March Gladness for Pittsburgh concert fans

SCOTT TADY

There’s more than televised basketball to get excited about this March.

Get out of the house, to see one of the many cool concerts on the calendar here in western Pennsylvania.

From an album release show by Beaver Valley chart-toppers The Jaggerz, to the farewell Pittsburgh performance from Journey; and rising country star Cody Johnson to acclaimed tribute band Brit Floyd, you’ve got choices.

Here’s a list to help:

PPG PAINTS ARENA

March 2: Journey

March 3: Three Days Grace

March 6: Cody Johnson

March 20: Bert Kreischer

May 5: Bring Me The Horizon; May 19: Bruce Springsteen; May 23: Don Toliver; June 11: 5 Seconds of Summer; June 16: Megan Moroney; June 23: Alex Warren; June 30: Lionel Richie with Earth, Wind & Fire; July 11: Meghan Trainor;  July 20: Zayn; July 30-31: Nate Bargatze; Aug. 13: Zac Brown Band; Dec. 21: Andre Bocelli.

Journey travels to Pittsburgh in 2026.

JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE

March 12: FireHouse

March 15: Jaggerz CD release party

March 19: Max Weinberg’s Jukebox

March 26: Slaughter

March 28: Steelheart

March 29: Struggle Jennings

April 2: A Flock of Seagulls; April 7: Lynch Mob; April 8: Throwing Muses; April 9: Kylie Morgan;  April 22: Uli Jon Roth; April 23: The Band Perry; April 28: Paul Gilbert; May 8: Crack The Sky; May 9: Buckethead; May 18: Buckcherry; May 19: Samantha Fish; May 21: Nazareth; June 22: Ana Popovic; July 5: Quiet Riot; July 12: Chris Kirkpatrick, O-Town, LFO, BBMak and Ryan Cabrera; July 13: Robert Jon & The Wreck; Sept. 16-17: Leonid & Friends.

The Jaggerz have an album release show at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille.

STAGE AE

March 13: Rise Against

March 19: Dark Star Orchestra

March 22: Zara Larsson

April 8: The Last Dinner Party; April 10: 49 Winchester; April 14: The Maine; May 12: Ashnikko; May 15: Black Veil Brides; May 22: Ryan Bingham; June 1: Taking Back Sunday; June 10: Mt. Joy; June 14: Dance Gavin Dance; June 23: Young The Giant; June 24: Trombone Shorty; July 10: Louis Tomlinson; July 23: O.A.R.; Aug. 2: Black Keys; Sept. 1: Sierra Ferrell; Sept. 23: Rainbow Kitten Surprise; Sept. 25: Caamp; Oct. 10: Sugar.

PETERSEN EVENTS CENTER

March 20: Brit Floyd

March 26: Toby MAC

April 4: B2K, Bow Wow; April 11: Bailey Zimmerman; April 25: Jeezy; June 7: Teddy Swims; Aug. 21: Koe Wetzel; Sept. 17: Phil Wickham.

PALACE THEATRE

March 15: Steven Curtis Chapman

April 19: Kenny Wayne Shepherd; May 3: The Jaggerz, Chuck Blasko’s Vogues, The Skyliners, The Marcels and Pure Gold; May 19: ZZ Top; June 5: Cinderella’s Tom Keifer; July 22: Stewart Copeland; July 23: Air Supply; Oct. 15: Micky Dolenz

ROXIAN THEATRE @ CITIZENS

March 14: Earnest

March 17: Gary Numan

March 28: Thievery Corporation

 April 4: Our Lady Peace and the Verve Pipe; April 7: Ally and AJ; April 14: Snarky Puppy; April 21: Band of Horses; April 24: Soulja Boy; April 26: Steel Panther; May 14: Sevendust; May 18: Altar Bridge; May 27: The Toadies; June 3: Corinne Bailey Rae; June 25: String Cheese Incident; July 16: Trampled by Turtles; Aug. 12: Courtney Barrett.

BENEDUM CENTER

March 2: Jason Isbell

March 3: Patti LuPone

March 7: Joe Bonamassa

April 8: CeCe Winans; April 10: Anne Wilson; April 11: The Temptations & The Four Tops.

CARNEGIE OF MUSIC HOMESTEAD

April 9: Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood; April 30: Jim Breuer; May 5: Melissa Etheridge; May 8: Gino Vannelli;  May 28: Airplane! Live With Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays; June 7: Napoleon Dynamite – A Conversation with “Napoleon Dynamite’s” Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, & Jon Gries; June 9: Ben Folds; June 19: Patton Oswalt; June 27: Christopher Cross.

CITY WINERY PITTSBURGH

March 9: California Guitar Trio

March 15: Dar Williams

March 20: Low Cut Connie

April 13: Soul Asylum acoustic; April 14: Rufus Wainwright; April 21: BBMak; April 22: Lloyd Cole; April 24-25: Vanessa Carlton; April 29: Melissa Manchester; May 10: Willie Nile.

