The Red Branch Arts Festival celebrates the art and literature of our region through a collaboration between the Appalachian Cultural Center and the regional literary arts journal, The Red Branch Review. This year’s lineup includes poets Kari Gunter-Seymour and Nome Emeka Patrick, the art installation “understory” (featuring new work from Thomas Flynn II and Melissa Newman), an artist talk by Melissa Newman, and the musical folk-rock-opera guest Rumble and Scream. This year’s festival will be held on Thursday, April 10th (RCP Day), at the Appalachian Cultural Center and is open to the public.

Poetry Reading and Artist Talk: 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Rumble & Scream: 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Holy Crick Records and Gorinto Productions are excited to invite you all to the official album release show for Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia—Act I! Please join us at Manny’s Live Performance Space (fka The Saloon) on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 7PM for a special performance of the Central PA-based folk-rock, fantasy opera in its entirety. Admission for the show is $10, and free for students. Tickets available now via the Gorinto Productions!

Opening the evening we will feature a musical performance by Taylor Buhler, a second-generation singer-songwriter, guitarist, and performer living in New York’s Finger Lakes. Buhler’s musical and familial influences blend into a soulful mix of acoustic blues, folk, rock, and reggae. *Fun fact: Taylor is a cousin of R&S creator Jordan Tyler Temchack, and he can be heard shredding his father’s ‘89 Fender Stratocaster on the forthcoming song, “Let’s Run Away,” (track 16 of Act I). 

Throughout the evening, we will be collecting donations to support Ukrainian relief organization Sister’s Sister. “We are a charitable (501c(3)) organization created by the residents of State College, PA to provide humanitarian relief to people of Ukraine, and in particular, to our sister-city of Nizhyn (pronounced [NEE-zhin]). We are all-volunteer organization with all collected donations going to the people of Ukraine.

There are many humanitarian relief organizations helping Ukraine right now. But with Sister’s Sister, you’ll know exactly where your money went and who it helped. Please see our impact here.”

The R&S debut album, Act I, will also be available for purchase on CD and cassette. 

See you at the opera—don’t forget to invite a friend!

Rumble & Scream perform selections from Act I of Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia—A Folk-Rock Opera at Church in the Middle of the Block!

Guest performances by Zach Bryson (as seen on Western AF from Nashville, TN) and local favorite Travis McCoy (Grassflat, PA)!

Show begins at 7 PM in the sanctuary-theatre and please join us for a small post-show reception in the Egyptian Room downstairs!

Tickets are available at this link for $10 presale and will be $12 at the door!

We can’t wait to see you all there!

Watch Rumble & Scream’s full 2023 performance at the Appalshop Archives YouTube Channel!