Snappin' Bug

Come join Snappin' Bug for this afternoon community event on Saturday May 16th. We will be playing throughout the afternoon from 12-4pm.

Join us this Saturday, May 16 from 12-4 at Gilfillan Farm for Township of Upper St. Clair and Upper St. Clair School District Community Day.

To celebrate Our Local America 250 we will have history of original settlers along with family friendly activities.

Thanks to help from TOSS Pizza And Wings, McMurray Art League, Horses with Hope: Discovery, Growth and Learning Programs, ' Bug, Live Oak Kids , Daughters of the American Revolution National Headquarters, Misty Lane Farms Performance Horses, Upper St. Clair Library, Bethel Cemetery Historical Room and Washington Spinners and Weavers.

Snappin' Bug will be playing and interviewed on Larry Berger's Saturday Light Brigade Saturday May 2nd at 11:15am. You can listen in at https://slbradio.org/on-the-air/. We appreciate Larry's support over the years for our band and for SW PA traditional music. This photo courtesy of Jean Getz.

Thank you Calliope, Pittsburgh and our great community for supporting Snappin Bug's "Straight Fours" CD release this evening. What a super audience, love yinz. The music of Southwest PA survives because of who plays it and who listens - it fuels us all carrying forward the music traditions of where we live.
Photo thanks to Susan Waggoner.

We are looking forward to sharing these great tunes with yinz.

This month our Roots Cellar concert features another local album release! Snappin’ Bug Stringband is celebrating their 7th album, Straight Fours.

Snappin’ Bug Stringband is made up of Pittsburgh old-time icons Mark Tamsula, Richard Withers, and Barbara Rosner. Don’t miss the opportunity to see this group live! Tickets are on sale now at www.calliopehouse.org.

Now streaming live on www.wrct.org, Mando Richard's interview of Snappin' Bug Stringband on "Whiskey Before Breakfast." If you miss it, you can listen again at www.mixcloud.com/mandorichard. Thanks to Richard Gordon, previewing our band prior to our CD release at the Roots Cellar on April 30th (calliopehouse.org)

Snappin' Bug practice session.

Here's Richard Withers and Mark Tamsula's presentation, for the Nashville Old-Time Music Association's 2026 Breaking up Winter. Lecture: "Appalachian Music in SW Pennsylvania"
The Samuel Bayard Collection and the Snappin' Bug Project. March 6, 2026.

2026 BUW SNAPPIN' BUG LECTURE Richard Withers and Mark Tamsula from Pittsburgh, PA, present a lecture on Old Time music from Southwestern Pennsylvania, at the 2026 Breaking Up Winter Fest...