Low Cut Connie on December 21st 2025 in Asbury Park New Jersey. (Danny Clinch)

MR. SMALLS THEATRE

March 20: Sebastian Bach

March 27: Hunter Hayes

March 28-29: Lotus

April 7: Madison Cunningham; May 2: Afghan Whigs; May 7: Pete Thorn; May 22: Donna The Buffalo; July 30: Cat Power; Sept. 26: Ben Harper.

OAKS THEATER

March 17: Jim Messina

March 26: Spyro Gyra

March 29: Joanne Shaw Taylor.

May 7:  Al Di Meola; Aug. 7: BoDeans.

CRAFTHOUSE GRILL

March 5: Sponge

March 26: The Fell.

May 18: Powerman 5000; May 31: Adelitas Way.

BYHAM THEATER

March 6: Kathleen Madigan

April 18: David Spade.

UPMC EVENTS CENTER

April 7: Bush; May 11: Bilmuri; June 15: Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Plain White T’s.

TIMBER ROCK AMPHITHEATER

April 17: Gov’t Mule; May 28, Jo Dee Messina; May 29: Gary Allan; June 12: Niko Moon; June 19: Brantley Gilbert; July 17: Blackberry Smoke; July 31: Jeff Foxworthy.

HEINZ HALL

April 11: Lake Street Dive with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; June 2: St. Vincent with the PSO; July 3: Derek Hough.

ACRISURE STADIUM

June 5-6: Morgan Wallen; Aug. 29: Bruno Mars.

PNC PARK

July 3: Noah Kahan

THUNDERBIRD CAFE

March 8: Lights

March 24: The Travelin’ McCourys

March 25: Brent Cobb

March 26: The Vindys

April 11: Kashus Culpepper; April 16: Whitney; April 23: Walter Trout; May 2: Bahamas; May 12: Marc Broussard; May 22: Southern Culture on The Skids; June 23: S.G. Goodman.

PAVILION AT STAR LAKE

June 10: MGK; June 14: Mumford & Sons; June 17: Chris Stapleton;  June 20: Kid Rock; June 23: Godsmack; June 26: Riley Green; July 3: Jack Johnson; July 17: Motley Crue; July 18: Tim McGraw; July 24: Dave Matthews Band; Aug. 1: “Weird” Al Yankovic; Aug. 2: Ne-Yo & Akon; Aug. 7: Five Finger Death Punch; Aug. 8: Parker McCollum; Aug. 14: Goo Goo Dolls; Aug. 29: Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson; Sept. 3:  Rufus Du Sol; Sept. 15: Breaking Benjamin.

YOUNGSTOWN FOUNDATION AMPHITHEATER

July 10: Jason Aldean; July 11: Eric Church; Aug. 9: Joe Bonamassa and Gov’t Mule.

Others

March 13: Skillet, Rivers Casino, Pittsburgh.

April 22: Rev. Horton Heat, Preserving Underground, New Kensington; June 27: Dustin Lynch, Beaver County Boom on The Bridge, Bridgewater.

Tens of thousands of bees dead after fire occurs at a honey farm in Industry

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Bedillion Honey Farm)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Industry, PA) Tens of thousands of honey bees were killed yesterday after a bee yard was set on fire in Industry. Beekeepers Mark Bedillion and Lily Bedillion, the owners of Bedillion Honey Farm, discovered the destroyed hives while performing a routine maintenance check of the facility. The fire destroyed the colonies of bees along with the wooden boxes and pallets that are used to house them. If you have any information about this fire, you can contact 724-747-4645, and a $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and the conviction of the suspect(s).

Three men given charges including criminal homicide in connection with the 2024 shooting death of a man in Penn Hills

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Penn Hills, PA) Kelshon Lovelace, Trevor Twyman, and Lemoyne Williams were charged yesterday in connection with the death of twenty-one-year-old Vanderlee Stevenson IV. Stevenson IV passed away on December 6th, 2024 when he was shot multiple times along Universal Road in Penn Hills. Police confirm that Twyman showed up to an area hospital with a gunshot wound to his hand a few hours after the shooting took place and investigators stated that surveillance video and witness interviews helped them determine that he, Lovelace and Williams were responsible for the shooting that killed Stevenson IV. According to police, Williams was taken into custody yesterday and was taken to the Allegheny County Jail. Lovelace and Twyman were incarcerated on other unrelated criminal charges. The trio of suspects face conspiracy, criminal homicide and firearms violations charges.

