Four Photographers Capture This Year's Lottery League in new Space: ROCK Photo Show
The 2013 Lottery League draft at the Beachland Ballroom February 1 kicked off two and a half months of rehearsals that culminated with the Big Show MMXIII at the Agora April 13.
Four photographers — Ken Blaze, Shel Greenberg, Frank Lanza, and Lou Muenz — captured the color, the excitement, the grit, the humor and the camaraderie of the process.
Their photos comprise From The Draft to The Big Show: The 2013 Cleveland Lottery League in Photos, opening at Space: ROCK, the music photographer gallery at 15721 Waterloo Road, on Friday August 2 from 6-10 pm. That’s also the night of the monthly Walk All Over Waterloo.
This year’s Cleveland Lottery League — the third time it’s taken place — was the largest and most spectacular yet. 169 Cleveland area musicians put their names into consideration to be drawn at random to form 42 completely new bands at the Draft.
The photographers captured it all — the suspense of finding out who your new bandmates were, the getting-to-know-you process of rehearsals, Slot Selection night aka the Bowling Party at the Madison Lanes when bands drew for their time slots, and of course, the 12-hour Big Show MMXIII.
From The Draft to The Big Show will feature nearly 100 photos so that those who were there can relieve the fun, and those who weren’t can kick themselves that they missed it.
The show will run through the end of September. Space: ROCK is open from 1-5 pm Saturday and Sunday and the from 6-10 pm the first Friday of each month.
For more information, please contact Anastasia Pantsios at 216-932-4835 or anastasjoy@aol.com.
Anastasia Pantsios is a Cleveland writer and photographer with an emphasis on music and the arts. She is the director of the Space: ROCK Gallery on Waterloo.
anastasia pantsios
Anastasia Pantsios is a Cleveland writer and photographer with an emphasis on music and the arts. She is the director of the Space: ROCK Gallery on Waterloo.