Artist Bios
City Planners
City Planners is a five-piece, female-fronted indie band based in Portland, Maine, though two members hail from central and eastern Pennsylvania! Fusing post-punk attack with synth-pop melodies, City Planners play upbeat, guitar-driven songs drenched in reverb and anchored by catchy hooks and raw energy. In 2025, the band released their debut album, Plastic and Metal, which has been described as “smart indie pop with an alt angle to it, and hooks to spare for days” (If It’s Too Loud), “sincere and inspiring” (The Bollard), and “perfectly-executed synth-forward indie pop” (Rosy Overdrive). Drawing from the angular energy of Gang of Four and Pylon, the bold harmonies of The B-52s and The New Pornographers, and the dreamlike haze of Mazzy Star, City Planners’ sound is eclectic, collaborative, and unmistakably their own.
Hailing from the heart of Cumberland County, PA, Cumberland Honey brings sweet harmonies with folk and soul influences and a taste of bluegrass. Their original songs weave stories of life and love with heartfelt harmonies that feel like home.​​
A soul rock/ pop punk band with genre-bending, lyric driven originals that have a way of making you dance regardless of the subject matter. This band is fronted by lead vocalist, Eryn Spangler, joined by guitarists Ross Elward and Malcolm Vance, with Malcolm Xtra as the bassist and alternate vocalist/rapper.
Their first release of 2026, “POOR MAN’S LIQUOR” is a moody, R&B inspired synthesis of folksy-blues drama and 90s grunge styled vocals. Their debut EP, “OPEN BOOK QUIZ PT. 1” due to release Late 2026 will be a soundscape blending pop, punk, blues, soft rock, hip hop and R&B.
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Joel Toluba is a multi instrumentalist and vocalist who has been performing with various bands in Central Pennsylvania since the early 2000s. Most recently he has focused his attention on the accordion, covering a wide range of genres including zydeco, folk, classic rock, bluegrass, blues and jazz. Accompanied by soulful vocals and foot-powered bass and snare drums, Joel's one man show is a performance not to be missed!
Vincent Yarnell is a Pennsylvania-based songwriter creating stripped-back music that lives between folk intimacy and indie experimentation. Rooted in melody and driven by curiosity, his songs often begin with a question, sometimes drawn from lived experience, sometimes from imagined stories, but always in search of something true.
A longtime presence in the Central Pennsylvania music scene, Vincent spent over a decade performing with the band Rivers. In 2022, he was named Best Folk Artist at the Central Pennsylvania Music Awards.
Pishima
Raised in a Gaudiya Vaishnava community where devotional singing was part of everyday life, Pishima's relationship with music began early. After years of singing in a wide range of musical projects, she found her own voice as a songwriter, drawing on her upbringing while crafting a distinctly modern alternative sound. With an unmistakable vocal presence and a growing catalogue of original music, Pishima is only beginning to reveal the depth of her artistry as she prepares to release the first recordings from her debut artist project — a body of work shaped by a lifetime immersed in music.
Films
Directed by Mark Becker and Aaron Schock
Run time: 99 minutes
Date: Thursday, September 17
​A widow fights powerful corporations to reclaim her late husband's famous Sea-Monkeys toy empire, while protecting its secret formula and confronting the complex history behind their creation.
Directed by Allison Berg
Run time: 112 minutes
Date: Friday, September 18
​Fifty years ago, The Rocky Horror Picture Show burst onto the scene and blew everyone’s minds—a glorious, campy, sexy, utterly bizarre midnight ritual that turned movie-going into something you did rather than just watched. For misfits, dreamers and the delightfully weird, Rocky Horror became their sanctuary. And for the queer community especially, it was something even more powerful: the one place you could feel completely, gloriously free.
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Today, that freedom has never felt more precious—or more fragile.
Lights up on Rock Springs, Wyoming—a dusty boomtown in one of the country’s most conservative states—where 25-year-old Kenny Starling has done something audacious: opened the first drag and queer theater company in town. Their debut show? A shadow cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Kenny’s mission: to bring queer visibility, joy, and acceptance to the high desert plains of Wyoming.
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TIME WARP follows Kenny and his extraordinary cast as they rehearse, discover, and transform—lacing up corsets, stepping into heels, and finding that every performance is equal parts joy and defiance.
Wyoming calls itself the “Equality State,” but Kenny believes his fearless cast—and the audiences who show up—might finally make that true, at least inside the Broadway Theater on a Friday night.
“Ultimately, it’s not political,” Kenny says. “It’s our existence.”
TIME WARP is a celebration of joyful self-expression, found family, and the radical, timeless act of being yourself.
Matilda
Run time: 98 minutes
Date: Saturday, September 19
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The 30th anniversary of the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, Matilda is about a girl gifted with a keen intellect and telekinetic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
The Best Summer
Directed by Tamra Davis
Run time: 84 minutes
Date: Saturday, September 19
The Best Summer plunges audiences into the heart of the 1995 Summersault tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, The Amps, and Bikini Kill as they travel across Australia and Southeast Asia. Shot entirely from Tamra Davis’s handheld POV camera, the film moves through backstage hallways, onto tour buses, into hotel rooms, and directly onto the stages themselves, creating an unusually intimate portrait of artists at a formative moment in their lives and careers.
Rediscovered nearly thirty years later, Davis’s raw footage captures not only explosive live performances, but candid conversations, fleeting friendships, and the chaotic energy of life on the road. What began as a personal archive became a time capsule of a disappearing era in alternative music and independent filmmaking. Immersive, spontaneous, and deeply human, The Best Summer invites audiences to experience what it felt like to be there.