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• More than 30 businesses will participate in this year's Mahoning Valley Coffee Trail.
The annual event raises money for the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley. Those who make a $25 donation to the mission starting at 9 a.m. Oct. 5 will receive a passport they can take to the participating coffee shops, cafes, bakeries, etc. The businesses will have free coffee offers varying by location. Those who visit every location and turn in a completed passport will be eligible to win a grand prize package.
Only 750 passports are available and they usually sell out.
Last year's passport only included 24 locations, so this year's coffee travelers will get seven additional cups of caffeinated goodness for the same price.
This year's lineup features 26Three Coffee House, Aunt Martha's Donut & Coffee Shoppe, Branch Street Coffee Roasters, Broken Leaf Cafe, Cadence Coffeehouse & Creperie, C4 Coffee Co., Cafe 14, Cortland Collaborative: The Makers Market Cafe, Eatery and Events, Culturehouse Coffee Co., Generations Cafe, Grindhead Coffee Ship-Mahoning Valley, Grizzly Bean Coffee House, Hallowed Grounds Coffee Co., High Octane Coffee Austintown, Juny Cafe, LiB's Market, Looma Cafe, Molnar's Family Concessions, Mudslingers Drive Thru Coffee, Nourish Coffee + Kitchen, Pick Me Up Coffee Company, Pressed, Steelnative Coffee, The Cider Mill Coffee & Cafe, The Coffeeshop at Ridgewood, The County Grind, The Mocha House, Trek Coffeehouse/Coze Trek Outpost, Twisted Peacock Coffee Shop, Two Smart Cookies and The Wired Rooster.
Completed passports must be received by Dec. 14. For more information, go to rescuemissionmv.org/get-involved/coffeetrail.
• The 8th Rock for the Care runs 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Ross' Eatery & Pub, 8421 Tod Ave. SW, Lordstown.
The event was started by local musician Chuck Gisewhite to start a "Care Closet" at St. Joseph Warren Hospital to help cancer patients with the expenses related to their illness that aren't covered by their health insurance.
This year's music lineup features the bands Blue Siren, Thrown Together Mad River Men, 19th Paradise and Phestur and acoustic acts Joe Hudek, Rick Hartley, Gregor Dittman and Just Matt.
A donation of $10 is requested, and there also will be 50/50 and basket raffles with all proceeds going to the Care Closet.
• Fans of jazz star Sean Jones, a Warren G. Harding High School and Dana School of Music graduate, can catch the trumpet player in a free gig not too far from home.
Jones is one of the acts playing the 16th Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, which runs through Sunday.
Jones, who is artistic director of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra Jazz ensemble and the chair of the jazz department at John Hopkins University’s Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, previously taught at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University.
He's scheduled to play at 6:15 p.m. Saturday on the outdoor stage on Liberty Avenue downtown as part of a lineup that touches on multiple genres and their interconnectivity.
The full slate of performances, most of which are free to attend, can be found at pittsburghjazzfest.org.
• A documentary on Kent's 15 60 75 The Numbers Band will premiere this weekend at The Kent Stage, and the band will perform after one of the screenings.
"Out of Obscurity, Into Oblivion" by filmmaker Jason Prufer looks at the 56-year history of the band started by brothers Robert and Jack Kidney and Terry Hynde.
The band's music has a blues foundation, but it takes those roots in often unexpected directions, from jazzy to discordant, as it accompanies Robert Kidney's dark, incisive lyrics.
The Numbers Band has played many Youngstown shows over the decades, and its influence on many of the bands that came out of northeast Ohio is undeniable.
The band will open for the documentary on Saturday, playing at 7 p.m with the movie at 8 p.m.
A second screening of the movie, without a concert, is scheduled at 5 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets for both are available at thekentstage.org.
Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com.