Briggs Farm Blues Festival is right around the corner. This year’s Festival, July 6, 7, & 8 in Briggsville, Pennsylvania, promises to ignite the calm country air with world-class music, turning the rolling hills of Briggs Farm into the biggest and most awarded blues festival on the east coast.
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Briggs Farm Announces Firehouse Concert Series
As an extension of their mission to bring quality music acts to the region, Briggs Farm Concerts, in partnership with the Columbia Montour Visitors Bureau, will host a monthly concert series at the Nescopeck Township Fire Hall.
Briggs Farm Concerts kicks off with Dustin Douglas & the Electric Gentlemen
The free, indoor/outdoor event will be held in Nescopeck, PA.
Inclusion Dining & Jams welcomes Ryan Montbleau to the Musikfest Café
In addition to Montbleau’s performance, Inclusion Dining & Jams will also feature sensory-friendly music, yoga-inspired dance for all, opportunities for play, flow arts, sing-alongs, inspiring lyrics, mindfulness, collaborative art, and so much more to provide an all inclusive event.
Muscle Tough pieces their Quarantine Miniatures, “Tough Transmissions” into an album
Tough Transmissions is perfectly in balance between the free-stylization of the music and the premeditation of the mixing: a reflection of the structured chaos that has become our daily lives and the creative release we all grasp at to keep the mind moving as the rest of the world stands still.
Accessible Festivals hosts Virtual Auction with Inclusion Festival swag & more!
“The virtual auction event hosted [December 10] by Accessible Festivals will celebrate the importance of music and recreation in all of our lives, featuring auction items for music fans across the country, including Coachella tickets and EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) tickets. Additionally, the auction will feature tickets to Accessible Festivals’ own Inclusion Festival, the nation’s first and only music and wellness festival designed to include and accommodate people with autism and other special needs.”
Single Release: “Complete” by Better Human
“When the pandemic hit the East Coast and venues shuttered their doors, Better Human scaled back out of necessity, playing virtual sets in a solo or smaller band configuration with Wexler taking over lead vocals. New single ‘Complete,’ released on Halloween, bears the marks of this transition without sacrificing any of the band‘s core sonic DNA.”
#ThrowbackThursday album review: You Are Literally a Metaphor, Consider the Source
Consider the Source’s latest full-length makes up for their four-year gap in studio releases with a meaty, seventy-plus minute offering of highly inventive multisectional instrumental epics.
#ThrowbackThursday album review: Songs About Worms, Trap Rabbit
“In Songs About Worms, a thorough combination of the novel and the vintage creates an endlessly compelling sonic palette that is at once unique and familiar.”
#ThrowbackThursday album review: Gnomon, The Clock Reads
Gnomon, The Clock Reads’ second LP, is an excellent primer on their unique sound and personality as a band. The instrumental jazz quartet makes use of two guitarists along with bass and drums, a relatively unusual configuration that raises challenges ably met by the ensemble.
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