This is a FREE event, but please RSVP below. Bring cash for the silent auction and to donate to the event!
Elias Center Community Picnic and Concert:
Join us for a community picnic at the Elias Center with a listening-room show from Dustin Dale Gaspard & Tanner Bingaman to follow. Arrive anytime between 4pm and 6pm for free food, drinks, dessert, and a silent auction. Feel free to bring a lawn chair if you would like to chill outside! Music starts at 6pm inside the Elias Center. This is a seated, listening-room show.
About the performers:
Since meeting in 2023, Dustin Dale Gaspard & Tanner Bingaman have traveled over 50k miles together to play shows from Montreal to Vancouver Island, New Orleans to Los Angeles, and Mifflinburg to Cow Island. They have shared stages from Jazz Fest and Festival Internationale to back yards and living rooms. In both 2025 and 2026, they toured listening rooms across Alberta and British Columbia through the Home Routes/ Chemin Chez Nous program, sharing their songs and stories for rural communities all over Western Canada.
DUSTIN DALE GASPARD dustingaspardmusic.com
Dustin Dale Gaspard is a bilingual Cajun Roots/Blues folk singer-songwriter dedicated to preserving and expanding his cultural heritage through music. A three-time Grammy- considered artist, he has built a reputation as a passionate, touring performer, presenting hundreds of shows and multiple studio releases. His work blends Cajun French and English lyrics with influences from Blues, Americana, and Louisiana’s Swamp Pop tradition, often telling deeply personal and historical stories—such as those from his Acadian ancestry, including his grandmother’s journey to Louisiana.
In 2025 and 2026, Gaspard toured extensively across the northwestern U.S. and Canada with collaborator Tanner Bingaman, delivering intimate, sold-out performances that highlighted his cultural roots and original music. He recently national attention as the first self-represented Cajun artist to appear on NBC’s The Voice, where he performed in Cajun French and earned a four-chair turn. Known for his authenticity and storytelling, Gaspard continues to champion his heritage while evolving Cajun music for new audiences. He is currently working on two new albums of bilingual music.
Tanner Bingaman tannerbingaman.com
Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (banjo, guitar, harmonica), poet, educator, and visual artist Tanner Bingaman spends his days foraging writhing folk art from the hills of Appalachia. He performs and produces original and traditional mountain music under the moniker Tanner Bingaman's Pretty Big Garden. Tanner spent nearly a decade working largely alone as a farmhand in rural Pennsylvania before hitting the road full time. He has since toured all over the U.S. and Canada, sharing his songs and stories from international festival stages to living rooms alike. Tanner prefers barefoot walking and once saved the family dog from a rattlesnake.
“Mifflinburg, PA's finest export.” — Tyrus ‘Heelers’ Watson (producer)
“I’m constantly drawn in by the honesty, humor, impressive musicianship, and disarmingly unique songwriting that runs through the core of a Tanner Bingaman performance.” — Peter Winer Lee (Executive Director of Susquehanna Folk Music Society)
“Bingaman has carved out a niche as a songwriter’s songwriter within the DIY folk circuit. His work consistently challenges the boundaries of the genre, inviting listeners to step into a world where the pastoral meets the psychedelic. Tanner Bingaman's Pretty Big Garden remains a testament to the power of independent, earth-bound art—a place where every song is an invitation to get lost in the weeds and find something beautiful.” — Ron & Teresa Kodish (promoters and founders of Smoked Country Jam Festival)
