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Nashville’s Hardest Working Husband-Wife Duo Headed to The Plains
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Coming just a couple of months off of a tour with none other than the Dixie Chicks, Nashville’s eclectic and hard-grinding husband-wife musical duo Smooth Hound Smith are headed to perform Friday, September 8 at the Eclipse Company Store and Craft Beer Hall. WOUB’s Emily Votaw had the chance to chat with Zack Smith, one half… Read More
19th Annual Pawpaw Festival Slated for Sept. 15-17
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September 15-17 will mark the 19th annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival on the banks of Lake Snowden – an event that has come to be characterized by community, eclectic pawpaw dishes, local food and art, and lots of live music. “Last year went pretty well, even though we did get some rain,” said organizer and festival… Read More
Zanesville Community Theatre Opening ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Sept. 8
The Zanesville Community Theatre will be opening its 55th season this coming weekend with the drama Sherlock Holmes, based on the perennially popular stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 8, 9, 15, and 16 at 8 p.m. There will also be two Sunday matinees on September… Read More
Ariel Opera House Announces Upcoming Fall/Winter Events
The historic Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre, nestled in beautiful Gallipolis and alongside the lonesome bank of the Ohio River, has announced some of the exciting events that they will be hosting starting in September and through April 2018. Check them out below!
September Brings Music, Comedy, and Film to Peoples Bank Theatre
This September, the historic Peoples Bank Theatre in downtown Marietta celebrates the end of summer with songs from Broadway, welcomes Marietta College families with comedian and magician Michael Kent, and screens the 20th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. On September 16 at 8 p.m., Peoples Bank Theatre presents “Broadway Songs of a Summer Night.” Mid-Ohio Valley singers Su Voycik-Meredith,… Read More
Athens Harvest Festival Returns for Second Year at Lake Snowden
September 1-3 the Athens Harvest Festival and Bluegrass Jamboree will return to Lake Snowden with a celebration complete with oodles of free music and even some breathtaking fireworks Sunday night. The event, which aims to highlight regional farmers, eateries, and Appalachian culture as a whole, will be headlined by acclaimed “new grass” act Blue Moon… Read More
Stuart’s Summer Wine Express Set for August 26
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio presents the Summer Wine Express on the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway on Saturday, August 26 at 7 p.m.! Enjoy some wine and cheese and other treats while taking a ride through the Hocking Valley. All proceeds benefit Stuart’s Opera House. The coach car is a renovated historic train car… Read More
Stuart’s Taking Part in VIVO Chamber Festival August 25-26
Stuart’s Opera House will be supporting two events presented by musicians from the VIVO Chamber Festival. VIVO Music Festival is a Columbus based classical music festival dedicated to presenting a vital and singular musical experience for our home community in the form of a weeklong annual music festival. They are expanding this year to present… Read More
Annual Athens Community Music Festival August 19
Saturday, August 19 marks the annual Athens Community Music Festival (ACMF), which this year serves as a fundraiser for Stuart’s Opera House After School Music Program, ARTS/West, Athens Rock Camp for Girls, The Gathering Place, and the Bryan Winland Memorial Arts & Music Scholarship. “It is a great opportunity for our community celebrate the local music… Read More
Celebrate Quirk of Cosmic Geometry at Serpent Mound
By: Emily Votaw
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Strikingly little is known about the origins of the many prehistoric earthworks in Southeastern Ohio. Perhaps you remember learning about them in the fourth grade during your Ohio History class – odd depictions of animals and patterns rendered in thousands of pounds of soil – presented to you with the caviat that their beginnings are… Read More
The Dairy Barn Arts Center to Host Grand Re-opening August 24
The Dairy Barn Arts Center invites the community to attend our Grand Re-opening on Thursday, August 24 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The evening will include tours and guided activities throughout the new spaces in the Barn, music, a cash bar, and hors d’oeuvre. Remarks will be given at 4pm. The Grand Re-opening is… Read More
Fiddlers Headed to Stuart’s for August 18 Fiddling Contest
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio hosts the Ohio State Fiddling Contest on Friday, August 18 at 6 p.m. as part of Nelsonville’s Parade of the Hills. Join us for one of the premier fiddling events in Ohio! Whether you’re a fiddler, or someone who enjoys fiddling, this contest offers something for you. Held in… Read More
Special Arnett Howard Trio Performance To Benefit LancasterChorale
