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CABOT — The Pioneer Festival presented by the Butler County Historical Society is set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Cooper Cabin, 199 Cooper Road.
The festival will have tours of the cabin and spinning house, information about herbs, and demonstrations of quilting, beekeeping and children's music.
There will be food and primitive crafts available to purchase.
Admission is free. For more information, call 724-283-8116.
CONNOQUENESSING — The Butler Farm Show runs through Saturday with carnival rides, animal exhibits, contests and food vendors.Tickets are $8 and admission includes amusement rides.
The Bach Society, a community choir, will begin its 2019-20 season Sept. 9 with practices from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays in the fellowship hall of Tower Presbyterian Church, Grove City.Interested singers can call 724-450-0636.Upcoming concerts will be Dec. 6 at Center Presbyterian Church, Slippery Rock, and Dec. 7 at Tower Presbyterian Church, Grove City, both at 7:30 p.m.Concerts are free.
North Washington Rodeo is scheduled for Tuesday through Aug. 17 at the North Washington Rodeo Arena, 2225 Oneida Valley Road, Petrolia.Prize money will be awarded for bareback bronc riding, calf roping, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, cowgirl's barrel racing, cowgirl's breakaway roping, team roping and bull riding.Tickets in advance are $14 for adults and $6 for children ages 4 to 12; at the gate tickets will be $16 and $7, respectively.The rodeo is a fundraising event for the North Washington Volunteer Fire Department.
The Butler County Symphony has updated its list of lunchtime concerts for the remainder of the summer.The concerts take place on Fridays, some in the symphony office at 259 S. Main St. and some in Diamond Park, across from the Butler County Courthouse on Main Street. Admission is free.The schedule includes:Friday — Cloud Chamber, jazz, outdoors in Diamond ParkAug. 16 — Nanette Kaplan Solomon, classical, BCSO officeAug. 23 — Bob Dandoy, Tom Menchyk and Jerry Johnston, pop/rock, BCSO officeAug. 30 — Deanna Golden and Chuck Davey, vocal and piano, BCSO officeSept. 6 — The Particles, blues/folk rock, BCSO officeSept. 13 — Jim Cunningham, Kyle Golden & Friends, classical, BCSO officeSept. 20— Jessica Sanzotti and MTG Players with a preview of the fall production of “Mama, Mia,” BCSO officeSept. 27 — The Four Principals, string quartet, BCSO office.For more information, call 724-283-1402 or visit www.butlersymphony.org.
PENN TWP — Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour is scheduled to visit the county Aug. 15 to 18 at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport. 473 Airport Road.Authentically restored planes include the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator, available for self-guided walk-through tours.Flights are available in all aircraft.Hours are 2 to 5 p.m. Aug. 15 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 16 to 18.Admission is charged.Visit www.collingsfoundation.org/event/butler-pa.
AMBRIDGE — An exhibit about secession from the Harmony Society will open at Old Economy Village with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday.The exhibit focuses on the various people who left the Society, with emphasis on the Great Schism of 1832. Individual Harmonists “come alive” again through their own stories.Registration for the reception is available by calling 724-266-4500, Ext. 104, or at c-chlthoma@pa.gov.
PITTSBURGH — Visitors to the National Aviary voted in July to name the pair of Toco Toucans.Mango and Tango will continue to reside in the TreeTops habitat they share with another exciting pair of birds, two Edwards’s Pheasants, a species believed to be extinct in the wild.The aviary is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $17 for adults and $16 for senior citizens and children ages 2 to 12.Call 412-323-7235 or visit www.aviary.org.