Flood City Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County...

, presented by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association.

The festival began after the National Folk Festival

National Folk Festival (USA)

The National Folk Festival is an itinerant folk festival in the United States. Since 1934, it has been run by the National Council for the Traditional Arts and has been presented in 26 communities around the nation...

 was held in Johnstown's Cambria City neighborhood from 1990 to 1992. Originally called the Johnstown FolkFest, 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.

Held from August 21-23 in 2009 as a free event, headliners of the festival included the Derek Trucks Band, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Donna the Buffalo

Donna the Buffalo

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, Ruthie Foster

Ruthie Foster

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, Seven Nations and Bill Kirchen

Bill Kirchen

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. Organizers focused on having higher profile headliners and charged an admission fee in 2010, bringing in Los Lobos

Los Lobos

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, Robert Cray

Robert Cray

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 and Galactic to headline. The festival will return in 2011, running from August 5-7.