The Board of Directors of LancasterChorale, Central Ohio’s Premiere Professional Chamber Choir, will present a fundraiser performance, “An Afternoon with the Arnett Howard Trio to Benefit LancasterChorale,” on Sunday, August 27 at the Wetland Barn Preserve. The performance features Arnett Howard, whose musicianship and energy have made him one of Central Ohio’s best-known entertainers. Howard’s… Read More
Valley Queen to Play Free Show in New Stuart’s Lobby August 19
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio presents a FREE evening of music in our brand new lobby with Nelsonville Music Festival alumni Valley Queen on Saturday, August 19 at 8 p.m. Valley Queen front woman Natalie Carol leads a band reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac and My Morning Jacket with vocals evocative of Florence Welch. Neil… Read More
An Evening with Los Lobos at Stuart’s Opera House August 20
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio presents An Evening with Los Lobos on Sunday, August 20 at 7 p.m. Back in 2003, Rolling Stone summed up Los Lobos’ distinctive, diverse, freewheeling fusion of rock, blues, soul and Mexican folk music: “This is what happens when five guys create a magical sound, then stick together…to see… Read More
Monstrous Visual Art Show at Majestic Galleries Opening August 25
MONSTER – Artist Invitational will open at Nelsonville’s Majestic Galleries on August 25 and will be on display through September 23. Something monstrous captivates human attention. Monster definitions ranges from; an animal of strange or terrifying shape; a person who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior; a large super built truck; to a person who treats another… Read More
Glorious Hodgepodge of Metal and Punk Headed to Casa August 11-12
By: Emily Votaw
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Punk rock and metal might be two of the most diverse popular genres of music – from Norwegian black metal to crust punk to speed metal to grindcore to neoclassical metal, you’re not going to find a much wider array of sounds and accompanying social scenes in almost any other musical subcultures. August 11 and… Read More
Breaking It Down With Wesley Bright
By: Emily Votaw
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Wesley Bright has been singing since he was a kid in church — and even though he’s now a rapidly rising star in the world of what could be called “nuevo retro music,” not so much has changed outside of that. He confesses that even though he is the least academically schooled in the technical… Read More
Annual Night With the Legends at Stuart’s August 5
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville will host an amazing evening of entertainment with A Night With the Legends on Saturday, August 5 at 7 p.m. Organized by Alex Couladis, the show features local talent playing tribute to some of music’s biggest stars with performances on the Stuart’s stage, all to raise money for Stuart’s Opera… Read More
August Quilt National Workshops Are to Dye For
In celebration of the 20th biennial of Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center will be hosting our second Quilt National workshop series in our new fiber arts studio. The second series of workshops ‘The Process’ will run August 23-26 and feature Quilt National artist Daren Redman, multimedia visual artist Barbara Ery and local quilt… Read More
Stuart’s Opera House to Welcome Graham Nash August 2
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio presents An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories with Graham Nash on Wednesday, August 2 at 7:30 p.m. The original classic union of Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young) lasted but 20 months. Yet their songs are lightning rods embedded in our DNA, starting with Nash’s “Marrakesh Express,” “Pre-Road… Read More
Putting Paradise Onto a Parking Lot
By: Emily Votaw
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It’s a muggy Sunday afternoon in Parkersburg – the humidity is high and the sky oscillates between a crystalline blueness and a dull, cloudy grey. One wouldn’t think that the place to be on such a day would be on the steamy asphalt of the parking lot of a bowling alley, but it certainly is…. Read More
OVST’s ‘Hairspray’ to Open Thursday, July 20
Full of optimism and fun, the Ohio Valley Summer Theater utilizes every inch of the stage in the Forum Theater as it brings Hairspray to life through the use of vivid colors paired with the impressive sounds of the orchestra. With book by Mark ODonnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by… Read More
Fun, Fun, Fun Even Minus the T-Bird: the 2017 Lancaster Festival July 19-29
By: Emily Votaw
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On the evening of Thursday, July 20, the Lancaster Festival Orchestra will play a soul-stirring set of songs in St. Mary’s Church to celebrate their 30 years of involvement with the Lancaster Festival. “The atmosphere of the church lends itself to the orchestra’s music – this big, cavernous space filled with sound,” said Ken Culver,… Read More
Appalachian Hell Betties Come Back Home July 15
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On a muggy Sunday afternoon in early July the Athens Ohio Roller Derby’s Appalachian Hell Betties are practicing at Dow’s Roller Arena in Nelsonville. The Betties viciously circle around the track, the satisfying clatter of roller skates on flat track echoing in throughout Dow’s. They scramble, they huddle, they have playful spats amongst themselves – they’re… Read More