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Around Noon: Open Air

Looking for a more lively lunch hour? You’re invited to spice up your lunchtime by joining the audience for the live radio broadcast of 90.3 WCPN’s Around Noon "Open Air," presented with support from U.S. Bank. You'll be entertained by musicians, storytellers and other performers at Star Plaza at PlayhouseSquare, beginning June 7 and continuing every other Thursday through August 23. Join host Dee Perry and her guests as the great outdoors are transformed into a natural radio studio for this free summer celebration of music, nature and storytelling.

Bring your lunch and appetite for fun, or listen live on 90.3 WCPN. (In case of rain, the broadcast and audience will be moved across the street to the Idea Center® at PlayhouseSquare.) The bigger the live audience, the bigger the fun!

Here’s a preliminary line-up of the Thursday fun to come:

June 7, 2012
June 21, 2012
July 12, 2012
July 26, 2012
August 9, 2012
August 23, 2012

Presented with support from U.S. Bank.

Previous Open Air Broadcasts

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, 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!

Open Air

Posted July 14, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, Motion Pictures (Film, Video), Music, Natural History, Open Air

Dee Perry is looking forward to seeing you in Star Plaza across the street from the Idea Center at Playhouse Square for another edition of Open Air.We find out who or what lived in ideastream's neighborhood 300 million years ago from The Cleveland Natural History Museum's Harvery Webster…there 's toe-tapping music from the Emerald Isle from the duo The New Barleycorn…and the Plain Dealer’s Clint O’Connor tells you the best places to spread your beach blanket and watch some summer flicks.

Open Air

Posted June 30, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, Literature, Music, Open Air

Join Dee Perry on Star Plaza at Playhouse Square for another hour of entertainment featuring live music from Roots of American Music and a mock poetry slam featuring Ray McNiece and Michael Salinger. Plus Plain Dealer Friday! editor Laura DeMarco shares a holiday weekend preview.

Open Air

Posted June 16, 2011
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Natural History, Theatre, Open Air

Dee Perry takes to the stage of Star Plaza in PlayhouseSquare for another summer season of live performances for Open Air . Joining Dee are cast members from the Cain Park production of the Broadway hit musical - Dreamgirls. Plus, our favorite wildman - Harvey Webster of the Cleveland Musem of Natural History - brings along a feathered dreamgirl of his own. And The Plain Dealer's theater critic Tony Brown sets the stage for the weekend's entertainment in Northeast Ohio.

Open Air

Posted September 23, 2010
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Natural Sciences, Open Air, Other, Open Air

Dee Perry hosts the final edition of Around Noon Open Air for the season, live from Idea Center. You can join Dee in the Smith studio for this live variety program featuring award-winning local blues man Austin Walkin' Cane Charanghat and comic Mike Polk with his improv troupe - Last Call Cleveland. Plus our resident wild man Harvey Webster of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History returns with some furry friends and piano man Mike Petrone tickles the ivories.

Open Air

Posted September 9, 2010
Topics: Arts and Culture, Literature, Music, Open Air, Other, Open Air

Dee Perry hosts another edition of Around Noon: Open Air live from Idea Center at Playhouse Square®. Bring your lunch and join Dee for live performances by alt-country heroes Donna the Buffalo, comedian Barry Weintraub (who plays Hilarities this week), award-winning John Carroll University poet George Bilgere and our resident house piano man Mike Petrone.

Open Air

Posted August 5, 2010
Topics: Arts and Culture, Music, Natural Sciences, Open Air, Other, Open Air

Dee Perry hosts another edition of her live variety show Open Air. Joining her as always is her resident piano player Mike Petrone. Her special musical guest is acclaimed local singer-songwriter Brent Kirby. Wildman Harvey Webster from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History stops by with one of his animal friends. And Last Comic Standing finalist Louis Ramey gets us laughing before his appearance at Hilarities 4th Street Theater.

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Around Noon Funding

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 Nord Family Foundation; Parker Hannifin Foundation; The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust; and NACCO Industries, Inc.

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Dee Perry image courtesy Chris Stephens, The Plain Dealer