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Opening acts picked for Tim McGraw’s YLIVE concert

The Band Perry and Chase McDaniel will open for Tim McGraw when he plays a YLIVE concert Sept. 27 at Wean Park in Youngstown. The Band Perry is a Grammy, CMA and ACM award-winning trio whose songs have been streamed more than a billion times. Its song “If I Die Young” was certified 9X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and won CMA Awards for single and song of the year. Its other chart-topping country hits include “You Lie,” “All Your Life,” “Better Dig” and “Done.” After a recording hiatus since 2019, The Band Perry re-signed with its ...

Blues guitarists will shake down Warren

The Shake ’Em on Down tour brings a trio of blues acts to the Robins Theatre on Dec. 12. The lineup features Samantha Fish, a Grammy-nominated guitar player who’s played in Warren several times; Cedric Burnside, a Grammy winner and the grandson of Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside; and Jon Spencer, who led the rock band the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

TSO announces Covelli Centre shows

Trans-Siberian Orchestra returns to the Covelli Centre for a pair of shows on Nov. 16. The 2025 winter tour, which will feature two TSO units playing 106 concerts in 64 markets in November and December, will feature a new production of its “The Ghost of Christmas Eve” album for the first half, and a second half that includes other fan favorites and a 25th anniversary salute to “Beethoven’s Last Night.” The Youngstown dates start at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. A presale for TSO Fan Club legacy members starts 10 a.m. Thursday, and a presale for all TSO Fan Club members starts 10 ...

Skynyrd keeps legacy alive

A show at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium always is a special occasion, and cameras captur                       ed Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 2022 performance there for a PBS special. It ended up being the final on-stage appearance by founding member Gary Rossington, who died March 5, 2023, at age 71. Rossington had heart surgery the year before and hadn’t been touring with the band except for an occasional guest appearance (he wasn’t part of the band's 2022 show at the Covelli Centre), but he played guitar for most of that Ryman show. “Little did we ...

Paisley plays fair before induction

Brad Paisley was a newcomer the first time he played the Canfield Fair. He returns Sunday as a hall of famer. Paisley will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October alongside Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Don Cook, Steve Bogard and Tony Martin. When the 2025 inductees were announced earlier this month, Paisley said, “What an honor this is to be included in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. It’s still sinking in what that means. It’s really an amazing thing to be in this group and to know that I’m accepted enough in the town that I wanted to ...

It’s never been easier for an artist to record and release music. Anyone with a laptop and rudimentary skills can record songs and upload them to Spotify, post them on YouTube and / or share them with their friends and followers through social media. And those who don’t have any talent at writing, singing and / or playing, can type prompts into AI and call its creations their own. A study floating around earlier this year claimed more music was released in a single day in 2024 than in all of 1989. Whether one believes those numbers or not — and I’m skeptical — there’s A ...