Come on down to the river for an unforgettable evening of Jazz, Blues, R&B, Funk and More on Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 PM with TWO bands who each have sold out Lincoln Hall – CATRO with vocalist Tammi Dahl and Key Factor with vocalist Lori Russo performing jazz, blues, R&B, Funk, Ballads and more as ARCA celebrates the late Drew Orient, its former executive director from 2009 to 2013, an avid amateur saxophonist who founded popular jazz and Scottish Festivals.
The concert will open with Jonathan Shegog and Brian Lowry of Carnival of Souls performing “Highland Cathedral” on bagpipes and the McKissick Mighty Wurlitzer.
Longtime CATRO saxophonist Dave Kana will be riffing as he enters from the back of the hall to the stage – and Poet Philip Terman will read a poem to the improvisation of CATRO as they did in Poetry and Jazz concerts that Drew produced.
The dance floor at the back of the hall will be open as people are moved by CATRO and Key Factor’s mix of jazz, R&B classics, blues, samba, bossa nova, romantic ballads, Caribbean styles, Neo soul and Funk.
The Red Brick Gallery – which was founded by artist Donna Edmonds as a result of Drew Orient’s vision and instigation – before the April 18 concert will have a soft opening of the exhibit featuring earthen ceramics by Charlie Platt and drawings and paintings by Jason Floyd Lewis from 5 to 7 PM at 17 Main Street. A lone saxophonist – Slippery Rock University student Eric Francis – will be sitting in front of the gallery and riffing, as Drew Orient is remembered having done.
Adults – $20. Beer and Wine will be sold – cash bar.
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With gratitude remembering Drew Orient
ARCA’s Executive Director from 2009 – 2013
In 2009, Drew Orient stepped in as the Executive Director of Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts after the departure of ARCA’s founding board members and executive director who left after chartering the organization, refurbishing Lincoln Hall and presenting two and a half years of concerts.
An innovative and creative impresario, Drew had a passion for music and especially jazz and in five seasons built a foundation for ARCA without which it would not exist today.
Drew created Beethoven and jazz festivals and poetry & jazz concerts and fulfilled Dr. Arthur’s Steffee vision of a Scottish Festival at RiverStone Estate that attracted thousands over five years. Drew’s own vision of establishing an art gallery in the original Fox family’s brick office building led him to inspire former Westinghouse Sr. Executive Vice President Donna Edmonds, also a botanical watercolorist, to found the Red Brick Gallery with its cooperative artist structure.
ARCA is deeply grateful for his creativity and generosity while receiving a miniscule salary, more a volunteer than employee, that exemplified his love of music and art as well as his passion to bring inspiring concerts and exhibits to impact the lives of residents of western Pennsylvania. Drew continued this after he moved to Harmony, PA.
About CATRO
Catro’s spirited solos, captivating grooves, and soulful haunting vocals have delighted audiences in the region for more than 30 years – and its virtuosic musicians have appeared in concert, club, and festival performances nationally and internationally.
Pianist, composer, and leader of CATRO, Mark DeWalt is the creative force behind the Pittsburgh Jazz band called CATRO. Their inspired sound truly comes from the heart – an expression of life’s joys & passions – as they deftly combine elements of many genres into every song with each musician adding his or her own color, timbre and very soul to the project, resulting in real musical synergy.
The band is based in western Pennsylvania with musicians who are among the most talented and versatile performers in the region. CATRO will feature virtuosic soloing of Eastern Ohio’s jazz legend, Dave Kana, on tenor sax and swinging keyboards of composer/pianist, Mark Dewalt, renowned Glenn Schaft on drums and the sultry and captivating vocals of Tammi Dahl, whose style, phrasing, and emotions add to the fullest expression of the mood of the song. Listeners may be reminded of Nancy Wilson or Eva Cassidy.
CATRO’s musicians have toured, recorded, and performed in Jazz, Rock, Latin, Classical and Educational capacities all over the world combining new melodies, contemporary harmonies, and 21st century energy to create a unique, entertaining and accessible sound.
As members of other musical organizations, these world-class musicians have been featured in such prestigious venues as The Kennedy Center in Washington DC; Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh PA; Disneyland Park in Anaheim CA; Nasionale Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn South Africa; Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Holland. The experiences gained from touring, recording and performing in World-Beat, Jazz, Rock, Latin, Classical, and educational contexts are shared with the listener as the players deftly combine elements of many genres into one memorable show.
MARK DEWALT
Mark DeWalt, pianist, is the leader of the jazz band CATRO. Living in the Grove City area, Mark appears regularly throughout the region playing piano and keyboard, performing in festivals, clubs, commercial and private settings. In 2006 Catro released a self-titled CD which includes seven of DeWalt’s compositions. Mark’s playing has been included in numerous other recording projects ranging from World Beat, original rock, and Jazz to contemporary Christian styles. Highlights of his career include performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, two tours to Scandinavia, a tour to South Africa and many regional Jazz and Art Festival engagements.
He’s performed with celebrated poet Phil Terman presenting programs of Phil’s poetry-reading accompanied by live music – and recently formed with John DeCola the group Key Factor with vocalist Lorri Russo and drummer Glenn Schaft. Mark also appears as a side man with numerous regional groups, teaches private students and works as a church accompanist.
