Butler County Community College- The local artists series will feature the Tornado Big Band at 2 p.m. March 12 in the Succop Theater. Tickets are $10.- Students majoring in dance at La Roche College will perform with the Pittsburgh Philharmonic at the orchestra’s concert at 8 p.m. March 24 at the Succop Theater. Tickets are $15.Call the theater box office at 724-284-8505 or visit bc3.edu/Succop-theater. Tickets also are available at the door.

Slippery Rock University“We’ve Only Just Begun: Carpenters Remembered” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. March 31 in the University Union. Tickets are $22 for adults; $20 for senior citizens; $18 for youths 17 and younger; and $8 for SRU students. Visit www.sru.edu/pas or call 724-738-2018.In addition to the concert, a lecture on what society learned from Karen Carpenter’s death at age 32 due to heart failure related to her struggles with anorexia will be presented at 5 p.m. March 30 in the University Union. The lecture is free.