CBS Emmy Awards on tap again

Guest marimba player joins YSU ensemble
BOARDMAN -- Youngstown State Symphonic Wind Ensemble will have a guest in tow when it takes its show on the road at 8 p.m. Monday in Boardman High School Performing Arts Center, 7777 Glenwood Ave.
The student ensemble will accompany percussion and marimba master Robert van Sice in performing "Three Places in New Haven: Concerto for Solo Marimba, Percussion Quartet and Wind Ensemble" by Thomas C. Duffy of Yale University. Van Sice also teaches at Yale. The YSU musicians will also play works that fit the concert's "Hail Britannia!" theme.
Dr. Stephen L. Gage directs the YSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Guest conductors will be Thomas A. Groth and Thomas Ruggeri, Boardman High's retired and current director of bands, respectively. Admission is free.
Jazz piano performance
NEW WILMINGTON -- Pianist Harold Danko, a contemporary of famous jazz musicians such as Chet Baker, Woody Herman and Thad Jones, will perform with Westminster College Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the college's Orr Auditorium. Danko will also conduct a jazz improvisation master class at 2 that afternoon, also in Orr Auditorium. Admission is free to both events.
Holiday craft show to aid nonprofit group
YOUNGSTOWN -- Northstar Patchwork Retail Center, located in Friend's House Chapel, 192 Haseltine Ave., is holding a holiday extravaganza starting Friday. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until Dec. 22. The center will be closed for Thanksgiving.
Handmade crafts, ornaments, quilts, centerpieces, wall hangings and other items will be showcased.
The training center is an educational, entrepreneurial and economic development project. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit organization.
For information call (330) 744-4064.
Country benefit concert
CLEVELAND -- Rising country stars Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Shannon Brown will play at "Girls with Guitars," a benefit for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Tickets will be 99 cents at the door. Proceeds will go toward the fight against breast cancer.
Johnson wrote the 1999 hit "Single White Female" with Chely Wright. Brown's current radio hit is "Baby I Lied."
No Soap FanFest
ORLANDO, Fla. -- NBC, citing "current world events," has pulled out of a soap opera fan festival at Universal Studios.
The NBC Soap FanFest, which had been set for Nov. 3-4, was to have brought NBC soap stars such as Deidre Hall from "Days of Our Lives" for a weekend of autograph signing and interaction with fans.
Fans who have purchased vacation packages for the event will get refunds, said Universal spokeswoman Linda Buckley.