There is hope that live music is coming back in 2021.
Rock, Reggae & Relief, a festival benefiting hospitality workers and food insecurity, has announced a lineup of artists.
It’s scheduled for Aug. 28.
“We feel safe that, by then, most people will have taken the (covid) vaccine, and it’s an outdoor event that we can keep people safe,” said Lucas Piatt, founder of the festival, and president Millcraft and Piatt Sotheby’s International Realty.
He and well-known music promoter Rich Engler teamed to book the talent for the fourth annual festival. This is the third time it will be for charity.
Pittsburgh outdoor music fest to feature Jason Mraz and The Wailers
PITTSBURGH Jason Mraz and The Wailers were announced as headliners for Rock, Reggae & Relief, an Aug. 28 summer festival in Pittsburgh benefiting hospitality workers and people affected by food insecurity.
We re talking a real, in-person concert here; on Forbes Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, not on your computer screen.
General admission tickets went on sale Tuesday for $50 at rockreggaerelief.com.
Grammy-winning, Billboard charting singer-songwriter Mraz and reggae mainstays The Wailers lead a lineup that also includes reggae-funk group Roots of Creation and UpRooted featuring Michael Gablicki of Pittsburgh s Rusted Root.
Organizers say Mraz s June album, the reggae-infused Look For The Good, will help solidify the feel-good vibes of the annual all-ages street festival, which didn t take place in 2020 due to Covid-19.
When I move through Pittsburgh, I’m greeted by familiarity and peace.
December 17, 2020
PHOTO: DAVE DICELLO
When I move through Pittsburgh, there’s a game I like to play. Whenever I drive past a familiar landmark, I pinpoint memories there. What I thought at the time. Who I was at the time.
This happens most often in Oakland and Squirrel Hill, where I spent my formative years. But it crosses all neighborhoods: North to Ross, shopping at bridal stores for special occasions; South to Mt. Lebanon, where a daily frozen coffee from one specific Bruegger’s made an unbearable summer internship bearable; East to Monroeville, where my parents would trek an hour and a half from our hometown to shop at the “fancy” mall before stopping at Rudy’s Subs to visit my dad’s cousin, the proprietor, who was always there when we stopped, always.