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Penn's Peak

Four more concerts were added to Penn's Peak line-up for 2014.

They are:• Sunday, May 4 - The Winery Dogs, 8 p.m. Tickets $22 advance and $27 day of concert.• Sunday, May 18 - Paul Barrere and Fred Tacket of Little Feat with special guest, The New Orleans Suspects, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20 advance and $25 at door.• Friday, June 13 - Live Wire, The World's ULTIMATE AC/DC Concert Experience, with special guest, Exciter, Judas Priest Tribute, 8 p.m. Tickets $17 advance and $22 day of show.• Friday, Sept. 5 - Winter and Firehouse, 8 p.m., Tockets $24 advance and $29 day of show.Meanwhile, coming up at Penn's Peak is the Pink Floyd Experience at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 1This is a return appearance by Pink Floyd Experience and you can be assured there will be a large crowd on hand, as there were at all their previous visits.Tickets for this concert are just $30 and $35.This is the first appearance at Penn's Peak for Winery Dogs and Winter.It would be easy to call The Winery Dogs a supergroup: Vocalist and guitarist Richie Kotzen made his mark with Poison and Mr. Big, bassist Billy Sheehan has been rocking for decades with Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big and others, and drummer Mike Portnoy was the co-founder of progressive metal superstars Dream Theater. But The Winery Dogs are so much more than a supergroup.The seeds of The Winery Dogs were planted in 2011 when Sheehan and Portnoy were working on music together with a different guitarist and songwriter. When that didn't gel, a mutual friend, "That Metal Show" host and consummate music fan, Eddie Trunk, suggested they contact Kotzen and see if he was interested in forming a band.The musicians got together in Kotzen's rehearsal studio in January 2012 and the first day they jammed, they wrote three songs, including the album tracks "One More Time," and "Six Feet Deeper." A month later, they reconvened and wrote five more tunes. From there, it was just a matter of fulfilling other musical obligations before they could get together and start recording the album. "At that point we were all gung-ho into it," Portnoy says. "That summer we got together and we began recording in August 2012. That's when the bulk of the recording was done as well as the writing of the remaining six tracks. We reconvened in December to finish the vocals and the last touches of overdubbing and mixed it in January 2013."In other Penn's Peak news, the concert by the band Heart, scheduled March 31, has been sold out.