Ithaca Bike Bar Band with Richie Stearns

03/15/2026

Old Time music at Elk Creek Cafe, featuring Joe Hayward, Pete Thompson, Richie Stearns, and Sam Schmidt.

Elk Creek Cafe

Millheim, PA

From the Elk Creek website: "Join us for an Old Time Tompkins County Dance Party with Old Friend Richie Stearns and the Ithaca Bike Bar Band!! Old Time Tompkins Dance Party with Old Friend Richie Stearns and the Ithaca Bike Bar Band!! featuring Joe Hayward, bass. Sam Schmidt, fiddle. Pete Thompson, guitar. Clawhammer master Richie Stearns leads a monthly Old Time Music Jam at Ithaca’s vaunted Bike Bar, and he is bringing the band south to get Millheim cranked up: 'These are some of the super talented new generation of old time musicians to come outta Ithaca, I love to surround myself with their enthusiastic energy, it keeps me going. These guys do it for me and they’ll do it for you'. – Stearns Join us for a Sunday Stringband Jam, Straight Outta Tompkins!!"