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Things to Do in Fort Wayne and Beyond

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Led by Creative Impulse

In 2016, Fort Wayne crossed a threshold from “almost cool” to “indisputably cool” when it was announced that The Flaming Lips would perform at the inaugural Middle Waves music festival. […]

Americana & a Latin Twist

When Paul Cebar first started making music more than three decades ago, he took his cues from dance bands in New Orleans and Memphis. “I learned to play the R&B […]

Inspiration from Isolation

Hicksville, Ohio, seems an unlikely place for a pair of musicians to have formed a bond, or for that matter, a band. But that’s where Hilary Armstrong and Ellen Coplin […]

Contemporary Christian Festival

It’s not every day that contemporary Christian music fans have a chance to see some of their favorite acts for free on the same day, in the same place. On […]

KelsiCote and the Amig@s

Vocalist Kelsi Lee and guitarist Jose Manuel “Cote” Godoy began their musical journey together as a duo, traveling through Argentina, writing music and interviewing local folk musicians. The trip proved […]

Star Spangled Girl

When we began planning our 2018-19 season for Arena Dinner Theatre, the Play Reading Committee and I started looking for well-known plays and playwrights to fill out our season. Who […]

Disney’s Newsies

With “Newsies,” Disney (which has proved it can do almost anything) turned a failed film into a hit Broadway musical. What’s more, “Newsies” is a hit Broadway musical about a […]

Love & Jangle Rock

Fort Wayne has plenty of guys and gals that work behind the scenes to help make the community the thriving, creative space it has become. One of those people is […]

Growing Older & Wiser

Jon Gordon Langseth Jr., alias Jonny Lang, was discovered in the late 1990s as part of a wave of blues guitar prodigies. In the late 1990s, we loved nothing so […]

Bluegrass, Hip Hop Smash

If you’ve watched an episode of the Fox drama, Justified, then you’ve heard the unique mash-up of hip hop and bluegrass that is Gangstagrass. The Brooklyn-based, genre-bending band will be […]