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Peach Fest returns to Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton Aug. 10-13, initial lineup announced

Peach Fest returns to Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton Aug. 10-13, initial lineup announced
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From a press release:

The Peach Music Festival, founded by The Allman Brothers Band, is returning for its sixth year and has just announced the initial lineup of who will be performing at the summer festival.

Performances over the four-day event will include My Morning Jacket, Widespread Panic (two nights), Joe Bonamassa, Gov’t Mule & Friends, Lettuce featuring Chaka Khan, Umphrey’s McGee (two sets), Joe Russo’s Almost Dead (two sets), Mike Gordon, Les Brers, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, and Dark Star Orchestra, among many others.

This year, the Peach family will be celebrating the memory of founding Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks, who took his own life last month at the age of 69.

The Peach is back at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain and the Montage Mountain Waterpark on Thursday, Aug. 10 through Sunday, Aug. 13 for four days of multiple stages of music, art, camping, and much more. The Peach began six years ago as the first-ever Allman Brothers Band-inspired festival in the Northeastern Pennsylvania region and continues to grow into a summer festival staple loved by fans from across the nation.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, March 1 at noon at thepeachmusicfestival.com. A limited number of early bird tickets will be available while supplies last. For CID package, VIP, and festival details, visit thepeachmusicfestival.com.

Other artists set to perform at the Peach are The Magpie Salute, God Street Wine, Rusted Root, Papadosio, Dopapod Orchestra, Steve Kimock and Friends, The Record Company, The Marcus King Band, The Soul Rebels, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The New Mastersounds, Fruition, The Werks ft. The Shady Horns, Eric Krasno Band, Whiskey Myers, Pink Talking Fish, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Aqeous (two sets), The Hip Abduction, Moonalice, Butcher Brown, Spafford, Tom Hamilton’s American Babies, Holly Bowling, Mungion, The Jauntee, Lespecial, Ghost of Paul Revere, Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band, Gabriel Kelley, Caverns, The Steppin Stones, Elise Testone, Bobby Lee Rodgers, and a few more to be announced.