London-based designer and artist Adam Nathaniel Furman will visit Kent State University as part of the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series. Furman will lead a design workshop with architecture and fashion students in collaboration with Kent State’s Sue Hershberger Yoder, professor of ...
The music of James Taylor, Carly Simon and Carole King will be featured in the next Westminster College Celebrity Series Event. Three American Troubadours is a tribute to the three artists, all of whom are inductees in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Taylor is a six-time Grammy winner who has sold more than 100 million albums. Carly Simon, who was married to Taylor from 1972 until 1983, has two Grammy Awards. King won a Grammy for album of the year for “Tapestry” and both song and record of the year for “It’s Too Late” from that album. In addition to her own hits, King ...
Rap acts booked at Packard Music Hall Detroit rappers Skilla Baby, DeJ Loaf and T-Rell will perform at Packard Music Hall on April 25 for the Family and Friends Bash. Skilla Baby’s most streamed songs include “Gorgeous” and “Icky Vicky Vibes.” DeJ Loaf has several songs with more than 100 million streams, including “Me U & Hennessy” with Lil Wayne and “Back Up” with Big Sean. Andrew Lloyd will host the 6 p.m. show. Tickets are $95.50 and $85.25 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster. Fitch Drama Club stages ‘Sister Act’ musical The Austintown Fitch Drama ...
Two poets will be the featured readers for Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Sean Thomas Dougherty is an Erie, Pa., poet whose books include “Death Prefers the Minor Keys” from BOA Editions, and “The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things,” winner of the 2021 Jacar Books Prize. His book “The Second O of Sorrow” won the Housatonic Book Award and was cowinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. Ben Gulyas lives in South Euclid and tries to translate his poetry into something useful like seeds, birds and moon atlases. Sometimes it happens — birds ...
It took six years, but rapper Armani White finally is playing Youngstown. White, whose song “Billie Eilish” has been streamed nearly a half billion times on Spotify, will be the headliner for this year’s Federal Frenzy, presented by Youngstown State University’s Penguin Productions. White will be one of more than 20 acts performing on two outdoor and three indoor stages on or near West Federal Street on April 18. Carolyn Jesko, assistant director of student activities at YSU, said White was booked to play a Penguin Productions’ event scheduled at Westside Bowl in March 2020. ...
The Labra Brothers band is ready to make its “Move.” The Youngstown group will use its slot headlining this year’s The Summit FM’s 330 Day Concert to preview music from its upcoming album. Adrian Labra said the self-titled album is completed, but before it’s available, the band plans to release several singles, starting with “The Move” in April. It was made at Court Street Recording in Canfield. “We've got a nine-song album we're sitting on right now,” Labra said. “We spent most of 2025 working on it … We consider this just an awesome opportunity, anytime ...
