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5 things to do in Westmoreland County this weekend: Feb. 14-16

Mary Pickels
By Mary Pickels
3 Min Read Feb. 14, 2020 | 6 years Ago
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Happy Valentine’s Day.

Maybe you’re wearing red, enjoying a bouquet of roses or a box of chocolates, or just looking forward to celebrating with your loved one (s).

Here are 5 suggestions to make the weekend even sweeter.

All things love

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg, will host Art on Tap: LOVE from 5-8 p.m. Feb. 14.

Couples and singles are invited to join in a Valentine’s Day celebration of “LOVE,” Robert Clark Indiana’s serigraph on paper. Also planned is live music, a special holiday art scavenger hunt, pop art, light bites from Elegant Catering and drinks, including beer from All Saints Brewing Co. Guests also will enjoy specialty chocolate tastings and a champagne bar.

This Art on Tap also serves as the closing reception for Nicole Renee Ryan’s exhibition “Land of Little Thoughts and No Worries.”

Tickets are $15 and include one drink.

Details: 1-888-718-4253 or showclix.com/event/art-on-tap-love

Laugh out loud

If you and your sweetie like to laugh, comedian Tammy Pescatelli likely will make you chuckle and maybe even blush during her 8 p.m. Feb. 14 show at the Lamp Theatre, 222 Main St., Irwin.

Pescatelli is known to joke about sports, television, dating and family life. She’s been on “Comics Unleashed” and “Best of the Just For Laughs” in Canada and “The World Stands Up” and “The Laugh Factory” in Europe and Australia. Catch her on Sirius XM Radio.

Tickets are $25.

Details: 724-367-4000 or lamptheatre.org

Music to swoon by

Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra continues the weekend of love theme, with “Parisian Valentine,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 at The Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg.

Program features piano virtuoso Maxim Lando performing French composer Camille Saint-Saens’ “Piano Concerto No. 2.” The concert also includes Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella Suite,” and concludes with Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40.”

Tickets range from $16-$51.

Details: 724-837-1850 or westmorelandsymphony.org

Trio of beautiful pipe music

As part of the next installment of the Saint Vincent College Concert Series, Donald Fellows, J. Christopher Pardini and Wesley Parrott will perform “Pennsylvania Pipes” at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 in Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica on the Unity campus.

A free meet-and-greet with the trio of noted Pennsylvania organists will follow the performance.

Tickets are $26; children 12 and under are admitted free.

Details: 724-805-2177 or stvincent.edu/concertseries

Hey ya’ll

Prepare yourselves for “The Rubberband Man” and other sing-along, dance-along tunes as The Spinners take the stage at The Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, at 3 p.m. Feb. 16.

Original member Henry Fambrough, lead singer Charlton Washington, bass singer Jessie Peck, high tenor Marvin Taylor and tenor Ronnie Moss will bring the hits that brought them 18 Top 40 singles and made them one of the biggest soul groups of the 1970s.

Treat your honey to musical valentines like “Could It Be I’m Falling Love,” “I’ll Be Around” and “Working My Way Back to You.”

Tickets are $43-$75.

Details: 724-836-8000 or thepalacetheatre.org

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