Froggy 101’s Guitars & Stars presented by Burke’s Gun Shop
The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple
420 N Washington Ave, Scranton, PA 18503
USA
$168.25 VIP Packages, $64.70 – $47.15 Regular Admission (Includes Fees) | Reserved Seating | Prices Subject to Change
Mainstage Concert | Weinberg Theatre, Reserved Seating Only | 7:00pm, Doors Open at 6:15pm
Stars perform in an intimate “guitar pull” style show and share the stories behind their songs.
Guitars & Stars Lineup:
- Parmalee
- Brian Kelley
- Priscilla Block
- Michael Ray
- George Birge
Please note when selecting tickets on Ticketmaster.com that you select the correct VIP Package. Not All Seats are available for each package.
George Birge VIP PreShow Package | $168.25
George Birge VIP PreShow Holders Must Check In by 5:00pm
Ticket includes
1 Guaranteed seat in the first (10) ten (or closer) rows
1 Entry to Catered VIP Pre-Party with local Special Guest Artist on SideStage
1 digital photo with George Birge
*meet and greet photos may be shot in groups per artist management
Priscilla Block VIP PreShow Package | $168.25
Priscilla Block VIP PreShow Holders Must Check In by 5:00pm
Ticket includes
1 Guaranteed seat in the first (10) ten (or closer) rows
1 Entry to Catered VIP Pre-Party with local Special Guest Artist on SideStage
1 digital photo with Priscilla Block
*meet and greet photos may be shot in groups per artist management
Parmalee VIP PreShow Package | $168.25
Parmalee VIP PreShow Holders Must Check In by 5:00pm
Ticket includes
1 Guaranteed seat in the first (10) ten (or closer) rows
1 Entry to Catered VIP Pre-Party with local Special Guest Artist on SideStage
1 digital photo with Parmalee
*meet and greet photos may be shot in groups per artist management
Michael Ray VIP PreShow Package | $168.25
Michael Ray VIP PreShow Holders Must Check In by 5:00pm
Ticket includes
1 Guaranteed seat in the first (10) ten (or closer) rows
1 Entry to Catered VIP Pre-Party with local Special Guest Artist on SideStage
1 digital photo with Michael Ray
*meet and greet photos may be shot in groups per artist management
Brian Kelley VIP PreShow Package | $168.25
Brian Kelley VIP PreShow Holders Must Check In by 5:00pm
Ticket includes
1 Guaranteed seat in the first (10) ten (or closer) rows
1 Entry to Catered VIP Pre-Party with local Special Guest Artist on SideStage
1 digital photo with Brian Kelley
*meet and greet photos may be shot in groups per artist management
VIP Info You must purchase a VIP level ticket to gain access to the VIP Lounge/PreParty inside the Ballroom at the Scranton Cultural Center. VIP’s must present their ticket at check-in table in order to be admitted into the lounge area.
VIP’s please check in by 5:00pm.
Froggy 101’s Guitars & Stars
Featuring
Parmalee ParmaleeMusic.com
Known for their distinct family harmony, irresistible melodies, and sure-fire radio favorites, including Billboard’s Most Played Country Song of 2022, “Take My Name,” Parmalee has not-so-quietly become one of the genre’s most undeniable contemporary country hitmakers.
The group – comprised of brothers Matt Thomas (guitar/lead vocals) and Scott Thomas (drums), along with their cousin Barry Knox (bass) and life-long friend Josh McSwain (guitar) – has accumulated more than 1 billion on-demand streams and three No. 1 hits including their breakthrough hit “Carolina,” the Blanco Brown collaboration “Just The Way” and “Take My Name.” Parmalee’s current single, “Girl In Mine,” is a Top 10 hit and climbing. All but “Carolina” are on Parmalee’s new album “For You 2,” which, at 18 songs deep, is the deluxe version of the band’s third studio project “For You,” which was released in 2021.
With determination as strong as it was when they first started playing together and 18 songs ready to release to the world, Parmalee is poised to take the next steps in their sky-rocketing career. They have no regrets.
“We just love to play,” Josh said. “We love to tour. We love the live connection. Our dream was just to play music for a living. Anything more than that is a bonus.”
Brian Kelley officialbriankelley.com
With the anthemic delivery of his current single, “See You Next Summer,” and homegrown follow-up “Dirt Cheap,” DIAMOND-selling superstar Brian Kelley enters the next chapter of a record-breaking, history-making career. In the studio working on his full-length debut album with Big Machine Records, he first made waves with his passion project SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND in 2021 (which American Songwriter called “some of the best modern country put to tape.”) With a sold-out run of shows and back-to-back residencies at Tribe Kelley Surf Post in Grayton Beach, FL – owned by the Ormond Beach native and his wife Brittney – Kelley continues to diversify his thriving enterprise with collaborations including cult-favorite brand Tribe Kelley with Brittney and a partnership with Oyster City Brewing Company. Kelley is managed by Kevin Spellman and Jason Murray of Vector Management. First known as the Florida half of the GRAMMY-nominated Florida Georgia Line, the ACM Breakout Artist of the Decade Award recipients garnered 19 career No. 1s and became the first and only act to achieve two RIAA DIAMOND singles in Country music history (14X PLATINUM No. 1s: “Cruise” and “Meant to Be” with Bebe Rexha). Surpassing 17 billion global streams, selling more than 40 million tracks and 4.8 million albums worldwide, plus playing to over 4 million fans, FGL has been honored by AMA, Billboard, CMA, and CMT Music Awards, as well as having a Florida Georgia Line: Mix It Up Strong exhibit at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Priscilla Block priscillablock.com
“This is me,” says Priscilla Block. “Love it or leave it.”
