Added on 08/01/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Beautiful People of NEPA , music festival , Pavilion at Montage Mountain , Peach Music Festival , photography , Scranton
I had fun last year, so I decided to return to the Peach Music Festival at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton on Thursday, July 19 through Sunday, July 22 to photograph a few live bands, review Cabinet’s only show of 2018 and, of course, take a few portraits of some random and familiar […]
Added on 07/26/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Cabinet , music festival , Pavilion at Montage Mountain , Peach Music Festival , review , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre
When Cabinet began their “indefinite hiatus” following their New Year’s Eve show at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, it seemed that the popular Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jamgrass band would break a streak. Cabinet may be the only band to have played every Peach Music Festival since its inception in 2012. They are definitely the only group […]
Added on 07/04/2018
Jason Riedmiller
fireworks , Lackawanna County , Scranton
The day before Independence Day, the Scrantastic Spectacular took over Lackawanna County Courthouse Square in downtown Scranton for the seventh year on Tuesday, July 3, filling thousands of locals with patriotic pride as some of the region’s biggest fireworks burst in the sky. Not even temperatures reaching past the 90s could keep people away during […]
Added on 06/26/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Festival Pier , Philadelphia , WXPN 88.5
Indie rockers Dr. Dog ended their Critical Equation Tour with a hometown show at the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia on Saturday, June 23. Fellow Philly singer/songwriter (Sandy) Alex G opened the concert presented by public radio station WXPN 88.5 FM. Supporting the April 27 release of the same name, the show was […]
Added on 06/21/2018
Jason Riedmiller
F.M. Kirby Center , pop , radio , Wilkes-Barre
While many adults may not be familiar with these young pop stars, Summer Smash was a big hit with teen girls judging by the deafening screams echoing throughout the F.M. Kirby Center on Tuesday, June 19. Following meet and greets with each of the performing artists, Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Top 40 radio station 98.5 KRZ presented […]
Added on 06/01/2018
Jason Riedmiller
business , Gallery of Sound , Wilkes-Barre
A bright yellow truck brightened Memorial Day for Jack White fans and vinyl collectors who gathered to greet the Third Man Rolling Record Store as it pulled into the parking lot of the Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre for a few hours on Monday, May 28. Owned by White, this mobile version of his Third […]
Added on 05/30/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Beautiful People of NEPA , Gallery of Sound , photography , Wilkes-Barre
Following Jack White’s concert at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York the night before, his Third Man Records Rolling Record Store rolled into the parking lot of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s own indie record store, the Gallery of Sound, in Wilkes-Barre on Monday, May 28 and was greeted by a long line of fans, vinyl nerds, and […]
Added on 05/15/2018
Jason Riedmiller
F.M. Kirby Center , New York , Wilkes-Barre
Just days before the Pennsylvania primary election, singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco electrified the F.M. Kirby Center with her politically charged music on Friday, May 11. Returning to the Wilkes-Barre venue on her Rise Up Tour in support of her 20th studio album, “Binary,” the feminist icon brought Gracie and Rachel with her this time, an orchestral […]
Added on 05/09/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Beautiful People of NEPA , comic books , Comics on the Green , photography , Scranton
Saturday, May 5 was the 17th annual Free Comic Book Day, prompting a line that stretched out the door of Comics on the Green in downtown Scranton. Once that died down a bit, I took these portraits of customers and employees of the store. This isn’t my first comic-themed Beautiful People entry, and it certainly […]
Added on 04/18/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Beautiful People of NEPA , convention , Electric City Tattoo , Hilton Scranton , Philadelphia , photography , Scranton , tattoos
Clowns, couples, dogs, musicians, trophy winners, and male nudity – it’s all here at the Electric City Tattoo Convention. Entries in the Beautiful People of NEPA portrait series are rare these days, but I always have a private room just off the main floor of this annual convention at the Hilton Scranton & Conference Center […]