St. Stanislaus and the Polish Festival

Even been to St, Stanislaus? Beautiful Church on the east side over in Slavic Village. Its dates from the late 1800s, although its been remodeled a few times.  Once in 19089after a tornado took down its then 217ft spiers. Which the city of Cleveland refused to let them rebuild, but they are still impressive.

It was also renovated in the 2005, with the goal of looking more like the original church. Buts its pretty impressive as Churches go.

Yet Another International Day

This one was at the Cleveland Museum of Art and was called Cleveland International Community Day. It wasnt bad really. The had two stages set up in the atrium, and that place is always nice. And some of the acts werent bad. But for the most part it smacked of a little bit of amateur hour thrown together.

The Hingtown Hoedown

OK, right off the bat I think the whole Hingetown is silly. You cant create a a Hip Neighborhood out of thin air just because you want another hip neighborhood.

But the idea of a bluegrass festival is good, very good.  And I have to credit the guys from Honeybucket for making it happen,  The music was pretty good, there were some very traditional bands and some some of new era bluegrass bands like Honeybucket.

The funny thing was the guys from Cleveland wearing overalls and dancing like the guys they saw in O' Brother Where Are Thou. Stop that right now, you look stupid.

And you do realize those ridiculous beards that our the fad now are going to in 15 years or so be viewed the way we view Mullets and Rattails now down you.

Still, good music.

The Ohio City Festival

Just for the Record, Ohio City might be my favorite neighborhood in Cleveland. Once a very long time ago, as in before anyone alive was born, say from 1836-1854 Ohio City was actually it's own city.

Now it's just one of the cooler neighborhoods in our region. And a few weeks back they had a street festival.  Now that main drag, West 25th, was littered with stores and restaurants that had set up little stands on the street to serve their best foods and wares.

 

One of the cool hidden business' in the are is the glass blowing works facing the West Side Market Parking Lot, and they give classes in case you want to learn the craft.

Lots of Live Music as well, a favorite of mine, Brent Kirby, opened the day.

THE ARMENIAN FESTIVAL

So over on the east side of Cleveland there is an Armenian Church. St. Gregory of Narek on Richmond Road. And the people there  are as friendly as you could ever imagine. Just good people.

And its a good festival, amazing food and you actually learn some stuff.  As some of you may know this is the 100th Anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide.  From 1915-1918 the Turks slaughtered roughly 8,000,000 to 1.5 Million Armenians for, well there are several theories. But really does it matter why? Turkey still denies it happened while most civilized countries have recognized it as a Genocide.

There had been a monument to the Martyrs of 1915 at St. Gregory's for some time, but this year of course they had some videos and pamphlets so we non-Armenians could understand what happened there.

Good People and Good Food and a little history. My kind of day.

Hop In The Heights

OK, Cool idea. All up and down Cedar Road, near the intersection of Lee, if a place can get a stage in the place then they have live entertainment.  The Yoga Studio, The Coffee Shop, The Mediocre Restaurant and the actual Bar that often has live Music.

Here is a hint, next year bering it a lot more RnR Band, the singer songwriters going on and on about the bad relationship they have with their Fathers was a bit much,

Aviation Heritage Fair

Gotta Admit, I was a bit disappointed. I thought there would be more than 6-7 planes there that fall under the banner of Heritage.

Don't get me wrong, that handful that was there was cool.  Even had an old prop plane. And I'm all about supporting any sort of scholarship program-and I was led to believe the $5 I kicked in would go to scholarships for KSU Kids going to Aviation School.

Plus it was in Stow and I like to support anything in the Hometown.

So I guess it wasn't that bad.  But I really Hoped for More.