{"id":296484,"date":"2026-09-29T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296484\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:00:30","slug":"eries-porchfest-brings-neighbors-together-through-music-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296484\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie\u2019s Porchfest brings neighbors together through music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Music filled Erie&#8217;s West Bayfront on Saturday as PorchFest returned for its seventh year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">34 bands performed throughout the neighborhood, turning front porches and yards into stages for the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Newsmaker: Chuck Nelson talks PorchFest;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.yourerie.com\/on-our-air\/newsmaker\/newsmaker-chuck-nelson-talks-porchfest\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Newsmaker: Chuck Nelson talks PorchFest\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Musicians played at homes across the West Bayfront, giving people the chance to walk from block to block and hear a variety of live music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers said the event started during COVID as a way to get people together and enjoy their time, and it&#8217;s only grown from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about the community, it&#8217;s about the people. So it&#8217;s great chance for us people to get together, get to know your neighbor and to be able to ride hospitality, cause that&#8217;s showing love for your neighbor,&#8221; said Chuck Nelson, event organizer for PorchFest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The music continued into the evening, wrapping up another year of PorchFest in Erie&#8217;s West Bayfront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;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.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music filled Erie&#8217;s West Bayfront on Saturday as PorchFest returned for its seventh year. 34 bands performed throughout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16777,136,138,137,120049,120087],"class_list":["post-296484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-chuck-nelson","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-porchfest","tag-west-bayfront"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296484","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=296484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}