Ariane Sroubek is an author, editor and community journalist. She and her family are transplants to the Cleveland area. When she is not writing, reading, or native gardening, she enjoys exploring and learning about her new home.
“I want all Cleveland hip-hop artists to know…as I look at the people who come after me, I am so proud that the legacy of Cleveland hip-hop continued.”
Today, a person can stand a short distance from one of the Moses Cleaveland Trees growing beside Lower Shaker Lake and look towards the city skyline five miles away, knowing that there is nothing between the two points that remains unchanged from 1796. It is a disorienting and sobering realization.
Paul Ferguson who is the artistic director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and director of Jazz Studies at Case Western Reserve University, is preparing to debut his composition, “A Declaration…if you can keep it."
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