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Holiday concert raises funds for food bank

The Youngstown Area Community Concert Band and the Stambaugh Chorus will raise funds for Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley with the 15th Holiday Concert Of Giving. Both the band and chorus are volunteer groups featuring musicians and singers from all over the Mahoning Valley. The Stambaugh Chorus, directed by Youngstown State University Professor Hae-Jong Lee, will perform first, and its program will include “O Holy Night,” “Mary Did You Know” and “Sleigh Ride.” The YACCB, conducted by Joseph Pellegrini, will then take the stage for the second portion of ...

GSO presents ‘Home Alone and Holiday Hits’

The Greenville Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the season with “Home Alone and Holiday Hits.” Joining the orchestra for the holiday concert will be the GSO Jazz Band, guest vocalists Emily Misch and Max Pivik, the SAY Children’s Chorus, directed by Julie Freeman Kerr, and the Shenango Valley Chorale, directed by Erich Lascek. According to GSO Conductor Michael Gelfand, “This holiday program is chock full of music that our audience and orchestra will really enjoy. The program includes Christmas Festival Overture, ‘Greensleeves,’ the GSO Jazz Band playing ‘Charlie Brown ...

Many hearing what Binder has to say

Singer Leanne Binder has been a local favorite for years, but she hasn’t been a “local” singer for a long time. She’s performed in the UK, made several appearances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and frequently travels to Nashville to record and to collaborate with other songwriters. Radio is starting to take notice as well. She appears on the latest episode of the Sirius XM radio podcast “Breaking the Business,” which was released Monday. Her 2025 EP “I Got Something to Say” reached number 24 on the RMR (Roots Music Report) contemporary blues chart, and ...

Penguin City hosts ‘SLAVidays’

Simply Slavic will get into the holiday spirit with “Home for the SLAVidays” on Friday at Penguin City Brewing Company. The evening will be filled with Slavic holiday traditions with music by the Chardon Polka Band, a visit from Cleveland Krampus and photos with St. Nicholas, a kolachi contest featuring local bakers, an enchanted Slavic Christmas Forest, Oplatek (Christmas wafer) sharing and a Christmas market. Slavic foods will be available from Babcia’s Lunchbox, Steel City Chimneys and The Pierogi Lady. Krupnik martinis will be sold with proceeds benefiting the Simply ...

Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e,” through Jan. 29, 2026. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. hoytartcenter.org and 724-652-2882. BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown: “Robert Rauschenberg: A Centenary Tribute,” through Jan. 4, 2026. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. www.butlerart.com and 330-743-1107. MEDICI MUSEUM OF ART, 9350 E. Market St., Howland: “ZODIAC: ...

Songwriters Hall of Fame posthumously inducts the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer

NEW YORK (AP) — There are giants, and then there is Donna Summer. The Queen of Disco and then some, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall said. Summer, who died in 2012 at age 63, was welcomed into the Songwriters Hall on Monday at a ceremony at The Butterfly Room at Cecconi’s in Los Angeles. It was led by Academy Award-winning songwriter Paul Williams. Summer’s ...