Tioga County Heymakers: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Tioga-County-Heymakers   Mountian music; Good Music for Good People

Driftwood: http://www.myspace.com/driftwoodgroove Using acoustic instruments, a scrap wood kick box, clapping hands and stomping feet, Driftwood breaks down barriers between old and young, rockers and folkies alike.

Hickory Project: http://www.hickoryproject.com/ “Linking Old and New in Acoustic Music”

Tom & Marie: http://tom-marie.com/ The play all kinds of music; from rock & roll, country & western, folk, blues, bluegrass, the standards, and so forth.

Nate & Kate: www.NateandKate.com  Deliver a mix of heartfelt modern folk songs, humor, and juggling that add up to a completely unique and dymanic show fit for old, young, and all in between.

C&T Bluegrass: http://tom-marie.com/c_and_t_bluegrass.html Five fun loving, entertaining people who like to have fun on stage as well as play rock-solid, traditional bluegrass music.

Rosie's Ready Mix: http://www.happyhollowmusic.com Rosie's Ready Mix is particularly drawn to the drive and energy of contra dance melodies of the "Northern" style but also delve into the breakdowns and barnburners of the south.

New Appalachia:  A four piece acoustical bluegrass gospel band operating as a Christian musical ministry.

Joe Crookston: http://joecrookston.com Artful, intense, and often transcendent…imaginative, and extremely engaging...If you love a moving song and magical madness,  Joe delivers it all.

Seneca Moon String Band: http://home.stny.rr.com/senecamoon/ Plays southern Appalachian and Celtic music on hammered dulcimer, ukelin, church bass, autoharp, washboard, jaw harp, bones, mountain dulcimer, pennywhistle, bodhran, fiddle, banjo, guitar, and harmonica and more.

The Volsteads: Perform a wide spectrum of folk, ragtime, country and pop on their nostalgic voyage to yesteryear.

Pat Kane:  http://www.westoclare.com/ On fiddle, guitar, and bodhran, he plays jigs, reels, square dances, and hundreds of ballads from Ireland and America.

Molly & The Motonix: http://tom-marie.com/mollyandthemotonix.html They play a whole variety of songs, bluegrass style. Get mo' of what you're needing.

Alarm to the West…Sullivan’s March
During the Revolutionary War, Tory and Iroquois raiding parties plundered settlements in New York and Pennsylvania. George Washington’s mission for Sullivan was “total destruction and devastation of Iroquois villages.” As Sullivan marched his men along the Susquehanna River he refused to be distracted by Tory and Iroquois raiding parties that attacked settlements. Small patrols scoured the surrounding forests to detect marauding Indians and protect the army, but he had no men to spare for the surrounding countryside. Every request for local assistance was denied. Sullivan was particularly angry that Pennsylvania had not furnished volunteers to assist in his march.
According to information in the Chronicles of the Bement Family in America, both Asa, Sr., and his son Asa, Jr., were Revolutionary soldiers, serving in Captain Ezra Whittlesey’s Company, Third Berkshire County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, called in October of 1780 “on an alarm to the Westward.” (Source: DAR #41976, volume 42, p.360). Shortly after the Revolution Asa Bement, Jr., traveled with a band of colonists from Stockbridge to Tioga County, where in 1792 he drew lot #177 in the Grand Division (a.k.a. “Boston Purchase”).  Like most of the early adventurers, Asa went into this wilderness with little to aid him in his enterprise. He built his home, barns, and blacksmith shop along the banks of the Owego Creek, at what is now the Bement-Billings Farmstead Museum.  This year’s Apple Festival (Oct. 1-2) in Newark Valley will sponsor a Living History Event that will depict the lifeways of the people around the time of the Revolutionary War in Tioga County. Visitors can view skirmishes, period entertainment, blanket traders, and sutlers. Colonial style camps will be on display along the beautiful Owego Creek. Come enjoy delicious food & drink, great music, demonstrating craftsmen, tours with costumed guides, and the gift shop at the historic Bement-Billings Farmstead Museum, 9142 State Route 38, Newark Valley, NY. For more information visit nvhistory.org, or email : geraldrhodes@gmail.com .