Flood City Music Festival is an annual music festival held in

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, Johnstown is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropol ...

, presented by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association. The festival began in 1989 as a street fair to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the

Johnstown Flood The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylv ...

. The event was renamed the National Folk Festival in 1990, and was held in Johnstown's Cambria City neighborhood from 1990 to 1992. In 1993, it was renamed the Johnstown FolkFest and eventually the festival moved from Cambria City to downtown Johnstown in 2004. The festival emphasized acoustic music, but was expanded and renamed the Flood City Music Festival in 2009 to include other styles of music.

2014 Flood City Music Festival Lineup

Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. An early bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells and the Steve Miller Band, he began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until h ...

Leftover Salmon Leftover Salmon is an American jam band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 1989. The band's music is a blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco. Over their thirty years as a band Salmon have released seven studio albums and three li ...

with special guest

Bill Payne William H. Payne (born March 12, 1949) is an American pianist who, with Lowell George, co-founded the American rock band Little Feat. He is considered by many other rock pianists, including Elton John, to be one of the finest American piano roc ...

* Lee Fields & The Expressions * Hurray for the Riff Raff *

Dumpstaphunk Dumpstaphunk is a funk and jam band, jam band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Origins and background The quintet's current lineup features Ivan Neville on vocals, B3 and Clav, the double bass attack and soulful voices of Tony Hall (m ...

Rubblebucket Rubblebucket is an American art-pop and indie-rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The primary members are musical couple (now separated) Annakalmia Traver and Alex Toth. Formation Alex Toth (trumpet, band leader) and Kalmia Traver (vocals, saxoph ...

* Nahko and Medicine for the People * Cornmeal *

Big Sam's Funky Nation Sammie 'Big Sam' Williams is a trombonist and band leader from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and leads Big Sam's Funky Nation. Career In his youth, he studied with saxophonist Kidd Jordan and at Ne ...

* Turkuaz * The Iguanas *

Nicole Atkins Nicole Atkins (born October 1, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter. Her influences include 1950s crooner music, 1960s psychedelia, soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from ...

* Jarekus Singleton * Driftwood * Big Mean Sound Machine * Neon Swing X-perience * The Greens * Bastard Bearded Irishmen * Ikebe Shakedown * Miss Melanie & the Valley Rats * City Dwelling Nature Seekers * Grand Piano * The Hawkeyes * Smackdab * Swampcandy * Good Brother Earl * Whiskey River Panhandlers * The Weathered Road * Amanda Barton & Bill Ward * Matt Otis & the Sound * Striped Maple Hollow * Tim Woods & the Woods Family Band

2013 Flood City Music Festival Lineup

* Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue *

Robert Randolph and the Family Band Robert Randolph and the Family Band is an American gospel band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph (Robert Jermaine Randolph, born August 8, 1977, Irvington, New Jersey). NPR has described the band as one with an "irresistible rock 'n' ...

Greensky Bluegrass Greensky Bluegrass is a five-piece American bluegrass jam band founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in mid-2000. The band has evolved over the years, growing from 3 to 5 members, adding electric effects, and touring with a full light show. Partly becau ...

* George Porter, Jr. & The Runnin' Pardners *

Kenny Neal Kenny Neal (born October 14, 1957), is an American blues guitar player, singer and band member. Neal was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Raful Neal, and he comes from a musical family. He has often performed with his brothers in his ...

Bonerama Bonerama is a brass funk rock band from New Orleans. Bonerama was formed in 1998 by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, who, from 1990

Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy is an American instrumental band led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won four Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalist ...

* Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds * Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express *

Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers were an American rock band formed in Western Massachusetts in 2003. The band features lead singer and founding member Stephen Kellogg (born November 28, 1976) piano and bass player Kit Karlson (born September 22, 1 ...

