Cincinnati Music Festival 

The biggest urban music festival in the nation

The Cincinnati Music Festival has been an iconic event in Cincinnati's history, featuring dazzling lineups and drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees. Originally called the "Ohio Valley Jazz Festival", this weekend-long event began in 1962 and has featured legendary headliners such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan, Patti Labelle, and Erykah Badu. This festival has a long history of bringing top artists together, creating a celebration of music and culture. 

Live Music off the Beaten Path

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Madison LIVE (photo: Kelly Painter Kampsen) You may know where to go to see a great national show in the Cincinnati region: Riverbend, The Madison Theater, Bogart’s, and The Southgate House Revival among others. But what about the…

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How to explore The Banks in Cincinnati like a local

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If you want to understand The Banks in downtown Cincinnati, you first have to take a little trip back in time. While the development of this district is a new part of the Cincy Region’s history, the banks of the Ohio River are…