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ACTS announces auditions

ACTS Performing Arts Center will have auditions in August for three fall productions. The community theater is seeking vocalists for ACTS Sings! Duos & Duets. Singers should audition in pairs and prepare 32 bars of a song of their choosing. The songs sung in auditions will not be included in the show automatically but will be considered by director Justin Ray and assistant Roxanne Chapman Auditions are scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 9 and 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 12, and the cabaret show will be presented on the 40 Below stage Sept. 25 to 27. Auditions for “The Edgar Allan Poe Radio ...

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St. Pat’s hosts 68th festival Opening today is the 68th festival at St. Patrick Church, 225 N. Main St., Hubbard. The annual event features parish-made foods as well as food vendors. Entertainment will include Old Skool tonight, David Hern Band on Friday, Chris Higbee on Saturday and The Feral Cats and Dr. Zoot Band on Sunday. This year’s raffle features a new Trailblazer of $20,000 as the grand prize. Festival hours are 6 to 10 p.m. today, 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Library, TCHS collect stories Area residents are ...

Mazey’s solo project is now multi-‘Dimension’-al

Kevin Mazey’s COVID-19 music project has a follow up. Mazey, longtime keyboard player for The Houseband and a musician who has played with Link and other acts since the 1980s, released “Dimension,” a collection of mostly instrumental jazz-rock in 2021 that showcased his talents as a ...

First Wednesday reading to feature three writers

A trio of writers will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Poets Becca J.R. Lachman of Athens and Renee Nicholson of Morgantown, West Virginia, and fiction writer and essayist Rebecca Moon Ruark of Galesville, Maryland, will read from their work. Lachman, poet laureate of Athens, serves as the communications director for the Athens County Public Libraries and earned her master’s degree from Bennington College. The author of four poetry collections, she also publishes choral music and hymn lyrics, and edited the national anthology “A ...

Packard concert features guest conductor, soloist

Guest conductor Frank Tracz is bringing one of his former students with him for the W.D. Packard Concert Band’s next performance. Tracz, an Ohio State University alum and a frequent guest conductor with the Packard band, is a professor of music and director of bands at Kansas State University. Joining Tracz on Sunday will be saxophone player Xan Perkins, who will be the featured soloist on Nat McIntosh’s “Brooklyn.” Perkins received his bachelor of arts degree in music performance at Kansas State, and he has been a regular guest soloist with the Manhattan Municipal Band, ...

Parmalee coming to Robins Theatre in November

Country act Parmalee will play the Robins Theatre on Nov. 14. The band’s songs have been streamed more than 1.6 billion times worldwide, and its country hits include “Cowgirl,” “Take My Name,” “Girl in Mine,” “Just the Way” and “Gonna Love You.” Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix.