PA Cigar Box Guitar Fest 2011 Lineup Announced!
The second annual Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Fest is coming August 27 to Downtown York, PA. We’ve expanded the fest to include two local pubs, builders contests and more. We’re even having three hours of the event filmed for local TV. This is going to be the biggest cigar box guitar fest ever attempted!
We are proud to announce our lineup for this year’s festival:
Purgatory Hill
Shane Speal, King of the Cigar Box Guitar
Keni Lee Burgess
Gerry Thompson
Knotlenny and the Muckland Crooners jug band
April Mae and the Junebugs
Stone Breath
One String Willie – Master of the Diddley Bow
Olds Sleeper
CoCo Butter Kids
Voodoo Highway
Bill Jehle and Nadaband – (Bill is the author of “One Man’s Trash”, the first history book written about the cigar box guitar)
Pigfeeder (Shane Speal, Rod Goelz, Johnny Calamari)
Low Country Messiahs (tentative)
Lee Connah (tentative)
Thursday, August 25: The fest kicks off Thursday night at the First Capital Dispensing Co. pub with Pigfeeder, Shane Speal’s sick and twisted jam band featuring Rod Goelz on diddley bow/mandolin and Johnny Calamari on upright bass.
Friday, August 26: A CBG meet-up/seminar is being planned on Friday evening at the York Emporium bookstore (details coming soon). The CBG music continues Friday night with Massechusetts based Voodoo Highway bringing their cigar box blues to the the First Cap and a special concert/jam by Shane Speal at the Bistro 19 tavern. Bring your cbg and sit in with the King of the Cigar Box Guitar!!!
Saturday, August 27 is the main event… 14 ACTS ON TWO STAGES from 10am-5pm at the grounds of the York Emporium Bookstore in downtown York. There will be music, food and vendors will have cigar box guitars, parts, instruments and crafts (get your vendor application now – LINK). We’re even running an open mic stage at various times so YOU can perform your best three songs!
The main festival ends at 5pm, but stick around, because Purgatory Hill and April Mae & The June Bugs will be performing three full sets each at the First Cap and Bistro 19 pubs starting at 10pm. The entire town will be alive with cigar box guitar goodness!!!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE… THE PA CIGAR BOX GUITAR FEST IS HELD THE SAME WEEKEND AS “YORKFEST,” A MASSIVE FINE ARTS FAIR IN DOWNTOWN YORK, PA. This means you will get two free events while you’re here. Bring the kids. Pack the van. This is a great mini-vacation for any music and arts lover. Heck, get to York PA by Thursday and see how they make Softtail “hogs” as you tour the Harley Davidson factory on Friday morning as well. Yep, that tour is free too.
