The annual Northside summer concert series, Live on the Drive, finishes its seventh year with the up and coming Bomba De Luz on Thursday, August 14th, from 6 to 8pm. This will be the final of three concerts held outdoors this summer on the scenic Victory Memorial Drive at 34th Avenue North in Minneapolis, one of the most beautiful concert settings in the city.
Bomba de Luz is a very musical, up and coming group of indie rockers featuring songwriter Lydia Liza on guitar and mesmerizing vocals. The band’s played on NPR and 89.3 The Current, at First Avenue and at the Basilica Block Party. Members of the band have also shared stages with artists like Chastity Brown, Toki Wright, Jake Bugg, Kimya Dawson, Family of The Year, Astronautalis, and many others. They’ve got a new CD coming out soon, too. Come hear them!
Come with an appetite and enjoy dinner from food vendors The Lowry Café, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Gramsky’s Sandwiches, and treat yourself with gelato from Nona Rossa’s. Stay into the evening for a movie in the park, featuring the black and white thriller Psycho at dusk right at the Live on the Drive concert site. And buy one of our AWESOME T-Shirts! All t-shirt purchases are donations to keep our concerts going, we’re asking $10 per shirt for our last concert. Our “green” events feature recycling and composting, diverting 93% of materials out of the waste stream last year. Be sure to invite your neighbors and bring your friends to this family-friendly, all-ages event!
Live on the Drive is presented by founding partner, North Memorial, with the Cleveland Neighborhood Association, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board,North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Hennepin County, Westphal Auxiliary Legion, Healy Creative, North News, Victory Neighborhood Association, Camden Lions, Washburn-McReavy, Folwell Neighborhood Association, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Live on the Drive brings people together from across the Northside and throughout the greater Twin Cities to hear extraordinary music and to celebrate summer, good health and Northside city living. We’ve had an amazing summer already with an incredible slate of Minneapolis-based musicians: jazz vocalist Thomasina Petrus (June 12th), rock and classical fusion act Clocks & Clouds (July 10th), and now this month with folk/indie rock band Bomba de Luz (August 14th). Food vendors and Movies in the Park are back to finish out each concert night: family-friendly movie Remember the Titans (June 12th), Black Film Festival pick Soul Food Junkie (July 10th), and Black and White classic Psycho (August 14th). Our Bike to the Drive event in August, Artist Spotlights during intermission and more will round out what has become a staple of summer on the Northside.
For more information, call 612-588-1155 or visit www.liveonthedrive.org.
National Night Out is a great chance to get out and meet the neighbors on your block. It’s a fun evening when the whole city steps out of their houses for a bit and come together to share some food, fun and put names with faces to create a better neighborhood. We’ll be out in full force stopping by all the great parties that are happening throughout the neighborhood. And we want to help you make your block party the best it can be. Someone on your block might have already planned one and you should be getting a flier soon! Most events our August 5th starting around 5 or 6pm. For those doing the actual hosting where here to help any way that we can to help Connect Neighbors. Give us a call 612-588-1155 or shoot us an email cna@clevelandneighborhood.org and let us know what we can do to help make your National Night Out block party great!
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Join us this Wednesday evening for our second Party in the Park event with the theme Healthy Living. We’ll have free health screening available from the “Q”mmunity Helath Mobile, resource tables from Hennepin Teen and Child Check-ups, Center for Energy and Environment and more. This event is put on by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee.
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Ramone is originally from Monroe, LA. He currently goes to Delasalle high school, located on Nicollet Island. He is going into the 10th grade, and in school, he plays football and tennis. His hobbies are to play football, tennis, to go biking, and to go swimming. This is his first year in the step-up program. He picked this job out of all the others because he wanted to help out the community. Ramone is in a band and plays bass. He can also play any instrument you hand him. He is fluent in French. His goals for the future are to graduate from high school, graduate from college with a degree in engineering or medicine. He wants to become a musical engineer or a gynecologist. Overall to start a healthy family with well rounded kids.
Cass grew up in Minnesota and currently goes to Thomas A. Edison high. He is in 10th grade and he wrestles and plays football. His hobbies are working out, being outside, or anything that involves being active like swimming. He had a job with Step-Up last year and enjoyed his experience so he came this year. He says he joined this program because it was the kind of job he’d enjoy because he likes being outside and meeting new people. He likes talking and getting to know people, he says he can be trusted. His goals are to graduate from high school, college and sustain a healthy life with a family and two children.
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Briyana is from Thomas Edison high school. She is currently a junior. Briyana enjoys singing and dancing most of the time. When she’s not doing that, she’s sleeping. She was interested in it because it was a program where they placed you in a job that caught your interest. She’s doing this because she heard good things about Step-Up interns. One thing that everyone should know is that she is very outspoken. Her long term goal is going to college to major in human psychology.
If you’ve already got the Open Streets bug from our great event last September we’ve got a way to fulfill your urge this month! Open Streets kicks off with a one day event this Saturday, May 31st along the proposed Greenway route in north Minneapolis from 10-4pm. Here more info from Insight News:
The Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee is excited to be hosting our second annual series of Party in the Park events on the third Wednesday of June, July and August as a way to connect neighbors with one another and resources and opportunities in their community. The event is held near our office in the green space between Cleveland Park and Lucy Craft Laney School near Penn and Lowry Avenues north and reaches residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood and surrounding area.