Pleasantville Music Festival
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The Pleasantville Music Festival is an annual music festival
held at Parkway Field in Pleasantville, New York
. First held in July 2005, it has been sponsored by rock radio station 107.1 The Peak (WXPK-FM) since 2006. The festival is an all-day outdoor event administered by the Pleasantville Recreation Department and takes place in Parkway Field, normally the site of four ball fields. Each year the festival features over 150 volunteers. Main stage acts have included Roger McGuinn
, The Bacon Brothers
, Rusted Root
, Jakob Dylan
, Dar Williams
, Carney
, Back Door Slam
, Marc Cohn
, Augustana
and Joan Osborne
. There are three stages - the Main Stage, Village Stage, and the Beer & Wine Garden.
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
held at Parkway Field in Pleasantville, New York
Pleasantville, New York
Pleasantville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 7,019 at the 2010 census. It is located in the town of Mount Pleasant. Pleasantville is home to a campus of Pace University and to the Jacob Burns Film Center...
. First held in July 2005, it has been sponsored by rock radio station 107.1 The Peak (WXPK-FM) since 2006. The festival is an all-day outdoor event administered by the Pleasantville Recreation Department and takes place in Parkway Field, normally the site of four ball fields. Each year the festival features over 150 volunteers. Main stage acts have included Roger McGuinn
Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records...
, The Bacon Brothers
The Bacon Brothers
The Bacon Brothers is the American musical duo of Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon. Although they have played music together since they were boys, the brothers have only been a working band since 1995....
, Rusted Root
Rusted Root
Rusted Root is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for their unique fusion of acoustic, rock, world and other styles of music, with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, Native American, and Indian influences...
, Jakob Dylan
Jakob Dylan
Jakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is a son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and Sara Dylan. He has also recorded two solo albums.-Personal life:...
, Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk.She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, The Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.-Biography:Williams was born...
, Carney
Carney
-Persons named Carney :* Alan Carney , American actor and comedian* Art Carney , American actor best known for playing Ed Norton on The Honeymooners* Charles J...
, Back Door Slam
Back Door Slam
Back Door Slam is the name of the blues rock band started by Davy Knowles on the Isle of Man in 2003/4. The band got its name from a Robert Cray song of the same name...
, Marc Cohn
Marc Cohn
Marc Craig Cohn is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician.- Personal life :Cohn was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College....
, Augustana
Augustana (band)
Augustana is an American rock band from San Diego, California who are signed to the Epic Records record label. They are best known for their singles, "Boston" and "Sweet and Low."-Beginning years:...
and Joan Osborne
Joan Osborne
Joan Elizabeth Osborne is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "One of Us". She has toured with Motown sidemen the Funk Brothers and was featured in the documentary film about them, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.-Biography:Originally from Anchorage, Kentucky, a suburb...
. There are three stages - the Main Stage, Village Stage, and the Beer & Wine Garden.
Main Stage
- Marc CohnMarc CohnMarc Craig Cohn is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician.- Personal life :Cohn was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College....
- Sonny LandrethSonny LandrethSonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
- Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea
- AugustanaAugustana (band)Augustana is an American rock band from San Diego, California who are signed to the Epic Records record label. They are best known for their singles, "Boston" and "Sweet and Low."-Beginning years:...
- Scars on 45Scars on 45Scars on 45 is a five member indie rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.-Hit Songs:After years struggling to make a name in England, the band rose from obscurity when their song “Beauty’s Running Wild” was featured in an episode of CSI: New York...
- If But When
- Tony Bellantoni & The Swag Hooks
Village Stage
- Chris Fox and Mojo Monde
- Johanna
- Patti Hupp
- Milton
- Skyfactor
- The Callen SistersThe Callen SistersThe Callen Sisters are a pair of sisters-duo singer-songwriters with unique and unusual instrumentation incorporating harp and guitar for folk-rock music.-Members:...
- Nectar
- Lisa Brigantino
- Remember September
- Makeshift Lullaby
Beer & Wine Garden
- Geoff Hartwell with Andy Aledort
- Patti RothbergPatti RothbergPatti Rothberg is a New York-based singer, songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and painter/artist.Born in New York City Rothberg grew up in Scarsdale, NY, playing piano from the age of 3 and writing songs by the age of 15, joining a high school Rod Stewart cover band.Rothberg...
- The ReignJah Band
Main Stage
- Jakob DylanJakob DylanJakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is a son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and Sara Dylan. He has also recorded two solo albums.-Personal life:...
- The Bacon BrothersThe Bacon BrothersThe Bacon Brothers is the American musical duo of Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon. Although they have played music together since they were boys, the brothers have only been a working band since 1995....
- CarneyReeve CarneyReeve Carney is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He appears in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as the character of Peter Parker/Spider-Man.-Early life:...
- Ten Feet Deep
- Evan Watson & The Headless Horsemen
- Rhett Tyler
- The Trapps
Village Stage
- Beneficial Tomatoes
- Sleepy Hollow String Band
- The Erin Hobson Compact
- Gigi & The Lend Me a Hand Band
- Billy SimonsBilly SimonsBilly Simons is an American singer-songwriter originally from Ludlow, Massachusetts. His music is often described as acoustic pop, rock, and folk...
- Agent Si
- Steven Wright-Mark
- Charlotte KendrickCharlotte KendrickCharlotte Kendrick is an American folk musician from Pawling, New York.-Discography:* North of New York 2007* Live at the Roger Smith 2004, with Dan Rowe* I Get Stupid 2003, Re-released 2006-External links:* *...