Podcasts about smale riverfront park

City leaders, community activists and neighbors are coming together with plans to address gun violence after more than 200 shootings in Cincinnati this year. In some incidents children have been caught in the crossfire. A shooting on June 12 between two teenagers outside a Westwood market left an 8-year-old boy with a serious brain injury. On July 4, a shooting at Smale Riverfront Park killed two teens and injured three others.

Law enforcement officials announced 16 people indicted on federal gun crimes in in Cincinnati. This comes as there have been 212 shootings in Cincinnati so far this year, resulting in 39 deaths. Just this past Sunday two teens were killed and three others were injured after a shooting on July 4 in Smale Riverfront Park.

That's So Cincinnati listeners know '80s pop music has been a big topic on the podcast -- and we take it to a whole other level this week. ['80s teen sensation Tiffany](https://www.tiffanytunes.com/) invites TSC onto her tour bus for a candid behind-the-scenes chat before kicking off her 53-city Mixtape Tour with New Kids on the Block at U.S. Bank Arena on Thursday night. Tiffany talks about her meteoric rise to pop megastar in 1987; trying to move on from still being seen as that 15-year-old mall girl; why she posed for Playboy in the early 2000s; bringing back her iconic red hair; and the latest remake of "I Think We're Alone Now." Plus, Tiffany leaves That's So Cincinnati co-host and '80s music fanboy Jason Williams blushing when she let's him know she can still hit the high note in ["Could've Been."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDZzlmGkb18)  Before heading down to U.S. Bank Arena to hop on the bus with Tiffany, Jason and guest host Sharon Coolidge discuss whether an overhaul of the arena is next on the list of major Downtown projects. Don't miss our That's So Cincinnati Moment of the Week.  And don't forget: We have a bonus episode coming this weekend as Jason and Paul Dehner Jr. take the podcast on the road to the Flying Pig Marathon. If you're at Smale Riverfront Park on Friday night for Marathon festivities, please stop by and see us!

Northside-based percussionist Ben Sloan is beating on a standard drum kit, but the oscillating chords, birdcalls and Star Trek-esque bleeps sound anything but typical. "It's more like you're curating a set of sounds," the UC College-Conservatory of Music graduate said. "It's on the cusp of being a full composition and then also just improvising with the colors and sounds. Sometimes I don't really know how it's going to unfold. I have an idea and so sometimes if I hit it and it doesn't make the sound, I'm like, 'Oh, gotta roll with it that way.'"  A sensory percussion trigger composed of a tiny mirror and light sensor sits atop each drumhead, which Sloan has mapped out into regions that produce various sounds, effects and loops when struck. Tapping the drum's rim acts like a keyboard's shift key, bringing up a whole new range of samples that Sloan has preprogrammed and created with audio software.  "It allows you to play electronic music with the same dynamic flexibility that you get when you're playing a live drum set. I have them on these mesh heads, which are silent, but you can also put them on actual drum heads," he said. Sloan's stop by WCPO Lounge Acts is only the second time he's ever performed with this new technology, which he got the opportunity to explore when drummer Bryan Devendorf asked him to be artist-in-residence for the new National Homecoming festival coming to Smale Riverfront Park this weekend. "I've been doing a lot of production work and sitting in my room, which is also my studio with cables everywhere and crafting stuff and just making little ideas," Sloan said. "It was an opportunity to take that material and bring it to A Delicate Motor, which is a band I perform in under the leadership of Adam Petersen ... and collaboratively expand upon these little tiny ideas." "Mostly I'm really motivated by the fact that (Bryan Devendorf of The National) enjoys what I'm doing. The inspiration is like encouragement from somebody who is at the top of this kind of world. And he's like, 'You got it. You're good!'" Growing up in a musical household, Sloan was destined to gravitate toward the arts. His dad fed him a steady diet of good music and helped him set up his first recording studio, while he inherited his stepfather's drum kits and instincts. His mother founded ArtWorks, the nonprofit responsible for splashing murals across town for more than two decades, meaning he was "steeped in the arts" by the time he wrote his Walnut Hills High School entrance essay proclaiming Jimi Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell as the historical figure he'd love to meet. "Maybe he would give me his drumsticks?" Sloan laughed.  Since studying jazz at CCM, Sloan has played in several local and national music projects, including WHY?, Lazy Heart and Fresh Funk. He also teaches percussion at MYCincinnati, a free youth orchestra program in Price Hill.  Last year, Sloan transformed scrapyard junk into children's gold when he dreamed Price Hill's Percussion Park into existence with a $10,000 grant from People's Liberty. Propane gas tanks became drums and pipes morphed into a marimba for kids to jam on at a formerly vacant lot on Warsaw Avenue. "It was a cool way to tie in what I do with my students at MYCincinnati with the neighborhood at-large. And then also we travel there every once in a while to play," Sloan said. Keep an eye out for A Delicate Motor's second album, Fellover My Own, coming in June. Sloan said they'll also record his work as artist-in-residence for The National Homecoming and make that available online. Set list: Since you asked u n e a s e -- interview -- run More at https://www.wcpo.com/entertainment/lounge-acts/sensory-percussion-triggers-let-drummer-ben-sloan-curate-otherworldly-set-of-electronic-sounds

From the beautiful Moerlein Lager House in Smale Riverfront Park in Downtown Cincinnati, it’s a very special Live edition of Cincy Brewcast. We are joined… The post Volume 1 – Episode 44 – Live At The Moerlein Lager House With: Greg Hardman, Eric Baumann And GCCBS appeared first on The Gnarly Gnome.

From the beautiful Moerlein Lager House in Smale Riverfront Park in Downtown Cincinnati, it’s a very special Live edition of Cincy Brewcast. We are joined… The post Volume 1 – Episode 44 – Live At The Moerlein Lager House With: Greg Hardman, Eric Baumann And GCCBS appeared first on The Gnarly Gnome.