Stumped for what to give your mother, daughter, brother or best friend this Holiday? Find your gift-giving solutions in charming Foxburg village with its glittering Christmas lights as you shop weekends through Sunday, December 21 in the Red Brick Gallery’s 2025 Holiday Art Show for delightfully original, artisan-made gifts on two floors. This year’s holiday … Read more
Back by popular demand after dazzling ARCA’s Lincoln Hall audience last season and enthralling A-C Valley students in the Schools, the SOLD OUT audience on Sunday, November 23 for Backtrack Vocals jumped to their feet in a standing ovation after their concluding “Celebration” medley. Appreciating their close harmony, choreography, heart, humor and brilliant original … Read more
The capacity Lincoln Hall audience celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ARCA’s first Wurlitzer concert on Sunday, November 9 jumped to their feet in a standing ovation for “Grand Master of the Organ” JONAS NORDWALL – one of the phenoms in the organ world, an extraordinary keyboardist and artist who is called a legend for a … Read more
FAB they were – The Fabulous Booze Brothers Show Band and Revue – getting a standing ovation from the jam-packed Halloween-costumed Lincoln Hall audience for their entertaining showmanship on Saturday, October 25, 2025. The band was in Halloween costumes too! Their wailing vocals and instrumentals and pastiche antics in two phenomenal, jam-packed sets had the … Read more
The musical candles of ARCA’s 20th Birthday concert burned brightly for the full Lincoln Hall house that gave a standing ovation to mezzo soprano Kathy Soroka, pianist Nathan Carterette, violinist Maureen Conlon Gutierrez and tenor Robert Frankenberry for their eclectic gala program on Sunday, October 12, 2025 – twenty years after the first concert was … Read more
What a golden afternoon and magical evening on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at RiverStone Estate for ARCA’s thank you reception for its major donors on the actual weekend of the first concert in Lincoln Hall 20 years ago. It was a joyous celebration as ARCA’s funders and long-time friends were sumptuously hosted by Saji and … Read more
In its 20 years, Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts has celebrated the artistry of pianists – who were a favorite of founder and President Arthur Steffee, whose one-year anniversary of his passing will be remembered this weekend. He himself studied in his youth both the violin and flute/piccolo – and especially appreciated pianists having … Read more
If you missed last night’s BLAZING world-class instrumental artistry and television-comedy-writer worthy humor that had the SOLD OUT Lincoln Hall audience laughing from the moment they walked on stage to their cheering standing ovation at the end of The David Mayfield Parade show, WE’RE SORRY FOR YOU (-: Because their third performance in Lincoln Hall … Read more
It was the Ultimate Father’s Day concert Saturday night in Lincoln Hall for a sold out audience as son and father – Benny Benack III and Benny Benack Jr (BB3 & BB2) raised the roof with sizzling hot JAZZ and the unbridled JOY of making music together and celebrating a three-generation tradition of musical genius, … Read more
Saturday night in Lincoln Hall, we were in the presence of legendary bluegrass greatness with Missy Raines’ performance with Allegheny and everybody knew it. And the band was phenomenal too! Hers was pinnacle virtuosity and artistry on her upright bass that crossed all genres with a passion and joy that was “in the zone” – … Read more