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The Arena Bar & Grill is hosting\u00a0Battle of the Bands<\/b> once again! This is a perfect chance to come out and showcase your band’s musical abilities while competing against other bands from the area!<\/p>\n
The competition will consist of\u00a05 individual weeks of competition – March 2<\/b>, March 9<\/strong>, March 23,\u00a0March 30<\/strong>\u00a0and April 6<\/strong>. Competition will start at 8pm<\/strong>. Bands will be judged on musicianship, visual presentation, professionalism, audience response, overall entertainment value by a panel of judges, as well as each audience member will receive a ballot to vote for their favorite band of the night.<\/p>\n The winner from each week will advance on to the finale which is held on Saturday, April\u00a014\u00a0at 7pm<\/strong>.\u00a0There will be cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place along with the 1st place band receiving a booked gig at the Arena on a Friday or Saturday.<\/p>\n Spots are first come first serve so sign up today<\/a>! \u00a0Click here for rules and regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8pm The Roof<\/strong> (State College) 8 pm\u00a0\u00a0From Down The Road<\/strong> 8 pm PennSoulvania<\/strong> 8 pm\u00a0Psycho Prophecy<\/strong> 8 pm Blind Choice<\/strong> 7 pm Rest In Peace<\/strong> (Bedford, PA) The Arena Bar & Grill is hosting\u00a0Battle of the Bands once again! This is a perfect chance to come out and showcase your band’s musical abilities while competing against other bands from the area! The competition will consist of\u00a05 individual weeks of competition – March 2, March 9, March 23,\u00a0March 30\u00a0and April 6. Competition will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearenabarandgrill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Friday, March\u00a02<\/h3>\n
\n9pm Rest in Peace<\/strong> (Bedford)
\n10pm E.N.D.<\/strong> (Houtzdale)
\n11pm Centralia PA<\/strong> (State College)<\/p>\nFriday, March 9<\/h3>\n
\n9 pm\u00a0\u00a0Forsaken By Society<\/strong>
\n10 pm\u00a0\u00a0Traverse\u00a0the Abyss<\/strong>
\n11 pm\u00a0\u00a0Dilemma\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday, March 23<\/h3>\n
\n9 pm\u00a0\u00a0IC.a.Nikki<\/strong>
\n10 pm\u00a0\u00a0Fyre<\/strong>
\n11 pm\u00a0\u00a0Maul<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday, March 30<\/h3>\n
\n9 pm\u00a086 Bullets<\/strong>
\n10 pm\u00a0Deadside<\/strong>
\n11 pm\u00a0Crooked Line<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday, April 6<\/h3>\n
\n9 pm The Noise Upstairs<\/strong>
\n10 pm Making State<\/strong>
\n11 pm TBD<\/strong><\/p>\nFinale – Saturday, April 14<\/h3>\n
\n8 pm Traverse the Abyss<\/strong> (Scranton, PA)
\n9 pm Making State<\/strong> (State College, PA)
\n10 pm Fyre<\/strong> (Altoona, PA)
\n11 pm 86 Bullets<\/strong> (Baltimore, MD)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"