Saturday September 28 4PM

Two musical storytellers weave their tales at the September 28 Summer Concerts Series performance.

Marc Douglas Berardo’s songs mine the deep feelings and lessons gleaned from real-life characters and situations. It’s his songs combined with an onstage presence that uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep and sometimes spiritual experience. It’s an adventure that brings to mind James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark, or Steely Dan with a touch of Mark Twain or Hunter S. Thompson for good measure. After thirty years of bars, theaters, house concerts, and festivals as well as a boatload of song awards and national recognition, Berardo has established himself as the real deal.

Hailing from Texas, and on the road for 25 years, Walt Wilkins has made nine solo records, four records with The Mighty Mystiqueros, and one with his wife Tina.  He’s had 100 or more songs recorded by other artists, and traveled a fair part of the world.

Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnic baskets and coolers and join us in this wonderful pristine setting. Pets on leashes are permitted. Music begins at 4pm, gates open at 3pm. Parking is limited, so please arrive early. Gates open one hour before showtime.

The concert is made possible with generous support from the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Division of the Department of Land Preservation, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Thanks also to Blue Ridge Lumber, Humpty Junior’s  (hospitality),
and WRNJ Radio for promotional courtesy. Sound production is by Mountain Ledge Music.

The Ramsaysburg Summer Concerts are presented by The Friends of Ramsaysburg, a group of volunteers who dedicate countless hours to produce each event.

Saturday August 24 4PM

The timeless elegance of classical music weaves a symphony of sophistication and passion, where every note tells a story at the August 24 Summer Concerts Series performance.

The Loni Bach and the Sparta String Quartet is made up of the four section leaders of the New Sussex Symphony. We all go back much farther though! 

Principal cellist Loni Pilshaw Bach recently retired from teaching orchestra 29 years in the Sparta Schools. Principal violist, Laura Schock Lopez was her student from Elementary School through High School.  They later became colleagues in the music department at Sparta High School where Loni was the Orchestra teacher and Laura is the Choir teacher. They co-taught the high school orchestras for many years where they also collaborated the choirs and orchestra in many wonderful performances.

As a student, Emily Gaab Moorhead was the first chair violinist at Sparta High School. She later went on to become a strings teacher in Parsippany where she started a hugely successful strings program. She then joined the New Sussex Symphony as principal second violinist. 

While Emily was a senior in High School, Chryselle Angderson Yang became a student teacher in Sparta and went on to become the Elementary Strings teacher at Helen Morgan School in Sparta. She also leads the New Sussex Symphony as principal violinist under the direction of conductor Jordan Brown.

All of these wonderful connections through music have brought these four musicians together in so many ways. We not only perform together with the New Sussex Symphony but in many other venues.  We are thrilled to be performing this fun program for you today!

Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnic baskets and coolers and join us in this wonderful pristine setting. Pets on leashes are permitted. Music begins at 4pm, gates open at 3pm. Parking is limited, so please arrive early. Gates open one hour before showtime.

The concert is made possible with generous support from the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Division of the Department of Land Preservation, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Thanks also to Blue Ridge Lumber, Humpty Junior’s  (hospitality),
and WRNJ Radio for promotional courtesy. Sound production is by Mountain Ledge Music.

The Ramsaysburg Summer Concerts are presented by The Friends of Ramsaysburg, a group of volunteers who dedicate countless hours to produce each event.

Saturday July 20th 4PM

Infectious rhythms, vibrant instrumentation, and improvisational spirit will fill the air at the July 20 Summer Concerts Series performance.

Formed by tenor saxophonist Vinny Bianchi, La Cuchina!! consists of the most versatile musicians in the Poconos. La Cuchina!! continues to “make people want to dance to jazz again” by providing danceable, percussive beats with soaring and unrelenting instrumental improvisations.

Members of La Cuchina!! have played in the bands of Stevie Wonder, Tito Puente, Gato Barbieri, Whitney Houston, Joe Henderson, Ray Barreto, Frank Sinatra Jr. and the list goes on and on… La Cuchina!! consists of Vinny Bianchi on tenor saxophone, Bill Washer on guitar, Paul Rostock on electric bass, Danny Gonzalez on drums and percussion and Ruben Ariola on congas. The music of La Cuchina!! explodes with happiness! For more, viisit their page on Facebook.

Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnic baskets and coolers and join us in this wonderful pristine setting. Pets on leashes are permitted. Music begins at 4pm, gates open at 3pm. Parking is limited, so please arrive early. Gates open one hour before showtime.

The concert is made possible with generous support from the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Division of the Department of Land Preservation, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Thanks also to Blue Ridge Lumber, Humpty Junior’s  (hospitality),
and WRNJ Radio for promotional courtesy. Sound production is by Mountain Ledge Music.

The Ramsaysburg Summer Concerts are presented by The Friends of Ramsaysburg, a group of volunteers who dedicate countless hours to produce each event.

Saturday June 29th 4PM

The ninth annual Summer Concerts Series opens June 29 with a double-header.

AJ Croix is a genre-crossing singer, songwriter, and guitar picker with a love for music that started when he was a young child. He was exposed to a wide variety of music and artists that helped to mold him. Croix and company effortlessly deliver honest storytelling lyrics with soulful yet harder edged melodies. 

