Music scene · Pottsville
Pottsville sits in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region, where polka and rock cover bands play local bars, ethnic festivals fill the calendar, and church choirs and school bands carry most of the music.
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Pottsville sits in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region, where polka and rock cover bands play local bars, ethnic festivals fill the calendar, and church choirs and school bands carry most of the music.
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Pottsville is a small city in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region. Music centers on school bands, church choirs, local rock and polka cover bands, and ethnic festival performances, with Reading and Allentown musicians sometimes driving west for regional gigs.
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