Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

• It’s a re-Union. This week Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas is getting back together for its first tour in 10 years.

That “Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas” reference isn’t the hometown paper singling out Douglas, a Leavittsburg native and 16-time Grammy winner. That’s his official billing in the band, a testament to his unrivaled talents on the dobro.

Area audiences have had a chance to see Douglas several times in the last decade at The Kent Stage and Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, either with his own band, in a duo format with Daniel Kimbro or leading the bluegrass outfit the Earls of Leicester.

However, Douglas’ tenure with Krauss may be his most commercially successful venture, as evidenced by the size of the venues the band is playing on the upcoming tour.

A Columbus show at Mershon Auditorium on April 19, 2025, the third city on the 73-date tour, is one of the few theater-sized venues.

The band will play Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Cleveland on Sept. 7, and it is playing Blossom Music Center-sized amphitheaters in some markets.

Joining Krauss, who’s focused on a solo career in the last decade and released two albums with Robert Plant, for the re-Union are Ron Block, banjo and guitar, and Barry Bales, bass and harmony vocals. Taking Dan Tyminski’s place is Russell Moore from the band IIIrd Tyme Out on guitar and vocals.

Cleveland and Columbus are the closest dates to the Mahoning Valley. Tickets for all of the shows announced this week go on sale Friday.

* Also announced this week was a much bigger tour, albeit one with no local connection, outside of a lot of local fans.

AC / DC will play 13 North American stadiums in 2025, including Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium on May 8 and Cleveland’s Huntington Bank Field for the tour finale on May 28.

Except for an appearance at California’s Power Trip festival last year, it will be the Aussie rocker’s first U.S. tour since 2016.

AC / DC played a lot of European stadiums last year, but is it a stadium act in the U.S. in 2025? The band played arenas in 2016, and I don’t remember those shows being greeted by immediate sellouts.

AC / DC isn’t taking the same route (at least not yet) as Def Leppard, which wasn’t a stadium act by itself but drew well when joined by like-minded acts Motley Crue and Poison (and Joan Jett!) for a stadium trek in 2022. Billy Joel had Rod Stewart as his opening act at the Cleveland in 2024 and Stevie Nicks in Columbus in 2023.

No opening acts were included in this week’s tour announcement, so when tickets become available on Friday, sales will rest solely on the drawing power of the band 45 years after the release of “Back in Black.”

I don’t see AC / DC as a Rolling Stones-level stadium draw, at least not on its own.

* The video for The Stage of Dreams’ “Killingback Woods” won best music video from the New York Independent Cinema Awards.

The song is from the band’s concept album “The Duality Conflict,” which was released earlier this year.

The Mahoning Valley / western Pennsylvania metal act features Daniel Butch and Janelle Lawless, lead vocals; Dion Pomponio and Jim Carsone, guitars; Chris Marriotti, bass; and Shaun McConnell, drums.

Hubbard filmmaker William Victor Schotten produced the video and decided to submit it for consideration at the festival, where he won best director for his Christian feature “The Abiding Nail.”

“Killingback Woods” can be seen on YouTube, and The Stage of Dreams will perform Dec. 14 at The Vortex in Akron and Jan. 4, 2025, at Westside Bowl in Youngstown.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com.