* Spirit Family Reunion * Turkuaz * The Funk Ark * Sol Driven Train * Rumpke Mountain Boys * Alexes Aiken * Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes * The Kalob Griffin Band * New York Funk Exchange * Bastard Bearded Irishmen * Jazzam featuring Clinton Clegg * Cait Cuneo * Tiger Maple String Band * Maddie Georgi Band * Old E Allstars * Well Strung * 600 lbs. of Sin * The Weedrags * Midnight Drive * The Beagle Brothers * The Derek Woodz Band * The Pawnbrokers * The Crew of the Half Moon * West Hills All-Stars

2012 Flood City Music Festival Lineup

* Dr. John & the Lower 911 *

Del McCoury Band The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy award-winning American bluegrass band. History Originally the band was called Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass. The band went through a number of changes in personn ...

The Smithereens The Smithereens are an American rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States. The group formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio (vocals & guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar & vocals), Mike Mesaros (bass guitar & vocals), and Dennis Diken (drums & ...

Steve Kimock Steve Kimock (born October 5, 1955) is an American rock guitarist. He was a member of San Francisco Bay Area bands Zero and KVHW. His tone and some of his playing approach has been compared to Jerry Garcia, who was a friend of his, and he has ...

with special guests

Bernie Worrell George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll ...

Wally Ingram Wally Ingram is an American drummer and musician. He is most famous as a member of the band, Timbuk 3. In recent years, he has toured with the multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, and released several records with him: * 2000 : ''Twango Bango D ...

and

Andy Hess Andy Hess (born December 4, 1966) is an American bassist and former member of Gov't Mule, having joined the band in 2003. Previously, he was The Black Crowes' bassist from February 2001 until their hiatus early the following year. He has also ...

Royal Southern Brotherhood Royal Southern Brotherhood is an American blues and blues rock supergroup, consisting of singer and percussionist Cyril Neville, vocalist and guitarist Devon Allman, vocalist and guitarist Mike Zito, drummer Yonrico Scott, and bassist Charlie Wo ...

Sonny Landreth Clide Vernon "Sonny" Landreth (born February 1, 1951) is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, and settled in Lafayette, Louisiana. He lives in Bre ...

Anders Osborne Anders Osborne (born May 4, 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden) is an American singer-songwriter. He tours solo and with a band, and often plays in North Mississippi Osborne (N.M.O), a group formed by Osborne and North Mississippi Allstars. Early life ...

* Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes *

Eric Lindell Eric Lindell (born 1969, Northern California, United States) is an American singer-songwriter. His recording career began in 1996 as a regional Sonoma County-based artist. Since 2006, when he was picked up by Alligator Records, he has toured nat ...

with

Anson Funderburgh Anson Funderburgh (born James Anson Funderburgh; November 14, 1954) is an American blues guitar player and bandleader of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets since 1978. Their style incorporates both Chicago blues and Texas blues. Career Funderbu ...

The Revelations featuring Tre Williams Tre Williams is an American singer, formerly affiliated with Nas' label, Ill Will Records. Biography Williams was born October 1971 and raised in the projects of Daytona Beach, Florida. He enrolled in Bethune-Cookman College, but dropped ou ...

* Billy Price Band * Chandler Travis Philharmonic * Eric Tessmer * John Howie & the Rosewood Bluff * The New York Funk Exchange * Yellow Dubmarine * Jimmy Adler * One World Tribe * Moon River Ramblers * Fletcher’s Grove * Jazzam * Backstabbing Good People * Gypsy & His Band of Ghosts * The Harlan Twins * JKutchma & the Five Fifths * Whiskey River Panhandlers * Charlie Dane * Shiva Skydriver * Groove Gathering * Chris Vipond and the Stanley Street Band

2011 Flood City Music Festival Lineup

Gregg Allman Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Br ...

JJ Grey & MOFRO JJ Grey & Mofro (formerly Mofro) is an American Southern soul- rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. History Early career The early days of Mofro can be traced back to the mid-nineties when John Higginbotham aka "JJ Grey" and Daryl Hance signe ...

Bettye LaVette Bettye LaVette (born Betty Jo Haskins, January 29, 1946) is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, when her album ''I've Got My Own Hell to Raise'' was released to ...

* Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears * Project/Object featuring

Ike Willis Isaac Willis (born November 12, 1955) is an American vocalist and guitarist who was a regular member of Frank Zappa's studio and touring bands from 1978 until the last tour in 1988. He did not tour with Zappa in 1981 and 1982 because he wanted ...

