Tales From Jeff & Flash

with Denny Sanders, Ruby Cheeks, John Gorman, David Spero, Alex Bevan, Charlie Wiener, and more

Doors open at 5:00pm, with the storytelling beginning promptly at 7:00pm

• Weekly series combining great food with great stories about Cleveland’s past
• In addition to our regular menu, we will be offering affordable specials on these nights

Story topic this week…

Tales From Jeff & Flash
Music Box is honored to present a special weekend celebrating 50 years since Jeff Kinzbach and Ed “Flash” Ferenc were paired and launched the Morning Zoo on WMMS, The Buzzard. Jeff & Flash became two of the city’s most beloved and influential radio personalities. We will kick off the weekend on Friday with a special edition of Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties. The night will start-off as a typical Cleveland Stories with Jeff & Flash on the stage sharing their memories of the Morning Zoo. Then, after a brief intermission, a list of Buzzard luminaries will each get on the stage to roast Jeff & Flash with some of their funniest stories about their on-air (and off-air) antics! Special guests will include Denny Sanders, Ruby Cheeks, John Gorman, David Spero, Alex Bevan, Charlie Wiener, Frank Foti and more! This weekend will honor the legacy of Jeff & Flash built around the people, music, and memories that helped shape Cleveland’s Rock ‘n Roll culture.

See all of the Jeff & Flash 50th Anniversary Events here.

Jeff Kinzbach Bio

Jeff Kinzbach grew up on the west side of Cleveland and is a life-long resident of Northeast Ohio. He spent over 20 years at WMMS in Cleveland as the morning show host. By utilizing innovative comedy, interviewing some of the biggest names in music and helping launch the careers of many of the classic rock bands, Jeff set records as one of the highest rated morning personalities in northern Ohio. Jeff was also the voice of WOIO-TV and appeared on many local shows. Jeff was a major force in getting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Area Broadcasters “Excellence in Broadcasting” award-winner, a Radio Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame inductee and a published author, Jeff gives back to the community with numerous charitable initiatives. Jeff and his wife Patti, a graduate of Firestone in Akron have been married for over 31 years and have a daughter, McKenzie who is an aerospace engineer for SpaceX. In his spare time, Jeff likes hiking and bicycling in the parks, photography, traveling and listening to his extensive vinyl album collection.

Ed “Flash” Ferenc Bio

Ed “Flash” Ferenc is a life-long broadcaster and credits his start in the industry doing the morning announcements at Normandy High School in Parma in 1970-71. After graduating, he attended Cleveland State University and joined the staff at WCSU, the campus radio station. A major in Communications, Flash jumped on an opportunity in 1973 and was hired by the News Director of WHK to assist in the preparation of the morning newscasts. In 1974, he moved to WHK’s sister station, WMMS where he did the news every half hour in the morning. In 1976, after working behind the scenes with Production Director Jeff Kinzbach, the Jeff and Flash Show was born and their program dominated Cleveland radio for a generation.

Flash currently hosts a pro-union radio show called America’s Workforce, which is broadcast locally and podcast nationally on six digital platforms (awfradio.com). He also hosts a live variety show every Saturday morning from 10-11am on 1490 WERE and all shows are posted on flashpointnow.com.

He and his wife of 34 years also operate a public relations and advertising agency called “Flashpoint” and for the past 22 years he worked as Public Information Officer for the Cleveland Municipal Court. Flash is a member of the Cleveland and the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame and in 2015 was named as one of Cleveland State University’s “50 Fascinating Alumni.”

The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past – from sports, to rock ‘n roll, to Millionaire’s Row, — the series will focus on tidbits from Cleveland’s past that will really thrill the audience. The Music Box is presenting this series in partnership with the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center. We think the Cleveland History Center is one of the most important museums in Cleveland. An unknown gem that Clevelanders should know more about, and support. It is the only museum in Cleveland dedicated to preserving and documenting the history of Cleveland. The Cleveland History Center includes two mansions, the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum, Chisholm Halle Costume Wing, Research Library, Kidzibits Hands-On Gallery, rotating exhibitions, and the Euclid Beach Park Grand Carousel.

See all Cleveland Stories dates here.