Ameriserv Flood City Music Festival comes to Johnstown

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — The Ameriserv Flood City Music Festival takes over downtown Johnstown this weekend.

This year's lineup includes acts like Cowboy Mouth, Ghost Light and Gin Blossoms.

It's the 11th year for the festival, which brings in artists from across the country, but the festival has a little of a complex history.

The festival's roots date back all the way to 1989, when the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, or Jaha for short, wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the great Johnstown flood of 1889.

But the name of the festival wasn't always the Flood City Music Festival.

In 1990, it became the National Folkfest for three years before Jaha took over and renamed it the Ameriserv Johnstown Folkfest in 1994.

The festival was held in Cambria City until 2004 when attendance grew and forced organizers to look for a new location.

In 2009, officials with Jaha say the festival was renamed the Ameriserv Flood City Music Festival to better describe the music offered.

It became a tradition in 2010 to hold the festival each year on the first weekend of August.

Today the festival is held at People's Natural Gas Park.

To get tickets or see a list of all performers head to Floodcitymusic.com

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