Gettysburg Rocks @ The Barn Resort

3-Days / 14 Venues / 130 Bands / For The Kids

Full Line-Up Announcement coming soon…

Gettysburg Rocks is a bi-annual music festival, held in February and August. The festival features multiple live bands across multiple venues in the Gettysburg area. The event benefits Four Diamonds, whose mission is to conquer childhood cancer by assisting children treated at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital and their families through superior care, comprehensive support, and innovative research. Money raised is donated to Four Diamonds. Please visit fourdiamonds.org for more information on the beneficiary.

The original concept for the festival was just an idea until founder Rob Simon's daughter Ashley approached him to help her with a fundraiser for Penn State Mont Alto’s THON group. During the course of an 11-week period the first Gettysburg Rocks event was planned, created and implemented and was an immediate success. The first event was held on the weekend of February 7th, 2014 and included 130 live bands across 12 venues in Gettysburg. The event raised over $14,000. After the success of the first event, Rob was approached by several of the participating venues to create a warm weather version of the popular festival and the August event was created.

Gettysburg Rocks would not be possible without the help of our numerous volunteers and the committee members who run the day to day behind the scenes event planning: Susann Simon, Mike Calandrelle, Sharon Calandrelle and Rose Kelly.

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• Next month, 14th March, 06:00 pm, Sweet Maple Live at The Ploughman Cider Taproom in Gettysburg

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