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Packard concert features guest conductor, soloist

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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, ...

Bonamassa keeps making music, but might stop making records

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Enjoy Joe Bonamassa’s latest album, “The Spirit of Rory: Live from Cork.” There might not be many more after it. No contemporary blues artist may be more prolific or more successful than Bonamassa. He’s released more than 40 albums since his 2000 debut, “A New Day Yesterday.” ...

ACTS announces auditions

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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 ...

All Stars, RWB are returning for Woofstock 9

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All Stars don’t need rehearsals. Rajma McKenzie has led the Steel Valley All Star Band since the beginning of Steel Valley Woofstock, an event started to raise money for local animal care, from medications and vaccinations to spaying and neutering. The previous eight events have raised ...

To Your Good Health: Meclizine doesn’t ease her vertigo

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I got vertigo for the first time; not knowing what was happening, I went to the hospital fearing that it could be an aneurysm or a stroke. The hospital told me it’s “just” vertigo, showed me the Epley maneuver, and prescribed meclizine for me to take for three days. A follow-up visit to my primary care doctor a couple days later confirmed the hospital’s diagnosis and treatment. Since the hospital visit a month ago, I’ve had vertigo two or three times a week. Some episodes are so severe that I get nauseated and vomit, and it often takes me out for a full day ...

First Wednesday reading to feature three writers

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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 ...