{"id":246910,"date":"2026-07-18T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246910\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:23:21","slug":"rock-the-block-festival-honors-late-scranton-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246910\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock the Block festival honors late Scranton musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rock the Block music festival is taking center stage at the V-Spot Bar along Providence Road in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Lackawanna County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event is presented by &#8220;Rock to Remember,&#8221; a non-profit started in the memory of Tony Beradelli of Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tony was a musician and loved rock &#8216;n roll; he died last year from brain tumors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tonight features raffles, drinks, and a lineup of music that&#8217;s being played in his honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My heart is so full. We&#8217;ve done 7 months of planning for this, and I knew that it was gonna be a big deal getting everybody together, and now that I&#8217;m here, I&#8217;m just like at ease. I feel like he&#8217;s right here with me, and we&#8217;re just really excited to have an awesome day,&#8221; said Founder of Rock to Remember, Krista Berardelli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday&#8217;s event in Scranton will run until 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Proceeds will go towards brain cancer research and scholarships for students pursuing music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock the Block music festival is taking center stage at the V-Spot Bar along Providence Road in Lackawanna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[105639,105638,178,180,179,105637],"class_list":["post-246910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-brain-tumors","tag-rock-the-block","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-tony-beradelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910","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=246910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}