The Butler County Symphony Orchestra begins its 2019-20 season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday with “Folklore and Fairy Tales” in the Butler Intermediate High School auditorium.

Selections are slated to include Tchaikovsky's “Sleeping Beauty Suite,” as well as Prokofiev's “Cinderella Suite No. 1.”

Pianist Orion Weiss will perform the “Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3.”

The concert is the first of six that showcase music from all periods, performed under the direction of conductor Matthew Kraemer.

Call 724-283-1402 for tickets or more information.

Upcoming festivals include:- 35th annual Mars Apple Fest, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on Grand Avenue in downtown Mars, featuring music, art, crafts, food and activities- Portersville Steam Show Fall Fling, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, admission $5 but age 11 and younger admitted free.- Concordia Oktoberfest, 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, featuring a German menu, musical entertainment, a petting zoo/pony rides, games and entertainment for all ages ending with Zambelli fireworks, all at 134 Marwood Road, Cabot.

Butler Little Theatre's season-opening show will be “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth.”The comedy will run Friday, Saturday and Sunday and Oct.8 to 12.Curtain is at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.Call 724-287-6781 or visit BLTgroup.org.

Johnny Angel and the Halos, Pittsburgh oldies band, celebrating its 53rd anniversary, will perform a dinner show Oct. 12 at Tanglewood Center, 10 Austin Ave., Lyndora.Doors open at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. and the music starting at 8 p.m.Tickets are $35. Reserve seating by calling 724-287-0021.

ADAMS TWP — Opus I Music Society will host “History of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,” presented by Kathy Csellar, on Oct. 14 in the music room at LifePointe Alliance Church, Route 228.Refreshments start at 9:30 a.m. with the free program beginning at 10 a.m.Opus I is a member of the Pennsylvania and National Federations of Music Clubs.

BRADY TWP — “Spooky Stories” will be told at 6:30 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Old Stone House at the intersection of Routes 8, 528 and 173, just south of Slippery Rock.Tickets are needed and cost $7; children 5 and younger are admitted free. Visit oldstonehousepa.org/events. Tickets will only be sold at the door if there are seats.