STATE COLLEGE — South Hills School of Business & Technology has announced the line up for this year’s edition of their live music events.

Every Sunday evening from June 7 through Aug. 30, except Arts Fest Sunday, live music will fill the air on Waupelani Drive. Heat up your summer with live music, and family-friendly fun in the beautiful outdoor amphitheater and stage at South Hills School.

The concert grounds open at 5 p.m. when guests are invited to find a picnic table or spread out a blanket on the grassy lawn. Music begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 7:30 p.m. Bathroom facilities and water fountains are available in the school, and lemonade is always available for a penny a glass.

Local artists coming to South Hills for 2026 are:

— Code: Blue on June 7.

— Nittany Knights on June 14.

— Tussey Mountain Moonshiners on June 21.

— Deacons of Dixieland on June 28.

— Bellefonte Community Band on July 5.

— Arts Fest will be held on July 12.

— Triple A Blues Band on July 19.

— Miss Melanie & Groove Society on July 26.

— Keystone Big Band on Aug. 2.

— La Fiesta Band on Aug. 8.

— Jazz on 16 Strings on Aug. 16.

— Porch Party on Aug. 23.

— Zeropoint Big Band on Aug. 30.

For 37 years the South Hills School of Business & Technology’s annual music picnic concert series has been a standard point of destination for local music lovers on Sunday evenings. The 12 concert series features local bands and “penny a glass lemonade” as it continues the tradition of great multi-generational, family friendly, community fun.

The first Music Picnic was held in the summer of 1989, just after the South Hills School of Business and Technology moved into their new home on 480 Waupelani Drive on the southwestern edge of the borough of State College.

Owners Paul and Maralyn Mazza designed the new property with a large grassy backyard to hold various school events. One of the ideas Paul and Marilyn wanted to re-create for the State College community came from memories from the past growing up and raising a family in State College. The community event that touched them in their earlier years and gave them a warm feeling of community during that time in the mid-50s was community sing-a-longs.

A community sing along was the creation of Hum Fishburne and Frank Gallo. These two Penn State professors were great friends and served as chairman of the PSU music department and Director of the PSU glee club and Choral Society respectively. They teamed up to host many community sing-alongs throughout the late 1940s and 1950s at the Schwab Auditorium on the Penn State campus.

Upon completion of their new 25,000 square-foot building in 1989, Paul and Maralyn decided to plan summer events to try to re-create those community, family friendly events that they so fondly remembered from decades before. They decided that their creation would be called a Music Picnic — a free outdoor concert every Sunday evening during the summer where young families and older residents alike could gather, meet and enjoy the music of local musicians.

Thirty seven years later, South Hills School continues to treat the community of State College and its surrounding environs to that same cozy, locally flavored event series live each Sunday evening from the Tom Mazza Memorial Band Shell.