{"id":243717,"date":"2026-07-15T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:59:17","slug":"rock-the-block-festival-honors-scranton-musicians-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243717\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock the Block Festival honors Scranton musician&#8217;s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock the Block festival at The V-Spot Bar celebrates local musicians&#8217; passion for music with live bands and raffles.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Rock and roll will take center stage next weekend as the Rock the Block music festival takes over\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The V-Spot Bar. \u00a0Rock the Block is presented by Rock to Remember, which is a nonprofit started in memory of Tony Berardelli of Scranton. Tony was a musician and loved rock and roll. \u00a0He died last year from brain tumors. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rock the Block celebrates Tony\u2019s love of music with three different bands throughout the day. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There will be basket raffles, a 50\/50 drawing, food and drinks. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rock the Block is Saturday, July 18 from 1-8pm at The V-Spot Bar on Providence Road in Scranton. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. \u00a0Proceeds go towards brain cancer research, families battling brain tumors and providing scholarships for students pursuing music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information, check out their <a href=\"https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/02gbba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock the Block festival at The V-Spot Bar celebrates local musicians&#8217; passion for music with live bands and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-243717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}