Friday October 11th – Sunday October 13th, Oil Region Alliance & The Foxburg Inn Hotel will be holding an Old Tyme Gospel Sing-Along featuring Saxophonist Shelton Bissell.
This will be free admission – limited seating – and tickets are required. For tickets, please contact the Foxburg Inn Hotel at 724-659-3116 , email us at info@foxburginn.com, or stop by Hotel Lobby!
The Labor Day weekend is past. Friday night high school football dominates the local scene but in two weeks another outdoor event will captivate the region. For the first time the America’s premier off-road racing series, for ATVs and motorcycles, comes to Foxburg, PA.
At the height of summer vacation season, OpenTable, the world’s leading provider of online restaurant reservations, has announced the 2013 Diners’ Choice Award winners for the Top 100 Scenic View Restaurants in the United States. These awards reflect the combined opinions of more than 5 million reviews submitted by verified OpenTable diners for more than 15,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The sound of a motor boat roaring up the river is the sound that you hear as you pass by the Emlenton I-80 Bridge, however, it’s not a motor boat but the sound of a high powered blaster.
Underneath the cocoon looking wrapper, bridge contractor, North Star Inc., has set up containment for steel blasting (removal of existing paint) and painting of the primer. They have begun blasting last week and are expected to continue for the next couple months.
Kurt Crosbie has another thing to add to his list of things to do in Foxburg; Paddleboarding.
For those of you who aren’t aware of what Paddleboarding is, it’s a surface water sport where participants stand or sit on the paddle board and paddle.
This is more well known in California or places with Lake and Oceans, Rivers are very unheard of.. UNTIL NOW.
To find out information on paddleboarding itself, click here.
To go to Kurt’s website and get information on renting a Paddleboard, click here.
The fifth annual ARCA Foxburg Scottish Festival will fill the air with traditional Scottish and energized Celtic music. Music will pulsate in downtown Foxburg beginning Friday night with the sound of bagpipes, fiddles and traditional song echoing up and down the river valleys. The Festival begins Friday night August 16th with a traditional Ceilidh at 7:00 PM on the Foxburg Green. The Ceilidh will feature the always very Scottish singer entertainer Carl Peterson, the beloved tartan tenor Robert Murdoch, and the superb Patrick Regan as the opening night piper. Joining these very Scottish fellows for the first time at the Ceilidh will be the very popular sweet celtic/Scottish sounds of Maidens IV. Wholehearted and full of life, Maidens IV delivers high-action Celtic and Roots music. Due to their travel and tour schedule Maidens IV will be performing only at the Friday night Ceilidh. The Ceilidh is a donation supported “Pass the Hat” event.
New for this years festival is an exciting Celtic/Scottish band THE CELTIC MARTINS from eastern Pennsylvania for sure to delight visitors and audience on Saturday August 17th Festival day at RiverStone Farm and in concert Saturday night downtown Foxburg at Lincoln Hall at 7:00 PM. The Celtic Martins, a family band from south-eastern Pennsylvania, is an exciting, energetic group that features traditional Celtic music as well as highland step dancing. A performance by the Celtic Martins will feature the musical ability of the six Martin children, ranging in age from 21 to 6, accompanied by their parents on guitar and bass, and drummer, Elijah Roeder. Instruments include: Irish whistles, mandolin, bagpipes, and percussion along with the fiddle. The Celtic Martins have been performing since 2004 and has quickly become a musical sensation, performing throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland at various fairs, festivals, and other venues. The closing concert will be opened by bagpipes and a few stories as Highland Bagpiper Patrick Regan warms the audience. Saturday night concert tickets are adults $10.00 students $ 5.00 children under 12 free.
