CLEARFIELD – Saturday night’s music at the Clearfield Riverfront Festival will feature some of the youngest performers to ever take part in the event’s entertainment lineup.
Zach Wood of Clearfield and Cole Navasky of Philipsburg will share the stage with “Serious Jones,” whose show begins at 8 p.m.
Zach’s dad, Dennis Wood, is the band’s frontman, and he said that being able to play music with the talented youths is definitely a good thing.
“It’s fantastic,” Wood said. “I can’t believe they have the skills to play music like that at such a young age.”
Cole’s dad, Chuck Navasky – of One Less Tear and the Navasky Foundation for Cancer Research – said of his son: “He’s just incredible.”
Cole has only been playing guitar four about a year, and Navasky said that in that time, his son is able to play things that he couldn’t play himself until he was 19 years old.
Zach, on the other hand, has been playing drums since he was just 3.
Saturday will mark the first time the two boys have played in public together, but neither is a rookie when it comes to live performance.
Zach has played at the Riverfront Festival with his dad’s band for the past two years, and Cole has sat in with Smokin’ Joe and the Wildhorse Band and even played music with his dad and Kevin Sharp at Country Jamin’ the Valley Memorial Day weekend.
Navasky said he has been on stage to play with and play for legends, but he said, “Nothing beats having your son on stage with you.”
Wood said the Riverfront Festival is a perfect place for the two boys to play, and they might even have their own band in the near future.
“We’re in the process of forming a kids’ band,” Navasky said.
Both Wood and Navasky couldn’t be more proud of their sons.
“I think before long that they’ll be playing their own shows,” Wood said.
“Serious Jones” plays at 8 p.m. Saturday.