Mark’s wood working artistry is displayed in ARCA’s Red Brick Gallery Gift Shop and has been featured in exhibits in the second floor Gallery space of the Red Brick, for which he is a Cooperative Member Artist.
DAVE KANA
David Kana is one of the area’s most widely respected players of the saxophone. David’s knowledge of tunes and his mastery of the instrument make him a top choice for dozens of ensembles in the area and nationally. He has performed with various artists including: The Benny Goodman Orchestra, Buddy Greco, Barbara Morrison, Henry Cuesta, the Temptations, Kristin Chenoweth, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Three Rivers Entertainment, the Del Sinchak Band, and Special Productions in Cleveland, Ohio.
A member of the Youngstown State University, Dana School of Music Jazz Faculty, he is responsible for directing two Jazz Combos, teaching the Advanced Improvisation, Jazz Fundamentals and Jazz History classes. David is also a member of the Music faculty at Malone University where he teaches Classical Saxophone. For the past twenty-two years he has joined an elite team of international musicians as a member of the faculty at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops.
TAMMI DAHL
Tammi Dahl’s beautiful voice is familiar to thousands of music lovers in our region.
Tammi performs regularly with CATRO and was the featured vocalist on their original album in 2006. Tammi leads a highly sought after wedding/party band based in Pittsburgh known as Dreamscape.
A favorite of ARCA audiences, Tammi has performed in Lincoln Hall cabarets and in a touching tribute to ARCA’s founder and longtime President, Dr. Arthur Steffee – performing songs that brought a tear to his eye.
Tammi has produced and directed numerous community theatre events in Franklin, PA and continues to donate many of her talents to mentoring and encouraging aspiring vocalists in the region.
Tammi is the proud mother of her three children and grandmother of two boys.
GLENN SCHAFT
Percussionist Glenn Schaft‘s diverse performance, recording, and teaching career includes idioms such as classical, opera, ballet, new music, world music, jazz, blues, rock, reggae, funk, Brazilian, West African, and Afro-Cuban.
He is Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Youngstown State University where he teaches applied percussion and directs the YSU Percussion Ensemble. He is the co-founder and faculty advisor for the Youngstown Percussion Collective and performs with the YSU Faculty Jazz Group, with whom he twice toured China, performing and teaching at the premiere Chinese music conservatories in Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou.
Glenn is an artist endorser with Zildjian, Remo, and educational consultant with Black Swamp Percussion.
A member of the Percussive Arts Society, Glenn has served on the Drumset Committee, University Pedagogy Committee, Membership Committee, PASIC Planning Committee, and has presented lectures, panel discussions, and performed at PASIC international conventions throughout the United States.
Glenn earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana where he studied with Tom Siwe, the Master of Arts in Performance at Eastern Illinois University where he studied with Johnny Lee Lane, the Bachelor of Music in Performance at Baldwin-Wallace University where he studied with George Kiteley, and completed post-doctoral studies in contemporary music and orchestral percussion at Cleveland State University where he studied with Edwin London, Jay Burnham, and Tom Freer.
PHILIP TERMAN
Philip Terman will perform a poem with CATRO in tribute to Drew Orient and his love of jazz and poetry.
In past seasons poet Philip Terman has performed with CATRO as part of ARCA’s Poetry and Jazz Concerts as well as poetry readings in the Red Brick Gallery.
Working with the RBG Artistic Director, Jason Floyd Lewis, Philip Terman has partnered in creating collaborative art and poetry exhibits through The Bridge Literary Art Center, including the 2024 Ekphrasis poetry/art exhibit – and the upcoming Reverse Ekphrasis exhibit opening in the RBG on Friday, May 22 2026.
Philip’s poetry also has been showcased in an RBG exhibit with illustrations by painter James Stewart in the hand sewn book of his poetry The Four Seasons, by bookbinder Susan Frakes,
Philip Terman is the author eight books and four chapbooks of poetry, including the recently published, My Blossoming Everything(Saddle Road Books) and the soon-to-be released The Whole Mishpocha: New and Selected Jewish Poems (Ben Yehuda Press).
Individual poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun Magazine, The Forward, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The New Promised Land: An Anthology of Jewish American Poetry and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Poems have appeared on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and Poetry Daily.
About KEY FACTOR
KEY FACTOR with LORI RUSSO, vocalist and bassist, Mark DeWalt at the keyboard, John DeCola on electric accordion and keyboards and Glenn Schaft on drums will get you up and dancing at the back of the hall with a mix of R&B classics, jazz standards, samba, bossa nova, romantic ballads, Caribbean styles, Neo soul and funk.
Lori Russo
Key Factor vocalist and electric bassist, Lori Russo has had a multi-faceted career as vocalist, instrumentalist and educator.
As a vocalist, Lori has appeared and toured with Ray Charles, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Dorsey Brother’s Big Band, Jim Neighbors, Kenny Rogers and John Faddis, among others.
