The event kicks off with live music at 2:30 p.m. including local food trucks and the newly opened Edgewater Beach House. Performances run all afternoon leading up to a big firework finale, set to music chosen by 106.5 FM The Lake.
“You only turn 100 once, so we want it to be a memorable experience for the community,” Cleveland Metroparks CEO Brian M. Zimmerman told Fox 8 Cleveland.
Be sure to get there early as the park is almost guaranteed to run out of parking. The the full entertainment schedule is below:
2:30 p.m. Forecast: Jazz
4 p.m. Trios: Rock
5:30 p.m. Old Boy: Original Music
7 p.m. Billy Morris and the Sunset Strip: 80s Rock
9 p.m. Michael Stanley & Friends: Classic Rock
9:40 p.m. Fireworks
This might also be a good time to go back and revisit all of Northeast Ohio’s parks for some breathtaking vistas and some good bird watching spots. And don’t worry, Saturday’s event is just an added bonus, Edgewater Live still goes down tonight at the park.
This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2017.
My wife and I were planning to go, until we thought about a few things…
The Orchestra’s concert was rained out downtown. No fireworks. People want their fireworks. So they will go on Saturday, no matter the cost or the hassle.
Edgewater has become extremely popular since its spiffing-up. So has the new beach house. Construction on the Shoreway has made access extremely difficult, especially on weekends. The Shoreway backs up for a considerable disatance. Forget using 73rd Street. it’s closed for repairs and upgrades–until wintertime.
There were huge backups on the holiday weekend. The whole park, along with Whiskey Island, had to be closed until the traffic thinned out. Whiskey Island, too. Everyone wanted to see the fireworks. Hey, it’s the Fourth, goddammit!
A lot of people remember going there in the Nineties for the Fourth. They still do. They would camp out and stay there all day, and leave Woodstock-size piles of trash, after getting there at sunrise. That is going to happen again.
And even on non-holidays, there is only one way in and out of the Edgewater parking lot. Which fills up rapidly.Ask anyone who goes to Edgewater Live on Thursdays. It’s a zoo.
The music sounds great. So does the party. And so does the fireworks. But this is going to start as early as hel…like the night before…l and end in a logistical nightmare.
. You will have two, three, four Edgewater Lives. Maybe five or six. The crowd is going to be immense. And of course, somebody…or several somebodies…will probably refuse to leave their guns at home.
Nope. It’s off to Berea for me, to watch Erin Go Braghless at the Irish Fest. So be it.
Just a heads-up. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Good luck, Cleveland cops and park rangers. You will need it.
Chuckles the Clown
Cleveland Metroparks: The gift that keeps on giving.
Whiskey Island Still and Eatery has announced that they will be closed all day tomorrow (7/22)…think maybe they know something that nobody else seems to have figured out?
Like maybe that the Shoreway will become a parking lot and probably be closed as well? And that both Whiskey Island and Edgewater will eventually become inaccessible? Costs them money to open, and if lemmings and sheeple overrun the area and make it impossible to get out there on a mid-summer Saturday, they lose. Makes total sense to close up instead.
Hope they are giving their staff a paid day off. It’s not their fault the Metroparks picked a place with one entrance and exit to throw a huge birthday party..
Chuckles the Clown
Would it have killed them to get music that appeals to anyone under 60? Typical cleveland backwards
Would it kill them to book bands at Edgewater Live that appeal to anyone OVER sixty? How many repeat performances of The Breakfast Club or the Spazmatics does one city need, summer after summer? How about some jazz…and a LOT less of that idiot emcee and his frantic shouting…and his stupid f’king hula-hoop contests?
Why doesn’t SCENE have emojis? Where is the razzberry icon when you really need it?
Chuckles the Clown