Cedar City will be introduced to a new flavor of music festival June 26th and 27th, one spotlighting local acts and harnessing an atmosphere fit for the whole family. The Summer Jam Music Festival in Cedar City’s Main Street Park will feature more than 20 well-known local bands.

The festival provides an opportunity for the community to come together to enjoy live music and have a great time with family and friends. Live bands will perform Friday and Saturday between 11:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Vendors will provide concessions and fun activities for children. Local sponsors have made generous contributions to help. Local citizens have banded together to create this exciting festival for southern Utah. The festival is free to the public, and all are welcome to pop by and jam.

Western Bone Cleavers will be one of the bands featured on Friday. This three-piece rock band out of  Enterprise is a local favorite. They are self-described “corn-fed country metal mountain men. Genre-crossing song smashers. Classic Americana and good ol’ LOUD AMERICAN ROCK AND ROLL.” They are known for their crazed originals and wildly assorted covers.

                Other Friday acts include: Muddy Boots, Bottled Monkee, Loose Connections, Slim Skinny, The Karyn Whittemore Band, Wood Skin and Steel, Efficiency, Reborn, Halfway Home, and Mad Outlet.

Another locals’ favorite, St. George’s Crippled Stripper, performs Saturday. This hot, four-piece band is filled with familiar faces from the southern Utah music scene. Crippled Stripper is fresh off recording their debut EP, Change the World, which generates a new sound from a classic mold. This rock/blues band is an original offering in this modern age of processed, sound-alike bands.

Saturday also features: The Offering, Mason's Jar of Jam, Neil Bradley Owen, Dave Durfee's. Bi-Polar Expedition, Jared Johnson & the Jackpines, Steven Swift, Jacqui Shields, Bilagaana, Skin & Bones, Apollos Army and cellomania.