Haunted Cathouse Productions presents...

State College's very own plainclothes punks, Owned By Assholes, who will be bringing some of the brash townie underground scene to the Pine Grove Hall stage. Formed in 2014, their songs feature clever lyrics with infectious guitar & bass riffs and drums for days. Songs explore factory farming, anxiety, alcohol, police brutality, black cats, and cults! They'll be playing two short sets, so don't be late...

Owned By Assholes is Kyle (vocals / lead guitar), PissedOff Cristoff (vocals / rhythm guitar), Balls (bass), and Josh (drums) Their newest album "Die For Nothing" was released in 2022. Check out the "lyrics" button that pops up when you hover over the songs. We recommend reading up so you can sing along!

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Love Salad is back... and reborn with Annabelle Smarth at the microphone. Love Salad brings the ferocity of Todd Harrison's drumming with the cool grooves of Clay Wulbrecht and Joshua Davis, delivering an eclectic fusion of funk, alt-rock.

Todd Harrison spent 20 years and 7 days drumming the US Jazz Ambassadors into shape, as a full time job. Got pulse? You’ll dance: https://open.spotify.com/track/2quZcV996iSud3WcSGbqYX?si=f0352bbe32d44c3b

Clay Wulbrecht’s caduceus keyboards command calumniation. Hear it to believe it.

Josh Davis plays bass, arrange songs, write lyrics, and directs musical traffic like there’s always tomorrow.

Smart Jazz is now!

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Join your fellow readers and aspiring writers at Pine Grove Hall's "Meet the Author" series and enjoy an intimate evening with local and regional authors who write about food, drink and the arts.

This month, we feature Penn State Emeritus Professor of Psychology Keith Nelson with his new book titled “Breakthroughs: Realizing Our Potentials Through Dynamic Tricky Mixes” which was just released in March, 2022.

“Breakthroughs” is about “learning a way of thinking and approaching things” based on dynamic tricky mixes, a term he coined, Nelson said. “It’s about innovation, entrepreneurship, problem-solving, creativity and really breaking through to new territory — not by doing the same old thing and not by assuming there’s one way if I can only figure it out,” Nelson said. “There are multiple ways… if you don’t have [a] mix at work, then you remix. If that doesn’t work, you remix.”

Doors open at 5pm and the event starts at 6pm. Our Casual Fare menu and full bar service available all evening. Event will take place upstairs. Room is not handicapped accessible.

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Sam and Steve Christensen bring their guitars and vocals to our upstairs "listening room" playing songs by Steely Dan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more. John Lynch assists on percussion and there's an occasional guest sitting in.

Order off our Casual Fare menu. Full bar service available all.

Note that this event is upstairs and is not handicapped accessible.

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The Urie Kline Band is a jazz quartet based in the Susquehanna Valley. Drawing from a variety of sources--hard bop, Afro-Cuban jazz, ballads, pop reharmonizations--the band aims to spread the artistry of jazz with a pronounced side of soul. Organized by drummer and percussionist Urie Kline in 2019, the ensemble's current roster includes Len Cagle on (mostly) tenor saxophone, Garrett Gaetano on electric bass, and Taylor Fleming on keys.

Our dinner menu and full bar service available all evening.

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The first in a series of winter-into-spring supper parties with a guest producer-farmer joining in a family-style meal. Deepen your connection and understanding of Pine Grove Hall's dedicated and passionate local growers as you dine with Amber and Chris Hench of Blackbranch Farm. Ask questions about what they grow and why it matters as you share supper together, along with a small group of fellow food enthusiasts.

Our Wednesday supper parties are served family-style in the casual, elegant atmosphere of our second floor, with limited seating.

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With a trilogy of acoustic guitars and 3-part harmonies, they've fast gained a fan based that appreciates their folk/roots-based Americana music.

Anna Pearl Belinda (vocals), Sean Heffernan (guitar), Sam Milz (guitar/vocals) Sam Christensen (guitar, vocals), Stubby Stubbs (drums) and Andy Tolins (bass.)

https://www.midstateselect.com/

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Join us at our monthly swing night with the ten-piece Crooner & Co. as we push back the tables in our upstairs room to allow for plenty of dancing!

Dinner and full bar service with our innovative and delicious craft cocktails available all evening.

21+ ONLY

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STEVE TREADO is a singer, songwriter, musician, music teacher and audio/video producer from State College, PA. He operates Hedgerow Studio which he designed and built from the ground up, and which provides audio and video recording and production services, and has worked with many area musicians on various audio and video projects. In addition to performing regularly, both solo and with bands, he has been a regular open mic and musician showcase host. He has wide ranging musical interests and plays multiple instruments, including guitars, piano, organ, bass guitar, mandolin and drums. He has released four albums since 2017, the latest being “Aftermath” (2022)

Born in the hollerin' hills of New York City, GWEN STIMELY spent most of her growing up years in east Tennessee, where the music sank in pretty deep. She's been performing many songs, including her own, with the Tussey Mountain Moonshiners and Poe Valley Troubadours for a number of years. But performing her own songs solo has been rare, because ... well... nowhere to hide! She's very excited to perform at Pine Grove Hall!

