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Uptown Music Collective Kicks Off Performance Season With Tribute to Modern Country0
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- October 23, 2024
The Uptown Music Collective will kick off its 2024-2025 performance season with Midnight Train to Memphis: A Tribute to Modern Country at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 and 9 at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St. The performance, presented in partnership with UPMC North Central Pa and UPMC Health Plan, will feature the music
READ MORELIVE UNITED Concert Fundraiser At CAC Friday, October 180
- Local News
- October 9, 2024
If you’re a fan of the iconic music of Elton John and Billy Joel, then the exclusive setting of the Community Arts Center on Friday, October 18, is where you need to be. “The fourth rendition of LIVE UNITED in Music is shaping up to be one of our best yet,” said Ron Frick, CEO
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Announces 2024-2025 Performance Season0
- October 2, 2024
For nearly 25 years, the Uptown Music Collective has been fulfilling its mission to provide exceptional music education and high-impact musical experiences. In anticipation of another epic performance season, the area’s premier nonprofit school of music has announced all of this year’s major shows, which will run from November 2024 through April 2025. With four
READ MORESet the Night To Music Centerpiece of Area Independence Day Celebrations0
- Local News
- July 3, 2024
Downtown Williamsport will again be set ablaze with the beautiful and awe-inspiring fireworks display that is the keystone of the annual “Set the Night To Music” July 4th celebration in Williamsport. Williamsport Mayor Derek Slaughter speaks enthusiastically about this now-annual event. “The City of Williamsport is looking forward to our annual 4th of July Set
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Accepting Scholarship Applications0
- Music, Scholarships
- July 3, 2024
The Uptown Music Collective, the area’s premier nonprofit school of music, is now accepting scholarship applications for its 2024-2025 school year, which will begin in September. This year, the Collective is offering 14 needs- and merit-based scholarships to currently enrolled students, as well as new students wishing to enroll in the school for the upcoming
READ MOREBilltown Blues Association Finalizes 2024 Festival Lineup With Audition Winners0
Jersey Shore band, The Cadillac Cats, and solo artist Shippensburg resident, Nick Andrew Staver have been selected the winners of the BBA’s Annual Audition Concert. Both winners will appear on Saturday June 22nd. Both winners are now eligible to participate in the International Blues Challenge in early January 2025 in Memphis TN. The 34th Annual
READ MOREBilltown Blues Association Announces 2024 Lineup0
The 34th Annual Billtown Blues Festival officially begins Friday, June 21st at 6 p.m. The music continues at 12 noon on Saturday, June 22nd offering world class blues music from twelve performances. All festival detail including ticketing options, onsite camping accommodation, a link to our host hotel in downtown Williamsport, and our downtown bus service
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Set for One-Night-Only Irish Rock Tribute0
- Local News, Music
- March 6, 2024
On March 16th at 7:30 p.m., the Uptown Music Collective will bring a one-night-only musical experience, “Rattle and Hum: A Celebration of U2 and Irish Rock,” to the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. This event, presented in partnership with UPMC North Central Pa and UPMC Health Plan, celebrates
READ MORECounty Hall Corner: Rethinking the Future0
- Government, Politics
- January 31, 2024
I taught an elective course on Future Studies at a business college in Europe. The students were quite interested in knowing what skills and possibilities in employment would be out there when they entered the working world. It is obviously a shaky science as we have no way of knowing the future and, at best,
READ MOREThe Uptown Music Collective to Present “A Decade of Grunge” Saturday, January 270
- Concerts, Local News, Music
- January 24, 2024
The Uptown Music Collective has been a musical laboratory and teaching entity that has mentored, taught, and developed the talent of numerous young people in various aspects of popular music genres for more than 20 years. During this time, they have presented many excellent musical concerts demonstrating their talents. They have saluted various popular musical
