![Heidi Skok thinks she got a little sleep between 2 and 4 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21. The Mentor resident, who’d spent years as a soprano with New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera and in recent years has become a contralto, had gotten a call two days earlier from the Tulsa Opera in Oklahoma. The company was one day away from launching its 2023-24 season with a production of Gian Carlo Meriotti’s “The Medium,” and one of its leads was ill. Skok, who spends much of her time providing in-person and virtual lessons through her Mentor-based Skokstudio Vocal Instruction, had performed […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TNH-L-Skok-TulsaOpera-110523-01.jpg?w=98 "Heidi Skok thinks she got a little sleep between 2 and 4 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21. The Mentor resident, who’d spent years as a soprano with New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera and in recent years has become a contralto, had gotten a call two days earlier from the Tulsa Opera in Oklahoma. The company was one day away from launching its 2023-24 season with a production of Gian Carlo Meriotti’s “The Medium,” and one of its leads was ill. Skok, who spends much of her time providing in-person and virtual lessons through her Mentor-based Skokstudio Vocal Instruction, had performed […]")
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Mentor’s Heidi Skok makes a last-minute jaunt to perform with Tulsa Opera
Heidi Skok thinks she got a little sleep between 2 and 4 a.m. on Saturday,...
Music and Concerts
Oberlin Weekday Community Meals celebrate 40th anniversary with concert Oct. 25
A benefit concert commemorating 40 years of Oberlin Weekday Community Meals will take place at...
TrueNorth Cultural Arts fall concert ‘Clarion Sounds!’ set
TrueNorth Cultural Arts will present a fall concert "Clarion Sounds!" at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28,...
Firelands Symphony Orchestra Halloween Concert features movie music
The Firelands Symphony Orchestra (FSO) will present "Silver Screen Sorcery: A Halloween Fantasy" at 4...
Jay-Z’s Champagne maker is planning an even more exclusive brand
The small French winemaker behind Jay-Z’s Champagne is laying the groundwork for the launch of...
![The men performing as women at a recent Drag Brunch at the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland’s Flats are extraordinarily talented entertainers, transformed on stage by their over-the-top garb, their names and even their false eyelashes and cleavage. Billed as Veranda L’Ni & Friends, they’re not necessarily gay or trans or any other part […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TNH-L-DRAGQUEEN-WBOX-0924-05.jpg?w=75 "The men performing as women at a recent Drag Brunch at the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland’s Flats are extraordinarily talented entertainers, transformed on stage by their over-the-top garb, their names and even their false eyelashes and cleavage. Billed as Veranda L’Ni & Friends, they’re not necessarily gay or trans or any other part […]")
It’s regularly a riotous drag at Cleveland’s Music Box Supper Club
The men performing as women at a recent Drag Brunch at the Music Box Supper...
![The 59th annual Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, presented by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, will take place Nov. 24 and 25 and will again feature a festival of music and dancing. The Holiday Inn Cleveland South in Independence becomes America’s polka headquarters with the finest Cleveland-Style entertainers, plus Denis Novato, the world diatonic accordion […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20210529_e19aa36e-bcb3-11eb-a57a-1f4373380761-1.jpg?w=140 "The 59th annual Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, presented by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, will take place Nov. 24 and 25 and will again feature a festival of music and dancing. The Holiday Inn Cleveland South in Independence becomes America’s polka headquarters with the finest Cleveland-Style entertainers, plus Denis Novato, the world diatonic accordion […]")
Performers announced for Thanksgiving Polka Weekend
The 59th annual Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, presented by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame,...
Cleveland Consort of Voices to perform at the Nativity B.V.M. Church in Lorain
As part of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church's 125th anniversary celebration,...
![It’s not yet 24 hours since the Browns lost in Pittsburgh to the hated Steelers — a game that saw beloved Cleveland running back Nick Chubb suffer a gruesome-looking, season-ending knee injury — and neither singer-songwriter Joshua Radin or the person on the other end of the phone have come to grips with it all. “It’s our hometown, you know?” says Radin, calling from Alexandria, Virginia, a stop on a fall tour that on Sept. 26 will see him play the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland. “It is what it is. You just come to expect it after a […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TNH-L-JoshuaRadin-WBOX-092423-04.jpg?w=132 "It’s not yet 24 hours since the Browns lost in Pittsburgh to the hated Steelers — a game that saw beloved Cleveland running back Nick Chubb suffer a gruesome-looking, season-ending knee injury — and neither singer-songwriter Joshua Radin or the person on the other end of the phone have come to grips with it all. “It’s our hometown, you know?” says Radin, calling from Alexandria, Virginia, a stop on a fall tour that on Sept. 26 will see him play the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland. “It is what it is. You just come to expect it after a […]")
Music Box-bound Northeast Ohio native Joshua Radin loving life as a nomad
It’s not yet 24 hours since the Browns lost in Pittsburgh to the hated Steelers...
1964 The Tribute bringing music of the touring Beatles to Lorain Palace
“Some people say, ‘If you close your eyes, you sound just like them.’ I say,...