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 07/26/2018
Keith Perks
Cabinet , Montage , music festival , Pavilion at Montage Mountain , Peach Music Festival , Scranton

The spirit of The Allman Brothers Band was alive and well at the seventh annual Peach Music Festival, featuring former members of the festival-founding group as well as their children. Many skilled jam bands returned to the three stages at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain and the adjacent Montage Mountain Waterpark, and local fans were […]
Added on 04/25/2018
Rich Howells
Cabinet , music festival , Pavilion at Montage Mountain , Peach Music Festival , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre

In a surprise announcement today, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jamgrass band Cabinet revealed that they will return from hiatus to play only one show in 2018 – the Peach Music Festival at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton on Thursday, July 19. Garnering a huge local following and touring the country since forming in 2006, the popular […]
Added on 03/08/2018
NEPA Scene Staff
Bethlehem , Cabinet , New Jersey , Plains , River Street Jazz Cafe , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre

From a press release: Todd Sheaffer, the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of New Jersey roots rock/Americana jam band Railroad Earth, will perform with upright bassist Dylan Skursky, formerly of Cabinet before the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jamgrass band went on hiatus and currently of Gatos Blancos, at the River Street Jazz Cafe in Plains on Saturday, March […]
Added on 01/24/2018
Rich Howells
Cabinet , Peach Music Festival , Plains , River Street Jazz Cafe , Scranton

Soon after it was announced that they would be playing at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton this summer, Gatos Blancos began the new year with three back-to-back shows in Vermont, New Jersey, and back home in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Almost exactly one year ago, the experimental Americana/funk/blues band made their hometown area debut at the […]
Added on 01/02/2018
Jason Riedmiller
Bethlehem , bluegrass , Cabinet , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre

The end of 2017 also marked the end of an era for one of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s most popular and successful local bands, Cabinet. Less than two weeks before their short New Year’s Eve tour that stopped at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont on Friday, Dec. 29, the Westcott Theater in Syracuse, New York on Saturday, […]
Added on 12/20/2017
Rich Howells
Cabinet , F.M. Kirby Center , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre

It was announced today that Cabinet, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jamgrass band who have risen to national fame since 2006 and founded the annual Susquehanna Breakdown Music Festival at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, will be going on indefinite hiatus. The popular group, whose universal sound has garnered one of the largest followings in the […]
Added on 10/09/2017
NEPA Scene Staff
Cabinet , F.M. Kirby Center , Wilkes-Barre

From a press release: The F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre has announced the return of Cabinet, this year for a special New Year’s Eve concert on Sunday, Dec. 31 at 9 p.m. This marks the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jamgrass band’s second time performing on the Kirby Center’s main stage. Tickets, which are $20 in advance or $25 […]
Added on 05/31/2017
NEPA Scene Staff
bluegrass , Cabinet , F.M. Kirby Center , Susquehanna Breakdown , Wilkes-Barre

From a press release: It was announced today that Nashville-based bluegrass phenom Billy Strings will bring his guitar and banjo to the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on Thursday, July 13 at 8 p.m. as part of the venue’s “Live from the Chandelier Lobby” concert series, presented by City Market & Café. Strings will be […]
Added on 05/24/2017
Jason Riedmiller
bluegrass , Cabinet , music festival , Pavilion at Montage Mountain , Scranton , Susquehanna Breakdown

One would expect a music festival centered around bluegrass, roots, Americana, and folk music to come from – and continually succeed – somewhere in the deep South, but Cabinet makes it happen right here every year in the mountains of Pennsylvania. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jamgrass outfit hosted the fifth annual Susquehanna Breakdown Music Festival at The […]