TRAVIS MCCOY is a central PA singer/songwriter whose influences include early blues, folk and country. He has written, recorded and released three solo albums and plans to continue the trajectory.

JOE PILLOT is an American Songwriter. Passionate about meaningful song lyrics, he writes about life, love, loss and travels. A self-taught musician and lyricist, he was born in rural Pennsylvania and although well traveled, he has remained true to his roots. Influenced by the singer-songwriters of the 1960’s and 1970’s Joe Pillot delivers a unique acoustic sound and style.

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Sam and Steve Christensen bring their guitars and vocals to our upstairs "listening room" playing songs by Steely Dan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more. John Lynch assists on percussion and there's an occasional guest sitting in.

Order off our Casual Fare menu. Full bar service available all.

Note that this event is upstairs and is not handicapped accessible.

Click the GET TICKETS link below to reserve your table. No cover.

This dynamic jazz quartet winds their way through the soulful music of Horace Silver, Yusef Lateef, the Beatles, Eddie Harris, Bobby Timmons and more.

KEVIN LOWE is the drummer in the Zeropoint Big Band, Erin Condo & the Hoofties, and Lemont. He’s a brilliant ensemble player known for his sensitive touch on drums. Bassist BOB HART is in Zeropoint and Pure Cane Sugar, and has tours the world with vocalist Kat Edmondson. Bob’s is a world-class bassist and lyrical improviser. Saxophonist RICK HIRSCH the musical director of Zeropoint, the saxophonist in Erin Condo & the Hoofties, and an internationally-performed jazz composer. He’s a forward-looking improviser with strong roots in the traditions of jazz. Pianist CLAY WULBRECHT is a graduate of the esteemed jazz studies program at Indiana University and also performs with funk rock band Love Salad.

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Ronnie Burrage returns to Pine Grove Hall with Holographic Principle featuring Greg Osby for two nights of world class jazz.

Ronnie Burrage is considered one of the best jazz musicians on the world scene today. He has played with Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and is featured on more than 160 recordings; and has toured on all four continents from Siberia to South Africa to Japan.

His musical biography is dynamic and vibrant. He’s also worked with the great names in the music, Frank Morgan, Wallace Roney, Jackie & Rene McLean, James Moody, Gary Bartz, Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Pepper Adams, Michael Brecker.

Ronnie Burrage has been an influential teacher. He has served as an instructor at Penn State University, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and CUNY Brooklyn Conservatory, where he leads one of the most dynamic programs of teaching and performing jazz that exists throughout the country.

Ronnie serves his local community as co-founder of World Rhythm Academy, a nonprofit organization that builds generational bridges in social and environmental justice.

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Ronnie Burrage returns to Pine Grove Hall with Holographic Principle featuring Greg Osby for two nights of world class jazz.

Ronnie Burrage is considered one of the best jazz musicians on the world scene today. He has played with Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and is featured on more than 160 recordings; and has toured on all four continents from Siberia to South Africa to Japan.

His musical biography is dynamic and vibrant. He’s also worked with the great names in the music, Frank Morgan, Wallace Roney, Jackie & Rene McLean, James Moody, Gary Bartz, Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Pepper Adams, Michael Brecker.

Ronnie Burrage has been an influential teacher. He has served as an instructor at Penn State University, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and CUNY Brooklyn Conservatory, where he leads one of the most dynamic programs of teaching and performing jazz that exists throughout the country.

Ronnie serves his local community as co-founder of World Rhythm Academy, a nonprofit organization that builds generational bridges in social and environmental justice.

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The second in a series of four evenings of discussion and performance focusing on musicians from the 1960's and their moments of impact on American culture. Hosted by Jerry Zolten with very special guest Billy Price.

By the 1960s, the music called "soul" was a powerful current in American and world pop music. These days, the words "soul music" mostly bring to mind the catchy tunes, fancy coordinated outfits, and meticulously choreographed stage moves that are the legacy of Detroit and Motown - which is alright - but not nearly as well-known are the deep-down delineators, the artists who, rooted in black gospel, laid the foundation with pulsing heartbeat rhythms and voices with the ability to wring every drop of emotion out of the words. O.V. Wright. Otis Clay. Dyke and the Blazers. James Carr. Bobby Bland. Who better than soul master Billy Price to turn the lovelight on these artists in an evening of conversation, exploration, and revelation profusely illustrated with performance clips and a live song or two.

