Rock 4 Child Hunger: An Evening with Dogs In a Pile

A great night for a great cause! Rock 4 Child Hunger is a benefit for the Cambria County Backpack Project, which provides weekend meals for food-insecure children. Dogs in a Pile will play a 2-set show, with special guest Kyle Greene Band!

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Schedule for the evening is as follows:

5:00 pm: doors

6:00-7:00 pm: Kyle Greene Band

7:30 pm: Apple drop raffle

8:00 pm: Dogs in a Pile (2 sets)

Tickets are $20/advance, or $25 at the door.

The event will also feature: Silent Auction, Apple Drop Contest, Apple Bar, Kids Zone, Premier Food Trucks, and Local Vendor Booths—all bringing families and neighbors together for one purpose: ensuring local children have reliable weekend meals. The Cambria County Backpack Project currently feeds over 800 children every week, a 63% increase from last year. Families are struggling with higher food prices, SNAP changes, and unexpected hardships. It costs $300 to feed one child for an entire school year, and 100% of concert proceeds go directly toward food, packing, and distribution to meet this growing demand.

About the bands:

Dogs in a Pile: Something organic has been blooming from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and is now making its way around the world. Dogs In A Pile, a band of five twenty somethings with old souls and limitless chops, is waking people up to the timeless and ineffable joys of psychedelic-tinged jazz-funk rock n’ roll.

This is one of the busiest touring bands of today, averaging 130 live shows per year since 2022. The road has become their creative engine, generating a rapidly growing catalog of original tunes. Distroid, the band’s newest album, is a 10-song collection featuring long-awaited studio versions of some of the Dogs’ most beloved repertoire.

Dogs In A Pile is guitarist Jimmy Law, guitarist Brian Murray, keyboardist Jeremy Kaplan, bassist Sam Lucid, and drummer Joe Babick. In addition, the Dogs In A Pile community includes the Dog Pound, the group’s extended family of fans across the country.

Besides being a lyric from the Grateful Dead song, “He’s Gone,” the name “Dogs In A Pile” is an apt description of the five-piece band’s stylistic breadth. The sonic image it conjures is a heap of storyteller Americana, bluegrass, jazz improvisation, eccentric instrumental excursions, pop-rock sophistication, and deep-pocket grooves, ranging from funk to Latin to reggae and beyond.

Distroid features material that has already become staples of the band’s live show. These studio renditions have afforded the group a chance to present the compositions just how they envision them. Distroid offers a cross-section of the Dogs In A Pile essence, tight and tuneful four-minute funk and jazz informed psych-rock songs, and then sprawling 15-minute compositions with intricate unison lines, agile genre-jumping, and dazzling improvisation.