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More tickets ready for benefit concert

Saturday event features Clarks

Some more general admission tickets were made available for Saturday's previously sold-out benefit concert featuring The Clarks at the Starlight Drive-In in Center Township.

The concert is a fundraiser for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank that serves food pantries and cupboards in Butler County.

Gates open at 6 p.m. and the music starts at 7:45 p.m.

The event, originally scheduled in Moon Township, Allegheny County, was moved due to a scheduling conflict to the Starlight Drive-In, 1985 N. Main St. Extension.

The concert was sold out, but a small number of general admission tickets were made available Thursday, said Adam Valen, marketing manager of Drusky Entertainment, which is promoting the show and selling tickets through its website.

Drusky's website, druskyentertainment.com, identifies the tickets as Butler Starlight Advance and lists them under the General Admission Car section. Tickets cost $100 per vehicle with up to four occupants. Fees and taxes are also charged.

In addition to The Clarks, performers will include Gene the Werewolf and The Hawkeyes.

Dennis Slupe, business manager for St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Butler, said the pantry buys and receives food from the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, and has been receiving a lot of local donations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We get a lot of donations from individuals, churches, different organizations. A lot of monetary donations from different people. Butler is very good when it comes to crisis. We've taken in a lot of donations throughout this pandemic,” Slupe said. “People responded.”

The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank offers good deals to pantries and provides some food for free, he said. The St. Vincent food pantry serves 1,500 to 1,800 people in Butler city and the surrounding area.

“We're always trying to help out the community anyway we can,” said John Mason, Starlight Drive-In owner. “We've held other benefits.”

The drive-in has 380 parking spaces and staff will direct incoming vehicles to park in rows “stadium style,” he said.

Vehicles will be parked 4 feet apart.

Concertgoers can watch and listen to the show from inside their vehicles or from seats they take themselves and place in front of their vehicles.

People will not be allowed to sit along the sides of the vehicles due to COVID-19 social distancing recommendations, Mason said.

Attendees will be given information about ordering food from the concession stand from their vehicles using an app.

Portable restrooms will be provided.

Donations to St. Vincent de Paul in Butler can be made through its website, svdpbutler.org. Donations to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank can be made at www.pittsburghfoodbank.org or by mail to 1 N. Linden St., Duquesne, PA 15110.

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