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Welcome to the official site of the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival! Produced by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association.
August 5, 6, 7, 2011 -- Johnstown, Pennsylvania
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(Press inquiries should be directed to Shelley Johansson. Press releases for all Johnstown Area Heritage Association programs and events, including the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival, are posted in PDF format here.)
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Press coverage of 2011 festival-- We'll keep this as updated as we can with expected coverage, and links where available! (This list is by no means comprehensive):
- Thursday, August 4 -- "Johnstown hosts annual roots-music festival,"the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's preview article (we are flattered by the lead: "Western Pennsylvania's best summer music festival often is not in Pittsburgh at all."
- Thursday, August 4 -- "Gregg Allman, Bettye LaVette headline Flood City Festival,"the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's preview article.
- Monday, August 1 - Our Town's festival preview, including articles/interviews with Project/Object, The Bridge, Zack Ernst of Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, JJ Grey, Hackensaw Boys, That 1 Guy, and Terrance Simien.
- Sunday, July 31 -- "Melodious sounds", a Tribune-Democrat festival preview article featuring an interview with Terrance Simien.
- Friday, July 29--"Flood City offers something for every music lover," a preview article in the Altoona Mirror featuring interviews with JJ Grey, Terrance Simien, and Vince Cuneo of Black Coffee.
- Monday, July 25 -- "American Babies Offer Free Download," - an article on Jambands.com that includes a paragraph about our festival and its lineup (which features American Babies).
- Sunday, July 24 and Sunday, July 31 - The Acoustic Hour with Anthony Frazier, 1160 WCCS Indiana -- Two festival preshows! On July 24 two members of the Southside Strays appeared on the show, which airs live from 9-10am on Sunday mornings. Here are YouTubes of the Strays' songs "Sprawl", and "Alpha Dog." On July 31 Jeff Perigo was the guest.
- Wednesday, July 20 "Music Festivals Brought to You by Gozaic Historic Sites" -- The festival gets a nice plug on Gozaic, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- July 5 -- The fest is previewed on Jambase.
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Community Foundation for the Alleghenies to return to 2011 festival -- As in 2010, Community Foundation for the Alleghenies is running a special promotion on Friday, August 5 at the festival. A wide variety of non-profit organizations that have funds with the foundation will be exhibiting that evening in the Community Mall. The first 500 ticketed patrons through the gates that evening will receive a certificate worth $10, and will deposit the certificate with the non-profit of their choice at the Community Mall. The non-profits will cash in with the foundation at the end of the evening. It's a great way to support and find out more about some of the area's fine non-profits and the good work they do. Non-profits are still signing up to participate, but as of July 11 they include:- Academic Alumni Scholarship Fund
- Alternative Community Resource Project (ACRP)
- Beginnings, Inc.
- Bishop McCort High School
- Cambria County Library
- CMT Foundation
- Community Arts Center of Cambria County
- Conemaugh Valley Conservancy
- Goodwill Industries
- Greater Johnstown YMCA
- Johnstown Inclined Plane
- Johnstown West End Lions
- Laurel Auto Group Charity Golf Classic
- Lift Johnstown
- The Learning Lamp Fund
- Roxbury Bandshell Preservation Alliance
- RC&D Council
- Sandyvale Memorial Gardens Fund
- Saturday's Kitchen
- SFC Raymond Richard Buchan Memorial Scholarship & Veterans Education Project
- Southern Alleghenies Conservancy (RC&D Council)
- Stone Bridge Lighting Project
- YWCA of Greater Johnstown
- VOMA-Venue of Merging Arts
- West End Improvement Group
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Peoples Natural Gas to fund park construction -- In a special event held Monday, May 23, the Johnstown Area Heritage Association (producers of the festival) announced that Peoples Natural Gas is donating $500,000 toward the completion of what will be known as Peoples Natural Gas Park (formerly Festival Park), the home of the festival. Construction will begin soon, and although it will not be complete in time for the 2011 event, the new Peoples Natural Gas Park will provide a wonderful home for the music festival, other large events in Johnstown, and will act as a catalyst for new events as well. For much more on the new park, visit the Peoples Natural Gas Park section of this website. |
Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, The Bridge complete 2011 lineup -- The festival is delighted to welcome festival favorite Terrance Simien (pictured) back to the festival -- he played here in 2006, 2002, 1998, and 1992. We also welcome Baltimore-based jamband The Bridge for their first appearance on our stages. Visit the 2011 Performers page for much more about them.
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AmeriServ Financial continues title sponsorship of the festival -- JAHA is grateful to AmeriServ for its continued support! In 2011 AmeriServ will mark its 16th year as title sponsor of the event and its predecessor, the Johnstown FolkFest. That's a remarkable record of support, and we are grateful.
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YouTube clips from the 2010 festival -- We will post these clips as we find them and get permission from the artists! In rough chronological order:
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Press coverage of 2010 festival -- This list isn't comprehensive, but here are some highlights of coverage that's appeared (with hotlinks where available).- Sunday, July 18 & Sunday, August 1 - The Acoustic Hour with Anthony Frazier, 1160 WCCS, Indiana
- On July 18 Shelley Johansson, director of communications, was a guest on the show, playing festival music - Eilen Jewell, Los Straitjackets, The Weathered Road, and Mark Dignam were featured, along with Rising Regina. Anthony also interviewed a member of Rising Regina by phone. Click here to listen! On Sunday, August 1, Shelley returned to the show with Dave DiStefano and Tim Dabbs, who both played live - click to see a YouTube of their songs! You can hear a podcast of the show here.
Friday, July 23 - "Music acts highlight festival," -- a preview article in the Daily American of Somerset.
Friday, July 23 - "Los Lobos headlining AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival," -- a brief preview from the Times-News of Cumberland, Md.
Wednesday, July 28 -- "3 Days of Music Set in Flood City," a column by Josh Mosse in the online version of the Indiana Gazette previewing the festival.
Thursday, July 29 - Forever radio, Johnstown -- Festival co-chairman Todd Wagner will be a guest during morning drivetime on Johnstown's Forever radio stations.
August issue of Johnstown Magazine -- the magazine festures a short festival preview.
Sunday, August 1 - the Tribune-Democrat has three articles: Tuning up - AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival begins Friday," a preview of the entertainment, "Organizers tweak music fest for maximum entertainment," an article about the event overall, and "Festival attendees can help non-profits," an article about the Community Celebration.
Tuesday, August 3 -- "The $25 music festival (yes, $25),", a posting on a blog called "Pittsburgh City Creative."
Wednesday, August 4 -- Coverage in Our Town Magazine - Our Town will publish articles based on interviews with several festival artists, including Eilen Jewell, Eric Tessmer, Good Brother Earl (online only), Los Straitjackets, and Robert Cray.
Thursday, August 5 - Pittsburgh City Paper - The festival makes the "Short List."
Thursday, August 5 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- "Los Lobos headlines Flood City Fest in Johnstown," a fest preview article.
Thursday, August 5 - "Pittsburgh Today Live" on KDKA-TV - Todd Wagner, festival co-chairman, will be a guest on this TV show, which airs weekdays at 9:00 am. Mark Dignam, one of our 2010 performers, will be there to play as well!
Thursday, August 5 - The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review --"Galactic headlines Flood City Music Festival," a fest preview article featuring an interview with Rich Vogel of Galactic.
Saturday, August 7 - WQED live broadcast -- As they have done for many years, the Pittsburgh public radio station WQED (which is also heard in Johnstown) will broadcast live from festival grounds from 1:00-5:00 pm on the Saturday of the festival.
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