Category: Power Popaholic Fest

Power Popaholic Fest 2017: Day 2

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More music and fun on our second night at Power Popaholic Fest. We had Somerdale start things with selections from their top ten album Shake it Maggie. Then straight from Chicago came The Bishop’s Daredevil Stunt Club, playing an electric mix of rock, psyche, and pop. We also welcomed the return of Jana Peri, who played at our very first festival six years ago. We ended things with The Rockinghams playing classic garage rock covers. Thank you all for attending! Our 2017 Fest page will be updated with tons of photos later this week.

Power Popaholic Fest 2017: Day 1

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A great time was had by all on our first night at Power Popaholic Fest. We had The James Rocket blast off to start things followed by the awesome combo of Slyboots, they started with a version of Cheap Trick’s “Tonight It’s You” that had the crowd jumping! The Successful Failures followed and impressed everyone too! We then introduced a new band; The Great Fraud, and people were dancing late into the night! One more night to go!

Power Popaholic Fest 2016 review

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This was a special Fest as this year we also were raising money for The Spirit of Harmony Foundation (Todd Rundgren‘s charity) and our second year at Bar Matchless after last year’s concert. The night was started with Oberon Rose playing selections from his upcoming album, great songs here and a few from the debut LP too. He was followed by Joe Caravella and The Reign, who rocked out a nice long set including covers of Badfinger and Beatles tunes — the band was tight and also played some new music thats due for release soon.

Unfortunately The Connection had an emergency and cancelled last minute, but Dave Rave came on and saved the day with his band, Haliee Rose and special guests Sal Medina (Milk and Cookies) and Dennis Diken (The Smithereens). They rocked the house as both Hailee and Dave have new albums on sale. The following night was started loudly by Meyerman as his new band shook the walls, followed by New Jersey favorites The Modulators promoting their new album “Try, Try, Try.” Then Boston native Ray Paul took to the stage and played selections from the soon to be released “Whimsicality.” We closed out the Fest with The Zombies of The Stratosphere who played a jangling set with some country overtones.

We were also able to make a donation to The Spirit of Harmony Foundation, giving a check to John Siegler and Kevion Ellman, both from Todd Rundgren’s Utopia. Thanks goes to The Odd Fellows Lodge #125 of Mineola for supplying the donation. Its great when you can support the arts and art education with one event. I had a great time and I know the bands had fun too.

Power Popaholic Fest 2015: a look back

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London Egg and The Grip Weeds Kurt Reil share the stage for the finale of Power Popaholic Fest on 9/12/15

Its taken some time to gather all the photos and films from our first three-day event. I can say I’ve had a great time and anyone who attended enjoyed the music. Both venues worked out fine and all the artists had a blast too. We even had filmmaker Justin Fielding from The Power Pop Movie attending our final night and filming the entire concert. You can see film footage from the Rock Shop and a huge photo gallery on the Power Popaholic Fest 2015 page. We also have a photo gallery of our night at Bar Matchless on the Son of Power Popaholic Fest 2015 page. And of course, our Soundtracks page have also been updated if you’d like to listen.

Now we start planning for next year’s Fest! If you are a band that’s interested and available this summer, contact me and I’ll add you to our list for 2016.