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ANNA PEARL BELINDA is a local State College singer-songwriter, performing since she was 11 at events throughout PA such as the Arts Festival, Grange Fair and Happy Valley's Got Talent at The State Theatre. Predominantly playing the piano, you will often find melancholy tones throughout her songwriting. Additionally, she plays guitar and ukulele. Her inspirations draw from artists such as the Dave Matthews Band, Regina Spektor and Coldplay.

NICOLE GARGIULO has performed and created with various ensembles and bands, ranging from avant-garde to folk to amplified feminist domestic craft. Though she does utilize instrumentation in her songwriting, she prefers to bask solely in the voice as embodied instrument. She approaches song from a spiritual space, conjuring melodies and words in meditative states to invoke unfiltered expression and primal delight.

SKYLER SCHOLL is a DJ, turned drummer, turned songwriter, possibly known for being in a band who spent the last five years playing in State College, called The Roof. If he could bridge the sonic gap between Neil Young, Mac Miller, Tyler Childers, and Tom Petty, with conviction, he could die a happy man. Songs of redemption are his main topic of interest.

DANIEL COLLINS is an award winning musician who grew up in State College, and can be seen performing with local acts around town such as Lowjack, Caledonia, and Raven and the Wren. He primarily plays fiddle and guitar and is influenced by classical, Irish, and rock and roll music.

Casual Fare and full bar service available all evening.

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Callanish, a Celtic band based in central Pennsylvania, plays Irish and Scottish music in the traditional style. Their repertoire includes lively jigs and reels, haunting airs, and rollicking songs from Ireland, Scotland, and elsewhere in the British Isles. Callanish was formed in 2001 by four members of the Scottish band Ceol Binn, based in Lemont, Pennsylvania. When the founders of Ceol Binn retired to Canada, the remaining band members re-formed, named themselves “Callanish” and expanded their repertoire to include Irish as well as Scottish music.

Members are Patty Lambert on wooden flute, whistle, and concertina, Betsy Gamble on fiddle, viola, and pipes, Louisa Smith on vocals, and Holly Foy on guitar, bouzouki, and banjo.

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Our April Writers' Round is hosted by ANDY TOLINS. Andy has performed with numerous collaborators for over 30 years. Adding guitar, vocals, bass, Dobro, and mandolin to many groups, including The Screaming Ducks, The Triple A Blues Band, Haystack Lightnin’, The Usual Suspects, Midstate Select, and others. Triple A Blues Band’s first album, Highwater, earned a Best Unsigned Band award from Billboard Magazine in 2000, for songwriting and musicianship.

JON ROUNDS has played with the Rounds Brothers Band; Cartoon; Hughes, Kidder & Rounds; Mathieu, Fox & Rounds; and The Guitar Brothers. Cartoon played an annual reunion concert of original music at the Central PA Festival of the Arts from 1984 through 2012. He has played several songwriter-in-the-round shows at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, and appeared on the Nashville-based webcast for songwriters, The Weird Turn Pro.

JASON DAVOLI is a passionate independent singer/songwriter who has played with platinum recording artist and was a first ballot Grammy nominee. Come see him play live solo or with his bandmates in Lowjack, don’t forget to check out his original music online.

JEFF MAMETT Guy Clark-style songwriting…he paints vivid worlds……and John Prine-level wordplay. Wide Open Country. Instantly classic... A Cattle Drive Down The Plains With A Cowboy Poet. Americana Highways

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From the early days of his childhood family band The Tomcats to current local area favorites Lowjack and Ok Otter, JOE TOMBASCO has been creating and performing music continuously for 25 years. Joe is a multi-instrumentalist whose work reflects his varied and eclectic musical history and his roots in NEPA.

JUDSON MANTZ has been a singer/songwriter for more than 30 years. He has self-released five studio albums including Belch of the Muses (1998) In An August Room (2012) a solo project, Raucous Polyglot (2015) and Sunday Night Feeling (2019) his latest solo CD. He is currently working in the studio with  his latest band, The Remnants of Betty.  Visit augustroom.com

JASON ADAMS is a home grown, multifaceted State College artist with a focus on music teaching and performance. As a songwriter he is steeped in rock, blues and folk styles with his own unique brew of lyrical writing. He made a debut tour across the US to release his first album “Reflections and Imperfections” in 2019 as a Breedlove guitar artist. Jason now lives in Nashville performing and recording his songs. 

JIM COLBERT is a multiple-award-winning songwriter from Bellefonte. He has performed at Godfrey Daniels, NERFA President’s showcase, The Borderline, Sumner-Knight Chapel, and the Rose Garden concert series. He has shared performance and workshop stages with artists including Joe Crookston, Red Molly, Verlon Thompson, Jeff Daniels, Danny Schmidt, and more. www.jimcolbertmusic.com