Of her seven CDs in rock, jazz and blues, Lori’s performance of the title track of her 1997 CD (and her composition) recording “It’s You, It’s Me” was hailed by All About Jazz for “… just a touch of vibrato, well-trained vocal chops, a natural talent for working the lyric”.
Lori’s recording with the Uppercuts won the 2022 Blues Society of Western PA 17th Annual BluesChallenge. And in 2023, Lori and the Uppercuts advanced to the semi-finals in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee!
With a Bachelors in Education from Duquesne University and Masters’ Equivalency from the University of Pittsburgh, she is an instrumental music teacher in the Pittsburgh Public School System – as well as a Pittsburgh Jazz Society Scholar.
Mark DeWalt
Key Factor keyboardist, Mark DeWalt, also is the leader of the jazz band CATRO – a long-time ARCA audience favorite. Living in the Grove City area, Mark appears regularly throughout the region in festivals, clubs, commercial and private settings, playing piano and keyboard and appearing with artists such as Tammi Dahl, Jane Gregg and David Kana.
In 2006, Catro released a self-titled CD which includes seven of DeWalt’s compositions. Mark has collaborated with poet Phil Terman presenting musical responses and accompaniment to Phil’s poetry in universities, performance spaces, and galleries, including ARCA’s Red Brick Gallery and Gift Shop .
Mark’s playing has also been featured on recordings with groups whose styles include World Beat (Bollo Mah Kissy), original rock (Frank Feroz Band), Jazz, and Contemporary Christian. Career highlights include performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, two tours to Scandinavia, a tour to South Africa and many regional Jazz and Art Festival engagements. Mark gives private lessons and is the staff musician at North Sewickley Presbyterian Church.
John DeCola
John DeCola has had a life-long, background as keyboardist and electric accordionist in blues, Rock n Roll, country, R&B and Top 40 Rock.
Seen regularly in the region performing with blues and R&B bands including the Uppercuts, the Aces and Bubs McKeg, some of his former bands were The Jay Tiche Band (Country), Kobee (Top 40), Undercover (Top 40 Rock), Brothers and Friends (Country), 16 Eyes (Classic Rock), Sweaty Betty Blues Band (Blues), Midnight Express (R&B), Key Factor (Jazz), The Helene Milan Project (R&B), and Bubs McKeg and The Aces (Blues/R&B).
John began taking music lessons at the age of eight, leading to the study of keyboards and accordion and his first paying job was at the age of thirteen. A graduate of Slippery Rock University, John resides in Slippery Rock with his wife Mary Jo.
DREW ORIENT
It is with great sadness that Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts honors in his passing Drew Orient, ARCA’s creative impresario and Executive Director for five years.
Drew was a steadfast friend of ARCA, sharing Arthur and Patricia Steffee’s vision of bringing inspiring art and music to the Allegheny-Clarion River valley and working closely with them and Board members Tom and Nancy Hovis and Constance Hambrick Rennard in building the organization and its Membership.
During his tenure, over five years he produced the Scottish Festival that featured Scottish athletic competitions, soccer clinics, sheep dog demonstrations, Scottish dog agility and obedience shows – with Celtic music concerts abounding at RiverStone estate, in Lincoln Hall and outdoors on the Foxburg Green and at RiverStone Farm.Over the years, the festival brought thousands of people to the valley and RiverStone Estate.
Drew was an inspiring force behind Donna Edmond’s founding of the Red Brick Gallery. An avid saxophonist who is remembered riffing as he sat in front of the Red Brick Gallery, Drew produced summer jazz festivals including concerts on the Foxburg village green and fostered the jazz and poetry concerts in Lincoln Hall with Mark DeWalt & CATRO, Phil Terman and Andy Johnson.
An excellent writer with a gift for poetic description, Drew generated ARCA’s marketing and promotional materials working closely with Dave Staab of the Progress News, for which he also wrote a column on natural gas exploration called “Natural Gas 4 Us”.
Drew will be long remembered and honored for his generosity, enthusiasm for the arts, and friendship to many in the valley.
Obituary
Andrew J. Orient, 76, of Harmony, passed away on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, in his home. A son of the late Joseph and Margaret (Hudacek) Orient, he was born in Pittsburgh on March 26, 1949.
He is survived by his three sons and a daughter-in-law, Aaron Orient, Joshua and Jaia Orient, and Zackary Orient. He is also survived by Cynthia Morelock and Frances Guterl; his siblings Kathleen Orient (Maryann Gorka), Gregory (Anna) Orient, Richard Orient (William Hibsher), and David (Connie) Orient, a sister in-law, Charlotte Orient, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by a brother, Joseph T. Orient.
Drew was a unique gem to most who knew him. As Executive Director of ARCA and Board member of Historic Harmony, he brought music and art to the communities of Foxburg and Harmony. He was also critical in developing local natural areas, including the ECOZ trail in Harmony. As an avid saxophonist, he spread music throughout the porches of the Northeast and enthusiastically supported up-and-coming musicians and literally anyone he encountered with an idea or passion. He was known for singing a joyful and operatic Happy Birthday to everyone, from family members to almost strangers. He touched the lives of so many people and will be missed more than any of us could express.