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Sounds Around Town

Sounds Around Town is WQLN's series of free concerts and TV and radio broadcasts, outdoors at WQLN, 8425 Peach Street, Erie (indoors in case of inclement weather), featuring all local bands.

Each year, music lovers of all ages enjoy WQLN's Sounds Around Town free concerts in the picturesque setting of WQLN's wooded pavilion. The public is invited and encouraged to bring their picnic blankets and festival chairs for four family-friendly evenings of local entertainment.

As an added bonus, you get a peek at the behind-the-scenes operation of WQLN PBS NPR production. We record the concerts live and air them on WQLN PBS on Thursday nights in the summer and on WQLN NPR throughout the coming year.

Showtime for each 60- to 90-minute concert is 7:30pm. WQLN PBS NPR production will begin at 6:00pm, and guests are invited to come early.

Cost: FREE

2025 Lineup
  • David Devine, a folk, country, and Americana artist, has built a career writing songs, poems, jingles, and children's songs.
  • Lopaka Rootz is a singer songwriter & musician creating Reggae music from Hawaii. Kailua Kona, Hawaii, Moku o Keaw to be precise.
  • Ron Yarosz and the Vehicle was formed in 2003. The band has won many awards locally and regionally in the last few years.
  • Things are about to get unpredictable. Kactai, is Erie’s experimental jazz-rock band, known for their epic improv.
Watch full-length Sounds Around Town concerts from past years with WQLN PBS Passport.
Take a look back at selected performances from previous years.