Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra will be performing at Walnut Hills High School on Friday, April 13 as part of the inaugural We Create Jazz Festival .

Record Store Day , the annual celebration of local music stores complete with new releases and special appearances, happens on Saturday, April 13.

April is National Poetry Month and the Greater Cincinnati Writer's League (GCWL) will present a variety of readings and gatherings in celebration.

Local singer-songwriter Maria Carrelli is set to digitally release her debut CD, Strings On My Guitar , at two sold-out shows on Saturday, April 13 at Ludlow's Folk School Coffee Parlor .

Book Review: In honor of National Poetry Month, Roberta Schultz reviews Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney .

Jayne Sachs is a Dayton-area singer-songwriter who has been focused on writing for a Nashville music publishing firm and not on performing.

The biannual Victory of Light Expo returns to the Sharonville Convention Center on April 6 and 7.

Author/journalist/former First Lady of Colorado Helen Thorpe will be this year's guest speaker for the Women's City Club of Greater Cincinnati 's annual forum and fundraising on April 3 at Memorial Hall.

Jazz pianist Andrew Haug and his trio from Cincinnati have recently released a new, improvisational CD called On a Limb .

On Thursday, April 4, the Jewish American Hall of Fame will celebrate its 50 th anniversary with the induction of its newest member, the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise , founder of Hebrew Union College .