WILKES-BARRE — As the 66th annual Fine Arts Fiesta concluded Sunday on Public Square, it marked the 44th year of loyal service from one familiar, painted face: Flossie the Fine Arts Fiesta Clown. Outside of the Fiesta, the beloved clown is better known as Mary Ellen Fowler, a retired nurse ...
The Uptown Music Collective, the area’s premier nonprofit school of music, is now accepting scholarship applications for its 2022-23 school year, which will begin in September. This year, the collective is offering 13 needs- and merit-based scholarships to currently enrolled students, as ...
MILL HALL — A powerful “one-broad” comedy about the Ethel Mertz no one ever knew kicks off Millbrook Playhouse’s 2022 season. After the pandemic shuttered the Cabaret completely last summer, Producing Artistic Director David Leidholdt invites theatergoers back to the Cabaret for “Sidekicked,” leading off Millbrook’s 59th season. This comedy, which vividly relives all, has 7:30 p.m. performances on June 3-4, 8-11, with 2 p.m. matinees on June 5, 8 and 12 at the playhouse, 258 Country Club Lane, Mill Hall. Penned by Kim Powers, “Sidekicked” finds Vivian Vance as ...
Bassist Gabriel Severn, a junior at Loyalsock Township High School, is the U.S. winner of the Joe Zawinul Foundation for Achievement’s “Z” Award. The “Z” Award is given annually to a music student from Austria and a music student in the United States for demonstrating exceptional ...
Williamsport’s world-famous Repasz Band will present its annual spring concert for free at 7:30 p.m. on May 24 at the Community Arts Center. After an unusual year involving virus restrictions, practice protocols and an arduous move to a new rehearsal space in Montgomery, the 191-year-old ...
It’s time to shake off the winter blues and celebrate spring with the Buffalo Valley Singers’ annual Pops concert. Titled “Why We Sing,” the concert holds a special place in the choir’s history, according to a recent press release. Although BVS began to practice the planned set of music in spring of 2020, the concert was canceled due to the COVID pandemic. “I view this concert as a celebration of the way in which all of us faced the uncertainty of the last two years with patience and perseverance,” said Connie Pawling-Young, director of BVS. “Why We Sing” will ...
