Firestone concert series starts Sunday

The Idabelle Firestone Fall Concert Series starts at 3 p.m. Sunday with Oak Street String Band, the Keller Family Singers and Sassa Brass.

It is the first of five September concerts. Other performances include Firestone Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 7; the Keystone State Gospel Quartet on Sept 14; and Ballet Western Reserve on Sept. 21.

The first four performances will be at Harvey S. Firestone Recreational Park, 338 E. Park Ave., Columbiana.

The series concludes with two concerts by The Texas Tenors at 3 and 7 p.m. at Columbiana High School.

Admission for all events is free, although organizers are accepting donations to offset the cost for the Texas Tenors.

For more information, call 234-855-9138, or email IdabelleFallConcerts@gmail.com.

JCC set to host author talk Sept. 8

Lauren Camp will discuss via Zoom the lives of a first-generation Arab American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parents at a program Sept. 8 at the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, 505 Gypsy Lane.

Camp’s book “One Hundred Hungers” tells overlapping stories of food and ritual, immigration and adaptation, evoking her father’s boyhood in 1940s Baghdad, a time when tensions began to emerge along ethnic and religious lines. Coffee and dessert will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Zoom presentation.

Admission is free, but registration is required at least 24 hours in advance by emailing bwilson@jewishyoungstown.org.

For more information, go to jccyoungstown.org.