Wed 7/30 @ 7PM
The LockBottom Blues and Jazz Club isn’t an actual club. It’s actually Lock 4, the open-air space behind the Akron Civic Theatre in downtown Akron. But on Wednesdays all summer long, it’s transformed into a venue for some of the area’s best jazz, blues and R&B musicians.
For instance, tonight you can hear blues harmonica player/vocalist Wallace Coleman who played with the late Robert Lockwood Jr. until he left Lockwood’s band in 1997 to launch his own solo career. Now, with Lockwood gone, Coleman himself is Cleveland’s elder statesman of blues.
The LockBottom concerts are free. Food and drinks are available for purchase.