Save the Forest Festival

150 West Walnut Street,Hellertown PA 18055

07 May, 2023

Description

Spend the afternoon with two stages of live music outdoors at the Mill in Hellertown. Bring your own chairs and drinks, stay for dinner with food trucks Blazing Swine BBQ, Taco Town and Taquizas, and The Udder Bar available to provide your munchies. Family friendly with lots of kids' activities, like mini ponies, goats, and crafts. Kids under 12 are free. Five bands of cover songs, soft rock, electric jazz, and toe tapping blue grass All proceeds directly benefit efforts to save 275 acres of forest from landfill expansion. The sponsoring venue, the Hellertown Historical Society (HHS), is dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of Hellertown, PA. HHS, a non-profit 501c(3) organization, preserves the Heller-Wagner Grist Mill, Pony Bridge, the Grist Miller’s House, Wash House and related historical buildings and Hellertown’s heritage through collection, preservation and exhibition of selected mill-related and Hellertown related documents, artifacts and photographs. Avilion is a tribute cover band to the 70s 80s 90s dance and rock, with a high energy show. Real West mixes crime jazz with Latin lounge. Music is cool again with electric guitar and upright bass. Real West was formed in 2001 by Mark Graham and Brandon Kwiatek, two friends from Allentown, PA who were born in 1970 and raised on a diet of syndicated 60s pop. Geode is a 3-piece instrumental band from Northampton, PA. They play a range of styles with an overall rock feel. A sponsoring organization presenting the bluegrass musicians, the Appalachian Fiddle and Bluegrass Association (AFBA), was formed in October 1973, in Wind Gap, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of preserving and promoting a unique form of American country folk music called “bluegrass”. Bluegrass music originated as a curious blending of the old-time-Appalachian & ancestral Scots-Irish folk tunes combined with a high-pitched, modern, and mostly fast-paced tempo performed acoustically by groups of musicians on stringed instruments. Traditional bluegrass bands consist of banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass fiddle. The Appalachian Fiddle and Bluegrass Association has the distinction of being the only 501(c)(3) non-profit Bluegrass association in the USA that owns a park, which is used as a performance venue. There are more than 500 dues-paying members residing primarily in the mid-Atlantic states. In 2014 we celebrated 40 years of bluegrass music in our area. Flint Hill Express is a blend of Bluegrass, Gospel, and Folk Music, with a Nice Touch of Country. Bill Schaffer – Bass and Lead Harmony Vocals. Coopersburg, PA. Jude Ruth – Rhythm Guitar / Vocals. Founder of ”Flint Hill Express”. She now lives in Hatfield, PA with her husband Dave. Ben Jarnutowski – 5-String Banjo/Vocals. – Perkasie, PA. Tom Campbell – Mandolin/Vocals. Huntington Valley, Pa. The Twin River Rounders are a Bluegrass band out of the Easton, PA area. The band is made up of Bob Conover, lead singer and acoustic guitar, Rob Fedorczyk playing dobro resonator slide and acoustic guitar, Dave Coin on 5 string and claw hammer banjo and Owen Jones on electric and standup bass.