Date: 9/11/2010
Time: 12:00 PM TO 9:45 PM

Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus
One University Drive
PO Box 519
Uniontown, PA 15401

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Event Description: The 3rd Annual Coal and Coke Heritage Music Festival will begin at noon on Saturday, September 11th, and wraps up around dusk, with fireworks concluding the festivities. This year’s festival features The Clarks, Chris Higbee Project, Joe Grushecky and Harold Betters. In acknowledgement of the significance of the Sept. 11th date, there will be special recognition of first responders at the festival. Other musical entertainers will include NewLanders, Augsburg German Band, Brass Knuckles Band, Bon-Journey, Jerry Onesi-Jack Nicolette Trio and more, giving festival goers the opportunity to enjoy jazz, rock, country, folk, and polka music among many other genres. In addition to musical performances there will be dance troupes, visual art displays, arts and crafts vendors, and food vendors serving a variety of ethnic specialties. The Coal and Coke Heritage Center is a focal point of the day and is open for tours and special displays highlighting the coal mining industry of the past and today. For youngsters, the Kiddie Koal Mine play area and petting zoo is enormously popular. New this year will be a fireworks display to cap off the day’s activities. Tickets are being sold online through a link on the festival’s website (www.coalandcokemusicfest.org), at the business office at Penn State Fayette, and by phone at 724-430-4101. They will also be available August 14th & 15th at the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event. Advanced sale tickets are $10. [Tickets at the gate will be $15.] Children age 4 and younger get in free. For more information, please call 724-430-4101.


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