WELSH MUSIC EVENTS

Welsh music events
NILES -- If it's Welsh music you crave, you're in luck.
The 78th Niles Gymanfa Ganu Welsh Hymn Festival will be at 3 p.m. next Sunday at McKinley Memorial Auditorium on Main Street. Musical director will be Geraint Wilkes, known as "the Welsh Tenor." Additional music will be provided by the Shenango Valley Chorale and Youngstown soprano Megan Morris. After the entertainment, a traditional tea will be held. Admission is free.
Also, the Pendyrus Male Choir, one of Wales' premier male choirs, will perform at Packard Music Hall in Warren on Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Call the music hall at (330) 841-2931 for tickets.
Fall Heritage Day
MESOPOTAMIA -- Mesopotamia Fall Heritage Day will feature a vintage quilt sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Mesopotamia Town Hall, Routes 534 and 87.
Professional quilters Ed and Beverly Thompson will sell pieced and appliqu & eacute;d quilts from the 1890s through the mid-1930s.
Heritage Day features other traditional Amish and Yankee crafts from the Mesopotamia area, including soap making, rug weaving, basket weaving, apple butter cooking, blacksmithing, candle making and leather working.
This year, an old history book on the area that has been republished will be offered for sale by Eli Miller of Miller's Harness Shop.
Proceeds are for preservation of the 102-year-old town hall.
Call Miller at (440) 693-4448 or Sharon Grover at (440) 693-4000 for more information.
Apple Dumpling Festival
Celebrate autumn with a drive through Amish country to Whispering Hills RV Park for its annual Apple Dumpling Festival. The festival is Saturday. The park is three miles south of Shreve, Ohio, on state Route 514.
Enjoy apple dumplings smothered in soft-serve ice cream, or a slice of freshly baked bread covered with apple butter made at the festival.
The festival features an antique apple cider press demonstration, apple butter making, arts and crafts booths, chain saw carving, afternoon music by "The Picks and Hammers" dulcimer band, evening music by "The Line Drive Band," and an apple dumpling-eating contest.
On Saturday and Sunday, an antique power show features Wisconsin air-cooled antique tractors and engines.
General-admission donations are accepted. Saturday night entertainment admission is $5 for adults and $2.50 for children.
For more information call (800) 992-2435 or (330) 567-2137, or email to whri@bright.net.
Acting classes for kids
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown Playhouse Youth Theatre will offer six weeks of acting classes Saturdays beginning Oct. 16 through Nov. 20. Classes will meet at the Playhouse, 600 Playhouse Lane.
"Imagination Station" is for children in first through third grades. Pupils will be encouraged to develop physical, verbal and listening skills. The class will develop and perform an adventure tale for an invited audience. Class meets from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
"It Was a Dark and Stormy Night," for fourth through sixth grades, will teach acting through games and improv exercises. The class will perform a mystery on the last day. Class meets from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
"Live from the Playhouse ... It's Saturday Morning!" is offered to seventh- through 12th-graders. The class focuses on ensemble work and quick thinking. The class will perform on the last day. Class meets from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The fee is $60 per pupil. Registration is required. For more information, call the Playhouse at (330) 788-8739.
Teen to sing at game
Fifteen-year-old Mary Laura Napoli of Canton could sing for a capacity crowd this afternoon when she performs the National Anthem before the Atlanta Braves-Florida Marlins baseball game at Turner Field, Atlanta. Mary Laura, daughter of Youngstown natives William and Laura (DiCioccio) Napoli, is a sophomore at Jackson School for Performing Arts in Canton. She recorded her version of the anthem on a CD that her uncle, Simon Corp. employee John DiCioccio, passed along to business connections.