by Dave Parsons The stage at The Pavilion at Star Lake went dark at 9:15 PM, and when the lights came up, there were seven of...
by Dave Parsons The western Pennsylvania skies on July 24, 2025, were ominous-looking while the sold-out crowd was waiting to get in the gates of The...
By Dave Parsons As the sun sank behind the hills of Burgettstown, PA’s beloved Amphitheater at Star Lake, the lawn was a sea of blankets and...
by Dave Parsons The sun is headed down over the back of the Guernsey County Fairgrounds, where several thousand country music fans are enjoying the Old...
by Dave Parsons There’s something about David Lee Murphy. There always has been. The summer sun was beginning its descent over the rolling hills of the...
by Dave Parsons It had been 45 years…….45 summers under Ohio skies…..It was Saturday, July 19, 1980. I was 15 years old and had begged my...
by Dave Parsons Three days. Three weather events. One incredible country music festival. There was never any doubt who’d kick off the Saturday lineup of the...
by Dave Parsons Rain had shortened the first half of the day at the Old Washington Music Festival on Friday, July 18. 2025. I had tried...
by Dave Parsons By the time The Band Perry was ready to step onto the stage at the Old Washington Music Festival, the rain had retreated,...
The sky opened up around noon. Not in a poetic, country-ballad way, but in that bone-soaking, puddle-splashing, fried-dough-melting way that threatens to derail even the best-laid...
