Award-winning country act Old Dominion booked for Santander Arena show [Spotlight]

Oct. 23—Current CMA Award Vocal Group of the Year and Album of the Year nominees Old Dominion will bring their No Bad Vibes Tour to Santander Arena, Reading, on April 13. The presale is under way, and tickets go on sale to the public Friday at 10 a.m. at ticketmaster.com.

Old Dominion's headlining tour announcement follows a successful run on Kenny Chesney's Here and Now 2022 Tour, which included 23 stadium shows this summer.

Old Dominion has been writing and recording new music which they have teased on their TikTok page. Their last album, "Time, Tequila and Therapy," was released in 2021 and debuted in the Top 5 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and is nominated for Album of the Year at this year's CMA Awards.

Old Dominion emerged as one of Nashville's most successful post-country bands, fusing clever lyrics with an infectious sound. Since breaking in 2014, the band has had eight No. 1 singles at country radio, over 1 billion on-demand streams, multiple platinum and gold single certifications and headlined arenas and amphitheaters around the globe. The band took home its fifth consecutive group of the year win at this year's 56th Annual ACM Awards and also scored its fourth consecutive vocal group of the year win at the 2021 CMA Awards.

Tickets also have gone on sale for R&B Sunday Funday featuring SWV, Dru Hill and 112 on Feb. 26 at Santander Arena, comedian Lewis Black on March 11 at the Santander Performing Arts Center and Yes Epics & Classics featuring Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks on April 23 at the Santander Performing Arts Center.

Art

"Sisters' Gallery Revisited," an exhibition of artwork by Mary Stoudt, Jean Cocuzza, Sybil Thompson and Julia Cocuzza, will run Saturday through Nov. 28 in Schmidt Gallery at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading. A reception is scheduled for Nov. 11.

Sisters' Gallery was founded in 1994 by sisters Mary Stoudt and Jean Cocuzza and operated first in Sinking Spring and then in Stoudtburg Village in Lancaster County until 2010. This exhibit features the artwork of the sisters and their daughters, Sybil Thompson and Julia Cocuzza.

During the Sisters' Gallery years, GoggleWorks alumna Mary Stoudt created art quilts of great depth and breadth of creativity and craft, winning prizes at the "Art of the State" exhibit in Harrisburg. Her sister, Jean Cocuzza, continued to paint in oil, watercolor and pastels, often inspired by gallery exhibits, such as "PA Dutch Postmodern," "Celebrating Our City" and "Mothers Expressions."

The gallery featured the colorful, whimsical work of Sybil Thompson, Mary's daughter and currently a GoggleWorks studio artist. Eventually Julia Cocuzza, Jean's daughter, exhibited her oil paintings as she continued her art education at Syracuse University and Brooklyn College and developed her career as an art instructor and mural artist in New York.

"Sisters' Gallery Revisited" will also include newer pieces by Jean, Sybil and Julia.

----Studio B, Boyertown, will present "Michelle Neifert and Mimi Conrey," a two-woman exhibition featuring the work of artists who paint flowers, with an opening reception on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. A virtual tour will be held between 6 and 7 on Facebook LIVE and will be archived as a Facebook event and on YouTube following the opening. Amy Muzopappa of Muzo Media Productions hosts the art tour. The exhibit will run through Nov. 27.

Neifert has described her work as an exploration, an inward journey seeking knowledge of our interdependence, our oneness and our connections on a feeling level. She explains that her work is interactive — an emotional conversation between the viewer and the art's color and form. In her abstract work, the shapes and forms are generally self-created, often resembling landscape or the human form.

Conrey's work showcases her love of color and presages her future to "loosen up" toward abstract expressions in her work and life in general. Love of her family, God, her dogs and those whose lives center on family inspire her active life and artistic vision. Her study of Monet at his iconic lake in France inspires her process, and her compassion for the misunderstood Van Gogh informs the intuitive approach she takes to her work.

Both artists will be featured on Jane Stahl's "B Inspired" podcast in coming weeks. Episodes can be heard on a variety of podcast platforms: Spotify, Google, Apple, Castbox, for example.

----The Yocum Institute for Arts Education, Spring Township, will present an exhibition of works by the late Amos "Lemon" Burkhart starting with an opening reception Saturday at 4 p.m. in its Holleran Gallery.

Burkhart of Mohnton was a driven young artist who created hundreds of paintings, works on paper, digital art and animations between the ages of 15 and 19. As a junior at Gov. Mifflin High School, Burkhart won the Coggins Award in Yocum's annual high school exhibit. His work reflected his fascination with the human figure and incorporated animated "zoetrope" sequences.

He died tragically at 19, drowning in an accident fueled by a combination of Xanax and alcohol, after a year of struggling in treatment for addiction, depression, anxiety and issues around gender identity and relationships. In addition to the art on display, there will be a number of interactive stations that encourage participants to process emotions through reflecting, writing, reading, talking, playing games and making art.

The exhibition, which runs through Nov. 26, is part of Yocum's monthlong "Stay Alive and Make Art" initiative featuring arts experiences to inspire teens. Gallery hours are Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.