Emigrate! Bound for Cleveland

Roots of American Music (ROAM) is a non-profit organization created in 1999 to provide arts programming to the Northeast Ohio community using traditional American music as a way to connect students to our past. Today from 5 to 9 p.m., the ROAM folks will present a program dubbed Emigrate! Bound for Cleveland! at Terrestrial Brewing Company. The program aims to explore how immigration impacted Northeast Ohio. Specifically, it will tell the story of boxer Johnny Kilbane, a child of Irish immigrants who went on to hold the title of featherweight champion from 1912 to 1923. The program will also address the challenges faced by Cleveland's Irish immigrant community in the early 1900s. The local Irish punk band the Boys from the County Hell will perform, along with traditional Irish musician Ruairi Hurley and local singer-songwriter Ray Flanagan. Admission is free. (Niesel)