Music will heard throughout the Festival on Saturday August 17th at RiverStone Farm. The MacDonald Pipe Band of Pittsburgh will open the games and festival and will be heard throughout the day. Carl Peterson will headline the music entertainment along with Bob Murdoch the Scottish tenor in the Music Grove on Festival Day. Again there will be a Solo Piper competition, with pipers coming by high and low roads to take part in the competition. Patrick Regan piper and instructor/entertainer will judge the Solo events. An expanded highland dance group will be joining the other music entertainers. The Crazy Piper and the Plaid Chameleons will also be on the grounds as well as the Scottish Tartan juggler. The Scottish dogs will have their day as there will sheep herding demonstrations and obedience and agility ring for Scottish dogs. If it should rain not to worry many of the activities will move indoors. There will also be Athletic Competitions including the tabor toss, a soccer clinic and shoot out contest, Golf hole in one game, face painting, story telling, Scottish food, vendors, carriage rides, and more. It promises to be a great family day at picturesque RiverStone Farm, gate fee for adults is $ 10.00, children 6 to 12 $ 5.00, and children under 6 are free. For more festival information visit ARCA’s website www.alleghenyriverstone.org, or call 412-867-1816. Scottish Festival Flyer
Scottish rock band Big Country will perform a field concert at the RiverStone Farms in Foxburg Sunday, August 18th 2013 at 3pm on the RiverStone Farm Event Barn grounds. Big Country is in the middle of a North American Tour promoting their new studio album “Journey”. A schedule change has the Band available to travel to Foxburg to appear in this just added concert.
According to Drew Orient Executive Director, “For the area audience, it is a once in a music lifetime opportunity to hear a global band literally in our backyard, we are really fortunate their break in schedule coincides with ARCA’s Foxburg Scottish Festival weekend”. Gates open at 1:00 PM, A local Warm up Band plays at 2:00 PM, and Big Country is on at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $20 at the gate. Concert goes rain or shine. Concert goers are urged to bring their favorite lawn chair, and sun screen or umbrella depending on weather. Parking is free and a handicap shuttle will be available.
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Big Country was originally formed in 1981 by guitar playing founder members Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson both native of the band’s hometown Underline in Scotland. Initially driven by a shared vision of widescreen guitar melody, harmony and lyric, the classic Big Country sound was further enhanced later that summer by the arrival of London-based rhythm section Mark Brzezicki and bassist Tony Butler. This is the Big Country that broke massively worldwide with the release of debut album The Crossing’s singles ‘Fields Of Fire’, ‘Chance’ and signature song ‘In A Big Country’, which went on to become massive worldwide hits, selling over 2 million copies and driving ‘The Crossing’ to 3 prestigious Grammy nominations in the USA.
The run of success continued throughout the 1980s with the release of the anthemic single ‘Wonderland’ and the second album ‘Steeltown’ (1984), which debuted at Number 1 in the UK and contained the hit singles ‘East Of Eden, ‘Just a Shadow’ and ‘Where The Rose Is Sown’ . In 1985, Big Country appeared at Live Aid in London, followed by further successful album releases ‘The Seer’ (1986, which included the bands biggest UK hit ‘Look Away’, which also reached Number 1 in the Irish Singles chart) and ‘Peace In Our Time’ (1988), which saw the band playing the first ever privately promoted gig in Russia at the Moscow Sports Stadium.
In the 1990s Big Country would go on to release studio albums ‘No Place Like Home’ (1991), Buffalo Skinners (1993) and ‘Why The Long Face (1995) – landing the band the special guest slot on the Rolling Stones ‘Voodoo Lounge’ European tour and several shows in the UK and Ireland with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant – before releasing ‘Driving To Damascus’ in 1999.
In 2010, Big Country reformed, with the band’s friend Mike Peters from The Alarm on vocals. Following three sell-out UK tours and a run of acclaimed festival appearances bassist Tony Butler retired from the band, to be replaced by former Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes. In May 2013, Big Country released ‘The Journey’, their first studio album in fourteen years.
Big Country ‘At the BBC’ is now available and captures the classic line-up at the peak of their powers, further cementing the band’s reputation as truly great live band.
Former Big Country bassist Tony Butler said, “To see, after all these years, such a collection of recordings and great memories made by the BBC, kind of makes me feel we got there. I mean, it’s the BBC! How cool.” Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson added, “Watching the footage from Sefton Park in Liverpool brought back some fond memories. Loads of bodies covered in mud, very much a Woodstock atmosphere. Great days!”
The super-deluxe box set comes complete with a hardback book containing in-depth liner notes from respected journalist Tim Barr, archive photographs, a Big Country poster and postcards housed in a wallet. There is also a 2CD version of the release which features selected audio highlights from the box set.