Many thanks to The River Reporter Newspaper for providing us with a full page ad in their Hello Summer magazine coming out for Memorial day!! Please remember to support our sponsors!!

Music Festival, Downtown, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA June 21st, 2025
Many thanks to The River Reporter Newspaper for providing us with a full page ad in their Hello Summer magazine coming out for Memorial day!! Please remember to support our sponsors!!
Here are a few teaser photos taken during the build. As I write this Anthony @ AmpTurco Guitar Works is wiring a clear pickguard to pickups from Joe Roche @ Boutique. Joe worked for and was a student of Peter Florance, The build by John Rocklin, features an Ash body & roasted maple neck, both from Guitar Mill. All hardware is by Callaham. The guitar will have an expert setup by Luthier Tony Maddi. The artwork is by Jake Martin.
https://www.facebook.com/ampturcoguitarwerks
https://www.facebook.com/JacobOwenMartin
Start making your plans, because we are already working hard to make ’24 the best year yet for Roots & Rhythm. Always free to the public and we guarantee you’ll be severely entertained!!
The ’23 Late Night Ramble was an absolute blast!!!! 40 Acre Mule tore the house down @ Here & Now Brewing!!!! An hour and a half set stretched into almost 2 1/2 hours of pure American Rock -N- Roll. All the way from Dallas, Tx. They said Honesdale blew away all the other stops on their tour. Be proud Honesdale!! Photographs copyright John Rocklin.
So many thanks from us at Roots & Rhythm to all who attended, and those who let us know all the positive thoughts about this years event. We literally work on it all year and appreciate hearing that you all thought it went well. Thanks as well to our many sponsors without whom we could not function. It’s nice to know that the business community supports this wonderful event. It’s nice to know that Honesdale Roots & Rhythm is a vital part of our community and part of Honesdale’s identity. Thanks to many of our business community who went above and beyond in their generosity (you know who you are, and so do we)
Congratulations to Stan Romanski of Hamlin, Pa. Our Grand Prize winner in ’23. This custom built Telecaster style guitar features artwork by Samuelle Green and is loaded with top shelf components. The guitar was played on the Main Stage by our ’23 headliners including Kid Andersen, Reggie King Sears & Mark DeRose. Guitar build by Tony Maddi & John Rocklin. Components from Gotoh, Seymour Duncan, Ampturco and USA Custom Guitar. Neck & body hand finished in Nitrocellulose Laquer by Bryan Fuentes.
Downtown bands are:
https://honesdalerootsandrhythm.com/2023-roots-raffle…/
Can’t wait to see everyone and keep the music playing!