The project, “A Coal Miner’s Tale – An Epic Soundscape,” is an original musical composition for wind ensemble depicting anthracite life and plight in the Lackawanna Valley in the early 1900’s.  The score, composed by lifelong Lackawanna County resident and noted music educator, Patrick J. Marcinko II, will be performed by the Upper Valley Winds, a high-profile ensemble of specially-selected regional (LVHA-area) musicians.  Forty musicians will participate in this original work at the Mellow Theatre at Lackawanna College in Scranton.  The concert will be free of charge and open to the general public.

For more than two decades, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have presented some of their best music in front of cheering crowds – sometimes in the cramped confines of a small club, sometimes in a vast arena packed with thousands. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriters celebrate their long-standing passion for live performances on their recent release, Staring Down the Brilliant Dream on IG Recordings/Vanguard Records. This must-see concert will be held in conjunction with Lackawanna College’s Homecoming Weekend.

Zuill Bailey is widely considered one of the premiere cellists in the world. His rare combination of celebrated artistry, technical wizardry as well as his engaging personality has secured his place as one of the most sought after and active cellists today. This concert will feature selections from his most recent disc: The Complete Bach Cello Suites. Winning widespread critical and popular acclaim, the disc debuted on the Classical Billboard chart at #2.

Starring Katie Deal, By Don Regan

America’s favorite Patsy Cline tribute stars America’s favorite Patsy Cline, Katie Deal. This happy, loving tribute to Country music’s most enduring superstar traces the legendary singer’s rise from her hometown in Winchester, Virginia to the Grand Ole Opry, Las Vegas and Carnegie Hall. Features twenty-one of Patsy’s greatest hits including Walkin’ After Midnight, Sweet Dreams, I Fall to Pieces, Crazy, She’s Got You, Seven Lonely Days and the title song, A Closer Walk with Thee. Enjoy this special matinee performance with us!

The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite. Ask Your Mama is Hughes’s homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s performed by Dr. Ron McCurdy and his quartet. It is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz, Latin “cha cha” and Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming. Dr. McCurdy is professor of music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California (USC).

AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle have been performing this remarkable tribute to the music of “Simon & Garfunkel” for more than a decade and their sold out shows prove the effect on their audiences is undeniable. AJ’s warm baritone and Jonathan’s soaring tenor combine flawlessly to capture the essence and magic of “Simon & Garfunkel’s” sound of the early years in Greenwich Village. With a quiet stage and an acoustic guitar, A.J. and Jonathan recreate the memories of the classic hits and obscure songs of “Simon & Garfunkel.”  Discover why audiences are cheering for this duo as they capture —the magic of “Simon and Garfunkel.”