Cabaret show and dinner to benefit Southside Fine Arts Academy

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Southside Fine Arts Academy will present a dinner prepared by master chef Brian Palumbo of Selah Restaurant in Struthers and cabaret show featuring performer Rachell Joy at 6 p.m. June 26 at Fairview Arts and Outreach Center, 1420 Youngstown-Poland Road.

Tickets are $40 and include a full dinner and dessert with wine parings.

Joy serves on the board of trustees for Top Hat Productions and works with the Top Hat summer youth theater workshop. With a stage experience of 20 years, she has appeared in the role of Mary Magdalene in Top Hat’s “The Earth Trembled” during the Easter season. She was a Marquee Award nominee for her role in “Once on This Island” and her female lead role in “Aida,” for which she was awarded the 2009 “Positive Image Award” by the North Eastern Ohio Education Association.

Joy often travels the East Coast with Brian Palumbo and Jeffrey Chann providing music concerts at Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers.

In 2004, Palumbo and Joy were nominated as “Best Contemporary Group of the Year” by the American Gospel Music Awards for their CD “Understood.” In 2006, they recorded a second CD titled “Limited Release” for the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers, and in 2009, Joy recorded a solo CD, “Songs From My Journey.” In 2015, she recorded a second solo CD, “A Joyful Christmas.”

Joy performs at various venues including Selah Restaurant, the YSU Summer Arts Festival and Canfield Fair. She was one of five individuals in the tri-county area to receive the “Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service” issued by President Barack Obama in 2015.

Other performers will include Kris Harper, vocals and piano; Serra McCorvey, vocal styles in opera and jazz; Antonie Jackson, trumpet performance major from Youngstown State University; Moriah Placer and Evan Gottschalk, percussion performance majors from YSU; and David Timlin, violin major at Bowling Green University.

Tickets are limited and can be purchased by calling 330-707-2144. No tickets will be sold at the door.

All monies raised go toward the programming of Southside Fine Arts Academy.