This event marks the first-ever three-day film festival in Harrisburg. Montage features three different formats of filmmaking: video, 16mm and Super-8 and you can catch them all on three different days, at three different venues in Harrisburg, Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19. On Friday, Video Night at the Historic Harrisburg Association features videos from Michael Narren, David Zapala and others. The reception begins at 7 p.m. with live music from Walk Like Shaggy. Films begin at 8. Saturday’s event is at the Broad Street Market’s Stone Market Building. This night features projection of 16 mm. films from national artists plus a special performance by the Pittsburgh film group ORGONE, in a mix of live splicing and audio mixing. Screening begins at 8 p.m. The festival concludes on Sunday at the Susquehanna Art Museum, with films made on Super-8 format (commonly known to those old home movie stars). Screening begins at 8 p.m. Admission is a $5 donation. A three-day pass is available for a $12 donation. For more information, call Moviate at 737-2176.

Take a trip back in time to the days when the movies were silent, the music was swingin’ and the dancing was flappin’, with a flashback to the 1920s at Mount Hope Mansion. A cast from the professional acting company of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire takes a look at the glittering Age of Jazz with antics epitomized by song, dance, moralizing and radio show broadcasts. For four weekends, the stately Victorian Mount Hope Mansion will be turned into a speakeasy under the rule of fictional mobster Alphonse “Bugsy” Pirandello. If you’ve ever watched those old gangster movies and wondered what it would’ve been like to have been "bugsy" or his moll, this is an event not to be missed. The show opens on Friday, April 17, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances continuing through May 10. Friday and Saturday adult admission is $13.45 ($6, kids 5-11); $14.45 ($7, kids) for Saturday performances. For tickets or more information call the Mansion at 717-665-7021 x231, or check out their website at www.parenaissancefaire.com.

Whether you’re into New Age, Folk, Classical, Jazz or good old rock ‘n’ roll, you won’t want to miss Caryn Lin’s performance at The Wire on Saturday, April 25. Lin is uniquely adept at fitting in with nearly all musical categories with her custom electric violin and viola, original compositions and smooth vocals. She’ll no doubt perform songs from her latest release, “tolerance for ambiguity.” Even if strings aren’t your thing, you’ll go away with new respect for those kids you went to school with who lugged those big clunky music cases everywhere they went. Showtime is 8 p.m. Admission is $7.

The duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray—popularly known as the Indigo Girls—take over the Kline Center of Dickinson College on Sunday, April 26, as the school’s annual spring concert.