Ray White Ray White (full name Ray Shirley White Sr) is an American soul vocalist and rock and blues guitarist, best known as a member of Frank Zappa's touring ensembles. He was drafted into Zappa's band in late 1976, being featured on rhythm guit ...

Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience is a Zydeco band from Louisiana led by Terrance Simien. Awards Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience won a Grammy award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for their album '' Live! Worldwide''. Di ...

* The Bridge *

Tab Benoit Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967) is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a stock 1972 Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own ...

* The Pimps of Joytime * Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun * Brothers Past *

The Hackensaw Boys The Hackensaw Boys are a string band based in central Virginia that formed in 1999. The band has drawn on many musical influences and are " own best for rowdy, energetic live shows." They have performed at Bonnaroo, Lockn', FloydFest, and the All ...

* Lubriphonic *

That 1 Guy Mike Silverman, better known as That 1 Guy, is an American musician based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He frequently performs and records as a one-man band, singing and using a variety of homemade musical instruments. Career Early career Silverman is ...

* Boogie Hustlers * Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds * American Babies * Sweet Earth * Shelf Life String Band * City Dwelling Nature Seekers * 600 Lbs. of Sin * Clinton Clegg & the Backstabbing Good People * Black Coffee * Southside Strays * Jeff Perigo & Friends

2010 Flood City Music Festival Lineup

Los Lobos Los Lobos (, Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, ...

Galactic Galactic is an American jam band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Origins and background Formed in 1994 as an octet (under the name Galactic Prophylactic) and including singer Chris Lane and guitarist Rob Gowen, the group was soon pared down to a ...

with special guests

Cyril Neville Cyril Garrett Neville (born October 10, 1948) is an American percussionist and vocalist who first came to prominence as a member of his brother Art Neville's funky New Orleans-based band, The Meters. He joined Art in the Neville Brothers band u ...

and Corey Henry * Robert Cray Band *

Honeytribe Honeytribe is an American blues rock band formed in Saint Louis, Missouri. Its founder and bandleader is Devon Allman, son of Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band, who is the lead guitarist, vocalist, and frontman. The other members are Geor ...

The Lee Boys The Lee Boys are a funk and gospel band based out of Miami, Florida. The band plays in the Sacred Steel tradition that arose out of the musical stylings of the House of God Church. The band plays a mixture of funk music and gospel lyrics, stayin ...

Los Straitjackets Los Straitjackets is an American instrumental rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in 1988. Originally comprising guitarists Danny Amis (formerly of the Raybeats), Eddie Angel and drummer L. J. "Jimmy" Lester under the na ...

* Billy Price Band * Eilen Jewell * Eric Tessmer Band * Boogie Hustlers * Jimmy Adler Band * Boca Chica * Tim Dabbs * Corned Beef & Curry * Good Brother Earl * Moon River Ramblers * Mark Dignam * Rising Regina * Dave DiStefano & the West Hills All-Stars * The Bogarts * The Weathered Road

2009 Flood City Music Festival Lineup

The Derek Trucks Band The Derek Trucks Band was an American blues rock group founded by young slide guitar prodigy Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with some of blues and rock music's elite when he was just nine years old. After experimenting as an a ...

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are an American rock band from Vermont, formed in 2002 in Waitsfield by drummer Matt Burr, guitarist Scott Tournet, and singer Grace Potter. They began their career as an indie band, self-producing their albums an ...

Donna the Buffalo Donna the Buffalo is a band from Trumansburg, New York, Trumansburg, New York (state), New York. It plays both original songs and cover versions. A musician friend suggested "Dawn of the Buffalo" as a name for the band, which was misheard as "D ...

Ruthie Foster Ruthie Cecelia Foster (born February 10, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. She mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. She has often been compared to Bonnie Raitt ...

* Seven Nations * Bill Kirchen & the Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods * Kane Welch Kaplin * Scott Blasey *

Scrapomatic Scrapomatic is an American blues trio, consisting of Paul Olsen, Mike Mattison and Dave Yoke. Mattison and Olsen formed the band as a duo in the mid-1990s, and often opened for The Derek Trucks Band, which Mattison served as lead vocalist fr ...

