{"id":305401,"date":"2026-05-08T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305401\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:55:08","slug":"sixth-annual-fresno-tower-district-porchfest-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305401\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Annual Fresno Tower District Porchfest \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were plenty of houses participating and it felt like each house had a different genre of music. Fresno showed out on Saturday, April 25 for the sixth annual Tower Porchfest in the Tower District. The event started at 10 a.m. and lasted until 9 p.m.,<\/p>\n<p>There were many genres of music being played, the vendors seemed to be plentiful as well. Even with the chance of rain, there were still plenty of people making their way around.<\/p>\n<p>It felt as if there were people taking up the entire street which is how crowded it was. Every attendee and performer seemed to be in great spirits even with the impending weather.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2531483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image4-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  \/>Photo of attendees gathering around each other at Porchfest on North Echo Avenue on April 25. (Photo by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/staff_profile\/donovan-j-rivas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan J. Rivas<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Not only were the performers that were at the event extremely talented, but they also wanted to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater Baptized, formed in 2021 was one of the many bands that played at the event. They also just released an album called \u201cSound of Your Soul\u201d on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Marinus from Bluestown Music had this to say on a 2023 review of Blackwater Baptized\u2019s album, \u201cThe sound of Blackwater Baptized can be described as extremely relaxed, with the blues primarily audible in Jeremy Logan\u2019s guitar playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marinus also later describes Logan\u2019s guitar playing as \u201cJimi Hendrix-esque.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the same article the band name is \u201ca tribute to God, family, and growing up in the South of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Blackwater Baptized played at Tower Porchfest, they played a thrilling set with amazing sounding vocals and sound.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2531485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image1-3-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  \/>Photo of the band Blackwater Baptized (from left to right) Jeremy Logan (vocals, guitar) Shawn Van Wyhe (drums) and Greg Fernandez (bass) playing a set at Tower Porchfest on April 25. (Photo by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/staff_profile\/donovan-j-rivas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan J. Rivas<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The second band was \u201cBill Reiland Trio,\u201d a cover band. They too, like Blackwater Baptized, played a thrilling set which kept the audience entertained in the performance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bill Reiland Trio band website \u201cFrom Sinatra to Swift, Bill Reiland delivers high-impact live music that keeps rooms engaged from the first song to the last\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2531486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image3-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  \/>Photo of \u201cPorchfest!\u201d written out in chalk on April 25. (Photo by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/staff_profile\/donovan-j-rivas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan J. Rivas<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were plenty of houses participating and it felt like each house had a different genre of music.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-305401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}