Foreign film festival to show 'Official Story'

Foreign film festivalto show 'Official Story'
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- The Jake Erhardt International Film Series continues with the Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, "The Official Story," Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center of Westminster College.
"Critics have called this 1985 film a 'knockout,' and it is," said Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations and coordinator of this event. "Norma Aleandro plays a high school history professor in Buenos Aires, married to a successful lawyer, whose perfect life spirals out of control when she begins to suspect that her five-year-old adopted daughter is the child of a political prisoner."
The event is free and open to the public.
Russian vocal quartetto perform at church
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- The Konevets Quartet will perform at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 13.
This a capella men's vocal ensemble from St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1992 at the St. Petersburg Music Conservatory. It sings sacred Russian music, including chants and hymns, as well as classical Russian and folk music.
The church is located at the corner of Penn Avenue and Clinton Street. For more information, call (724) 588-8870.
Soloist to performwith symphony
YOUNGSTOWN -- George Vosburgh, soloist and principal trumpet for the Pittsburgh Symphony, will perform with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at Powers Auditorium.
Tickets for the concert are available by calling the box office at (330) 744-0264.
Vosburgh has won numerous awards for his recordings, including his work with the New Age ensemble Mannheim Steamroller.
He will perform the Hummel Trumpet Concerto and Haydn's "Toy Symphony."
The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will perform Ravel's "Le Tombeau do Coupirin" and Mendelsshon's Symphony No. 4.
Kent folk festivalwill feature Donovan
KENT -- This year's Kent State Folk Festival will include more musical offerings than any event in the festival's history, including mainstage performances by folk icon Donovan, singer-songwriter masters John Gorka and David Francey, Ohio's own lyricists Over the Rhine, and The Horse Files, an old-time string band with a twist.
The festival's Blues Night returns with the Holmes Brothers and The Howard Street Blues Band, while a special family concert presents two-time Grammy winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. Tickets for all events are now on sale.
The 39th festival will take place Friday through Nov. 19 in Kent. In addition to the mainstage concerts, the Festival will include folk music workshops and Folk Alley Round Town, an evening that features regional folk performers in more than 20 Kent clubs and coffeehouses.
The festival will open at 8 p.m. Friday at the Kent Stage, 175 E. Main St., with John Gorka and David Francey.
Saturday will be Blues Night.
The festival's second weekend opens at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Kent Stage with Over the Rhine
Reserved seating tickets are available at TicketWeb.com.
Hoyt seeks artistsfor solo exhibitions
NEW CASTLE -- The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts is seeking artists to fill its 2007-08 solo exhibition schedule.
Artists living in the mid-Atlantic region, which includes Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, are invited to apply. The deadline is Jan. 1. For more information and an application, go to www.hoytartcener.org or call (724) 652-2882.
12 Bucks in concertin New Castle
NEW CASTLE -- The musical group 12 Bucks will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at the New Castle Playhouse, 202 E. Long Ave. Tickets are $10, and can be purchased by calling (724) 654-3437.
12 Bucks plays pop music, covering songs by Chicago, Van Morrison, Tower of Power, Blood Sweat and Tears and Stevie Wonder, as well as original songs from their upcoming album, "New Arrival."