Funk to strings to old-school crooning, music acts spring into Western Pa.

From new-school funkiness to old-school crooning to an entire town full of bands, Pittsburgh has a variety of musical acts headed to the region this spring and early summer. Here are just a few upcoming shows, festivals and recent releases.

Millvale Music Festival

About 300 bands, all of them local, will be playing somewhere in Millvale on Friday and Saturday, as the town hosts the annual Millvale Music Festival.

With more than 25 venues bringing new bands onstage just about every hour, it would be difficult not of find a handful of sets worth checking out at the free festival.

See MillvaleMusic.org for the full schedule of venues and performers.

Wayne Newton at Carnegie Library Music Hall

If you’re making a list of classic Las Vegas performers, you’d better include Wayne Newton.

Before making his return to the landmark Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino this fall, Newton will make an Aug. 30 stop at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead for his “Up Close and Personal” tour, which will include audience interaction, film clips, anecdotes and a question-and-answer session.

Newton is known for his iconic signature song “Danke Schoen” in addition to countless other hits like “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast,” “Red Roses for a Blue Lady,” “At This Moment,” “The Letter,” “Summer Wind” and “Years.”

To date, Newton has recorded and released 165 albums in his career.

Tickets are available at the music hall’s website.

Georgia Anne Muldrow in the Cultural District

Los Angeles native Georgia Anne Muldrow has quietly built a name for herself through the release of more than 20 albums and EPs since making her 2006 debut, combining George Clinton’s P-Funk aesthetic with Nina Simone’s honest, raw lyrical storytelling and Sun Ra’s Afro-futurist philosophy.

Muldrow will perform June 22 as part of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center’s Uhuru Jazz Sessions series.

Muldrow was born in 1983 to guitarist Ronald Muldrow, who played with saxophonist Eddie Harris, and Rickie Byars, who sang with Sir Roland Hanna’s New York Jazz Quartet and Pharoah Sanders. Muldrow sang in the local church with her mother. She learned West African drumming by percussionist masters Leon “Ndugu” Chancler and Babatunde Olatunji and started performing professionally at 15. She attended New York City’s The New School, where she met keyboardist Robert Glasper and singer Bilal.

Her 2018 release “Overload” was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. show June 22 are $28. For more, see AWAACC.org.

Fleetwood Macked in Greensburg

The Palace Theatre in Greensburg will host Fleetwood Mac cover group Fleetwood Macked for a June 8 performance.

The cover group’s members are all professional touring musicians, able to re-create the sound and feel of the classic-rock legends as they perform rock classics like “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way” and more.

Tickets range from $33 to $75, and are available at ThePalaceTheatre.org or by calling 724-836-8000.

Pine-Richland grad KELS in Pittsburgh

Before she was KELS, Kelsey Hillock was a student in the Pine-Richland School District. This summer, she will return from her new home in Atlanta for a Pittsburgh stop on a 17-city tour of the Northeast and Midwest.

She will play the Thunderbird Cafe & Music Hall in Lawrenceville on July 27.

Since releasing a debut EP in 2021, KELS has gone on to record a Christmas EP and released several singles, available through streaming services.

Tickets for the Thunderbird show are $15, and are available at Etix.com.

Beo String Quartet’s new record

The Pittsburgh-based Beo String Quartet will release a new album, “triggerLand,” on May 25.

Refusing to be pigeonholed into traditional, classical string music, the group has played contemporary, rock and experimental music in addition to having a solid classical repertoire. The music and lyrics for “triggerLand” were written by violinist and composer Sean Neukom.

Neukom said the fictional “gun-creation myth” the lyrics explore is a vehicle for addressing larger issues.

“This project was created in response to a burning question being asked all over our country: ‘How does a society move forward in the face of unwillingness to consider new conversation or opposing points of view?’ ” he said.

The musical and thematic influences on “triggerLand” derive from rock, pop, film, and classical sources, from hip-hop, stoner rock, spaghetti Western films and more.

”TriggerLand” will be available on all major streaming platforms on May 25. For more, see BeoStringQuartet.com.

Watkins Glen re-creation

Longtime fans of the Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead hold the two words “Watkins Glen” in high esteem.

Both groups, along with The Band, were part of a 1973 Summer Jam concert at the New York venue that holds the Guinness Book of World Records entry for “largest audience at a pop festival,” with an estimated 600,000 people in attendance. Given the U.S. population at the time, that meant one out of every 350 Americans was attending the concert.

On July 29, local bands Butler Street Revival (as the Allman Bros.) and theCAUSE (as the Grateful Dead) will be joined by San Diego-based Chest Fever performing as The Band. They will re-create the event on its 50th anniversary at Hartwood Acres in Hampton/Indiana townships as the “Thunderbird Summer Jam.”

In addition, organist Chuck Leavell, who played for several years with the Allmans as well as the Rolling Stones, will join Butler Street Revival for its set.

Tickets range from $35 to $100 VIP packages, and are available at ThunderbirdSummerJam.com.