For the second year in a row the Peach Music Fest will take place at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania this summer. Scheduled to run from August 15 – 18, the first batch of acts set to join headliners the Allman Brothers Band has just been announced.

The Allman Brothers Band will play two nights as will Bob Weir’s RatDog featuring Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane, Robin Sylvester, Rob Wasserman and Jonathan Wilson. Other Peach Music Fest acts include The Black Crowes, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Railroad Earth, Galactic, Rusted Root and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. In addition to his sets with RatDog, Weir will perform a special “Brunch With Bobby” set on Sunday morning. More bands will be announced soon.

A pre-sale for tickets starts on Thursday, February 21st at the event’s website.

One of the particularly cool offerings at this past weekend’s inaugural Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Penn. was a Sunday morning set dubbed “Wake Up With Warren Haynes” featuring the Allman Brothers Band / Gov’t Mule / Warren Haynes Band guitarist.

Haynes took the Peach Stage a little after noon yesterday for a solo, hour-long set in which he mixed covers and originals. Warren was joined by The Blind Boys of Alabama towards the end of his set for versions of Down By The Riverside and Soulshine that brought the performance to a close. YouTuber illmatic3384 captured most of Wake Up With Warren including a stunning take on the Grateful Dead’s China Doll, Haynes’ own Beautifully Broken and Patchwork Quilt as well as the Soulshine finale.

Wake Up With Warren: The Real Thing, Beautifully Broken, Patchwork Quilt, China Doll, I’ll Be The One, Soulshine (w/ Blind Boys of Alabama)

You can also download audio of the entire set over at bt.etree.org.

Following a week-long delay that had us wondering whether the inaugural Peach Music Festival would take place as planned, event organizers have just announced the lineup. Set for Scranton’s Montage Mountain between August 10 – 12, the Allman Brothers Band, who will play twice, will be joined by co-headliner Zac Brown Band and a slew of acts from the jam and bro worlds including O.A.R., Dark Star Orchestra, Railroad Earth, The Wailers and Dumpstaphunk.

Here’s the full lineup…

Allman Brothers Band x2, Zac Brown Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, O.A.R., the Warren Haynes Band, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Railroad Earth, Blackberry Smoke, Dark Star Orchestra, The Wailers, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Blind Boys of Alabama, Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Trigger Hippy, Toubab Krewe, Grimace Federation, Tauk, Cabinet, MiZ

As expected, Allman Brothers Band family acts Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Warren Haynes Band and Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band are also on the bill. Furthermore, promoters have also dipped into the emerging artist tank and came out with MiZ, Cabinet, Tauk and Grimace Federation.

Tickets for the two-stage event go on sale Wednesday, April 4 at noon.

There were two big news stories out of the Allman Brothers Band camp last night as the iconic rockers kicked off their annual March Madness run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City and it was also revealed that the group will team up with Live Nation to throw a three-day music festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania called The Peach Music Festival.

Allman Brothers Band – Come On In My Kitchen

For the first of ten shows at the Beacon, the Allman Brothers Band came out strong by opening with their first live version of the Rodgers/Hammerstein show tune My Favorite Things. A longtime staple of the Derek Trucks Band and a tune the Brothers covered in 1971 as part of the sessions that led to the famed Gatlinburg Tapes, the Allman’s version of My Favorite Things was loosely based on John Coltrane’s cover. From there, the Allmans offered a rare post-Dickey take on Blue Sky sung by Gregg Allman. The rest of the first set focused on covers such as Dr. John’s I Walk On Guilded Splinters and Little Milton’s That’s What Love Will Make You Do and classic ABB compositions Midnight Rider and Kind of Blue. The second set started out with a four song acoustic segment that featured the band’s first-ever cover of Neil Young’s Needle and the Damage Done as well as a take on Come On In My Kitchen that showed off bassist Oteil Burbridge’s banjo skills. Four hard-rocking electric tunes followed the unplugged interlude before You Don’t Love Me served as the first encore of the run.

Set One: My Favorite Things > Blue Sky, Trouble No More, Gilded Splinters, Worried Down With The Blues, Midnight Rider, That’s What Love Will Make You Do, Kind Of Bird

Set Two: Acoustic – Needle and the Damage Done, Come On In My Kitchen, Soulshine, These Days | Electric – Rocking Horse, Black-Hearted Woman, Same Thing, Jessica

Encore: You Don’t Love Me

[via AllmanBrothersBand.com Forums]

The Peach Music Festival will be held in Scranton on August 10 – 12. The full lineup will be announced on Monday, March 26 at Noon ET. Keep your eyes on the event’s website for more details.

UPDATE: Watch Gregg Allman sing Needle and the Damage Done during the Allman Brothers Band’s acoustic segment that kicked off set two of the March Madness opener…

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