READ MOREBeating the Winter Blues0
- Editorials
- January 17, 2024
It’s official. We are at a pretty dreary time of year. The weather ain’t great. I’m fairly sure it rained for 27 hours straight last week. It’s cold, it’s dark, the post-holiday blues are rearing their ugly heads. I know the last thing you probably want to do is go outside. But the best way
READ MORECadillac Cats’ Winter Blues Bash Slated for Friday, January 120
- Events, Local News
- January 3, 2024
The Genetti Hotel will be rocking with the sounds of the Blues when the Cadillac Cats, a noted area Blues band in their own right, presents the Winter Blues Bash from 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday, January 12. The Cadillac Cats hope to make this an annual event each year in January to help
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Uptown Music Collective Kicks Off Annual Campaign; Tuition Costs Remain the Same0
The Uptown Music Collective, the area’s premier nonprofit school of music, has kicked off its annual campaign, with this year’s goal set at $40,000. The announcement coincides with the September start of the UMC’s 23rd year of providing students with a powerful education that goes way beyond music. The annual fundraising efforts allow the school
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Kicks Off Performance Season With tribute, ‘It Came From the ’80s’0
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- November 1, 2023
On November 10th and 11th at the Community Arts Center in Downtown Williamsport, the students of the Uptown Music Collective will present their first show of the school’s 2023-2024 Performance Season with It Came From the ’80s: New Wave to Pop Rock. The performance, presented in partnership with UPMC North Central Pa and UPMC Health
READ MORELIVE UNITED Fundraiser at CAC September 7 Benefits Lycoming County United Way0
- Local News
- August 30, 2023
There will be quite a collection of local and former local musical talent performing at the Community Arts Center on Thursday, September 7. They will be on hand to perform at the Third Annual “Live United” concert, which will raise money for the Lycoming County United Way. This concert will feature some of the brightest
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“Pops at Pepper Street” Concert set for August 50
- Events, Local News
- August 2, 2023
Muncy Historical Society will host the Uptown Music Collective for the first time at its “Pops at Pepper Street” free concert. Bring your family, pack your chairs and blankets, and head out for an evening of priceless music! As the sun sets, relax, enjoy and share in the fun-filled, community-oriented public experience of this live,
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Set the Night to Music Fireworks Highlight Area Independence Day Celebrations0
- Local News
- June 28, 2023
Downtown Williamsport’s skies will again light up brightly when the 28th Set Night to Music Fireworks take place on Tuesday, July 4th, to celebrate our nation’s 247 anniversary of independence. Again, as they have the previous 27 times, the good folks at Backyard Broadcasting are front and center in helping to put on this always
READ MOREWilliamsport Civic Chorus to Present Spring Concert0
- Local News
- April 26, 2023
The Williamsport Civic Chorus is one of this area’s oldest and most venerable musical organizations. They have been around for almost 80 years, and it will continue its fine musical tradition with its latest offering — its spring concert titled, “Jazzin’ with the WCC,” which features some of the biggest jazz hits of the ’40s
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Uptown Music Collective Brings Tribute to the Music of Queen to Community Arts Center0
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- April 26, 2023
On Friday April 28th, and Saturday April 29th the Uptown Music Collective & UPMC North Central Pa will present “The Show Must Go On: The Music of Queen” at the Community Arts Center in Downtown Williamsport. There are very few bands in rock and roll history whose music is as unique, exciting, entertaining, and unforgettable
READ MORELet’s Go Do Something0
- Editorials
- April 19, 2023
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times. If you claim there is nothing to do around here, you aren’t even trying. I haven’t done one of these in a while, so let’s run through some upcoming local activities, because there is little in the world I enjoy more than being right.
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Set for Southern Rock Tribute at CAC0
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- March 1, 2023
On March 10 and 11, the Uptown Music Collective & UPMC North Central PA will present Free Bird: A Tribute to Southern Rock at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, PA. This performance, the third of the Collective’s 22-23 Performance Season, will feature the music of a wide range of classic and more modern southern
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Set for One-Night Only Country Tribute at the Community Arts Center0
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- January 18, 2023
On Saturday, Jan. 28, the Uptown Music Collective and UPMC will present Friends in Low Places: The Music of Garth Brooks & The Women of ‘90s Country at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport. The performance will feature the music of country music icon Garth Brooks, alongside the ground-breaking music of female country artists like
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Enrolling for Upcoming Winter Semester0
- December 14, 2022
Go beyond music at the Uptown Music Collective! The Collective’s winter enrollment week begins on Dec. 12 and runs until Dec. 17, 2022. Enrollment is open for both in-person and virtual private lessons on guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards, and drums. The Winter Semester will begin on Jan. 9, 2023, and will run for 15 weeks.
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Kicks Off Annual Campaign; Tuition Costs Remain the Same0
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- November 16, 2022
The Uptown Music Collective, the area’s premier nonprofit school of music, has kicked off its annual campaign, with this year’s goal set at $35,000. The announcement coincides with the September start of the UMC’s 22nd year of providing students with a powerful education that goes way beyond music. The annual fundraising efforts allow the school
READ MOREUptown Music Collective Kicks Off Performance Season With Tribute, Ladies of the ’80s0
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- November 2, 2022
On November 11th and 12th at 7:30 p.m., the Uptown Music Collective will bring the first show of its 2022-2023 Performance Season, Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Ladies of the ’80s, to the stage of the Community Arts Center in Williamsport. This fun and exciting performance will pay tribute to 1980’s female pop standouts
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Uptown Music Collective Awards $17,325 in Scholarships For the Upcoming School Year0
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- August 24, 2022
The Uptown Music Collective is pleased to announce the awarding of 11 scholarships for the non-profit school of music’s 2022-2023 school year. Totaling $17,325, an additional $4,725 has also been added to the Collective’s Financial Aid Fund. Funding was made possible through the generous donations of the local community, including both individual and corporate donors.
READ MORETwo Time Blues Music Awarded Texas Artist, Sue Foley, to Grace the Stage At the 2022 Billtown Blues Festival0
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- June 8, 2022
Billtown Blues Association organizers are coming down the home stretch after a year-long preparation for their signature event, the Billtown Blues Festival, now celebrating 32 years of the blues music art form. There will be no deviation from the event’s reputation of securing world-class nationally known performers, exposing those on the cusp, and providing a
READ MORESummer 2022 Calendar of Events0
- Editorials
- June 1, 2022
I have always said, if you think there is nothing to do in our area, that you aren’t even trying. There is almost always something happening, somewhere to go, or something to do in our area. Adult, kid and family activities are easy to find, because there are plenty of them to do. Don’t believe
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Isabella Cole Competes in Miss USA Pageant0
- Stories
- May 4, 2022
Lycoming County is turning out to be pageant central. From Sydney Robertson taking Miss PA USA in 2021 to Normandy Broaddus competing in Miss Teen PA USA in 2022. Not to be outdone, 19-year-old Isabella Cole also competed in Miss PA USA this year. Her very first contest! Both Miss Teen PA and Miss PA
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Uptown Music Collective Wraps Up Performance Season With Tribute to Pink Floyd0
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- April 27, 2022
The Uptown Music Collective, the area’s premier non-profit school of music, returns to the Community Arts Center in Williamsport on April 29th & 30th, 2022, to close out the UMC’s 21-22 Performance Season with their presentation of Us and Them: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Beyond. This concert will feature Pink Floyd’s
READ MORELocal Musicians Nominated for Central PA Music Awards0
- Local News
- March 23, 2022
Gabe Stillman, an accomplished and popular blues singer is one of the bright lights to have come out of the local music scene in recent years. An indication of Gabe’s talent and how well he is thought of by people in the music world and his fans was his recent nomination for two honors from
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Uptown Music Collective brings “All Things Must Pass” to Community Theatre League0
On March 10th, 11th, and 12th, the Uptown Music Collective returns to the Community Theatre League in downtown Williamsport to present All Things Must Pass: The Solo Works of The Beatles. This performance will feature the music from the solo careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr after the dissolution of
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