Susquehanna Valley NEWS By Keith Hummel It’s May, the long spring is over, yea! May is still a bit cool but “being cool” is what Bluegrass music is all about. The 2nd Annual Spring Pickin’ Bluegrass Festival will be taking place May 3rd thru May 5th at the Blain Picnic Grounds. Fun for the whole family with camping, late night stage until 3am, instument workshops, kids area, playground, a horseshoe tournament and of course, great music. Check out www.monkeylion.net for all the details or you can see their ad in last month’s issue on page 2 if you happen to have kepy your copy. Over 20 bands will be performing including Larry Keel & The Natural Bridge, The Hillbilly Gypsies, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Garcia Grass, Hickory Project, and Launch Pad just to name a few. Another great event coming up the merry month of May is Roast & Run for Little Ones Annual Benefit May 17th thru the 19th at West End Fairgrounds in Laurelton. Friday night will be Karaoke with Starmaker and Reverand Blue Jeans. Saturday night features Tongue ‘N’ Cheek, Sucker Punch and Small Town Titans. This event supports ill and disabled local children. It’s a great cause and keeps the funds raised in our local area. See the ad on page 17 for all the details. June has a lot of outside music happening so get ready to rock, our Pennsylvania Musicians are ready to roll with even more blues to come as the 24th annual Billtown Blues Festival will take place at the Lycoming County Fairgrounds in Hughesville. As always local favorites like The Blind Chitlin Kahunas, The Porkroll Project and Greg Burgess will open the show. Headlining the event Joe Louis Walker will sear the stage with the blues. There are more music and things going on but I’ve only little time this month to fill in the full line up. Check out June’s issue of The Pennsylvania Musician Magazine for the full line up of The Billtown Blues Festival. If you want a jump on things go to Billtownblues.org for a more in depth description of each artist. The Badlees are in the studio getting a new CD ready for an October release. Meantime they have gotten the call to open for Bob Seger on some tri-state dates. The word of great Badlee music travels far as Bob hand picked the band to open for him. The Badlees opened for him years back and Bob gave them the call up. That darn Kix band is everywhere. After a hot show up here at The Hummelswharf Fire Company they are getting a new CD of new Kix music. Steve Whiteman was on Eddie Trunks show weeks back and look to June when Steve and Brian Forsythe will be on Eddie’s “That Metal Show.” Western Pa’s Tony Janflone has been laid for five years from a car accident. He’s healed up and playing all over western PA and the Pittsburg area. Good to hear Tony is healed up and ready to play be it a band or solo. TonyJanflonJr.com. White Witch, together 29 years and having three original members, are adding keyboards to their music. May 25th you can rock with the Witch and friends at the Log Cabin Inn continued on page 1 6 ...
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PENNSYLVANIA MUSICIAN MAGAZINE
May, 2013