A SHOW FOR EVERYONE
The MEMO offers a dazzling variety of performances and events.
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Upcoming Shows
Jazz,
Jazz at the MEMO presents Eric Lechliter’s Hard Bop Heroes
February 02, 2026
Horace Silver. The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet. Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. These are just a few of the classic bands which gave the Hard Bop sound its distinctive style and name in the 1950s and 60s. Hear classic tunes and…
World,
2026 Lunar New Year Concert
February 07, 2026
The Greater Cincinnati Chinese Music Society proudly presents its 2026 Lunar New Year Concert, a distinguished annual celebration that has united traditional Chinese instruments and the Philharmonic for more than two decades across the Tri-State region. Under the direction of…
Jazz,
Jazz at the MEMO presents Mandy Gaines Love Makes the World a Better Place
February 09, 2026
Always a perennial favorite, world class vocalist Mandy Gaines returns to Memorial Hall and Jazz at the Memo for a magical and intimate evening featuring timeless classic love songs from the Great American Songbook and beyond. Guitarist Brad Myers and…
Folk,
On A Winter’s Night featuring Cliff Eberhardt, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Patty Larkin
February 13, 2026
Presenting the Reunion Tour of “On A Winter’s Night” from veteran singer/songwriters that remain among the brightest stars of the singer/songwriter movement for the past three decades. In 1994 Christine Lavin gathered them together, along with folk and Americana artists…
Jazz,
Longworth-Anderson Series,
Christian McBride & Ursa Major
February 15, 2026
Christian McBride is an 9-time Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader. He is the artistic director of the historic Newport Jazz Festival, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the TD James Moody Jazz Festival, and the National Jazz Museum in…
Jazz,
Jazz at the MEMO presents Mambo Madness – A Latin Jazz Experience
February 16, 2026
The Mambo Combo band gets you moving in…
Chamber Music Cincinnati,
Classical,
Karen Slack, Soprano Michelle Cann, Pianist
February 17, 2026
Countdown to 100: Five… In 2029-30, Chamber Music Cincinnati will celebrate its 100th Anniversary. Only four other U.S presenters will have reached that milestone. (Kudos to St. Paul’s Schubert Club, the first to do so, in 1983!) The six 2025-26…
Jazz,
Longworth-Anderson Series,
esperanza spalding
February 19, 2026
Born in 1984 in Portland, Oregon, esperanza spalding is an eaabibacliitoti* artist, trained and initiated in the North American (masculine) jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves through various combinations of instrumental music, bass playing, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance,…
Americana,
Celtic,
Solas
February 20, 2026
Solas is lighting up stages across the globe as they celebrate three decades of pushing boundaries and honoring traditions in Irish music. Hailed by The Boston Globe as “the finest Celtic ensemble this country has ever produced,” and by The…
