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“I Love Lucy” will be presented tonight as the dinner/theater production at Becker’s Shadyside Restaurant, 998 N. Gallatin Ave., Uniontown. Dinner will begin at 6 p.m., while the play “I Love Lucy” will immediately follow. Reservations are necessary. Call 724-438-0931 for reservations, information, dinner choices and directions.
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The Mickey Sharp Trio will perform in the lounge at Becker’s Shadyside Restaurant, 998 N. Gallatin, Uniontown, from 7 to 10 p.m. today. The group features easy listening music with Mickey Sharp on keyboard, Kenny Mills on guitar and Mark Smith on drums. There is no cover charge. Call 724-438-9031 for directions, information or reservations.
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The Dave Dahl Trio will provide the music and figure calling for hoe-down round, square, line and slow dancing, clogging and polka from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Brownfield Community Center in Dawson. Reservations must be made three days prior for a noon lunch and afternoon dancing Wednesday at the Brownfield Community Center in Dawson by calling Linda Cottom at 724-529-7626. The trio will play music from 8 to 11 tonight at the West Virginia Center Hall in Arthurdale, W.Va. For more information on any of these events, call Dave Dahl at 724-438-5455.
The Appalachian Wagon Train, in its 34th annual trek, will travel 75 miles for a week-long journey ending Sunday at Mount Pleasant. More than 40 covered wagons are expected to trek through Somerset, Fayette and Westmoreland counties. For ceremony closing, a parade will be featured Saturday in Mount Pleasant in celebration of the borough’s 175th anniversary along with the passing of the wagon train. Campsites and other activities are offered throughout the week. For more information on the events, visit the Appalachian Wagon Train Association Web site at www.wpa.net/~jvaughn/AWT/awt.htm, e-mail James Vaughn at jvaughn@wpa.net or call him at 724-423-5045.
Rices Landing 2003 Riverfest will be held from today through Sunday at the Rices Landing Lockwall. Activities include live entertainment, food and refreshments, car show, crafts, games, children’s activities, bingo, magic show, flea market and more. A 10-foot-by-15-foot space will be available to crafters at no cost. Electricity will be available for a small fee. For more information, call Remo Bertugli at 724-592-6032, Louise Kuharcik at 724-592-6036 or Duane Taggart at 724-223-1763. The seventh annual Rices Landing Riverfest Car Show will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday on the lockwell, overlooking the Mon River. Registration begins at 10 a.m. Dash plaques will be awarded to the first 50 entrants. Trophies will be awarded to five cars picked by voter choice. Door prizes and drawings will be offered. For more information about the car show, call Todd Wilson at 724-627-5341 or 724-883-4855.
Classic Car Show will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Arctic Delite, which is located along Route 51 about three miles north of Uniontown. Rain dates will be held the following week. The event will feature dash plaques, trophies, T-shirts, oldies music, Chinese auction and door prizes. Every show will benefit the American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
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The Laurel Highlands Blue Grass Festival will be held today and Saturday. The festival will feature live and performing bluegrass bands, an area for “camping in the rough,” rounds of nightly bingo, a Saturday arts and crafts show and a buckwheat cakes and sausage breakfast. The grounds of the Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department, Station No. 44, will be the festival location. Tickets can be purchased at the Ligonier, Latrobe, Mount Pleasant or Scottdale NAPA Auto Parts, Watkins Market in Ligonier, Ligonier Outfitters, Bethlen Printing in Ligonier, Smith Oil Company in Latrobe, Watkins AMACO in Jennerstown or the Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce. For additional details, contact Keith or Mitzi Neiderhiser at 724-238-8646 or visit www.laurelhighlandsbluegrass.com.
Buck Naked Band is scheduled to play their mix of country, blues, modern and classic rock along with some original songs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. today at the Kanawah Lounge on Kanawah Street in Buckcannon, W.Va. Call the Lounge at 304-472-0330 for more information on the performance. Also, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, the band will play their tunes at McCauley’s on Knottsville Road in Grafton, W.Va.
For more information on the performance, call McCauley’s at 304-265-5792. For additional details on the band and their performances, visit www.bucknakedband.homestead.com.
Area 51, a local band playing new and classic rock, wil appear at Trip’s near Morgantown, W.Va., from 10 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday. Band members are Jerry Onesi of Uniontown on bass guitar and vocals, Bob Mascia of Uniontown on drums and vocals, John Newman of Cumberland, Md., on guitar and Rodney Spiker of Salisbury on keyboards.
Elton Martin, keyboardist and vocalist, will perform jazz and pop from 6 to 9 p.m. today in the Heritage Room Restaurant at the Ramada Inn in Morgantown, W.Va.
The West Virginia Country Music Hall Fame & Museum will host its annual spring festival Saturday at the Sagebrush Round-Up, which is located on Bunner Ridge just six miles east of Interstate 79 at Exit 139 near Fairmont, W.Va. The featured act is the legendary Billy Walker and band for two shows at 6 and 9 p.m. Saturday. The music starts at 1 p.m. Saturday. The entertainment will include Wheels of Country, Country Mountaineers, Sam Mano, Carolyn Richard, Jim & Cindy Carr, Stagecoach Band, Donnie Leonard & Country Men and Tricia Elliott. The open stage will start at 1 p.m. and will include singers and a band from the Ohio Country & Western Music Association. There will also be a show at 6 p.m. today with an hour-long open stage. The scheduled portion will include Stagecoach, Granny Blosser with Butch and other friends, Ilene Smith & Larry Trolley, Sue Newbauer, Roy Key & Paula Altman & Friends and Dick Rutan & Don’t Do It Biscuits.
For more information, call 304-292-5854 or 304-292-5854.