Entertainment Editor Andy Gray

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

• Tickets are on sale now for the fifth Steel Valley Woofstock on Aug. 13 at Tiffany Banquet Hall in Brookfield.

The fundraiser uses music to generate money for spay-and-neuter programs, humane crisis outreach, pet food banks and other services helping animals in the Mahoning Valley. The event has raised more than $60,000 in its first four years.

Performing at this year’s event will be The Steel Valley All-Star Band, led by singer and guitar player Rajma McKenzie and featuring “an awesome collaboration of cherry-picked local musical talent,” according to the press release. Rajma regularly plays with Leanne Binder and in Triple Threat, and his debut solo single, “The Dying,” will be available for streaming beginning Friday.

Also performing will be the Labra Brothers.

In addition to ticket sales, Woofstock raises money with a basket raffle and its Rock and Roll Memorabilia Silent Auction. This year’s auction items should attract plenty of bidders — autographed guitars from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and David Grohl, signed records from Van Halen and The Smithereens, signed movie posters from “Star Wars,” a drum head signed by members of Journey and a Union Jack Hofner Bass signed by Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Tickets are $50 and are available at Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic in Girard and online at steelvalley woofstockinc.ticketspice.com/steel-valley-woofstock-5. VIP tickets are $1,000 for a table for 10. All tickets include admission, dinner, dessert, nonalcoholic beverages (cash bar for alcoholic beverages), entry into the progressive prize drawing featuring gift cards from local businesses and live entertainment.

• On Wednesday they announced the initial lineups for the two tribute concerts planned in memory of Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins.

In addition to the Foo Fighters, appearing at both Wembley Stadium in London on Sept. 3 and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Sept. 27 will be Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction, Alanis Morissette’s band), Stewart Copeland (The Police), Omar Hakim (drummer who’s worked with Weather Report, David Bowie, Foo Fighters and many others), Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures), Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson (Rush), Brian May and Roger Taylor (Queen), Mark Ronson, Rufus Taylor (The Darkness), Wolfgang Van Halen and Chevy Metal (Hawkins’ ’70s rock cover band).

Appearing only in London will be Liam Gallagher (Oasis), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), Supergrass and Dave Chappelle.

Those listed for Los Angeles only include Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette (Hawkins played drums in her band before joining Foo Fighters), Gene Simmons (KISS), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Luke Spiller (The Struts), Jon Theodore (Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age), Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave), and Pat Wilson (Weezer).

Press releases for both concerts also include the line “plus more to be announced.”

Presales start today for those on the Foo Fighters’ email list with a special code. Public on-sales start at 9 a.m. Friday local time (so 4 a.m. for the London show and noon for Los Angeles). Proceeds will benefit charities in the U.S. and U.K. selected by Hawkins’ family. Considering capacity at the Kia Forum is less than 18,000, getting tickets will be nearly impossible, even if it wasn’t three time zones away.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com