Welcome to the official site of the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival! Produced by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, the festival is a 3-day music festival in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

The 2009 event was held August 21, 22 & 23.

2009 Memories
For more details on the 2009 lineup, please visit the 2009 Performers page.
Thank you for a tremendous inaugural AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival! The Johnstown Area Heritage Association extends a sincere thank-you to our loyal sponsors, numerous in-kind sponsors, and volunteers who made it possible. We also thank everyone who came out, donated, and showed such strong support in a year of change.
The festival is a $300,000 event, and without sponsors it simply would not be possible. The festival would especially like to thank AmeriServ Financial, who has been our title sponsor since the early 1990s; stage sponsors First Commonwealth Bank, Conemaugh Health System, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.
We are also grateful to major sponsors Von's United Beverage/Bud Light; Harrigan's Cafe & Wine Deck; Spangler Subaru; National Endowment for the Arts; Somerset Trust; Geico; and Southern Comfort.
Performance sponsors in 2009 deserve a big thanks as well. They are: Brett Insurance; Carpenter's Local Union #1419; Community Foundation for the Alleghenies; Concurrent Technologies Corp.; Downtown Coalition; 1st Summit Bank; Johnstown Construction; Laurel Management Co.; L. Robert Kimball & Assoc.; MetLife Financial Services; Northwest Savings Bank; Re/MAX Team Realtors; and Spence, Custer, Saylor, Wolfe & Rose.
Highlights of the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival are too many to list, but here are some memories we'll always have: Lead singer Kirk MacLeod of Seven Nations arriving on an Amtrak train, and strolling 50 yards to the First Commonwealth Stage;
The flight delays and cancellations experienced by almost every performer traveling by plane, due to the wild weather on the East Coast that miraculously missed us; The glowing, translucent beach balls bouncing through the audience at Grace Potter & the Nocturnals' Friday night show; The Clumsy Lovers' five-minute sound check; The scramble to borrow an acoustic guitar (generously provided by Chris Verbano of the Whiskey River Panhandlers) for Grace Potter, less than an hour before her Saturday show; The fun of seeing Ben Hardt and Joy Ike sitting in with Bob Banerjee; The excitement of seeing The Derek Trucks Band take the stage to close our festival.
Portions of many 2009 festival performances were captured and posted on YouTube. Here are the links we've identified, with thanks especially to Tim Roolf, who took many of these. Friday: Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Saturday: Kane Welch Kaplin, here, and with "Mr. Bones" Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, here and "Come On In My Kitchen Scrapomatic, here and here Joy Ike Kristi Rose & Fats Kaplin Sunday: Ruthie Foster with "Richland Woman Blues", "People Grinning in Your Face", and "The Fruits of My Labors" Bill Kirchen with "Looking at the World Through a Windshield" and "Freight Train Boogie" The Derek Trucks Band here, here, and with "Sweet Inspiration";
In-kind sponsors donate a dizzying array of products and services that make the festival go. The festival wouldn't be possible without them, and we offer our thanks to: Ace Rental Place & Cambria Ace Hardware; American Steel Service; Atlantic Broadband; Borco Equipment Co.; Cambria County Emergency Management Agency; Cambria County Transit Authority; Carpenter's Local #1419; Cernic's; City of Johnstown; Coast to Coast Cellular; Comfort Inn; Conference Archives; Cox Broadcasting/WJAC; Cool 101.7; Ebensburg Yamaha; EconoLodge; 1st Summit Bank; Flower Barn; F.M. Sheesley Construction; Forever Broadcasting; George's Trailers; Hines Equipment; Hornick's Auto; JWF Industries; Johnstown Chemical; Johnstown Magazine; Johnstown Redevelopment Authority;
Johnstown Rental & Leasing; Johnstown Water Authority; Lamar; Lowe's; Martin Marine; McAneny Brothers; Chuck McIlhenny; Millwork Solutions; Mindsight, LLC; Mlacker Transportation; Payless Car Rental; New Pig; Pristow's; Quaker Sales; Dave Rickabaugh; The Sargent's Group; SFB Partnership; Sheesley Supply; State Chemical; State Correctional Institution/Somerset; The Tribune-Democrat; Valley Proteins; Walnut Management; Waste Management; Westwood Garden Haven; Senator John Wozniak; WQED; 91.3fm WYEP.
The festival is grateful to the owners who graciously allow us to use their properties. Our sincere thanks go out to Conemaugh Health System, Walnut Management, FreightCar America Corp., The Sargent's Group, JEMCOR, Carole Furst Gigliotti, John Bortoli, Harvey Supowitz, MaryAnn McCaffrey, and SFB Partnership.
The AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival receives state art funding support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development. More images of the 2009 event will be posted on JAHA's Facebook page; here are links to an album of photographs, Bill Rogers' photography of the event, and Jim Alexander's photos. Stay tuned for news about Festival Park, 2010 festival dates and more. See you in 2010!