Banjo and guitar player and singer Matt Brown will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Friday, April 1, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall in the Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, of the village cultural affairs committee.
Opening for Brown are the Bluffton High School Fiddlers, an after- school club.
The performance is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted.
Jesse Henry and the Royal Tycoons will perform in the back room at Tu Pueblo Mexican Restaurant, 142 N. Main St., at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 2.
The largely original compositions are a stylistic mixture of blues, jazz, jug band, and folk performed with vibraphone, guitars, saxophone, harmonica, drums and more.
This group debuted at the 2009 Columbus Community Festival (ComFest) where they generated crowd enthusiasm the stage manager claimed to have never seen in the 20 years she had been managing the stage.
The Bluffton fifth grade quiz bowl team recently won the Allen County fifth grade quiz bowl tournament. Members of the team (not in standing order) are: Brayton Businger, Braden Conrad, Christian Groman, Christopher Harnish, Nate Staley, Nate Reynolds, Will Grace, Conor Greer, Karis Wilson and Sydney Hoff. Holly Bertka is the team coach.
Elizabeth Fischbach, Bluffton High School senior, was named the February student of the month at BHS.
She is member of Math Club, Latin Club, National Honor Society, BHS jazz band, pep band, concert band and marching band. She is also a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church SNLY.
Elizabeth is in 4-H when she has served as a camp counselor, junior fair board and 4-H council youth representative. She has served as a camp counselor in Operation: Military Kids. In the past 10 years she has received 14 first place ribbons for projects in 4-H.
The Senior High Youth of First Mennonite Church will hold a noon fundraiser following worship service on Sunday, April 3. The menu includes haystacks and a dessert buffet.
Funds raised will go toward the youth trip to the Mennonite Youth Convention in Pittsburgh, Pa., this summer, and to the youths' tithing project.
This year the SHY are giving 15 percent of funds raised to two organizations. Those include World Vision's adopt a child and the Pittsburgh Mennonite Convention Scholarship Fund.
