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12/24/2025

Unwind after this holiday season with the music you know by heart. E5C4P3 - The Journey Tribute live this Friday.🎸

12/20/2025

12/16/2025

🎄✨ This Friday, Countess Luann is jingling all the way to the Ludlow Garage with her Christmas Cabaret! ✨🎄

Feeling fancy? A very limited number of Meet & Greet upgrades are still available — exclusively for ticket holders!

Get your Meet & Greet Upgrade Here😉
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1600638B11B222E5

12/13/2025

The bus is here and the show is ON!! It's going to be a rocking night at The Ludlow Garage sold out Samantha Fish Shake Em' On Down Tour, with Cedric Burnside & Jon Spencer

12/12/2025

Please consider voting for Ludlow Garage in “Best Music Venue” Category. We love being close to U.C. and love our Bearcats.

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12/11/2025

“One of the finest guitarists in the world.” — Rick Beato

Mike Dawes coming to the Ludlow Garage this February 11th.

Tickets available here or at the venue box office.
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/160063557FED12CC

12/11/2025

Such a wonderful night with and the lovely Sheena Easton❤️

12/03/2025

From Buffalo Springfield to Poco, Richie Furay’s voice and songwriting have shaped the sound of country-rock for over six decades. See the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer live at Ludlow Garage on January 24th for a night of the music that defined a genre. 🎸 Don’t miss it.

Tickets available on our website and at the box office located in the venue.

🎟https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1600635E1F1894F4

12/01/2025

Experience The Love King live. 💘

Raheem DeVaughn returns to Cincinnati on December 11th for a night of soul, passion, and pure R&B magic.

Tickets available for purchase on our website or at the box office located in the venue

12/01/2025

See ALL of these legendary artists in ONE night at the Ludlow Garage! Don’t miss the Home For The Holidays tour—an incredible lineup, world-class musicians, and a truly special R&B celebration.

🎟 https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1600634DC32F307C

Time to switch my hats.
It’s R&B time

Christmas tour starting today till Dec 23rd. It’s called
“Home For The Holidays”

It’s very exciting for me cause I haven’t play with these guys in 30 years. It’s like school reunion.

We had 2 amazing rehearsals in LA. On this gig I’m the orchestra. Playing Strings, Horn, Wood Winds, sound effect and many more. I’ll surround whole stage with my keyboards and I enjoy every note.

Artist:
Peabo Bryson, Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard, and Ilya Serov.

The band!
Ronald Feure: Musical Director
The 5th Dimension
America’s Got Talent

Land Richards: Drummer
George Benson, Michael Bolton, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, and Earth, Wind and Fire, Gerald Albright, Atushi/Exile, Patti Austin, Phillip Bailey,, Angela Bofil, Peabo Bryson, Bobby Caldwell, Larry Carlton, Norman Conners, Randy Crawford, Al Jarreau.

Jervonny Collier: Bass
Bonnie Raitt, Chick Corea, and Branford Marsalis, Gladys Knight.

Michael O’Neill: Guitar, Vocal
George Benson, Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, Barbra Streisand, Toni Braxton

Dwight Watkins: Bass, Keys, Vocal
Peabo Bryson‘s Musical Director

And me. 🙂

If you are in the area come see us!

Schedule;
Nov 29th Mohegan Wilkes-Barre

Nov 30th Scottish Rite Auditorium Collingswood, NJ

Dec 1st Lynn Auditorium Lynn, MA

Dec 2nd Westhampton Beach Westhampton, NY

Dec 3rd Mayo Peforming Arts Center Morristown, NJ

Dec 5th Genesee Theatre Waukegan, IL

Dec 6th Seneca Allegany Casino Salamanca, NY

Dec 7th Sound Board at Motor City Casino Detroit, MI

Dec 9th Lerner Theatre Elkhart, IN

Dec 10th Ludlow's Cincinnati, OH

Dec 12th Schiedegger Center for the Arts St. Louis, MO

Dec 13th Sycuan Casino El Cajon, CA

Dec 14th Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Cerritos, CA

Dec 16th Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco, CA

Dec 17th Celebrity Theatre Phoenix, AZ

Dec 19th Arlington Music Hall Arlington, TX

Dec 21st Tobin Center for the Performing Arts San Antonio, TX

Dec 22nd Paramount Theater Abilene, TX

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342 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH
45220

