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Grammy Award-winning blues artist concludes Weis Center’s spring season

LEWISBURG — According to a press release, Bucknell University’s Weis Center for the Performing Arts will end its spring 2025 season with Grammy Award-winning blues artist Ruthie Foster at 7:30 p.m. on April 25 in the Weis Center Concert Hall, 525 Weis Drive. In January 2025, Foster ...

Lycoming College senior films to screen at Community Arts Center

According to a press release, the film and video arts department at Lycoming College will present its annual Senior Film Screening at 7 p.m. on April 10 at the Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth Street. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and theater seating is free and open to the public. Students participating in the screening decide on the genre and content of their films under the guidance of their thesis professor, Leah Bedrosian Peterson, professor of film and video arts and chair of the department at Lycoming College. They write, cast actors, scout locations, film, edit and produce ...

Repasz Band to present ‘A Night at the Opera’

Folks of a certain age might recall “Night at the Opera” as the name of a best-selling Queen record — the one with “Bohemian Rhapsody” on it. For those a bit older, that title also invokes the Marx Brothers’ classic comedy from 1935. But Lycoming County music fans this spring, it means another exciting free concert by the world-famous Repasz Band. Slated for 7:30 p.m. on April 8 at the Community Arts Center, “A Night at the Opera” presents a broad range of opera selections — from lesser-known gems to more familiar tunes like “Figaro” and “Barber of ...

Repasz Band opens fund drive

Now nearly 200 years old, Williamsport’s world-famous Repasz Band has announced a new Endowment Fund to help the group continue its popular slate of free local concerts. “Never before has the band’s existence to continue been directly threatened,” said Repasz treasurer and past ...

Grammy-nominated classical trio coming to the Weis Center

LEWISBURG — Bucknell University’s Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome classical ensemble Neave Trio at 2 p.m. March 30 in the Weis Center Concert Hall, 525 Weis Drive, a press release said. There will be a pre-performance Q&A with the artists from 1:15-1:45 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium. When at the Weis Center, Neave Trio will perform: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio, Op. 59 No. 1; Bedřich Smetana’s Piano Trio No. 1 in G minor, Op. 15; and Astor Piazzolla’s “Estaciones Porteñas.” Since forming in 2010, the ...