The #AkronMusicScene is About to Explode

It's the 1st Wednesday of the month. Unless it's your birthday, your payday, or your day off, you might think "So what?" Yeah, but there is something special about this Wednesday. We are Akronites. We do things differently here.

Akron is undergoing a resurgence in the music scene that is almost unprecedented. The wealth of talent is giving us a new reason to stay up past our usual ten o'clock bedtime. Now we can rock, jump, swing, or sway to our hearts content on most any night.

Ah, but if you want to experience Akron's greatest talents you have one of two choices. The Electric Pressure Cooker is one, #AkronMusicScene is the other.

The EPCooker is on hiatus until August, but the #AkronMusicScene is tonight. You want to see for yourself what is really going on in the music world? Want to hear what is new? Want to be up close and personal with tomorrows comedic legends? Want to catch tomorrow's musical legends now, before you have to experience the agony of being told their show is sold out? Wait until August for the next EP Cooker lineup, or come out tonight and get a head start. The Akron music scene awaits you.

#AkronMusicScene is an event that occurs every 1st Wednesday of the moth at Annabell's on Market Street. The goal is to promote the #AkronMusicScene an to truly make Akron the new scene.

Use #AkronMusicScene on all your Akron music uploads to help build the Akron Music Scene.

See you every 1st Wednesday!


21+ FREE
18+ $5

Food Truck: Sassy Dog ($5 and up)

This week:

Patio:
10-11: Hunter Adam Edwards
11-12: Matthew Dunigan

Band Stage:
8-9: Broken Mugs
9-10: Copali
10-11: The Scenic Route
11-12: The Hundred Hand Band
12-1: John Patrick Halling
1-2: Jason Scott (OriginalNatural)

Acoustic Stage
8-10: Morgan Phelps
10:00-10:30 Sarah Jones Saddleton (Stand-up Comedy)
10:30-11:30: My Buddy Josh's Band
11:30-12:30: Brendan Kenney
12:30-1:30: jIMMY tHE wEED

Vendors:
Original Accents
Neighbors Apparel

Journalist: The Devil Strip

Photographer: John Aylward- www.jraylward.com

Host: Filthy Animal Studios

Note: Line-up changes are possible, check back often. #AkronMusicScene IS NOT open mic but bands certainly should inquire. Bands should also remember that this event is volunteer only and there is no guarantee. This event occurs every 1st Wednesday. As the event grows we will gain sponsors in order to pay the bands. Bands are also required to help advertise in order to ensure that they have guests to play for.

Akron's Open Streets and Better Blocks

The thing with Akron, and everyone knows this, is that it is poised to do something great. Akronites are bubbling over with excitement because things are changing, and they are changing for the better.

The younger generation isn't waiting for the older one to move aside to let them through. They are affecting change now, on their own, and on their own terms; Akron is the benefactor of all their labor.

This weekend proves it. From idea, to concept, to execution, everything was amazing. Akron is amazing.

Akron Better block and Open Streets Akron were all about the people.
Strangers got to meet and join together to create the tangible (benches, food, decorations) and to create that which you cannot touch ( goodwill, friendships, and partnerships).

What will come from this is only limited by us. We can follow the mantra of the open street, access to everyone, or we can go back home after experiencing this living, breathing beast that was, and forget why we met here in the first place.

Our neighbors aren't that different from us. Our needs aren't as big as we thing they are. Don't stay home, don't walk the same streets, don't shop at the same places, and don't go back to doing the same old thing. Shop around, move around, stop and talk to the old men, and pet the friendly dogs. Go ahead and smile at the women is colorful saris, or at the young boys with the jet black hair.

Be a neighbor, and by default you might just come away being something special. That person on the other side of the street, across the invisible line between your neighborhood and theirs, might one day become your very best friend, and you theirs.

Go ahead. Be brave. When the barriers come down and the streets are open to traffic once again, dare to walk to the other side.

                    

Market Street: Main Street to Merriman

There are some evenings

when the sun hits Akron at the right angle

and with the right intensity

magic happens.

 The light makes everything glow

You cannot ignore this fact

Akron is beautiful.

 @Yolyinbetween