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Hola Fest! celebrates Hispanic culture

Hola Fest! returns to Wean Park on Saturday. It is a free, family-friendly event celebrating culture and community. Filled with lots of children’s activities, music, food, fashion, art and dance representing the countries of Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, México, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Perú. Each country will proudly display authentic items and musical instruments from their native land in their booths. Attendees can visit each “village” and learn about different cultures. The ...

Woodwind quintet plays with Packard band

Bravura Woodwind Quintet will join the W.D. Packard Concert Band for its next performance. The group is made up of current and former music educators and features Rebecca Bickel, retired director of bands with Maplewood Local Schools, on oboe; Christine Crucci, director of bands and orchestras in Boardman Local Schools, on bassoon; Monica Meffan, retired music educator with Northwest Local Schools, on flute; Albert Colella, retired director of bands at Poland High School, on clarinet; and James Scanga, retired director of bands with Farrell (Pa.) Area Schools, on French horn. The ...

Nelly and Niko play Youngstown

Downtown Youngstown has a pair of concerts this weekend with Niko Moon at the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre and Nelly and Ying Yang Twins at the Covelli Centre on Sunday. Moon may sing about sippin’ apple moonshine, and Nelly raps about apple bottom jeans, but the two acts don’t ...

YSU brings Goodwin, Utley to Stambaugh for free lectures

A pair of Youngstown State University lectures are scheduled in September at Stambaugh Auditorium. AI expert Jeremy Utley will speak at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 17 as part of the YSU Thomas Colloquium on Free Enterprise, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25 as part of the Skeggs Lecture Series. As an adjunct professor at Stanford’s school of Engineering, Utley has become a Thinkers50 Top Ten Innovation Leader for his dynamic approach to teaching, research and advisory work in the field of AI. He is the author of the best-selling book “Ideaflow: The Only ...

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TAG displays Infante’s fiber art Kathryn Infante is featured in the Artist of the Month Gallery for September at Trumbull Art Gallery, 158 N. Park Ave., Warren. Infante is a fiber artist whose exhibit features banner quilts inspired by her annual week-long stay at a resident summer camp, where she teaches art to campers in the Art Pavilion. At the end of each day, she would unwind by making one quilt block to represent that day. Other work included in her display is inspired by her tri-weekly trail hikes through Mill Creek Metro Parks in Youngstown. While walking, she ...

TSO will play 2 in Youngstown for 30th anniversary tour

Trans-Siberian Orchestra will kick off the Christmas season in the Mahoning Valley with two pre-Thanksgiving concerts at the Covelli Centre. Concerts are scheduled at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22 as part of its 30th anniversary winter tour. The tour will feature a reimagined staging of “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,” the production that started it all, followed by a second set of TSO favorites. Other area dates on the tour include shows at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19 at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena and 3 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22 at Cleveland’s Rocket Arena. The public on-sale ...