Gospel Music Night is June 13 at the Berkman Amphitheater
Ashley Marina will be the featured artist at Steubenville Gospel Music Night on June 13 at the Berkman Amphitheater in Steubenville. -- Contributed
STEUBENVILLE — The Ohio Valley Youth Network will be hosting a “Steubenville Gospel Music Night” on June 13 at the Berkman Amphitheater at Historic Fort Steuben, 120 S. Third St., Steubenville.
It will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., explained Bobbyjon Bauman, OVYN president. The featured artist will be Ashley Marina of Corapolis, Pa., who won the Valley’s Got Talent Show in 2019 and was a finalist in the “America’s Got Talent” competition in 2020.
Admission to the event is free. For information, contact Bauman at (608) 556-3068.
Marina, a multifaceted young talent from Pittsburgh, is a singer-songwriter whose appearance on “America’s Got Talent” season 15 has garnered more than 100 million views across digital platforms and on YouTube trended at No. 5 worldwide and is in the top 1 percent of the most- “America’s Got Talent” videos of all-time.
Marina has 15 original songs to date, including three No. 1 singles in “You’ll Always Be My Hero,” “Move a Mountain” and “Trust Somebody.” Her accolades include being named as a 2021 She Wolf Radio Ones 2 Watch Future Star, 2020 M-B Radio Artist of the Year worldwide, Talent Watch Dream Night Champion, National Talent America Tri-Star award winner and two-time Williams Sing-Off finalist. She has been featured on television shows such as CBS Pittsburgh New Year’s Eve Highmark First Night, KDKA-TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live and WPXI’s See & Be Seen and in many media outlets, among them the Huffington Post, Billboard, ET Canada, iHeart Radio, Super Power Kids and Stars 2 come.
She has performed on stages such as “Christmas with Chris Jamison, NBC’s The Voice Finalist,” Opry Mills Nashville, D2D Destiny Foundation “We Are The World” Mini Concert, Harlem Globetrotters World Tour halftime show, CMA Fest Nashville Spotlight Showcase and WPXI-TV’s Holiday Parade. She is a regular national anthem singer for professional sporting events, including Major League Baseball, USL Professional Soccer, West Virginia Derby and championship boxing.
Her other talents include playing piano, ukulele and guitar; dancing (Abby Lee Dance Co. and Millennium Dance Complex); acting; and modeling. As an actress she was cast as young Anna in Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center’s production of Disney’s “Frozen” and appeared in the Netflix Series “Mindhunter” and Sony Pictures “Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story.” Marina is a high honor roll student at a performing arts school in Western Pennsylvania.
Follow Marina on her official website www.IamAshleyMarina.com and @IamAshleyMarina on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.
Other local performers include the following:
* Joyful Noise featuring Dani Carroll of Richmond and Earl Tuttle of Wintersville;
* The Ambassadors Mime Team of Steubenville;
* Olivia Huval of Weirton;
* The Honky Tonk Sweethearts w/Laurie Labishak of Brilliant;
* “Blest” Brookes Sisters Trio from Toronto;
* Steubenville commUNITY Youth Choir;
* Called By Name, Christian rock band of Steubenville/Wintersville;
* Darrin Holt of Steubenville;
* Faire May, Irish/Celtic Music Group from Wheeling;
* Impact Church Worship Team of Weirton and Steubenville;
* Crossroads Christian Church Worship Team;
* Elisha Fletcher of Steubenville; and
* The Chrisagis Brothers of Yorkville.


