Ensembles from five area high schools will join the Big Band Sound of Packard for its annual Jazz Appreciation Month Big Band Jazz Festival. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History led the effort to establish April as Jazz Appreciation Month to draw attention to ...

Jazz trombone player John Fedchock will join the Youngstown State University Jazz Ensemble and the Conneaut Area Blue Note High School Jazz Band for a concert Wednesday in Sharon, Pa. Fedchock, a Cleveland native, received degrees in music education and jazz studies at The Ohio State ...

The Youngstown State University Department of Art will host its first Summer Art Camp in June at Bliss Hall. Designed for students ages 13 to 18 entering grades 9 to 12, the camp will provide hands-on studio experience in painting, printmaking, photography and graphic design. Throughout ...

“Bugging Out for Books” is the theme of Family Book Day from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren. There will be crafts, games and gaming along with a variety of free activities with PBS Western Reserve and with Central State ...

Rebecca Nan is TAG’s artist of the month The work of Rebecca Nan is featured in the Artist of the Month Gallery for April at Trumbull Art Gallery, 158 N. Park Ave., Warren. Nan’s “Faces and Places” exhibit showcases portraiture and travel photography. The Kent State University ...

LOOP Youngstown is accepting applications for its new Emerging Artist Fellowship program. This fellowship is designed to support artists and writers in the early stage of their creative career, typically within their first 10 years of practicing seriously. Applicants may not yet have a large ...