While on past records, the band – Chris, guitarist/vocalist, Oliver Wood, and drummer/keyboardist Jano Rix – would write a large batch of songs and then record them all at once, ‘Kingdom’ found them retroactively carving tunes out of sprawling instrumental jam sessions like sculptors chipping away at blocks of marble. A testament to the limitless creativity of the unharnessed mind, the record explores the power of our external surroundings to shape our internal worlds (and vice versa), reckoning with time, mortality, and human nature. The songs here find strength in accepting what lies beyond our control, thoughtfully honing in on the bittersweet beauty that underlies doubt and pain and sadness with vivid character studies and unflinching self-examination. Deep as the lyrics dig, the arrangements always manage to remain buoyant and light, though, drawing from across a broad sonic spectrum to create a transportive, effervescent blend that reflects the trio’s unique place in the modern musical landscape.“My brother came to this band from the blues and gospel world, and my history was all over the map with jazz and R&B,” says Chris, who first rose to fame with the pioneering trio Medeski Martin & Wood. “The idea for this group has always been to marry our backgrounds, to imagine what might happen if Robert Johnson and Charles Mingus had started a band together.”‘Kingdom In My Mind’ follows The Wood Brothers’ most recent studio release, 2018’s ‘One Drop Of Truth,’ which hit #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and garnered the band their first GRAMMY nomination for Best Americana Album. NPR praised the record’s “unexpected changes and kaleidoscopic array of influences,” while Uncut hailed its “virtuosic performances and subtly evocative lyrics,” and Blurt proclaimed it “a career-defining album.” Tracks from the record racked up roughly 8 million streams on Spotify alone, and the band took the album on the road for extensive tour dates in the US and Europe, including their first-ever headline performance at Red Rocks, two nights at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore (captured on their 2019 release, ‘Live At The Fillmore’), and festival appearances everywhere from Bonnaroo to XPoNential.
John McEuen & The Circle Band
John McEuen John McEuen has performed for 50 years worldwide with his banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin. Often referred to as ‘the String Wizard’, he humorously weaves stories of his travels and family life (he has raised 7 kids), taking us on a multi-media show through where his musical path has taken him. A founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1966, John realized his teenage dream: to record with Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson. When he initiated the 1972 classic Will the Circle Be Unbroken album with his band (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Earl and Doc with Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Merel Travis, Vassar Clements, Norman Blake gathered for an historic week in the studio! (inducted in to the Library of Congress as ‘one of America’s most important recordings and the Grammy Hall. of Fame). Appearing in several episodes of The Ken Burns Country Music show (PBS), it is Episode 6, called Will the Circle Be Unbroken, has John describing the whole session and how ‘it went down’. He has taken this a step further – to the stage with footage of early NGDB (1966) up thru the Circle sessions to now.. and beyond. McEuen has earned Emmy nominations, Grammy Awards, CMA acclaim, The Western Heritage Award – many other accolades can be found on his website: www.johnmceuen.com. Proud to be an integral part of the first American band to go to Russia (in 1977!), John’s love of performing is evident when during his shows he takes us ‘behind the curtain’ of the music world that so many of us know of only as listeners, and shows us how we have all been a part of it, more than we may know. McEuen’s XM radio show, Acoustic Traveller, is in its 10th year. As winner of the 2010 Best of the West Performer award from the Folk Alliance organization, John’s show is sure to be one enjoyed by all. He also won Best Bluegrass Album Grammy that year for his production of The Crow – Steve Martin). John in June of 2013 was honored with the Charlie Poole Lifetime Achievement Award in North Carolina. With music from 1860’s to now, original songs laced with known hits, and a special tribute to the ‘Circle’ album music (and the stories behind it in his multi-media show – with two previous other NGDB members!), it all comes to life in an evening of acoustic music in overdrive.
əkoostik hookah! plus Creamery Station
əkoostik hookah əkoostik hookah incorporates many genres of music into their own style, from folk to psychedelic rock, bluegrass to blues, extended jams to concise rock-n-roll, əkoostik hookah’s style includes many musical genres for a sound that in the end is distinctly “hookah”. With well over 100 original songs, and a large catalogue of cover songs to choose from, you will never hear the same show twice. The band is known for its live shows and its ability to feed off of the crowd’s energy, using it to fuel the improvised set lists that create unforgettable musical experiences.