(File Photo: Source for Photo: A view of the scene Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, as the cleanup continues at the site of of a Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that happened on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Rochester, PA) Rochester Riverfront Park in Rochester will be the location of a concert on October 4th, 2025 to benefit those that were affected by and displaced from the train derailment that occurred in East Palestine on February 3rd, 2023. The concert is called “Back on Track: A Concert for Our Neighbors,” and both the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community and the mutual aid group Food & Water Watch Pennsylvania are partnering up to present this concert. Mike Stout is a musician, a former steelworker and a labor activist from the Pittsburgh area who formed Ohio Valley Derailment Mutual Aid earlier in 2025. Performers for this concert include David Granati of the Granati Brothers, a guitarist from the Pittsburgh area, an alumnus of “The Voice,” Tarra Layne, a funk band called Mean Blue Planets and Reuben’s Painted Mandolin, a Jerry Garcia Band tribute group. Tickets are worth $20 at the gate and $5 is the cost for tickets for children under thirteen years old. In advance of the concert, tickets are only $15. You can purchase tickets for this concert at the link below: