Sedona recruits musicians from tri-state area for Penguinpalooza festival in Youngstown
Musicians took over three stages for a music festival Saturday at Penguin City Brewing Company called Penguinpalooza.
Which artists played Penguinpalooza?
Meet the band behind the Penguinpalooza festival, Sedona: Grant Shultz, Ben Rhinehart, Harrison Rhinehart, Justin Barnett and Henry Shorr.
Lead singer Harrison Rhinehart thanked the Penguin City team, including owner Aspasia Lyras-Bernacki, for helping pull everything together to “represent the tri-state area” through music.
Other local favorites like the Labra Brothers, Unc D, The Goners, Ophelia and Speedo Agreedo performed on the Penguinpalooza stages.
“In terms of artists that we just asked to play, I think it was around 70 or 80,” Rhinehart said. “A lot of the artists we asked either were already booked that day, or they weren’t available... [We brought in] some friends of ours and bands that we’ve hear in the past who we loved. We got out-of-town bands, two bands from State College, two bands from Buffalo, a band from Philadelphia, two bands from Cleveland...representing the tri-state area.”
Sedona’s close connection with Penguin City
Sedona is one of the local bands who call Penguin City one of their home stages.
“We had both of our album release shows here and they both went really well,” said Rhinehart said. “We had big crowds there, and this is one of few places in Youngstown that can really support something like this. Everybody at Penguin City is so supportive; they’re so helpful. We love working with them. Everything together was just a perfect match.”
Sedona recruited vendors for the first annual festival, including Pure Flight Disc Golf, Youngstown Kicks, Beautiful Mess, Angelic Jewelers, OMGia Thrifts, KG & That, Amiras Creations and Greyland Vintage.
Artists with Fortune and Fate Tattoos set up a flash tattoo sale, and Tom Calhoun offered attendees psychic readings.
“I’ll credit my mom,” Rhinehart said. “My mom was like, ‘We should get flash tattoos there.’ And Fortune and Fate came down from Lakewood. We were looking for a similar crowd to Federal Frenzy, another great event that happens in this area. We thought Youngstown only has that one event per year, so we kind of wanted to make that happen more, make this a once-a-year thing, or once every six months thing.”
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