It’s that kind of attitude towards life, and her fearless music-making, that has made the rising country star one of the genre’s most exciting new artists and one of its most authentic and relatable voices. One part endless party, one part unmitigated honesty, and one part best friend who always gives it to you straight, even when it hurts, Priscilla’s debut album, Welcome to the Block Party, finds an artist who is redefining ‘three chords and the truth’ for an entirely new generation.
Welcome to the Block Party is this approach in album form. From the songs like “Heels in Hand” and “Ever Since You Left” that detail the many dynamics of a relationship from the crying to the kiss-offs, to “My Bar” that flips the genre’s gender roles, to the album’s closer “Peaked in High School,” written as a victory lap for anyone who may not have been the homecoming king or queen.
“I write about what I know,” Priscilla says. “If that’s heartbreak or struggle or owning my flaws and being unapologetically me.” Doing things her own way has paid off. Pegged as a 2021 Artist to Watch by Amazon Music, PANDORA, Spotify, CMT, The Boot, MusicRow, HITS, Sounds Like Nashville, Country Now, Music Mayhem and more, Priscilla’s streaming has topped 250million and rising. With Welcome to the Block Party, Priscilla rolls out the welcome mat even further, because she’s truly just getting started.
“You get the funny, you get the sassy, you get the trashy, you get the sad,” Priscilla says of Welcome to the Block Party. “You get everything that makes me, me.”
Sometimes you just follow your heart, even when you’re not sure where it’s taking you. For Michael Ray, who grew up going to – and playing at – the juke joints and hole in the walls of Central Florida with his father and grandfather, he didn’t realize he was going not just in a circle but coming full circle until he’d finished the tracking sessions for Dive Bars & Broken Hearts.
Six songs, recorded with multi-Platinum CMA Album of the Year producer Michael Knox, Dive Bars & Broken Hearts traces a boy coming into his own, chasing life and girls, getting his heart broken and learning to man up, carry on and evolve. Portraying coming of age for Ray – and so many young men (and women) just like him, it’s easy-going in places, moody and dark in others; it’s almost a love song to being willing to face life as it comes, know there’s solace in the jukebox and a better day if you’re willing to reach for it.
“Life is sometimes a lot simpler than we make it,” says the dark-headed vocalist. “And we have a lot more power to accept what doesn’t work and grow, or to create the best possible life than we realize… And that’s where some of the best country songs come from. For me, Dive Bars is about all that, without ever giving up or losing your sense of the right thing to do.”
“There are pieces of me in all these songs,” Ray explains. “It’s how I grew up, what I learned, how I became a man… and how I was raised to always try every day to be a better man. But even more importantly, we didn’t shy away from having to man up and not just react, to recognize that you’re gonna make some mistakes along the way. More importantly, for me or anyone listening, there’s friendship and getting through even the tough stuff; you hear Meghan Patrick singing ‘Spirits & Demons’ with me, that’s everything life and country music is: temptation, melody, knowing better, getting tougher and being real.
“Setting this project up, we’ve been in some dive bars, the Grand Ole Opry, playing some really big festivals. All I know is everywhere we go, people are responding to these songs like they do ‘Whiskey and Rain’ and ‘Think a Little Less.’ When you can do that with new songs, that says something… But whether it’s just how good these songs feel, or the fact I’ve lived all of them and a lot of other people have been in the same situations, the live crowds feel like they know what I’m singing about!”
George Birge georgebirge.com
Birge (rhymes with “merge”) was scrolling through the TikTok account he had just created when he came across a star of the platform poking fun at country music. Erynn Chambers, known to her three-quarter of a million followers as Rynnstar, joked that many country songs are just repetitious ditties about beer, trucks, and girls. To her credit, she had a point, but Birge was determined to prove to Rynnstar that in the right hands even the most mundane of phrases can inspire a great, multi-layered song.
With that in mind, the Texas-born, Nashville-based songwriter grabbed his guitar and wrote “Beer Beer, Truck Truck,” an up-tempo sing-along that is about far more than those writing-room tropes. It’s about missing the one you love and wooing them to come back. “I know the city called you, go baby spread your wings/I’ll be here waiting on you, out here in the country,” Birge sings.
“The whole point was to say that, yeah, the country lifestyle may not be as flashy or as fast-paced as the city, but there’s more to it than meets the eye — and if you give me a chance, I’ll show you how good it can be,” Birge says. As the lyrics drive home, it’s not all “beer, beer/truck, truck/girls in them tight jeans.”
“I’m not a guy that’s too cool for school. I just want to tell a story in a fresh way, like I heard on country radio growing up,” Birge says. “And then sit down and have a beer with whoever’s listening.”
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