* Clumsy Lovers *

Todd Wolfe Todd Stewart Wolfe (born January 22, 1957 in Queens, New York, United States) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His professional career spanned for a period of three decades and had released numerous albums with his ...

Ernie Hawkins Ernie Hawkins (born Ernest Leroy Hawkins, 1947, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American acoustic blues guitar player, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and educator. Hawkins, along with fellow bluesmen Stefan Grossman and Roy Bookbinde ...

Bill Deasy Bill Deasy is a singer-songwriter, recording artist and author born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the late 1980s, Deasy's musical start blossomed at open stages in and around Pittsburgh. Within a few years Deasy and his band, Shil ...

* Kristi Rose & Fats Kaplin * Ben Hardt Acoustic * The NewLanders * Bob Banerjee & Friends * Gerry Stanek * Gypsy Dave & the Stumpjumpers * Bill Toms * Joy Ike * The Turpentiners * Brad Yoder * Maddie Georgi * Heather Kropf * Jazz In Your Face * Endless Mike & the Beagle Club * Miner Swing Quartet * Tree * Whiskey River Panhandlers

2008 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Jason & the Scorchers Jason & the Scorchers, originally Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, are a cowpunk band that formed in 1981 and are led by singer-songwriter Jason Ringenberg. With a sound that combines punk rock and country music, Jason and the Scorchers are not ...

* Del Castillo *

Tom Russell Thomas George Russell (born 1947/1948) is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Americana music tradition, his music also incorporates elements of folk, rock, and the cowboy music of the American West. Many ...

* Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks * Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers *

Amy LaVere Amy LaVere is an American singer, songwriter, upright bass player and actress based in Memphis, Tennessee. Her music is classified as Americana. She has released six albums on Memphis label Archer Records, and has acting credits in motion pic ...

* Jason Ricci & New Blood * Shannon Whitworth *

* Deke Dickerson & the Ecco-Fonics *

Barrence Whitfield Barrence Whitfield (born Barry White, June 13, 1955) is an American soul and R&B vocalist, best known as the frontman for Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. White was born in Jacksonville, Florida. When he was a child, his family moved to East ...

* Stacie Collins * Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints * Born Again Floozies * Dallas Wayne *

Jason Ringenberg Jason Ringenberg (born November 22, 1958) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist and the lead singer of Jason & the Scorchers. Early life and education Ringenberg was born in Kewanee, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Sheffi ...

* Tim Dabbs * Red Collar * The Marauders * Arty Hill and the Long Gone Daddies * Dubmissive * Aran * Rusty Gun Revival * Jazz In Your Face * Beagle Brothers

2007 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

A. J. Croce Adrian James "A.J." Croce (born September 28, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter. He is the son of Ingrid Croce and Jim Croce. Biography Croce was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1971. His father died in a plane crash ei ...

The Tossers The Tossers are an American six-piece Celtic punk band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, formed in July 1993. They have toured with Murphy's Law, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, Dropkick Murphys, The Reverend Horton Heat, Flogging Molly, ...

* Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers * Slavic Soul Party! *

* Scott Miller & the Commonwealth *

Bill Kirchen William Knight Kirchen (born June 29, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a member of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen from 1967 to the mid-1970s and later worked with Nick Lowe. ''Guitar Player'' magazine desc ...

Tres Chicas Tres Chicas are an alternative country group from Raleigh, North Carolina. History Blakey and Cary met in 1997 when Glory Fountain shared a bill with Whiskeytown. Blakey met Lamm when she attended a Hazeldine show in Chapel Hill, and soon all ...

Too Slim and the Taildraggers Too Slim and the Taildraggers is an American blues rock band formed in 1986 in Spokane, Washington, United States. The band has had six albums peak in the top 10 of the ''Billboard'' Top Blues Albums. Members currently consist of Tim "Too Slim" L ...

* Druhá Tráva * Last Train Home *

James Talley James Talley (born November 9, 1944) is an American country blues and electric blues singer-songwriter. Biography Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Talley is an artist whose vision of the American experience, as author David McGee has said, is "startli ...

