The Great Pennsylvania Music & Arts Celebration

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Advancing Pennsylvania’s music and art heritage

Washington, D.C. has its National Memorial Day Parade, Philadelphia marks the occasion with Penn’s Landing Waterfront Day, and in 2018, for the first time, northeast Pennsylvania observed the entire Memorial Day holiday weekend with The Great Pennsylvania Music & Arts Celebration.

Sponsored by Pennsylvania’s Music Preservation Society (PAMPS), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the third-annual 2020 event will be held again at the historic Allentown Fairgrounds May 23, 24 and 25, to remember and honor through traditional Pennsylvania music, culture and arts, the men and women who have served and died in the U.S. military.

The Great Pennsylvania Music & Arts Celebration is unique in its support of veterans and veterans’ groups, and in its programming each year to foster remembrance and celebrate the region’s rich military history. The Celebration also is unique for the quality and variety of its free musical programming. The bands and performing groups selected each year have their roots in Pennsylvania, and reflect the state’s rich and diverse musical genres that cut across generations and nationalities.

This year’s performers will span a wide variety of music genres, and we will again be presenting our own version of a WWII USO show. We also plan to showcase young musicians. The annual Artists Market will feature works and demonstrations by some of Pennsylvania’s leading artisans, including noted quilter Carole Dorr. Food will be provided by some of the area’s best food vendors. And there will be child-friendly activities throughout the weekend.

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