The event runs through Sunday. Author: Peggy Lee Updated: 11:25 PM EST February 5, 2021 SCRANTON, Pa. — It was Friday night in the Electric City and a brand-new festival kicked off at an interesting time - Scranton's first-ever ice festival got underway! Its inaugural edition comes as so many other festivals are being canceled. At the Hilton on Adams Avenue in Scranton, live music pumped from an outdoor speaker as a band inside entertained spectators on the outside to maintain social distancing. This is just one of the many attractions for the first-ever Ice Festival in the Electric City that runs through Sunday and these two friends got in tune with the beats.