* Gigi Dover & The Big Love * The Marauders * Jimmy Adler * Grinning Mob * McKay Brothers * Jimmy Sapienza & 5 Guys Named Moe * Jennifer Drummey & the Small Band * Jazz In Your Face

2006 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Balkan Beat Box Balkan Beat Box (BBB) is an Israeli musical group. Founded by Tamir Muskat and Ori Kaplan in 2003, BBB was later joined by Tomer Yosef who became a core member. The group plays Mediterranean-influenced music that incorporates Jewish, Southeastern ...

* The Recipe *

Sleepy LaBeef Thomas Paulsley LaBeff (July 20, 1935 – December 26, 2019), known professionally as Sleepy LaBeef, was an American singer and musician. Early life LaBeef was born in Smackover, Arkansas, the youngest of 10 children. The family name was origin ...

Bonerama Bonerama is a brass funk rock band from New Orleans. Bonerama was formed in 1998 by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, who, from 1990

* Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience *

Maia Sharp Maia Sharp is an American singer and songwriter. In addition to her solo career, she has written songs for and collaborated with several country and pop musicians including Cher, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark, Bonnie Raitt, Edwin McCain, and Art ...

* Billy Price Band * The Irish Descendants * Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers * Eric Tessmer Band *

Those Darn Accordions Those Darn Accordions, commonly abbreviated as TDA, are an American accordion band from San Francisco, California, originally formed in 1989 by Linda "Big Lou" Seekins. Boasting several accordionists whose numbers have fluctuated over the years ...

* Doll Hospital * Gamble Brothers Band * Will Hawkins * Mark Dignam * Tim Dabbs * Rusty Gun Revival * The Gospel Lights * Russell Lauf Band * Rachel Allen * Jazz in Your Face

2005 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings were an American funk and soul band signed to Daptone Records. They were part of a revival movement of mid-1960s to mid-1970s style funk and soul music. They released their debut album ''Dap Dippin in 2002, the fir ...

Wanda Jackson Wanda LaVonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) is an American singer and songwriter. Since the 1950s, she has recorded and released music in the genres of rock, country and gospel. She was among the first women to have a career in rock and roll, ...

Rosie Flores Rosie Flores (born September 10, 1950) is an American rockabilly and country music artist. Her music blends rockabilly, honky tonk, jazz, and Western swing along with traditional influences from her Tex-Mex heritage. She currently resides in Au ...

Brave Combo Brave Combo is a polka/rock/worldbeat band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist/keyboardist/accordionist Carl Finch, they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than thirty-five years. Their music, both o ...

Cephas & Wiggins Cephas & Wiggins were an American acoustic blues duo, composed of the guitarist John Cephas (September 4, 1930 – March 4, 2009) and the harmonica player Phil Wiggins (born May 8, 1954). They were known for playing Piedmont blues. Hist ...

* Lil' Brian & the Zydeco Travelers * Chandler Travis Philharmonic * Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans *

Red Elvises The Red Elvises (also known as ''Igor and Red Elvises'', after founding member and bandleader Igor Yuzov) are a Russian-American band that performs funk rock, surf, rockabilly, reggae, folk rock, disco and traditional Russian styles of music. Th ...

* Redbird *

Peter Mulvey Peter Mulvey (born September 6, 1969) is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critic ...

Kris Delmhorst Kris Delmhorst is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Originally from Brooklyn, New York City, United States, she now lives in Western Massachusetts, is an active member of the Boston folk scene, and tours internationally. She has rele ...

Jeffrey Foucault Jeffrey Foucault (born January 26, 1976) is an American songwriter and record producer from Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States, whose work marries the influence of American country, blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk music. He has released seven ...

* The Kissers * The Greyhounds * The Gospel Lights * "Farmer Jason" Ringenberg * Soda Jerk * Tim Dabbs * Jazz in Your Face * Angelo M * Russell Lauf Band * The Rhinelanders

2004 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Seven Nations *

Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band is a Zydeco band from Louisiana founded by Chubby Carrier in 1989. Awards Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band have a Grammy award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for their album Zydeco Junkie. A ...

* Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra * Walter "Wolfman" Washington & The Roadmasters * Chris Smither *

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys is an American rockabilly and Western swing band from California composed of Robert Williams, alias Big Sandy, Ashley Kingman, Ricky McCann and Kevin Stewart. The band is known for its eclectic style, which encompass ...

* Barrence Whitfield & The Savages * The Recipe * Hot Club Sandwich * Anne McCue * Two Dollar Pistols *

* Big Leg Emma * The Gospel Lights * Del Sinchak Band * Little Buddy * The Mavens * Grinning Mob * The NewLanders * Jazz In Your Face

2003 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* The Louisiana Blues Throwdown featuring Harry Hypolite, Mathilda Jones,

and the Marc Stone Band * Alex Torres y los Reyes Latinos *

The Prodigals The Prodigals is an American Irish punk band that started in 1997. Calling their genre of music " jig punk", the Prodigals fall within a tradition epitomized by the Pogues and Black 47, merging traditional Celtic melodic roots with rock rhythms ...

Wayne "The Train" Hancock Thomas Wayne Hancock III (born May 1, 1965, in Dallas, Texas) better known as Wayne "The Train" Hancock, is an American singer-songwriter. Hancock is known as "The King of Juke Joint Swing," because his sound is unique, as he incorporates jazz, ...

* Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics * The

Cool John Ferguson Cool John Ferguson (born December 3, 1953) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has released five albums under his own name and played on around twenty others. He is the Director of Creative Development for the Music Maker ...

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Red Meat In gastronomy, red meat is commonly red when raw and a dark color after it is cooked, in contrast to white meat, which is pale in color before and after cooking. In culinary terms, only flesh from mammals or fowl (not fish) is classified as ...

* Chandler Travis Philharmonic * Two High String Band *

Caroline Herring Caroline Herring (born 1969 in Canton, Mississippi) is an American folk and country singer, songwriter and musician. She started singing professionally when she was a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the Unive ...

* Cootie Stark *

Tarbox Ramblers The Tarbox Ramblers are a Boston-based roots and Americana band. The band's sound originally centered on arrangements of early twentieth-century blues, gospel and Appalachian music. It later included bandleader Michael Tarbox's original songs. The ...

* Jazz in Your Face * Del Sinchak * The Newlanders * The Delaneys * Ribbon Grass * John Charney with White Mojo and Friends * John Stevens' Doubleshot * The Johnstown Button Box Band * Polka Express

2002 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys *

Asylum Street Spankers Asylum Street Spankers was an American acoustic blues and roots rock band from Austin, Texas, United States. The band played cover versions of early jazz and comical, often risqué original songs. In 2006, the band's satirical antiwar video "Stic ...

* Bio Ritmo *

Robbie Fulks Robert "Robbie" Fulks (born March 25, 1963) is an American alternative country singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and long-time Chicago, Illinois resident. He has released 13 albums over a career spanning more than 30 years. His 2016 record ''Up ...

* Michelle Willson and the Evil Gal Orchestra *

The Campbell Brothers The Campbell Brothers are an American Sacred Steel gospel group from Rush, New York composed of three brothers and one son. The ensemble features prominent pedal steel guitar and began as the house band for a House of God Keith Dominion congrega ...

* Greg Trooper *

* Hot Club Sandwich * Countdown Quartet * Dog Run Boys * Hooley * Boilermaker Jazz Band * Tim Dabbs * Jolly Joe and the Bavarians

2001 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Southern Culture on the Skids Southern Culture on the Skids, also sometimes known as SCOTS, is an American rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Originally a straightforward roots rock band, they became known as a tongue-in-cheek "party band" with an exaggerated "white ...

* Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas * Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers *

Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers was a Latin jazz, soul jazz and R&B group formed in 1959 by timbales player Henry "Pucho" Brown. Of the many musicians that worked in his group, Chick Corea is among them, Corea leaving prior to Pucho's recording ...

