Ron Carnevali says “advance ticket gross sales are on the highest degree they’ve ever been” for the AmeriServ Flood Metropolis Music Pageant, which begins Friday in downtown Johnstown.
The pageant co-chairman and booster, chatting with our Kelly City just lately, described this yr’s slate as “a reasonably various lineup” that “speaks to a number of music pageant followers.”
“A number of these bands are very fashionable on the pageant circuit, and it’s a lineup that has a number of attraction to the regional music viewers,” Carnevali stated.
Headliners Andy Frasco & The U.N. and Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew: Stay in Mild will carry out Friday and Saturday, respectively – bringing a contact of star energy to Johnstown: Harrison is the founding guitarist for Rock and Roll Corridor of Famers Speaking Heads, and Belew was the lead singer and guitarist for prog-rock legends King Crimson.
“It is a large present and an enormous band with plenty of horns,” Carnevali stated of Harrison and Belew’s group. “It’s going to be an actual sight to see. Individuals are going to adore it with these two legends, and I feel it’s a can’t-miss.”
And of Friday’s headliner, he stated: “Andy Frasco is a spectacle and an unbelievable performer. There are usually some antics concerned in his reveals, and oftentimes you’ll see him crowd-surfing all the best way to the again of a packed pageant venue.”
Per an announcement at floodcitymusic.com, organizers have navigated a late hiccup within the lineup.
Canadian country-rockabilly fusion band The Hypochondriacs needed to cancel its U.S. tour as a result of its members’ work visas weren’t issued in time. However Cool Cool Cool, the backing band for Harrison and Belew, will fill within the hole with its personal set from 2 to three:30 p.m. Saturday.
It’s an instance of the complexity of organizing a music pageant – and the organizers once more deserve a tip of the hat for placing collectively an occasion that brings individuals to Johnstown.
Peoples Pure Gasoline Park, 90 Johns St., is the venue. A full schedule may be discovered on-line at floodcitymusic.com, at TribDem.com, or in The Tribune-Democrat’s Dwelling part from this previous Saturday.
We second a remark made earlier this yr by Jeff Stopko, president and CEO of pageant title sponsor AmeriServ Monetary: “It’s occasions like this that actually spotlight all that our area has to supply and makes it a real vacation spot for many who admire the fantastic thing about the Laurel Highlands.”
