All-day concert to help needy

Staff report

WARREN

Foodstock 2011, an event of food and live music that benefits Second Harvest Food Bank, will be Saturday from 1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Packard Music Hall. Admision is $10 or a donation of 10 non-perishable food items.

Performers will include (in order of appearance) the W.G. Harding Madrigal Choir, Madame Weez, Red Dust Mountain Boys, Shotgun Willy, a ’50s Elvis Presley tribute with the Blue Moon Band, Danny G as late-era Elvis, Damian Knapp with Larry Long Jr., The Revolution (Beatles tribute), John Dante and the Inferno, and Sideshow.

“A recent study revealed that the Youngstown-Warren metropolitan area was third in the nation in terms of food hardship of households with children,” said Ned Gold, president of Trumbull 100. “We decided that we needed to do something to help others in our community and we needed to do it now.”

Michael Iberis, executive director of Second Harvest, said every dollar raised at Foodstock will allow the food bank to distribute $15 worth of food to families in need.

Second Harvest distributes food to 153 hunger- relief organizations in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties, including church pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens, shelters for battered women and after-school programs. To learn more, go to mahoningvalleysecondharvest.org or call 330-792-5522.