Allegheny Almanac

Marshall Tucker Band at Motorcycle Woodstock in Tionesta

Get our your cameras and tune up your mufflers. If it's the last weekend in August it's time for "Rumble on The River" in the tiny Allegheny River town of Tionesta, Pennsylvania.

Tionesta, population 600, is the county seat of Forest County, the last county in the state of Pennsylvania that has no traffic lights. No wonder bikers have been congregating here every August for the last four years.

Festivities start Thursday night at Seldom Inn, 5 miles south of the town on Route 36, where there is no charge for live music and give-aways are promised, according to the Rumble on the River web site.

If you still hum great Seventies hits like "Can't You See," "Heard It In A Love Song," and "Take The Highway," you'll be kicking yourself if you miss Marshall Tucker Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $45, depending on whether you are camping or not.

With two band members deceased and several retired, the current MTB is made up of B.B. Borden on drums, Pat Elwood on bass guitar, Doug Gray handling lead vocals, Marcus James Henerson on flute and keyboard, Stuart Swanland on guitar, and Rick Willis also on guitar:

 

Events are held at the Wolf Corners Fairgrounds and last from 4 p.m. Thursday to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Photos courtesy Marshall Tucker Band.

--compiled by Chris Lareau

Gift of Music

Warren Civic Orchestra starts off its 57th concert season with a free performance of "Sweet Home Pennsylvania," 3 p.m. at the Struthers Theatre, downtown at the corner of Liberty Street and Third Avenue.

The free-admission, pre-holiday program features music by Pennsylvania composers and pieces from the PA Oil Boom. The feature guest orator is the Mayor of Warren, Mark Phillips, who will tell us about composer Aaron Copeland's "Lincoln Portrait." In addition, guest singer Jordan Spencer will perform songs from the Oil Boom and Daniel Weaver from the Drake Well Museum will do a short lecture on the history of the Oil Boom in Pennsylvania.

Orchestra members come not only from Warren County, but from Dubois, Kane, Ludlow, St. Mary's, Clarion, Spring Creek, Oil City, Franklin, Jamestown NY, and Panama NY. Under the current direction of Bryan Eckenrode, the WCO offers its largest ensemble in twenty years. Maestro Eckenrode has provided new direction to the orchestra through his choice of challenging and engaging music, his selection of soloists, and his introduction of dance and theater elements into the orchestra concert programs.

For more information, visit the WCO's most excellent website at http://www.warrencivicorchestra.org

News and image source: Warren Civic Orchestra

Boogie Woogie on the Allegheny

Francie Zucco and Friends entertain with original jazz on the river at the Music Park last night. A threatening thunderstorm cut the concert a little short after 9 p.m., but if you would like to listen to her music for free or buy a CD you can visit this website.