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Boardman Park hosts Community Day

Boardman Community Day and an America250 celebration combine this Saturday at Boardman Park. The day begins with a history of Boardman presentation at 10 a.m. and guided tours of the Historic Village, including the St. James Meeting House and Detchon House. Afternoon activities include a community cornhole tournament starting at 2 p.m., a touch-a-truck event (with police, fire and construction vehicles) at 4 p.m. as well as children’s activities, a wellness and accessibility tent, local veteran resources and support organizations and food vendors. Musical acts include Gabe ...

Opera couple sings with Packard band

Two guest vocalists will join the W.D. Packard Concert Band for its next outdoor concert. Soprano Sujin Lee and tenor Shawn Mathey, who are married, each will perform solo and do a duet together as part of the program. Lee has toured extensively throughout Europe and the United States, performing with Teatro Lyrico d’Europa, Toledo Opera, Delaware Opera, Dicapo Opera and multiple appearances with Ocean City Pops. She received her master of music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and an artist diploma from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Lee currently is an ...

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Packard books Clay Walker Christmas show A Clay Walker Family Christmas comes to Packard Music Hall in Warren on Nov. 27. The show mixes holiday favorites and country classics by Walker, who had 17 top 10 country hits between 1993 and 2009, including “What’s It to You,” “Live Until I Die,” “Dreaming with My Eyes Open,” “Rumor Has It” and “She Won’t Be Lonely Long.” Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. An online-only presale runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today with the password: CWXMAS. ‘Millionaire’s Row’ walking tour ...

Brantley Gilbert returns to Covelli Centre

Brantley Gilbert will bring his Real American tour to the Covelli Centre on Oct. 15. Gilbert is touring in support of his eighth studio album, “Sins of the Father,” which will be released July 24. It was co-produced with Brock Berryhill, who’s worked with acts ranging from Twenty One Pilots to Kane Brown, and the lead single is “Good Damn.” Since 2005, he’s had five songs top Billboard’s Country and/or Country Airplay charts (“Country Must Be Country Wide,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do,” “Bottoms Up,” “One Hell of an Amen” and “What Happens in a ...

Millennial’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is letter perfect

YOUNGSTOWN — Considering how emotionally draining it is as an audience member, it’s hard to imagine how difficult it must be for the cast of Millennial Theatre Company’s “Dear Evan Hansen” to do six performances. The Benj Pasek/Justin Paul/Steven Levenson musical won six Tony Awards, including best musical, in 2017, and it’s easily the best and the most serious of the teen-centric, social-media-focused musicals in recent years, and the talented cast assembled by director Joe Asente is more than capable of handling its challenges. MTC built a reputation locally for polished, ...

YLIVE drives preshow traffic to Youngstown businesses

YOUNGSTOWN — Jason Aldean had a hit with “My Kinda Party,” but YLIVE concertgoers didn’t wait for Aldean to take the stage to get the party started. Several downtown bars and restaurants were filled with people enjoying food and drinks before making the hike up the hill to Stambaugh Stadium for the first of two concerts this weekend. Sophia Martini, owner of The Federal, described it as an “all hands on deck” situation to handle the anticipated crowds. “When events are going on, I can have a full staff,” Martini said. YLIVE continues Saturday night with Eric ...