New Pittsburgh music festival launches this summer in Frick Park

Come summertime, Pittsburgh has plenty of outdoor music, from Point State Park to Schenley Plaza and Hartwood Acres. This summer, yet another city park gets its own large-scale concert, as Frick Park welcomes the inaugural Turn It Upstream Music Festival.

The festival, a benefit for watershed-protection nonprofit UpstreamPgh, will take place the night of June 26 and feature top local bands including Beauty Slap and NASH.V.ILL. It will be hosted by filmmaker and man about town Rick Sebak. And it will take place in Frick Park Hollow, near the banks of Nine Mile Run, the stream whose restoration was the mission of UpstreamPgh’s predecessor group.

The site is located on the park’s Regent Square side, and Sebak lives in the neighborhood…

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