* Acoustic Syndicate *

Bonnie Rideout Bonnie Rideout (born 1962 - Saline, Michigan USA) is an American fiddler. She is especially known for her traditional Scottish style and fiddle piobaireachd playing. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music. She is a ...

* Ray Condo and the Ricochets * Barrence Whitfield and the Groove Juice Symphony * Dallas Wayne and the Hardcases * Christy McWilson * Hugh Feeley and Talk is Cheap * Walt Wagner and the Polka Serenaders * Die Schlauberger * Simple Gifts * Dead Irish Blues Band * The Fabulous Gunslingers * Gospel Lights

2000 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Buckwheat Zydeco Stanley Dural Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music gro ...

The Seldom Scene The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band that formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland. The band's original line-up comprised John Starling on lead vocals and guitar, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone vocals, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Tom Gra ...

* Miss Lavelle White *

* Chris Smither * Ronnie Dawson * Wendell Rivera's Latin Jazz All-Stars * Tim Dabbs * The Irish Descendants * Earthtones * Dead Irish Blues * Crusade with Ed Biegaj

1999 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Alex Torres and the Latin Kings *

The Holmes Brothers The Holmes Brothers were an American musical trio originally from Christchurch, Virginia. Mixing sounds from blues, soul, gospel, country, and rhythm & blues, they have released twelve studio albums, with three reaching the top 5 on the ''Billb ...

* Don Walser and the Pure Texas Band * Neil Anderson and Full Circle * Jimmy Sapienza and Five Guys Named Moe * Rank Outsiders * Heather Eatman *

The Hot Club of Cowtown The Hot Club of Cowtown is an American Western swing trio that formed in 1997. History The band's name comes from two sources: "Hot Club" from the hot jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli's Quintette du Hot Club de ...

* Hart-Rouge

1998 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Walter "Wolfman" Washington Walter "Wolfman" Washington (December 20, 1943 – December 22, 2022) was an American singer and guitarist, based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. While his roots were in blues music, he blended in the essence of funk and R&B to cre ...

Austin Lounge Lizards The Austin Lounge Lizards are a musical group from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980. The band includes founding members Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, along with Tim Wilson and Kirk Williams. The third founding member, Tom Pittman, retired from the ...

* Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys *

Corey Harris Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969, in Denver, Colorado, United States) is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with Keb' Mo' and Alvin Youngblood Hart, he raised the flag of acoustic ...

* Mamou *

Cherish the Ladies Cherish the Ladies is an American female supergroup (music), super group that plays Celtic music. The band began as a concert series in New York in January 1985. It was the brainchild of Mick Moloney who wanted to showcase the brightest female ...

Trout Fishing in America ''Trout Fishing in America'' is a novella written by Richard Brautigan and published in 1967. It is technically Brautigan's first novel; he wrote it in 1961 before ''A Confederate General from Big Sur'', which was published first. Overview ''Tro ...

* Steel Impressions * Jimmy Sapienza and the Swingmeisters * Bill Bevac Band * Mon Gumbo

1997 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Laurie Lewis and Grant Street *

* Los Pinkys * Solas * Rank Outsiders * Lil Brian and the Zydeco Travelers *

The Gathering Field The Gathering Field are an United States, American rock quartet from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who recorded five albums from 1994 until 2001. They went on hiatus in 2002 and reunited in 2013. History Formation The Gathering Field legacy bega ...

* Del Sinchak * The Englishmen * Code Blue *

Kevin Roth Kevin Roth (born 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a singer-songwriter, pianist, artist, and Mountain Dulcimer player. He is widely known as one of the leading innovators of the dulcimer around the world and has released 48 albums. He sang ...

1996 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Fat Possum Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan with R. L. Burnside, Dave Thompson and

Junior Kimbrough David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 – January 17, 1998) was an American blues musician. His best-known works are "Keep Your Hands off Her" and "All Night Long". Early life Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, and lived in the no ...

The Persuasions The Persuasions are an American a cappella group that began singing together in Brooklyn, New York in the mid-1960s. The Persuasions were formed in Brooklyn in 1962, singing a cappella under corner streetlights and in subway corridors. Their ...

* Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas * Beaver Creek * Don Walser and the Pure Texas Band *

Clan Na Gael Clan na Gael ( ga, label=modern Irish orthography, Clann na nGael, ; "family of the Gaels") was an Irish republican organization in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries, successor to the Fenian Brotherhood and a sister org ...

* Galla & Dan * Earthtones * Grooveyard * The Braxmen * Eddie and the Slovenes

1995 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Maggie Christl *

Green Fields of America The Green Fields of America is an ensemble that performs and promotes Irish traditional music in the United States. It was formed in 1977 in Philadelphia, led by musician and folklorist Mick Moloney. They perform Irish and Irish-American culture ...

* C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band * Tim & Mollie O'Brien and The O'Boys *

The Dixie Hummingbirds The Dixie Hummingbirds are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclecti ...

* Phillip Fankhauser and the Checkerboard Blues Band * The Grace Family * Heather Eatman * Joe Grkman Band

1994 AmeriServ Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

* Johnny Clyde Copeland * Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers * Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band * Alex Torres and the Latin Kings * J.D. Crowe and the New South * Lenny Gomulka's Chicago Push * Jimmy Sapienza and Five Guys Named Moe * Casco Bay Tummlers * John Bagnato Quartet

1993 Johnstown Folkfest Lineup

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1983 for his album, ''Alright Again!''. Early life Br ...

Kukuruza Kukuruza is a Russian band who progressed from a student startup to become an international touring act in the early 1990s. In 1994, the ''Chicago Tribune'' said they were "among the top country groups of Eastern Europe and Russia". That same ...

Áine Minogue Áine Minogue (born 27 May 1977, Borrisokane, County Tipperary) is an Irish harpist, singer, arranger and composer, now living in the Boston area. She has recorded thirteen solo albums in styles generally categorized as Celtic, world, folk, spiri ...

* Rockin' Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters * Queen Bee & the Blue Hornet Band * Glorius Rebirth * Drums for Peace * Dynabrass * Douglas Miller

1992 National Folk Festival Lineup

* Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys *

The Blind Boys of Alabama The Blind Boys of Alabama, also billed as The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, and Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, is an American gospel group. The group was founded in 1939 in Talladega, Alabama, and has featured a changing roster ...

Fontella Bass Fontella Marie Bass (July 3, 1940 – December 26, 2012) was an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit " Rescue Me" in 1965. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award twice. Early life Fontella Bass was b ...

* Southern Scratch * Warner Williams * Eddie Pennington * Melvin Wine * Chatuye * Shashmaqam *

Big Joe Duskin Joseph L. "Big Joe" Duskin (February 10, 1921 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist. He is best known for his debut album, ''Cincinnati Stomp'' (1978), and the tracks "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a Girl Named Martha". ...

* Brendon Mulvihill * Gillis Brothers

1991 National Folk Festival Lineup

The Fairfield Four The Fairfield Four is an American gospel group that has existed for over 100 years, starting as a trio in the Fairfield Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1921. They were designated as National Heritage Fellows in 1989 by the National End ...

* Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys * Wayne Henderson * Roman Ritachka * Los Pleneros del Batey * Ganga * Ceilidh House * Tony Ellis *

Etta Baker Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina. Early life and career She was born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, of African-American, Native A ...

* Sun Rhythm Section

1990 National Folk Festival Lineup

* Lyman Enloe *

Liz Carroll Liz Carroll (born September 19, 1956) is an American fiddler and composer. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship Award. Carroll and collaborator Irish guitarist John Doyle were nominated for a ...

* Billy McComskey and

Dáithí Sproule Dáithí Sproule (born 23 May 1950) is a guitarist and singer of traditional Irish music. He is the grandson of Frank Carney and uncle of singer Claire Sproule. Biography Born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, at the age of 18 he moved t ...

* Otonowa *

* Preston Frank and the Zydeco Family Band * Moses Rascoe * Charlie "Possum" Walden * Bud Hudenski and the Corsairs

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Flood City Music Festival Rock festivals in the United States Music festivals in Pennsylvania Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1989 establishments in Pennsylvania Tourist attractions in Cambria County, Pennsylvania Music festivals established in 1989 Folk festivals in the United States