Federal Frenzy headliner will be Robert DeLong
Federal Frenzy headliner will be Robert DeLong
YOUNGSTOWN
Federal Frenzy, the annual music and arts festival in the downtown area, will take place from 2 to 11 p.m. April 27, with headliner Robert DeLong. The festival is presented by Penguin Productions of Youngstown State University. Admission is free.
West Federal Street will be closed to vehicular traffic between Hazel Street and Wick Avenue, and outdoor stages will set up between Phelps Street and Wick Avenue and in the water department parking lot.
About a dozen bands will also perform inside bars in the area, which also includes artists, and food and beer vendors.
The Los Angeles-based DeLong is a dance-pop one-man band. His current album is “In the Cards.”
‘Them That Follow’ screenings at film fest
CLEVELAND
“Them That Follow,” the film shot in the Mahoning Valley in 2017, will be screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival today at 8:25 p.m. and Saturday at 4:45 p.m. Tickets are $16 and can be purchased in advance at clevelandfilm.org.
The film, directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage, is a tense drama set in an isolated Appalachian community where a fundamentalist church practices snake handling.
Student art exhibit, reception at museum
YOUNGSTOWN
The 83rd annual Juried Student Art and Design Exhibition, which features works by Youngstown State University art students, opens Friday and runs through April 12 at the McDonough Museum of Art on Wick Avenue. Artists will be honored at a reception and awards ceremony at 5 p.m. Friday.
Award categories include photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, digital media and graphic and interactive design. Admission to the reception and exhibition is free.
The juror for the exhibition, Imin Yeh, is an art professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Also on display at the McDonough is the new Virtual Reality Station.
The museum is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Steve Earle and Dukes coming to Kent Stage
KENT
Steve Earle and the Dukes will return to Kent Stage, 175 E. Main St., Kent, for an 8 p.m. concert on May 30. Tickets are $48 and $38, and can be purchased in advance by calling 877-987-6487 or at thekentstage.com.
Other newly announced shows include Alex Bevan and David J. Young, May 17; and Asleep at the Wheel, with the Quebe Sisters, Nov. 3.
Starzl documentary at Rangos Cinema
PITTSBURGH
“Burden of Genius,” a documentary about medical pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl’s journey into organ transplantation, will have its first public theatrical run at Carnegie Science Center’s Rangos Giant Cinema April 12–18.
Considered the “father of transplantation,” Starzl performed the world’s first successful liver transplant in 1967, but it wasn’t until he came to the University of Pittsburgh in 1981 that he perfected what was still considered an experimental procedure and helped what was then a struggling city reinvent itself to become “the transplant capital of the world.”
Tickets may be purchased at CarnegieScienceCenter.org.