After a difficult divorce, Payton Sullivan decided to leave Nashville and escape to Hawaii. There she found a new sound and a new mentor and landed her first major tour. Sullivan will open for Sugarland when it performs Nov. 5 at the Covelli Centre. The two-time Grammy winning duo featuring ...
Richard Blair of Rolling Boxcar International and Ed Davis, former drummer for both Red Wanting Blue and The Vindys, bonded in a couple of ways when they met. Both are runners, and both love Wilco. “Maybe a couple years ago, Ed said, “Hey, (Wilco’s) ‘Being There’ is going to turn ...
Rolling Boxcar International is a band, but just as importantly, it’s a group of friends, Richard Blair said. “We all say that if our band were to cease to exist, we would stay friends,” Blair said. “That's paramount to all of it.” The band — Blair, Angelo LaMarca, Tony Nigro ...
“The Edgar Allan Poe Afterlife Radio Show” opens Friday at ACTS Performing Arts Center. The play by Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello tells four classic Poe tales — “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” presented from an otherworldly radio studio, complete with commercial breaks between the stories. In her director notes, Maria Petrella-Ackley writes, “Poe was more than an author of darkness; he was an architect of our fascination with the forbidden and the fearful.” The cast features Thomas ...
The First Class Big Band started making music 34 years ago. The only way to hear its music was to see the band live — until now. The jazz orchestra celebrates the release of its debut album, “Long Shot,” with a show Monday at JRz Pub in Austintown. Band leader Douglas James, who plays ...
Upton program looks at northern Trumbull’s early settlers Author Darcy Krolikowski will speak at the Harriet Taylor Upton House, 380 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren, at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Krolikowski, author of “Connecticut to Mesopotamia, Ohio,” will talk about the early settlement of northern Trumbull County. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. Refreshments will be served starting at 9:30 a.m. For more information, go to uptonhouse.org or call 330-395-1840. ‘Unearth’ gets Sips & Scripts exposure “Unearth” will be the next offering in Kent State University at ...
