Scott Coulter, Artistic Director of the Pocono Mountains

Music Festival, speaking about the 15th Anniversary Summer

Season, getting under way on Friday, July 19, 2024, and

running through July 27th. There will be sounds of Cabaret,

Broadway, Jazz, Pop, Opera and a Roaring 2020s

Speakeasy Fundraiser. "The Room Where It Happens" is

a special showcase featuring students of the Performing

Arts Camp Experience on July 27th at 3 pm. For more information:

www.poconofest.org/

Loren Schoenberg, jazz scholar, educator, writer, musician, band leader and producer and music director of the original film documentary, "Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham," a production of WVIA, speaking about Eddie Durham and his music in anticipation of a concert of Durham's music on July 21, 2024 at 5:30 pm,

at Harmony in the Woods in Hawley, PA. Schoenberg will lead a

top-flight seven-piece band in a performance that is a benefit

for WVIA. For tickets and information:www.wvia.org/

Liz Tilley, artist, designer, writer, event professional and Corporate Sponsorship Representative at WVIA, speaking about her work and places her art can be seen this summer.  At The Gamut Gallery in Stroudsburg through July 29 2024; as part of the 21st Annual Wayne County Arts Alliance Artists' Studio Tour taking place July 12, 13 and 14 from 10 am to 6 pm each day. Tilley will be at the Jill Carletti Studio, 415 Chestnut Avenue in Hawley, and the tour is free. www.waynecountyartsalliance.org/Tilley will also take part in the Pocono State Craft Festival August 24 & 25 at Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm in Stroudsburg. www.poconoarts.org/craft

Dan Tompkins, Director of the North Branch

Art Trail & Producer of Summer Sessions 3:

The Coffeehouse Series, speaking about

the 2024 season that opens on July 10th.

The July concerts will be held on Wednesday

evenings at 6:00 at the Old Carter Barn

at Lake Carey, and the August shows will move to the

Reimel Center in Montrose, PA.

For more information: www.summersessionspa.com/

Ronnie Harvey, General Theater Manager & Film Booker at the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock, speaking about Summer Fest 2024--a three-week film festival running

from July 12th to August 1st, screening 21 films in 21 days.

Opening night, July 12th, features 2 films--"Thelma" and "Wicked Little Letters," with refreshments, and doors opening at 6:00p.m.

The Dietrich Theater is located at 60 E. Tioga Street in Tunkhannock, PA.

For more information: www.dietrichtheater.com/

570-836-1022

Dr. Michael Geib, Professor at the University of Central Oklahoma

and Founder/Producer of the Dyberry Creek Music Festival in Wayne County PA, and Dr. Danielle Herrington, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Central Oklahoma, speaking about the French Baroque Opera by Charpentier, "Les Plaisirs de Versailles,"

that will be presented as part of the 2024 Dyberry Festival

at the Cooperage Project July 13th at 7 pm and July 14th

at 2:00 pm, with other performances July 10, 11 and 12.

Admission is free.

For more information: www.dyberrycreekmusicfest.org/

Christine Piazzi, Executive Director of the Wildflower

Music Festival in White Mills, PA, speaking with WVIA's

Lisa Mazzarella about the 2024 season and her first

summer at the helm.

The series opens on July 6th and runs through August 17th.

Concerts take place at the open-air amphitheatre at the

Dorflinger-Suydam Wildlife Sanctuary on Long Ridge Road

in White Mills. The rain location is at the Wallenpaupack Area

HIgh School. For information: www.wildflowermusic.org/

570-253-5500

Dena Briggs, Coordinator of the Briggs Farm Blues Festival, speaking about the history of the event and what is on offer for the 27th Annual Briggs Fest taking place on July 11, 12 and 13, 2024, at Briggs Farm in Nescopeck, PA. Headliners include Joanne Shaw Taylor and Uncle Lucius. Camping is available. For the complete schedule and more details: www.briggsfarm.com/

Craig Czury, author of over 20 collections of poetry, and Dr. Phil Yevics of Peer 2 Peer and the Lackawanna County Reentry Task Force, speaking about Czury's Creative Letter-Writing Workshop, offered at St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Wyoming

Avenue in Scranton, on the second & fourth Thursday of the month, beginning at 5:30. For more information: www.craigczury.com

Janet Gaglione, Executive Director of the Wayne County Arts

Alliance, speaking about the organization and its activities

in anticipation of the 2024 Artists' Studio Tour to take

place July 12, 13 & 14, from 10 am to 6 pm

throughout the county. The event is free and open

to the public. The tour headquarters and WCCA

Gallery can be found at 959 Main Street in

Honesdale, PA.

For a map and more information:

waynecountyartsalliance.org/