A daylong concert in Aspinwall, hosted on four private porches, hit the right chord.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe weather was beautiful, the bands were great and hundreds of people were there throughout,\u201d Organizer Tripp Clarke said of the inaugural PorchFest.<\/p>\n
The best part?<\/p>\n
Though the event was free, donations topped $2,000 \u2014 enough to fund the Aspinwall Neighbors soup delivery<\/a> program for the next year.<\/p>\n The advocacy group runs the food delivery typically only in the cold weather months but could be able to expand the timeframe based on donations.<\/p>\n Proceeds will cover the upcoming season of soup delivery, providing soup, bread and volunteer-baked cookies. It helps senior citizens \u2014 or anyone who has had a recent loss, illness or surgery \u2014 stay connected with their neighbors, Karin Asher said of the deliveries.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are excited to explore some possible expansions to the soup delivery program to allow us to reach additional neighbors, additional months throughout the year and a possible return to having volunteers prepare our soup some months,\u201d said Asher, a volunteer with the Neighbors group.<\/p>\n Currently, volunteers deliver one quart of soup a month, at no cost once, to those who request it.<\/p>\n PorchFest was held Aug. 29 to celebrate national Play<\/a> Music on the Porch <\/a>Day<\/a>. The event consisted of four bands on four porches in the 200 block of Western Avenue.<\/p>\n Musicians included Boxcar Skyline, Grimace, Normal City and Jeff Schmutz of Good Brother Earl.<\/p>\n Play Music on the Porch Day, founded in 2014 as an idea to illustrate the power of song, has grown to include musicians in more than 70 countries.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was such an incredible community event,\u201d Asher said.<\/p>\n \u201cMany people don\u2019t know that our soup delivery program is entirely donation-funded and volunteer-run, so this event was an amazing way to kick off our season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A daylong concert in Aspinwall, hosted on four private porches, hit the right chord. \u201cThe weather was beautiful,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-300752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300752","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=300752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}