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Live theatre, music
and art.
Museums and historical exhibits.
Fine dining in restaurants nestled in the hills.
They're here for you today,
offering relaxation and entertainment, as well as a cultural extension for
community living.
The Pasquerilla
Performing Arts Center is an extraordinary educational and performance
complex, on the rolling, rustic campus of the University
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. The Arts Center
hosts the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra as well as the River City Brass Band
in a year round series. You can be entertained by diversified performances,
from dance to classical music to jazz to student plays and children's theater.
And there's more . . .
The Community Arts
Center, catering to
painters and craftsman with specialties, such as watercolor, woodcarving,
calligraphy and photography.
Add to all of this our
theatres, with summer stock and local performers in a myriad of Broadway
comedies, musicals and drama - The Cresson Lake Playhouse along with the
Mountain Playhouse, one of the nation’s professional summer stock
theatres, both offering regular performances.
Regional museums and
attractions include the Johnstown Heritage Discovery
Center which chronicles the lives
of turn-of-the-century European immigrants, the Johnstown Flood
Museum, the Inclined
Plane, the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site in Gallitzin
and many historic buildings and neighborhoods such as in the Cambria City
Historic District.
The work of both local
and national artists is highlighted in exhibits at the Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art on the St. Francis
College campus in nearby Loretto, and the Johnstown location
housed in the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center.
And Cambria County
loves to celebrate. We have festivals all summer long . . . Bluegrass, polka, homecomings, and more . . .
including the Friendly City Polkafest, the Johnstown Folkfest, Thunder in
the Valley annual motorcycle rally, Ebensburg Potatofest, Cresson Heritage
Festival and the Cambria County Fair.
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