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The Harold Betters Quartet will perform at the Holiday Inn – Meadowlands, 340 Racetrack Road in Washington, at 8:30 p.m. tonight.
An “Open Mic!” night will be held at “Music n’ More,” 14 S. Broadway in Scottdale, from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call 724-219-3290.
Dave Dahl will perform at the Waynesburg Moose on March 4.
Harrigan’s at the Uniontown Holiday Inn hosts Bobby Reed Jazz Night every Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m.
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The photography exhibit “The Working Press-Moments in Time” will be at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus for public viewing through April 29 and is free and open to the public.. The exhibition, which will be on display in the Cultural Center in the Williams Building, showcases work by southwestern Pennsylvania press photographers. The exhibit was originally displayed at the Frank L. Melega Art Museum in Brownsville. The exhibit will be open for public viewing 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturdays.
Flat Iron Heritage Center Museum and the Frank Melega Art Museum on Market Street in Brownsville is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, or by appointment. There is no admission charge but donations are welcome. The museum features artifacts from the National Road and industrial eras as well as a gift shop. To schedule an appointment, call 724-785-9331.
The Fayette County Law Library presents Lois Shroyer of Connellsville as the Artist of the Month for March. The library, on the second floor of the Fayette County Courthouse, is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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“Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes,” a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition of images of space, is on display through April 12 in the Manderino Gallery at California University of Pennsylvania. The exhibit’s astonishing views of the solar system’s planets and their moons come primarily from NASA and European Space Agency missions. All SITES exhibitions at Cal U are open to the public. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday; 8 a.m. to noon Friday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday; and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday. To discuss group tours or field trips, call exhibitions coordinator Walter Czekaj at 724-938-5244 or send e-mail to czekaj@calu.edu.
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“An Evening with Kansas,” presented by the Westmoreland Cultural Trust, will be held at 8 p.m. tonight at The Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg. The band is best known for classic rock songs like “Dust in the Wind,” “Carry on Wayward Son,” and “Point of Know Return.” Tickets are on sale at 724-836-8000 or online at www.thepalacetheatre.-org.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s “Mountain Stage with Larry Groce” returns to the WVU Creative Arts Center at 7 p.m. Sunday. Scheduled to appear are Great American Taxi – fronted by a former West Virginia University student – and Railroad Earth. More acts will be announced at a later date. Tickets are on sale at the Mountainlair Box Office, online at ticketmaster.com and by phone at 304-293-SHOW.
The Chieftains, a six-time Grammy Award-winning Irish group, will perform at the WVU Creative Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The traditional Scottish troupe The West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College will be opening for them. Limited tickets remain and are on sale now at the WVU Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices, online at ticketmaster.com, or by phone at 304-293-SHOW or 800-745-3000.
The Sagebrush Round-up lineup for Saturday includes Russ Buchanan, The Round-Up Band, Brandon Howdershelt, Joe Hall and Ryan Cain. There is an admission fee and children 12 and younger are admitted free. The Sagebrush Roundup is located on Bunner Ridge near Fairmont, W.Va. For information, call 301-334-8629.
theater
“Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare will be performed by the WVU Division of Theatre and Dance at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre in the WVU Creative Arts Center tonight through Sunday and March 8-13. For information and showtimes, go online to theatre.wvu.edu or call 304-293-SHOW.
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The book, “Another Time, Another World: Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal, Coke and Communities,” by John Enman, Ph.D., is now available for sale at the Coal and Coke Heritage Center in the Library at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly campus.
For information, call 724-430-4158, Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. This is the third in a series of books published by the center, each with a different focus. This book approaches the coal and coke era in western Pennsylvania primarily from a traditional research point of view. Dr. Enman spent 50 years intermittently researching and writing the book.
On the cover of the book is a color print of burning coke ovens at night in Leisenring 2 taken by a local resident, The Rev. Edward C. Tajc, around 1950.
In addition, the book contains materials related to the early iron industry of western Pennsylvania, a reprint of a 1907 news article “Uniontown’s Bunch of Millionaires,” and various other items related to this area.
Send entertainment items for the calendar to Brandon Szuminsky at bszuminsky@heraldstandard.com. or hsweekendscene@heraldstandard.-com.