Cassadaga, N.Y. The Kokomo Time Band will perform on Lily Dale Assembly’s floating stage on Sunday, Aug. 23, at 5 p.m. The concert is being presented by the Village of Cassadaga and Lily Dale Assembly, and is sponsored, in part, by the Cassadaga Lakes Association. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Kokomo Time Band prides itself on being referred to as the “festive lookin,’ feel good soundin,’ full of fun band.” They are a high-energy band that performs dressed in beachy island attire. Kokomo Time’s music consists of a Trop-Rock Blend of the best of the music of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s’, Cajun-Zydeco Tex-Mex and Calypso Caribbean. Band members consist of Warren Sischo on bass and vocals, Jeff McCheskey on keyboards and vocals, Spencer Drake on bass, guitar and vocals, Brian Bundy on lead guitar and vocals, and band leader Jim Steffan on drums and vocals.

All those attending are sure to have a relaxing and enjoyable evening of great music in a beautiful and peaceful setting. There is no charge for admission; concertgoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets or to come by boat!

Lily Dale’s floating stage was built in the early 1990s and donated to the Lily Dale Assembly by the Lily Dale Fine Arts Council, a group of volunteers who planned and coordinated a summer concert series on the stage for more than a decade. The stage was rebuilt two years ago by Lily Dale Assembly and is anchored in Cassadaga Lake behind Lily Dale’s Leolyn Hotel.

Lily Dale is a Spiritualist community located in Chautauqua County, NY, on the shores of Cassadaga Lake. Lily Dale became renowned for Spiritualism and identified as the center of the Spiritualist movement when the childhood home of its American founders, Kate and Margaret Fox, was moved from Hydesville, NY, to Lily Dale in 1916. This established Lily Dale as the home of Spiritualism in the United States. Today, Lily Dale is a place of pilgrimage for many Spiritualists and others interested in Spiritualism. Each year nearly 30,000 visitors come for classes, workshops, public church services and mediumship demonstrations, lectures, and private appointments with mediums.

The Cassadaga Lakes Association is a non-profit association whose purpose is to protect the public rights, decencies and amenities in and to the Cassadaga Lakes, and their tributary streams; to consider, suggest and adopt administrative, sanitary and legal measures for the cleaning of the Cassadaga Lakes and tributary streams, pursuant to engineering practice and appropriate counsel; to promote the game, fish, boating, beauty, safety and recreational possibilities of the Cassadaga Lakes basin, and; to formulate and secure the passage of the necessary legislative or other measures to achieve these ends.