This summer, Sunday afternoon concerts will be held at the Pavilion 2 bandshell in Lloyd H. Roland Memorial Park, located off North 11th Street, Akron, at 4:30 p.m.

The concert series will begin with Rizzetta's Tones on Sunday, June 5. There is no rain date. Rizzetta's Tones is a Celtic Americana band, whose members play "fraternal twin" hammered dulcimers, a silver flute, high and low whistles, a guitar, a bass guitar, and alto and bass melodions. The band members also add button accordion, Greek bouzouki, mandolin, autoharp, and ukulele, as well as bodhran, djembe, and other percussion instruments.

All members sing lead and backing vocals on songs. Their repertoire includes music from Ireland, Scotland, and the U.S., also drawing from the traditions of Sweden, Brazil, France, Hungary, and many other countries. The band both creates new arrangements and writes its own material.

The Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble will present music on Sunday, June 19. In the case of rain, the concert will take place on Sunday, July 3. The group is inspired by the early 20th-century tradition of the community mandolin orchestra. The quintet consists of Greg Rohrer on mandolin, Kevin Neidig on mandolin and octave mandolin, Tom Cook on mandola, and Henry Koretzky on mandocello and mandolin. Neidig, Cook, and Koretzky provide vocals. The band's repertoire has grown to include original tunes and arrangements from both Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble members and local musical colleagues, as well as a wide array of tunes and songs drawing from jazz, swing, bluegrass, old-time, folk, and world music.

Concerts will also include Fire in the Glen on July 10, with a rain date of July 17; Swing Street on Aug. 21, with a rain date of Aug. 28; and Ragtime Willi on Sept. 11, with a rain date of Sept. 18.

Fire in the Glen is a three-piece band led by Tom Knapp, band founder, fiddler and bodhranist. Knapp is joined onstage by Amanda Wells on guitar, percussion and vocals and Rod Nevin on Highland bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, pennywhistle, ukulele and vocals.

Swing Street will present fun renditions of mainstream jazz standards and jazz adaptations of popular tunes.

Ragtime Willi will play a wide variety of music in the Americana style: old-timey blues songs, traditional fiddle tunes played on the mandolin and originals, plus singer-songwriter classics by artists such as Bob Dylan, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Credence Clearwater Revival and Woody and Arlo Guthrie.

People are invited to bring lawn chairs or blankets and pack a picnic supper. The law firm Haggerty & Silverman will sponsor the concerts.