An area casino has announced it will hold an outdoor music festival this summer.
Mount Airy Casino’s outdoor stage summer series, which booked by Stroudsburg’s Sherman Theater, will offer Beers, Burgers, & Badfish, a summer festival on July 26, it has announced.
The festival will feature eight bands starting at 4 p.m., with the headliner being Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, according to the casino’s website.
Tickets, at $20, are on sale now at www.shermantheater.com, www.ticketmaster.com and 800-745-3000. Tickets will be $25 on the day of the festival.
The show is the fourth for the annual series, with performances are on an outdoor stage erected aside of the casino at 312 Woodland Road, Mount Pocono.
Country music star Trace Adkins will perform at 8 p.m. June 6, jam band moe., which is celebrating 25 years as a band, on July 18, and a cappella troupe Straight No Chaser at 8 p.m. July 20.
In addition to the bands, the festival will feature beer on ice and food on the barbecue, according to the website.
“This is what a summer concert is all about,” the website says.
Sublime, a ska punk and reggae rock band from southern California, had the hits “What I Got,” which hit No. 1 on the Modern Rock chart in 1996; and “Santaria” and “Wrong Way,” both of which hit No. 3 in 1997.
The group’s 1992 debut “40 oz. to Freedom,” sold double platinum, and its self-titled third album in 1996 sold 5 million copies.
But lead singer Bradley Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996 and the group disbanded for more than a dozen years before reforming with new lead singer Rome Ramirez in 2009.
Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, from Providence, R.I., has toured since 2001.