Just over 59,000 Pennsylvanians have lost food benefits in the past six months

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – SNAP EBT information sign is displayed at a gas station in Riverwoods, Ill., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to state officials, more than 59,500 Pennsylvanians have lost federal food assistance in the six months since the imposition of work requirements for program recipients. These changes were ushered in by the marquee tax legislation from President Donald Trump, which stripped away Pennsylvania’s broad exemption from job mandates that were attached to federal nutrition assistance. As of September 1st, 2025, that meant that many able-bodied adults without young children had to show that they were working or volunteering for at least 20 hours every week to remain enrolled in the program. Recipients of food stamps who do not comply are limited under the rule to three months of benefits over a three-year period. The requirements expanded further November 1st, 2025 to cover people up to the age of sixty-four and parents of children that are fourteen years old or older. People over the age of fifty-four or parents of children younger than eighteen were exempt. The Department of Human Services for Pennsylvania confirms that 59,578 Pennsylvanians were expelled from SNAP in these recent months.

Peters Township High School student appears in court on charges relating to sextortion scheme involving minors; denied bail a second time

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington County, PA) Eighteen-year-old Zachariah Meyers, a Peters Township High School senior appeared in court today in the Washington County Courthouse for a preliminary hearing on charges that accuse him of sextorting over twenty victims under the age of eighteen. Meyers was denied bail a second time at this court appearance, a week after a judge denied his bail the first time. Meyers now faces only sixty-seven charges after he initially faced more than three hundred. Lawyers for Meyers asked the judge if he could be let out on bond, but the judge denied that, saying that he remains a threat to the community and he is a flight risk. This comes after a recent incident in which according to investigators, at least twenty-one boys were catfished and sextorted after Meyers pretended to be an adult film star from the Netherlands, with at least 14 teenagers sending pornographic pictures of themselves. After executing a search warrant at the home of Meyers on Windermere Court earlier this year, police confirm that they took Meyers into custody and a search of his phone found evidence that tied him to the social media accounts that targeted the minors. Meyers is still in the Washington County Jail without bond and his charges included trafficking in minors, sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation of children, sexual extortion and unlawful contact with a minor.

DMVA Mobile Outreach Team to Provide Free Assistance for Commonwealth Veterans Applying for Benefits

(File Photo of an American Flag)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Annville, PA) According to a release today in Annville, Pennsylvania from the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA), they announced that its mobile veterans outreach team is available for free throughout the state to assist veterans by obtaining information and initiating benefit claim paperwork through the assistance of accredited veterans service officers. The DMVA brings services that are essential directly to veterans and can also be booked online for community events like county fairs, festivals and more. Their team offers on-site assistance that is no cost with veterans’ benefits that are supported by the DMVA’s accredited veterans service officers. Links with more information can be found below:

Click here to schedule the Mobile Veterans’ Outreach Team for an Event | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Click here to find out more about the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs | Department of Military and Veterans Affairs | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania natural gas production jumps 5.1%, largest increase since 2021

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from March 12, 2020, work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary’s, Pa. Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro is scheduled to release results on Thursday June 25, 2020 of a grand jury investigation into natural gas hydraulic fracturing. The fracking process has raised environmental concerns while turning the state into a major energy producer. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The production of natural gas in Pennsylvania went up by 5.1%, which is the biggest increase in the state since 2021. The annual natural gas production report from the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) in Harrisburg released on Wednesday found that 7.76 billion cubic feet of production and 446 new wells begun in 2025. The volume for natural gas production increased all year and the number of wells were a higher amount beginning in the second quarter, even as the average price in Pennsylvania was the highest in the first quarter at a total of $3.69 per thousand British Thermal Units. $2.83 per thousand British Thermal Units was the average price in 2025, which was up 70% from a year ago. According to the IFO, the number of new wells that began in Pennsylvania was the first increase in annual totals since 2022.

Tanker truck overturns on the I-79 on-ramp near Steubenville Pike

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of WPXI-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on February 27th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Robinson Township, PA) A tanker truck overturned on the I-79 on-ramp near Steubenville Pike in Robinson Township today. The truck was on its side at the bottom of the ramp. There were no reported injuries.

Two-vehicle crash occurs in Lawrence County

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported via release today that a two-vehicle crash occurred in Lawrence County on the evening of February 17th, 2026. At 11 p.m., an unidentified driver was traveling on I-76 East in North Beaver Township and tried to pass the vehicle of twenty-two-year-old Cameron Hores of Valencia, Pennsylvania after the driver was behind the vehicle of Hores. The driver ended up hitting the vehicle of Hores and did not stop and give information to police. There were no injuries. 

Pirates announcer discusses Andrew McCutchen future and new MLB rule

Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown spoke on the Beaver County Radio Morning Show on Friday.

Chatting with WBVP-WMBA morning host Scott Tady, Brown shared his thoughts on Andrew McCutchen’s potential future with the Pirates. Brown also discussed a new Major League baseball rule change regarding players challenging called balls and strikes.

Listen to Brown’s interview here:

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Greg Brown, Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster. (photo courtesy Greg Brown)