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Peach returns to Montage Mountain for weekend of music, camping and more

GIA MAZUR / PUBLISHED: AUGUST 11, 2017

In August on Montage Mountain, life’s a ARTICLE TOOLS peach. Take a bite. CALENDAR570 FONT SIZE SHARE THIS ◀ SEP | OCT | NOV ▶ Date selected Peach Music Festival rocks its sixth year at – + the Pavilion at Montage Mountain Thursday, 6 Aug. 10, through Sunday, Aug. 13. Started by Showing events from: October 6. Click for more. and pavilion promoter Live Nation, the festival

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each year to dance, sing, make new friends, reacquaint with old and share in a love of live music. Weekend Times put together a handy guide to the sights, sounds and tastes of Peach Fest.

The essentials

Peach Fest is a weekend-long event at the ImageImage GalleryGallery forfor SweetSweet SummerSummer Treat:Treat: Student Artists of the Month Peach Music Festival returns to Montage Pavilion at Montage Mountain, 1000 Mountain for weekend of music, camping and more Montage Mountain Road, Scranton. It opens Thursday, Aug. 10, at 10 a.m. and will close Monday, Aug. 14, at noon. Music will go on from Thursday, Aug. 10, at 4:30 p.m. through Sunday, Aug. 13, at 10 p.m. Single-day tickets begin at $65. All tickets are available through the box office or online at thepeachmusicfestival.com. Re-entry is permitted with festival pass. There will be refillable water stations on festival and camping grounds, as well as phone-charging stations, ATMs and 24-hour medical service in the campground and RV lots as well as by Coping each stage during festival hours.

Your guide to area support groups Fuel up (read more) Dancing to live music works up an appetite, and Peach Fest fans can grab food and drink at dozens of concession and vendor stands across the festival grounds. There will be typical concert food like hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken fingers and pizza plus some festival favorites such as wraps and sandwiches, barbecue, tacos, burritos and gyros. Plenty of vegetarian and vegan options will be on hand as well. Guests also can cool off with a variety of beverages from mixed drinks or craft, imported and domestic beers, to soda, water, fresh-squeezed lemonade and more.

The music Voluntary Action Center More than 50 bands will perform across three stages — Peach Stage, Mushroom Stage Volunteer Calendar and Grove Stage — throughout the weekend. Acts will perform throughout the day and The calendar provides information on into the night, some after midnight. Thursday night kicks off at 4:30 p.m. with acts that volunteer opportunities within some nonprofit organizations. (read more) include Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, ’s Almost Dead and Cabinet.

Lifestyles On Friday, catch music starting at noon with bands including Steve Kimock & Friends, A Twitter list by ​@timestribune the Magpie Salute, God Street Wine, Tom Hamilton’s American Babies, Dark Star Tweets from the Times-Tribune Lifestyles department Orchestra, My Morning Jacket, Pink Talking Fish and Lettuce featuring Chaka Khan.

PagesPast Retweeted Saturday performances start at noon, too, and include sets from acts such as Umphrey’s ALT 92.1 @alt921​ McGee, Fruition, Rusted Root, Gov’t Mule & Friends, Widespread Panic, Papadosio and a Yes, it came protected in bubble wrap. #SzechuanSauce @McDonalds - Win it as part of Peach Tribute to and . Sense Of Entitlement! - 8AM, Noon, 4PM for keywords! On Sunday, the music starts at noon and rocks until 10 p.m. with acts . Mike Gordon, Hayley Jane & the Primates, Ghost of Paul Revere, Joe Bonamassa and

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Schedule, set times and lineup are subject to change. For updated set times, fans can download the Peach Music Festival mobile app for Apple and Android.

Off-site parking shuttles

← → If you’re not camping on the mountain but still want to experience Peach Fest, shuttles transport guests from off-site parking to Montage Mountain during the festival. Shuttles from PNC Field and the Gold lot, both on Montage Mountain Road, continuously throughout the length of the festival: Thursday, Aug. 10, 2 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 11, and Local Flavor Recipe Contest Saturday, Aug. 12: 11 a.m. to 3 a.m.; Sunday, August 13: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Monday, Aug. 14, 6 a.m. to noon.

For Gregg

Peach Fest founder and Allman Brothers lead singer Gregg Allman canceled his appearance at last year’s festival due to hospitalization, and died in May from complications of liver cancer. Peach Fest will honor the late rocker with an exclusive screening of the documentary “Back to the Swamp: The Making of Southern Blood,” centered on the creation of Allman’s final album. All ticket holders have automatically been entered for a chance to win access. Winners will be contacted the week of the festival with specific screening details.

Couple to tie the knot at the Peach

Peace, music and love make up the Peach Fest experience, and the latter rings especially true this year.

Remi Rodriguez and Ross Mendoker of Jamesburg, New Jersey, will exchange vows on POPULAR THIS WEEK: Friday, Aug. 11, during the festival at 6:30 p.m. next to the Mushroom Stage. Bob Syrian refugees to serve Mulkerin, mayor of Old Forge, will officiate the ceremony. After they attended Peach Fest last year on a whim, the music-lovers knew the festival would be the perfect place to tie the knot.

“There’s really nothing like Peach. We had the most amazing time and I said, ‘This is where we need to get married,’” Rodriguez said during a recent phone interview, adding that the couple got engaged at a different music festival in 2015. “We’re lucky to have something like this being in this part of the country. It’s a beautiful experience.” homeland’s dishes at Global Tastes dinner The couple’s family and friends as well as Rodriguez and Mendoker’s four children (Ross,

When Faten Al-Mahameed fled the war- 12; Jade, 11; Myles, 4, and Maizy, 3) will be in tow as they say, “I do.” While the venue ravaged Daraa region of Syria with her may be non-traditional, Rodriguez said it will still be the couple’s dream wedding. husband and children in 2015, she left much behind to get her loved ones to “I have a gown, I’m going to look like a bride with bridesmaids and dresses and flowers,” safety in America. What the family didn’t lose during its resettlement in Scranton she said with a laugh, adding that she’s seen dozens of posts on social media eager to through Catholic Soci (read more) see the “Peach bride and groom.” “But, getting married at Peach, being surrounded by our friends and family and all of these people who love the music and the atmosphere … this is by far the best decision.”

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