live music

GALION — After a six-year span of his singer-songwriter career, Eric Barnett’s first full-length album is set to be released on June 23. His record, ‘Ship Wreck in a Bottle,’ is comprised of auto-biographical works about his frustrations and working life in a factory. “To this point, I haven’t really written something that is not […]

SHELBY — The Shelby Country Club is excited to announce the kick-off of their annual Friday Nights at The Pavilion summer concert series with a performance by local classic rock favorite Back on Earth at the club Pavilion on Friday, June 2 from 7 to 10 p.m. The event marks the beginning of the Club’s […]

Have you ever seen a burlesque show? You’ll get a chance on Friday when a traveling band of entertainers from Cleveland known as the Red Hot Heathens brings its riotous act to Suzy’s Smoke Room in downtown Mansfield. What is burlesque? It’s a form of cabaret featuring musical numbers, bawdy humor, striptease and often some […]

This weekend Martini’s on Main is throwing one of its highly-anticipated patio keg parties: an outdoor extravaganza of beer, food and live music put together with the folks at Jackie O’s Brewery. At last year’s fest, I saw a white-hot band of brothers from Columbus called The Up All Nights. These boys played incendiary rock […]

MANSFIELD, Ohio — Even though the Becca Stevens band was short one member when they performed Thursday evening at the City News-Suzy’s Smoke Room, 100 N Main St., their audience seemed impressed nonetheless, shouting cheers between puffs of smoke. The singer and songwriter, who had never performed in Mansfield before, traveled from New York City […]

MANSFIELD — Things are looking up for Narrow / Arrow, the only Mansfield-area band signed to a record label. The album, ClaustrOHphobia, is expected to be be released in June.  “We are trying to go all out with the different places we send it to, Pitchfork, Spin, Vice, whatever,” said Cody Nicholas, the band’s vocalist and […]

MANSFIELD — James Williams goes about making music to praise his god in a different way than most contemporary Christian music. “The art I do is really different than contemporary music,” said Williams, a Christian hip-hop artist. “As an artist I want to think outside the proverbial box.” Williams has created his second album, “Praiseology, the […]

MANSFIELD — Two local students got a taste recently of what it’s like to record music professionally. Quaylynn Madden, a sophomore at Ontario High School, and Donavon Duncan, an eighth grader at the Richland School of Academic Arts, each recorded one song with the O’Keefe Music Foundation on separate albums. Last November, Duncan, 13, recorded […]