Sunday with the Friends

Nearly every Sunday at 2:00 pm, the Friends of Lakewood Public Library are proud to present free concerts, lectures and more. Join us in the Main Library Auditorium. These programs are open to one and all.

MAY 19         Northcoast Jazz Collective
What can we say? According to Scene Magazine, these guys are the Best Jazz Group around. Playing straight up modern jazz that’s creative, emotional and accessible, this quartet braves the post-bop world with a hard-working trademark sound that says Cleveland all the way.

JUNE 2          The Whiskey Island Ramblers: Irish Music
Their storytelling ancestors knew these kinds of characters a hundred and eighty years ago when they first arrived on Whiskey Island—cops, bus drivers, bartenders, hot dog vendors, drinking buddies, girlfriends and musicians. The Ramblers celebrate growing up Irish in an industrial landscape.

JUNE 9          Winter Rails and Lackawana Memories
Photographer Roger Durfee loves to take pictures of trains in all kinds of weather all over this great land.Watch his favorite locomotives come to life in this big screen presentation for devoted train enthusiasts and those who just like to watch them roll on by.

JUNE 23        Rough and Tumble
When Mallory met Scott, they found a notebook on the bus containing sad, old country songs, to-do lists with nothing crossed out, torn pages from a hymnal, minor league baseball tickets, self-written wedding vows, a Chinese take-out menu and a copy of the Declaration of Independence with all the vowels circled in red ink. These are the songs that try men's souls.
           
JUNE 30        Brian Henke: Nimble Fingerstyle
The lion sits alone onstage, playing his acoustic guitar with a quiet intensity that can mislead those who aren't really listening. But if you're there with him, he can conjure thunderstorms as easily as he can paint a rainbow. Flocks of birds soar overhead while ants build cities at your feet. You are a child again and the wonders of nature are yours.

JULY 21        Wallace Coleman's Living Blues
An unbroken chain of songs and stories, passed down through musical generations, connects Wallace Coleman to the crossroads birth of the blues. But forget about genre and style for a minute. The blues are really just a way of looking at things. Coleman blows his harmonica and sings songs both funny and sad to make people smile. Works every time.

AUGUST 11  Judy Garland
Somewhere over the rainbow, the sweet, troubled contralto who broke our hearts is still singing. Vocalist Judy Crawford offers us a chance to remember Judy Garland at her best, covering all her trademark songs with spirit and wit.

AUGUST 18  Jody Getz and Friends
This award-winning songwriter is well known for the company she keeps. Drawn together by a good feeling, her supergroup of friends share diverse musical backgrounds filled with blues, folk, rock and pop.