Tonight’s concert is sponsored by Warren Avenue.
Come celebrate everything great about summer at CCAC’s spirited series of 11 free weekly concerts, this week featuring the musical stylings of Jake Speed and The Freddies. Good friends, good tunes, good food, good times with a variety of hands-on art making activities for the kids – all at the historic 1911 Burnet Woods bandstand!
Join CCAC before the concert for a Nature Walk led by Cincinnati Parks Naturalists. Meet at the Bandstand at 5:30pm – walk is free to attend.
New this year! Bring your four-legged friend for the Dog Days of Summer Dog Parade.
Tonight’s food vendors are Smiley’s Bayou and Kona Ice.
Kindly bring donations of the following items to support the July/August Community Partner: Lighthouse Youth & Family Services
NEW Baby items of any kind
Developmental toys & games
Bed & bath linens
Dishes, cups, utensils & cookware
NEW Socks & underwear for teens
NEW Plain t-shirts for teens
About the Band: Jake Speed and The Freddies
Jake Speed & The Freddies play a mix of traditional & original folk, country blues, and ragtime tunes that muse on Cincinnati’s unique past & present. Known as the Woody Guthrie of Cincinnati, Jake Speed uses a traditional folksy delivery to compose timely and timeless songs that tell great stories with a bit of a lyrical edge. The band, built out of guitar, mandolin, fiddle, tenor guitar and upright bass (with hints of harmonica, kazoo, and washboard), has been hailed by CityBeat magazine as a “…a fixture of Cincinnati’s traditional Folk scene” since releasing its first of five albums, Queen City Rag, in 2002. Speed’s tongue-in-cheek stories and crowd-engaging antics (such as watering can solos, sing-alongs, and dance moves) keep audiences thoroughly entertained. Just two years after hitting the Cincinnati scene, the band won the 2002 Cincinnati Entertainment Award (Cincinnati’s equivalent of The Grammy Awards) for Artist of the Year. The band is now a five-time winner of the CEA for Best Folk Musicians (2001-2004; 2008). Jake Speed is a two-time winner of the CEA for Best Songwriter (2002, 2006). Cincinnati Magazine’s 2007 “Best of Cincinnati” edition named the band as one of the Top 40 Best Things About Cincinnati. In 2004, the readers of CityBeat Magazine voted them Best Local Musicians.