CLEVELAND, Ohio --- As the adage goes, if at first you don’t succeed, try again – even if it takes a half a decade to realize, if you are the Mike Farley Band.

The venerable Cleveland-based rock band will reunite for a show Sept. 6 for a concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of its most popular release, 2000’s “halfaworldaway.” But the get-together itself is almost as noteworthy for its fits and starts over the past five years.

“I remember when we hit that last note, I said, ‘We’re gonna take a short break, we’ll be back in ten years,’” Farley said of the group’s most recent appearance on stage in 2010. “Everyone laughed, including us. Then we had a reunion show booked in 2020, which was ten years.”

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic put the brakes to those plans, with the band inste

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