When examining the Arbitron ratings, it’s important to look beyond the generic numbers associated with persons ages 12-plus. That is, this all-encompassing demographic does offer insight into the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The great guitar hero Lonnie Mac wrote a song called "Too Rock for Country, Too Country for Rock and Roll" about his problems genre-hopping in the music business. Longtime Cleveland ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — In 1956, a 9-year-old boy in New Vienna, Ohio, spent hours in his farmhouse bedroom, spinning records on a three-speed player and using a broomstick microphone to reach out to ...

Many Northeast Ohio country music fans likely have had Aug. 23 circled on their calendars for some time. But, if you’ve been asleep at the proverbial switch, that’s the date for the . Raised in ...

Elevation Festivals, the same folks that put on the annual Wonderstruck Festival, have just announced the lineups for two other upcoming festivals, WMMS Buzzard Fest and WGAR Country Jam. Both events ...

Despite calling from the comfortable confines of his rural farm located outside Nashville, country music star and multi-platinum recording artist Lee Brice — who’ll be in Cleveland Nov. 30 for WGAR’s ...

WGAR raised nearly $30,000 to help find a cure for breast cancer. Proceeds from the “Guitars for Girls” show support Susan G. Komen for the Cure. A generous $5,000 donation from Metro Lexus in ...

While growing up in Jacksonville, AL, singer-songwriter Riley Green picked up a few songwriting tips from his songwriter grandfather Bufford Green. Riley Green has said that his grandfather gave him ...

Nearly three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland’s station WGAR and asked ...