Opening Hours

Wednesday	4pm - 10pm
Thursday	4pm - 10pm
Friday	4pm - 12am
Saturday	11am - 12am
Sunday	11am - 9pm

Website

http://www.LudlowGarageCincinnati.com/

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Cincy’s original garage rock home.

September 19, 1969. Exactly a month past Woodstock. America was just beginning to understand the ground-shaking effects that 3 muddy days and 400,000 people would have on its history.

Tricky Dick was just wiring up the Oval Office. The war in Vietnam raged at its bloody peak. Several Cincinnati neighborhoods were still picking up the pieces from tragic riots the year before. Young people were on the streets and demanding change.

A lone youth counselor in Cincinnati knew how to keep them engaged with the Cultural Revolution, but out of trouble.

Enter: Jim Tarbell and The Ludlow Garage.

In an unassuming former auto repair shop at 346 Ludlow Avenue in rapidly-diversifying, uptown Clifton, mere blocks from the weekly student protests at the University of Cincinnati, Tarbell organized help to build a visionary new venue.

It would be a righteous listening room for a new generation. It would feature the avant garde, hard rock, funk, psych and soul acts that stodgy, establishment venues wouldn’t book. It would revel in the cutting edge sounds of the Sixties and Seventies.

“It was a trip just getting into the Garage,” Tarbell told CityBeat’s Rick Bird in a 2009 look-back interview. “You passed through 14-foot-tall, 4-inch-thick wooden doors with 4-foot-high brass handles.”

From the get-go, patrons were “put on notice you’re going into something different,” he said.

“You walk down these huge ramps — used to get cars in and out of the basement — into a huge subterranean room where our macrobiotic food booths were,” Tarbell remembered. “Then, you go up a winding staircase to the upper level where the concert hall was.”

“We had 8-foot-tall high chairs that would hold four people,” he recalled. “Going to the men’s room, you walked into a giant Quaker State oil can. The ladies room was Penzoil. I found all these reproduction oriental rugs for people to sit on.”

Perhaps no other Cincinnati venue has ever been so profoundly in touch with the musical and cultural zeitgeist as Tarbell’s genius club. And, for two unbelievably influential years, people all across the national scene buzzed about the “Fillmore of the Midwest.”

The opening night bill: Grand Funk Railroad, with Lonnie Mack and Balderdash.

A much-abbreviated list of merry players who graced its stage: MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, The Kinks, BB King, Santana, Savoy Brown, James Gang, Humble Pie, Ten Years After, Alice Cooper, Vanilla Fudge, Commander Cody, Golden Earring, The Flamin’ Groovies...

Hometown garage rock heroes: The Lemon Pipers, The Goshorn Brothers, Pure Prairie League.

The peak came in 1970, when The Allman Brothers recorded a show there that would later be released as one of the defining live albums of their career, Live at the Ludlow Garage.

The Ludlow Garage was truly the center of Cincinnati’s countercultural awakening.

But, as the saying goes, “all good things...” Arena rock captured the audience’s attention. Tarbell shuttered the club, became a successful restaurateur and (later) Cincinnati’s vice-mayor.

Now, nearly 50 years later, his amazing club’s legacy is remembered and cherished. And the venue is reborn.

Long-time Clifton denizens and music lovers Dave and Claudia Taylor honor the Tarbell legacy. They’ve refurbished and re-invigorated this special space.

We hope that you’ll come join us as we make special, new musical memories here in Clifton.

Come for the food, stay for the folks, live for the funk. And rock on, Cincinnati. Rock on.

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