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Conor Oberst To Headline Thursday At NMF ’17
< < Back to conor-oberst-to-headline-thursday-at-nmf17Stuart’s Opera House presents the 13th annual Nelsonville Music Festival (NMF) June 1-4, 2017 at Robbins Crossing on the campus of Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio.
The second round of lineup announcements for NMF17 includes: Conor Oberst (headlining Thursday, June 1), Cloud Nothings, Frazey Ford, Michael Hurley, Tyler Childers, Aldous Harding, Mirah, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Valley Queen, The Easy Leaves, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Wesley Bright & The Honeytones, Adam Remnant, Swarming Branch, Counterfeit Madison, Doc Robinson, Caitlin Kraus, and Blue Moth.
Conor Oberst will headline Thursday, June 1 of this year’s Nelsonville Music Festival. Oberst joined his first band at the age of 13 and has been releasing music since 1993. Over the next two plus decades, he’s released cassette-only recordings, split 7-inches, and a dozen albums of uncommon insight, detail, and political awareness with his band Bright Eyes, under his own name, as a member of Desaparecidos, as leader of the The Mystic Valley Band, and with the Monsters of Folk supergroup. His latest release Ruminations came in October 2016, and a companion piece titled Salutations will be out March 17, will feature all 10 songs from last fall’s album — reworked with full-band arrangements — and seven additional tracks.
Cloud Nothings was founded in a Cleveland basement as the one-man recording project of Dylan Baldi. Since the release of a collection of early recordings in 2010, Cloud Nothings has become a full rock ‘n’ roll band, following that up with a trio of acclaimed albums including the Steve Albini produced Attack On Memory in 2012. They have returned in 2017 with the just released Life Without Sound, and we will welcome them to this year’s NMF.
Many more acts still to be announced!
NMF is a presentation of Stuart’s Opera House, a non-profit historic theater and performing arts center in Nelsonville, OH. Billboard has called Nelsonville Music Festival “one of the best kept secrets of the U.S. music festival circuit”, and in our 13th year NMF continues to gain fans who want a music festival with a more personal experience. Set in the beautiful rolling hills of Southeast Ohio, this intimate festival offers live music from a variety of genres on multiple stages from national, regional, and local acts. Catch live music on multiple stages: NMF features a main stage of course, but also a picturesque Porch Stage, the small No-Fi Cabin featuring artists performing with no electricity, and our free Boxcar Stage with music from an old train car turned into a stage backdrop and mural.
The Nelsonville Music Festival strives to have a positive impact on our community and environment and we are a Zero Waste event, diverting 92 percent of the waste created at the festival from the landfill in 2016 with recycling and composting. All kids 12 and under are free and the festival features a huge kids area with activities all weekend.
The AV Club and Ohio Magazine have named NMF as the “Best Music Festival in Ohio”, and Time Out Chicago has called it “one of the Midwest’s best festivals”. Past performers have included Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Gillian Welch, John Prine, The Avett Brothers, Randy Newman, Merle Haggard, Dinosaur Jr., Iron & Wine, Yo La Tengo, George Jones, Courtney Barnett, and many more.
The 18 new additions join a lineup that already includes Ween, Emmylou Harris, Rodriguez, Parquet Courts, Son Volt, Twin Peaks, Sara Watkins and more. Many more bands still to be announced!
The festival will feature four days of music featuring over 60 bands on multiple stages all weekend long with camping, kids activities, artisan vendors, food, beer garden, and much more.
Weekend passes for all four days are on sale now for $140 (with no fees) and the price will raise from there as we get closer to the festival weekend. Weekend passes for Nelsonville residents and teens are only $70, and kids 12 and under are free. Camping passes and VIP weekend passes to the festival are also on sale now. Tickets and more information can be found nelsonvillefest.org or by calling (740) 753-1924.