With an esteemed career that includes and sharing stages with giants like The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, SLASH, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Eric Johnson on the legendary Experience Hendrix Tour, Samantha Fish offers a concert experience unlike any other.

Prepare to be captivated by one of the most formidable guitarists of her generation as Samantha Fish embarks on her 2025 Paper Doll Tour. Samantha and her all-star band bring a relentless energy and emotional depth to every stage they grace.

Following her multi-award-winning success and a Grammy-nominated album, Death Wish Blues, in collaboration with rocker Jesse Dayton, which soared to #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart, Samantha Fish is back with her new album, Paper Doll. The album’s nine powerful tracks that come alive on the Paper Doll Tour along with fan favorites.

Rothrock by UTMB™ is the newest stop on the UTMB World Series and the second event on the Eastern side of the United States, joining Grindstone Running Festival by UTMB®. The inaugural edition will take place May 16–17, 2026 in Rothrock State Forest, just outside State College, Pennsylvania (Happy Valley).

The event features 50km and 25km distances that build on the legacy of the Rothrock Trail Challenge, established in 2009.

20 years is a long time to spend doing anything at all. It’s an age for any group of people to sustain a collective effort. For a band on the road, 20 years can be more than a lifetime. Yet, after 2 decades of making music together in living rooms, listening rooms, clubs, theaters, and festival stages, The Steel Wheels are still growing, still pushing, still at it, and they’re marking the occasion with the release of their 9th studio album, “The Steel Wheels”.

Following the release of “Sideways” in 2024, their 3rd record with producer Sam Kassirer at his Great North Sound Society studio in interior Maine, the band felt it was time for a change of scene. As the group began to select songs for a new album, they also had to find an answer to the question of where they would get down to the work of record-making. They didn’t know that answer was going to knock on their back door.

Travel back in time with Paragon Ragtime Orchestra on April 25, 2026, and enjoy an evening of silent film classics and special music! The featured film this year will be Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush.

Join us for the Happy Valley Classic taking place from April 26-27, 2025 at the Nittany Valley Sports Centre. Join us at the Happy Valley Classic in witnessing basketball from grades 3-12 all play under one roof as a part of the YBOA National Qualifier. We can’t wait to see you there!

Platinum Entertainment Group is excited to announce the highly-anticipated concert of the year as the Bronx-bred superstar A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie takes the stage at the Bryce Jordan Center on Friday, April 24, 2026. The event promises to be an unforgettable night of hip-hop and entertainment.

Get ready to laugh out loud when internationally acclaimed comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his Artificial Intelligence Tour to the Bryce Jordan Center on Thursday, April 23, 2026.

Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live™ is back in 2026 with Glow-N-Fire™! The tour that lit up last year returns bigger and hotter than ever — with even more flames, more glow, and more high-octane action. Fans can expect the same edge-of-your-seat thrills they love, now supercharged with enhanced pyro effects, dazzling lighting, and jaw-dropping stunts. It’s the ultimate family experience you won’t want to miss.

The Mid Atlantic Wrestling Association is set to host the highly anticipated West Region tournament at the Nittany Valley Sports Complex in State College, PA. This event will spotlight the extraordinary talents of wrestlers from Pennsylvania and its neighboring regions. Take advantage of discounted lodging rates using the provided group codes.

They play ukuleles, they sing, they say funny things, and they whistle. But the musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain bring a lot more to the table than a salute to their genre-bending covers of well-known songs. The seven-member ensemble will return Stateside to tour in celebration of its fortieth anniversary.

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE MUSIC MAN follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa. The smooth-talker tricks people into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize—despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.

Up-and-coming Atlanta-based band The Paradox went from recording videos in founder Eric Dangerfield’s bedroom to enjoying viral success on Instagram. Soon after, the power-pop band was opening for rock and punk royalty, including Green Day and Jack White. After its quick rise in popularity, The Paradox was added to the 2024 When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas. Last year, the band made its Pennsylvania debut at PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia to a packed house. In May, The Paradox will perform at Bottlerock music festival in Napa Valley, California.

Praised by The New York Times as “refreshing in the extreme,” the chamber music collective Decoda, the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, creates a more connected and compassionate world through music—offering artfully scripted performances, leading inventive community projects, and training the next generation of artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. 

Winter Jam 2026 brings together some of the biggest names in Christian music for an unforgettable night. This year’s lineup features Chris Tomlin, Matthew West, Katy Nichole, Hulvey, Disciple, Emerson Day, Newsong, and speaker Zane Black, with a Pre-Jam Party featuring Jeremy Rosado, Heath Brothers, and Cliff Preston. With no tickets required and only a $15 donation at the door, it’s a night you won’t want to miss!

The Happy Valley Animation Fest takes place in State College, PA and is an open international animation competition that seeks to showcase animated works in a range of categories. HVAF is screened and exhibited locally and throughout the Pennsylvania State University as well as online. We encourage submissions by students, early career, and practicing professional artists, designers, and filmmakers in any of the three categories that include: Animated Short Films, Experimental Animation, and Animated Motion Graphics & Design.