Joe Cirotti Trio fuses their multi-instrumentalist upbringings with a passion for the roots of American folk, jazz, country, and bluegrass. Formed in 2015, the current line-up of Joe Cirotti: guitar, Pete Lister: upright bass, and Timmy Coyle: mandolin and guitar, continues to craft a sound steeped in tradition yet infused with modern twists. They find common musical ground in influences like Doc Watson, Tony Rice, and Garcia/Grisman, but also as diverse as Django Reinhardt, Pink Floyd, and Van Halen. This stirs up a one-of-a-kind blend of Americana, bluegrass, alt-country, and gypsy jazz, and acoustic pop.

The concert is made possible with generous support from the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Division of the Department of Land Preservation, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Thanks also to Blue Ridge Lumber, Humpty Junior’s  (hospitality),
and WRNJ Radio for promotional courtesy. Sound production is by Mountain Ledge Music.

The Ramsaysburg Summer Concerts are presented by The Friends of Ramsaysburg, a group of volunteers who dedicate countless hours to produce each event.

A rock & roll lifer, the British-born singer/songwriter has been carving his path since the 1980s with a raw, soulful voice; a storyteller’s sense of narrative; and the ability to blur the lines between folk, classic pop, and rock.

Since those early days in London, James has ridden the wave of a music industry that’s ebbed, flowed, peaked, and crashed. Maddock has stayed afloat throughout the entire ride, enjoying a brush with commercial success during the late 1990s — including a major-label record deal, a Top 5 AAA radio hit, and a song placement on Dawson’s Creek — before transforming himself into an independent solo artist during the decades that followed. If you’re not familiar, you’ll find Maddock’s large catalog full of great tunes on your favorite streaming outlet. More about James Maddock…

The concert will take place outdoors in the Riverside Amphitheatre. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Picnic tables are available.  

$10 suggested donation.  Gates open at 5 pm, music begins 6 pm.

For directions, check the map on our home page. The property address is 140 Route 46, Delaware, NJ, located at the intersection of Ramseyburg Road and Route 46, east of the village of Delaware. From Interstate Route 80, Exit 4, take Route 46 eastbound approximately 4 miles.

Returning to Ramsaysburg on Sunday July 30th, 2023 at 3pm will be Yarn, an Americana/jam/rock group with a large local following. The Brooklyn and Raleigh based band — which is currently comprised of Blake Christiana, Rod Hohl, bassist Rick Bugel, and drummer Robert Bonhomme — have made their mark, and in dealing with their emotions, scars and circumstances, they find themselves in a position to share those experiences with others who have juggled similar sentiments.

If you expect that a band that calls itself Yarn to, naturally, tend to spin a yarn or two, you’re right! “That’s what we do, we tell stories, live and in the studio, truth and fiction” singer/songwriter Blake Christiana insists. “We don’t always opt for consistency. There’s a different vibe onstage from what comes through in our recordings. There’s a difference in every show as well, you never know what you’re going to get.”

Yarn have never been content to simply ride a wave and see where it takes them. Yarn’s ability to persevere ought to come as no great surprise, especially for a band that spent two years honing their chops during a Monday night residency at the famed Kenny’s Castaway in New York’s Greenwich Village. In effect, it allowed them to rehearse onstage, mostly in front of audiences that often ranged in size from five to a hundred people on any given night. 

Indeed, the accolades piled up quickly along the way. They have landed on the Grammy ballot 4 times, garnered nods from the Americana Music Association, placed top five on both Radio and Records and the AMA album charts, garnered airplay on Sirius FM, iTunes, Pandora, CNN, and CMT, and also accorded the “Download of the Day” from Rolling Stone. Shine the Light On found shared song writing credits with John Oates (the Oates of Hall & Oates fame), and when audiences expressed their admiration, it brought the band a populist following of diehard devotees, popularly known as “the Yarmy.”

Danielia Cotton: Saturday June 17th 

Cotton’s music is a blend of rock, blues, and soul, and her powerful vocals have been compared to those of Janis Joplin and Tina Turner.

It’s telling that after so many years, the Hopewell, N.J. native—who first picked up a guitar at age 12, released her debut album in 2005 and has opened for the likes of Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks and Bon Jovi—is still looking for fresh ways to say hello to audiences. Though she’s constantly evolving as an artist, Cotton’s quick to point out that she’s always managed to remain herself.

“I still stayed true to myself because to me, I had to keep redefining success along the way and decide what it is I truly wanted,” she says. “Did I want adoration or did I want a certain level of artistry and acknowledgement from my peers versus fans? And I keep redefining and answering that question over and over again. I believe I’ve stayed true to who I was in the process, so that’s a deep thing. I went the long route, but I wouldn’t do it any other way. My first entertainment lawyer, Jaimie Roberts, always said ‘if it comes quick, it doesn’t last.’ If it’s a slow build, you’ll get there and you are much more likely to have longevity.”

Gates open 5pm, music begins at 6pm. Raindate Sunday, June 18. Suggested donation $10.