ARCA’s audience leapt to its feet with thunderous applause and BRAVOS on Sunday, May 4, 2025 for poetic and passionate BEETHOVEN in the hands of internationally acclaimed pianist David Allen Wehr and Pittsburgh Symphony’s Principal Cellist, Anne Martindale Williams in Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall. Charming the audience with humor and rich insights into Beethoven’s writing, Wehr … Read more
Saturday night’s concert with Pittsburgh’s hottest-on-demand vocalist and R&B Performer of the Year, CHANTAL JOSEPH and her band of Pittsburgh’s premier musicians was fabulous / great – a night of unforgettable entertainment – and a mutual LOVE-FEST between audience and performers – aka a REVIVAL MEETING. And that’s not an exaggeration. Like nothing ever seen … Read more
Sunday’s Lincoln Hall audience for ARCA’s 2025 Dr. Arthur D Steffee pianist – young genius composer and arranger SEAN CHEN – was filled with older adults, young parents, children AND students from elementary school to college. They were dazzled by his elegant and thrilling virtuosity in four Chopin Ballades connected by Sean’s improvisations and two … Read more
With the purity of their close vocal harmony in ‘Cool Yule’ songs from their Christmas album and contagiously joyous beatboxing by nationally acclaimed “Dr. Brick”, New York City’s award winning 5-person a cappella vocal quintet, BACKTRACK VOCALS, enthralled students from K to 12 in the Allegheny-Clarion Valley Schools on Monday, December 16, 2024. The ArtReach … Read more
Svetlana Smolina in Tour de Force “Favorite Encores Program With electrifying bravura that evoked the artistry of Earl Wild and Vladimir Horowitz in their transcriptions, Svetlana Smolina’s tour de force performance was thrilling and phenomenal in an entire program of her “Favorite Encores” in Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall on Sunday, November 24. A gorgeous woman, … Read more
Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts’ founder, president and beloved friend, DR. ARTHUR STEFFEE, was honored in a Memorial Concert on Sunday, October 27 for a capacity Lincoln Hall audience from all walks of life – family, medical colleagues and friends from the community – that gathered to remember their dear friend whose generosity, vision … Read more
The In Transit Band with spectacular vocalists Will Crooner Manker & Stevee Wellons and the band’s phenomenal trumpet, sax, guitars, keys and drums ROCKED THE SOULS of the audience with superlative entertainment and HEART from these consummate professionals in Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall on Saturday, September 28, 2024. Returning by popular demand after their performance outdoors … Read more
Foxburg’s RiverStone Estate to Become a Six Senses Wellness-Focused Resort Historic American Country Treasure to Offer Wellness-Focused Resort and Branded Residences Nestled in Western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny River Valley Situated on a sprawling wooded ridge at the confluence of the Allegheny and Clarion rivers, Six Senses RiverStone Estate will mark the next chapter in one of … Read more
With respect, admiration and gratitude, Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts mourns the passing of its beloved founder and president, Dr. Arthur D. Steffee, Jr. on his 90th birthday on Friday, August 16, in an outdoor accident at his StoneRidge residence. Link to the obituary. On Sunday, August 18, instead of the Lincoln Hall birthday … Read more
Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts’ Bluegrass Mini-Fest at Riverstone Estate with The David Mayfield Parade & Echo Valley on Sunday, August 4 was a Joyous Musical Celebration – with SPECTACULAR Virtuosity, Musical Variety, Personality, Charm and Outrageously Joyous Comedic Entertainment. We were BLESSED by a GORGEOUS August day in the middle of a week … Read more