Take Mom to Main

Free flowers will be given to the first 200 moms at Second Sunday Mother’s Day on Main.

Enjoy Brunch at Kaldi’s
Kaldi’s, Cincinnati’s favorite coffee house and bookstore, invites you to browse the shelves of books and enjoy the social atmosphere.

Come see Chef Angelina Lucarelli, owner of Angelina Fine Italian Food at Findlay Market, at 2:30 at Enjoy the Arts. City Cellars will pair each dish with the perfect wine. Everyone will be able to taste the food and wine and leave with a special goody bag sponsored by Findlay Market.

Bring your friends from this world….and the next. Visit over a dozen psychics, healers, and clairvoyants for Tarot, palm and energy readings, massage, reflexology, and Reiki. These healing arts using crystal, feathers, and smudging will enlighten visitors and brighten Main Street.

Talk About Art with artists Elliott Jordan and Jymi Bolden from 1:30-2:15 at Art Beyond Boundaries – 1410 Main Street

Try out free yoga at Abiding Grace from 3:30-4:00 pm.

Kids can make Mother’s Day Cards along with other interactive activities in the Kids Activity Zone.

Take the Architreks walking tour and stay for lunch. The tour begins at 10am at the Coffee Emporium in the Emery building.

The Christian Moerlein Beer Garden will feature the NEW MOERLEIN BARBAROSSA DOUBLE DARK LAGER as well as the highly popular OTR ALE. Also, they are sponsoring a City Cornhole Tournament in the beer garden.

You don’t have to go to Rio de Janeiro to participate in the Samba Parade by Escole de Samba starting at 12:40 pm. Now you can enjoy the beat and the heat of the Over-the-Rhine Samba Parade each month at Second Sunday on Main.

Main Street Shops will be open: Design Smith Gallery, Art Beyond Boundaries, Classical Class, Main Street Gallery, 1301 Gallery, Urban Eden, Enjoy the Arts, Iris BookCafe, Kaldi's, C 4 Yourself Gallery, Base Gallery, Studio Endure and more …all joined by specialty vendors set up in the street.

Check out other unique shops and restaurants in Over-the-Rhine: Park + Vine, City Roots, MetroNation, Out Side (a new store on 12th Street) and brunch at Lavomatic.

MUSIC

From 12-5pm, catch an exciting line-up of Cincinnati’s most talented musicians including; Tupelo Honey, Tracy Walker, Seedy Seeds and Messerly & Ewing

Tupelo Honey

Heather Turner and Katie Wefer, along with their band Tupelo Honey, released their fantastic debut CD “Sweet” in 2007. A local gem mined from the monthly Rivertown Music Club Music Series, their powerful voices and songwriting ultimately earned them a Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Folk/Americana Artist last year. With influences ranging from Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, and Janis Joplin, the duo has been described as an Indigo Girl type feel with a Dixie Chick twist. http://www.myspace.com/tupelohoneyz

Tracy Walker

For the past decade Tracy Walker has been at the forefront of Cincinnati’s folk/rock, singer/songwriter scene. She first became known for her belting alto in the group Ain’t Helen. The breakup of the band did anything but stop Tracy’s momentum. In 1998 she released her first solo recording, NAKED to rave reviews. Now after time for both introspection and observation she released her second disc, All This Time. This disc features 10 original Walker tunes. Walker has enlisted some of the area’s finest players to ice the cake and fill out the sound for these great songs. This full-bodied arrangement of tunes includes the work of Blessid Union of Souls’ drummer Eddie Hedges and trumpet force Mike Wade among others. http://www.tracywalker.com/

Messerly & Ewing

Birthed from the local coffeehouse and open folk/Americana mic scene, award winning songwriters Mark Messerly and Brian Ewing began performing together on and off until 1996 when they recorded their first record. M&E remain equally true to their own homespun heartland take on roots music's earnest themes and colorful storytelling today, but aren't afraid to mix in a dash of rock excess. Since their critically acclaimed 2001 release, The Last Twelve Hours, the duo began performing shows with a full band, won the 97Xposure local band competition and remained at the forefront of the local Roots music scene before taking a break for various projects that became full time endeavors themselves (Messerly is in indie rockers, Wussy, Ewing was a principal in Catalog Cowboys). Together again and performing new material, the duo is contemplating a tour of the Pacific rim this fall where some of their earlier albums have garnered significant radio play. http://www.messerlyandewing.com/

Seedy Seeds

With a completely original sound and presentation, including banjo, accordion and toy keyboard beats, The Seedy Seeds create positive, melodic, danceable Indie music that is equally at home alongside pop-punk, alt-country, and lo-fi. The concept for the band was born of a casual conversation in late 2005, in which the founding members hypothesized performing as a group with the instruments they owned but hadn’t yet learned to play. The Seedy Seeds began writing, performing, and recording music shortly thereafter. The band’s debut Change States was released on Endurable recordings in 2007 and earned them New Artist of the Year honors at this past year’s Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. A new album is due this fall. http://www.theseedyseeds.com

Jeff Scott Roberson

A well respected, hard touring folk singer/songwriter, Jeff Scott Roberson spent years as a street performer playing Austin to Boston before settling down in Cincinnati. Once here he founded country-rock outfit, Lens Lounge, which featured a rotating cast of some of the city’s finest roots, bluegrass and rock musicians. His latest solo release, “Summer’s Here” was produced by Ed Pettersen (Song of America, Freedy Johnston/My Favorite Waste of Time), and features nine songs recorded live with session players from the studio scenes of Detroit, Memphis, Los Angeles and Nashville.