Smokestack Lightning

Upcoming gigs!

  • The Friends Benefit Concert returns to the Quaker Meeting House (4836 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh 15213) on Sunday, July 10, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, outside on the back patios. Musicians include Smokestack Lightning, Glass Run Gals, Gregarious Slugs, and the evergreen Raging Grannies. This year’s beneficiary is the Bethel AME Church reparations project. Help us make a joyful noise and raise funds for a good cause. Donation: $25 for reserved seating, $15 for patio standing or BYO lawn seating. Tickets at Eventbrite (enter $25 or $15 x number of people in the Donations window). Patios open at 3:00 – come early for a good seat and fiddle tunes by the Gregarious Slugs band.

  • Coming up: we're doing a benefit for the Center for Coalfield Justice benefit on August 20 in the evening, at the Washington Park Stone Pavilion in Washington PA.


Links

We were the champions, my friends!

Smokestack Lightning WON the City Paper voting for best alt-folk/alt-country band in Pittsburgh! Thanks to everyone for all the support!

And there's some nice recent publicity - an article that appeared in Western Pennsylvania History, the magazine of The Heinz History Center.

Recent gigs

  • Schenley Plaza (7/23/2021), sponsored by Calliope and Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

  • Hazelwood Green Plaza (6/26/2021), as a fundraiser for the Community Kitchen Pittsburgh..

  • Friends Meeting House (1/31/2020)

  • PumpHouse with Mike Stout, (7/11/19)

  • Benefit for Community Kitchen, (3/9/19)

  • Benefit for Bend The Arc at Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church (2/23/19)

  • Saturday Light Brigade, radio appearance (10/27/18)

  • Performance at Grounded "Geared up and Grounded" Party (10/3/18)

  • Benefit for PennFuture at Wigle Whiskey (9/7/18)

  • Smokestack Light (William, Heidi, Dave, Nick and Tom) fundraiser for Pittsburgh for Public Transit at Glitterbox, 5/29/18

  • Smokestack Light (William, Phil, Dave, and Tom) fundraiser for 412 Food Rescue at Point Breezeway, 5/12/18

  • Concert at Roots Cellar (fundraiser for 412 Food Rescue), 2/23/18

  • Benefit Concert at the Friend's Meeting House, 12/1/17

  • Smokestack Light Fundraiser for GTECH, 10/7/17

  • WRJ Area Day on Wage Inequality, 6/11/17

  • Fundraiser for Nine Mile Run Watershed Association at Wigle Whiskey, 6/29/17

  • Smokestack Light with Willie Dodson, Biddle's Escape, 4/7/17

  • Smokestack Light, Acoustic Cafe Open Stage at Mr. Small's, 1/16/17

  • The 2nd Smokey Valentines Show, Biddle's Escape, 2/11/17

  • Pitt Faculty Union Event at the Roots Cellar, 1/13/2017

  • Benefit at Friend's Meeting House, 12/2/16

  • Biddle's Escape, 10/21/16

  • Appeared on the radio! Saturday Light Brigade 10/22/16

  • Stovepipe LIghtning (aka Smokestack Light) at Mellon Park, for the Sierra Club's annual picnic, 8/2/16.

  • Mr. Smalls Funhouse, 7/2/16 (with the Accidental Ramblers).

  • Art All Night 4/23/16.

  • Point Breezeway 4/19/16.

  • Biddle's Escape - Smoky Valentine's show, 2/12/16

  • Benefit Concert at the Friend's Meeting House, 12/4/15

  • Joe Hill Roadshow at the Pumphouse, 10/17/15

  • Biddle's Escape, 10/2/15

  • Squirrel Hill busking, 8/28, 9/11 (9/5 called due to rain)

  • Sierra Club Picnic, 8/16/15

  • DRYerson Festival, 6/27/15

  • Biddle's Escape, 6/5/15

  • Wigle Whiskey (Barrelhouse), 5/30/15

  • Mr. Small's (Freedom From Fracking Benefit), 5/16/15

  • Art All Night, 4/26/15

  • Wigle Whiskey (in the Strip) 3/27/15

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