Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Andy Frasco & The U.N. & Dogs In A Pile Honor Ozzy Osbourne At Flood City Music Festival

Watch the former tourmates cover Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

By Scott Bernstein Jul 29, 2025 12:27 pm PDT

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong closed out the main stage action on Friday at the first day of the Flood City Music Festival with a guest-filled set. The bird band then recruited former tourmates and fellow festival performers Andy Frasco & The U.N. and Dogs In A Pile for a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne as their encore at Peoples Natural Gas Park in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

PPPP — who just announced a two-night stand at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York featuring support from Spafford on December 19 and Great Blue on December 20 — delivered a two-hour performance at the Flood City Music Festival. Jennifer Hartswick, the two-day event’s Artist-at-Large, came out midway through the main set to add trumpet to “Avalanche.” The Baltimore-based quartet then welcomed Dogs In A Pile keyboardist Jeremy Kaplan for the subsequent “Overtime.”

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“Overtime” launched a seamless conclusion to the set that continued sans guests with “Horizon,” “Spacejam” and “The Hop.” Hartswick returned along with The U.N. saxophonist Sam Kelly to join Pigeons on “F.U.” The band and their guests fit a cover of Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved” sung by Hartswick into the set-closing “F.U.”

For the encore, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Dogs In A Pile and Andy Frasco & The U.N. loaded the stage to honor Ozzy Osbourne with a cover of Black Sabbath's “War Pigs.” The performance came four days after Osbourne died at age 76.

Black Sabbath originally released “War Pigs” on their sophomore studio album, 1970’s Paranoid. PPPP frontman Greg Ormont, Andy Frasco and U.N. guitarist Shawn Eckels shared vocal duties in channeling Osbourne throughout the 13-minute cover. The lengthy “War Pigs” was a shred-heavy affair with Eckels, PPPP’s Jeremy Schon and DIAP’s Brian Murray and Jimmy Law trading licks.

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Earlier in the night, Pigeons worked their “Henrietta” opener into “Whirled.” The four-piece then performed “Feed The Fire,” the title track of their forthcoming studio album, which is set for release on October 3 via No Coincidence Records. From there, oldie “Somethin’ For Ya” was paired with “My Own Way” before “Right Track” bled into the “Avalanche” with Hartswick that started the string of guest appearances.

Pre-sale tickets for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong’s return to The Capitol Theatre are currently available using THECAP as the password. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 1 at 10 a.m. ET.

Setlist (via PPPP Instagram)

Set: Henrietta > Whirled, Feed The Fire, Somethin’ For Ya > My Own Way, Right Track > Avalanche*, Overtime^ > Horizon > Spacejam > The Hop > F.U.*~ > Could You Be Loved*~+ > F.U.*~

Encore: War Pigs=

Notes:

  • * w/ Jennifer Hartswick on trumpet
  • ^ w/ Jeremy Kaplan (Dogs In A Pile) on keys
  • ~ w/ Sam Kelly (Andy Frasco & The U.N.) on saxophone
  • + w/ Jennifer Hartswick on vocals
  • = w/ Andy Frasco & The U.N. and Dogs In A Pile

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