Guy Snowdon likes to joke that he landed in Cleveland Heights by accident. Nine years ago, he, his wife and their young daughter packed up their lives outside Birmingham, England, after his wife earned a promotion with her company’s Ohio-based office.

Before the move, he knew almost nothing about the region.

His introduction came in the form of tourism videos, the kind that show the lakefront on a sunny day and fans packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a Cleveland arena.

“There was one specific one, and it showed a lady on a stage, and in the background was some windows and there was a shipping container floating past,” he said. “And I remember distinctively watching that and thinking, ‘I wanna play that stage when we move there.’”

That stage was the Music Box Supper Club on the West Bank of

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