CLASSICAL WQEJ-FM 89,7 TO BROADCAST LIVE FRIDAY NIGHT FROM AMERISERV FLOOD CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 30, 2012

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CLASSICAL WQEJ-FM 89.7 TO BROADCAST LIVE FRIDAY NIGHT
FROM AMERISERV FLOOD CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL

PITTSBURGH—Join Classical WQEJ-FM 89.7 as they broadcast LIVE from the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival in Johnstown on Friday, August 3 from 4 – 10 p.m.

The three-day music festival held annually in downtown Johnstown at Peoples Natural Gas Park will kick-off on August 3 at 4 p.m. and run through Sunday, August 5 at 10 p.m. Stages are continually programmed over the course of the festival with over 20 groups. The Festival is produced by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, a non-profit that exists to preserve and showcase Johnstown’s nationally significant stories by providing high-quality educational, cultural and recreational experiences in the area’s unique historic settings.

In 1990, the Johnstown Area Heritage Association recruited the National Folk Festival to Johnstown for a three-year run, after which it began to produce the event on its own, renaming it the Johnstown FolkFest. AmeriServ Financial became the title sponsor a year later, and in 2009 the name was changed to AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival, to better convey that all types of music are presented.

Listeners can join the conversation and follow updates from Classical WQED-FM 89.3 while they are at the Festival on Facebook and Twitter at @WQEDFM.

WQEJ-FM 89.7 broadcasts were made possible by John D. Gibson, Attorney at Law in Johnstown for the past three Festivals.

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