Around Noon: Open Air
Bring your lunch and your appetite for fun to the return of the live broadcasts of Around Noon: Open Air. It’s a summer celebration of music and the arts, where you play a key role as part of the live audience gathered in the Smith Studio at the Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare. Join us every-other-Thursday from June 13 to August 22 - in person or on the radio - for another fresh, lively episode.
This summer’s schedule includes...
- June 13, 2013: Hey Mavis, an Akron-based Americana/bluegrass quartet
- June 27, 2013: Local indie-rockers The Lighthouse and the Whaler
- July 11, 2013: Sean Jones and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and legendary singer-songwriter Alex Bevan
- July 25, 2013: Columbus jam band The Floorwalkers
- August 8, 2013: Cleveland soul from Wesley Bright and the Hi-Lites
- August 22, 2013: Latin jazz with Sammy De Leon y Su Orquesta
Presented with support from U.S. Bank.
Previous Open Air Broadcasts
Open Air
Posted August 23, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Natural History, Open Air
Join Dee Perry and David C. Barnett for the final edition of Around Noon Open Air 2012 as they welcome Cleveland Iron Chef Michael Symon. Also taking the stage is the acclaimed Ohio Zydeco band - Mo' Mojo - and our resident wild man Harvey Webster from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Open Air Inside Idea Center
Posted August 9, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Literature, Music, Open Air
Dee Perry and David C. Barnett share another edition of their live performance series inside Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare. Featured performers are Columbus roots rockers The Floorwalkers, multi-instrumentalist Hal Walker and performance poet Daniel Gray Kontar of The Progressive Arts Alliance.
Open Air Inside Idea Center
Posted July 26, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Natural History, Theatre, Open Air
Dee Perry and David C. Barnett host another edition of the Around Noon summer series - Open Air - INSIDE IDEA CENTER on PlayhouseSquare. In the spotlight today are musical guests Sean Jones and The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Quartet featuring vocalist, Evelyn Wright. Also our resident wild man Harvey Webster from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History describes one of his "deer" friends. And we meet the star of One Night with Janis Joplin - Cat Stephani.
Open Air
Posted July 12, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, History, Music, Open Air
Join Dee Perry and David C. Barnett out on Star Plaza in PlayhouseSquare for another edition of our summer performance series Open Air! Providing the soundtrack for Dee and DCB are local soul legends The Hesitations. Plus we dig into the archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the music collection of Rock Hall prez Terry Stewart. And the Pop Culture Diva Andrea Simakis from The Plain Dealer sounds off on the latest headlines.
Open Air
Posted June 21, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Natural History, Theatre, Open Air
Join Dee Perry and David C. Barnett out on Star Plaza in PlayhouseSquare for another edition of our summer performance series Open Air! Onstage with Dee and DCB are the stars of Sondheim on Sondheim, local blues man Walkin' Cane, resident wildman Harvey Webster and CMA music man Tom Welsh.
Open Air!
Posted June 7, 2012
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Photography, Theatre, Miscellaneous, Technology, Open Air
Dee Perry and David C. Barnett host the first in our Around Noon Summer Performance Series for 2012 - Open Air - live from Star Plaza in PlayhouseSquare. The stars (and the puppets) from the new Cain Park production of 'Avenue Q' spotlight a few songs. Plus our resident tech guru Jared Bendis of CWRU shares his latest digital device and tests your knowledge of tech trivia. And local playwright John Busser performs his Tarzan-inspired one-act play - 'It Jungle Out There.'
Best of Open Air
Posted September 26, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, Literature, Music, Open Air
Today Dee Perry shares some of her favorite performances from years past of her Around Noon Open Air summer series
Open Air
Posted August 25, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, Motion Pictures (Film, Video), Music, Natural History, Open Air
The sun is out! Come to Star Plaza, across the street from the Idea Center at Playhouse Square for today’s Open Air. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Harvey Webster will be on hand to take your questions about the wonderful world of nature in Northeast Ohio…The Plain Dealer’s John Soeder previews the Friday! Magazine cover story on fall films…and shares some stories about the late music writer Jane Scott…and you can dance off your calories as the Joe Wendel Orchestra helps us get the jump on Oktoberfest with some great Alpine music.
Open Air
Posted August 11, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, History, Motion Pictures (Film, Video), Music, Be Well, MiddleAging: Aches & Pains, Open Air
Dee Perry steps back onto Star Plaza in PlayhouseSquare for another edition of ideastream's summer series Open Air. Joining Dee onstage is the acclaimed leader of The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra - Sean Jones - whose trumpet sounds through the city streets. Plus, Ivan Schwarz of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission shares the story of wrangling The Avengers in downtown Cleveland. Also, the Western Reserve Historical Society's John Grabowski searches for the ghosts of Millionaire's Row along Euclid Avenue. And Plain Dealer columnist and Sound of Ideas host Mike McIntyre gets us ready for the weekend with a preview of Friday! Magazine.
Open Air
Posted July 28, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Open Air
Join 90.3 in Star Plaza, right across the street from the Idea Center at Playhouse Square for another Open Air broadcast. Dee's guests include poets Mary Weems and Katie Daley. They’ll share some verse inspired by James Brown and cook up some rhymes on the spot based on audience suggestions…plus the Plain Dealer’s John Petkovic tells us the hot spots to hang "after dark"…and Colin Dussault's Acoustic Side Project comes with a strong mix of rock and blues….it’s live…and free…make sure to join us!
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Production of arts and culture programming on ideastream is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation; Eaton Corporation Charitable Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation; The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation; The Kulas Foundation; The John P. Murphy Foundation; The Nord Family Foundation; Parker Hannifin Foundation; The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust; and NACCO Industries, Inc.
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