BOARDMAN Tom Ruggieri has been a band director in the Mahoning Valley for 34 years and has spent the past 23 years in Boardman. Now he plans to retire. R
Ravine releases its first EP today and plays its first live gig Monday.
More music is in the pipeline, but this may be the only chance to see the “sad boy pop-rock” trio of Reese Maslen, Frank Toncar and Hobie Butcher before the end of the year.
Monday’s show at Westside Bowl in Youngstown originally was planned for an audience of cameras, Toncar said. Westside has been recording performances there and presenting them on social media. Butcher leaves next weekend for an eight-month job as music supervisor at King’s Dominion amusement park in Virginia, so the band had a tight window to do something.
Plans have a way of changing even in the best of years.
No one would call 2020 the best of years, and few people had their plans disrupted as much as musicians, whose profession includes all sorts of behaviors that are discouraged and banned during a global viral pandemic.
But acts unable to play crowded bars, festivals and other venues didn’t sit at home and pout. They channeled their talents into writing and recording new music and developing other new projects they “plan” on releasing in 2021.
Ticket reached out to area performers about what they have on tap for 2021, and the response was great enough that the answers will be spread out over two weeks (at least).
Dec 18, 2020
EVENT IN CORTLAND TODAY: The Lakeview schools K-8 staff will host a holiday parade through Cortland starting at 12:30 p.m. today at the middle school. The parade will feature Elf on the Shelf, Cupcake, McSnowball and Santa Claus. The parade will last an hour throughout the city.
FOOD DISTRIBUTION: Salvation Army of Trumbull County, 270 Franklin St. SE, Warren, is hosting a free Christmas food distribution in Warren starting 10 a.m. today in conjunction with Second Harvest Food Bank and the National Guard. Food items will be distributed to the first 1,000 families. Participants are to enter from the Franklin Street side of their parking lot.