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![Geese performs at the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival on Thursday, June 18, 2026. [Sophia Hoffman I WOUB]](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Geese_20260619_0006-1-900x422.jpg)
Geese headlines Thursday night at 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival
By: Sophia Hoffman
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Geese headlined the opening night of the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival on June 18 at Snow Fork Event Center. The Brooklyn-based band brought its energetic blend… Read More
![Fruit Bats perform at the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival on Saturday, June 20, 2026. [Sophia Hoffman I WOUB]](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FruitBats_20260620_0056-900x422.jpg)
Nelsonville Music Festival 2026: Saturday Photo Gallery
By: Sophia Hoffman
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Saturday marked the final day of the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival, bringing another diverse lineup of artists to Snow Fork Event Center. Performers included Fruit Bats,… Read More
![A member of The Amazing Giants troupe at the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026. [Sophia Hoffman I WOUB]](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Friday-cover-image-900x422.jpg)
Nelsonville Music Festival 2026: Friday Photo Gallery
By: Sophia Hoffman
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Friday at the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival featured performances by Liberian singer-songwriter Mon Rovîa, Americana duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Ohio garage rock band Space… Read More
![Saintseneca at the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival on Thursday, June 18, 2026. [Sophia Hoffman I WOUB]](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SaintSeneca_20260619_0003-1-900x422.jpg)
Nelsonville Music Festival 2026: Thursday Photo Gallery
By: Sophia Hoffman
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NELSONVILLE (WOUB) – The 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival continues at Snow Fork Event Center through Saturday night, with Thursday marking the first full day of music and festivities. WOUB photographer… Read More
Hannah Cohen discusses eclectic influences, eclipse inspiration, and Cocteau Twins partnership shock
By: Ian Saint
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) — Hannah Cohen is renowned for her ethereal vocals, lushly orchestrated music, and vibrant visuals, which she’ll showcase at the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival Saturday. But she… Read More
The Nelsonville Music Festival celebrates 20 years: A Q&A with Tim Peacock and Devin Sudman
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – When the first Nelsonville Music Festival took place in 2005, its goals were simple: raise money for the nonprofit arts organization Stuart’s Opera House and put… Read More
Moe Reen – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Country-folk songsmith Moe Reen writes from the heart, for the heart. A lifelong vocalist, their old-school country voice harkens to honky-tonk-heartbreak crooners of yesteryear, while their lyrics… Read More
Jerry David DeCicca – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Jerry David DeCicca is a songwriter, record-maker, and producer that lives in Bulverde, TX with his wife, two dogs, three cats, and toads. He has produced records… Read More
Wished Bone – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Wished Bone is the pseudonym of Athens-based musician Ashley Rhodus. Rhodus has released two full-length albums (2019’s Sap Season and 2018’s Cellar Belly) as well as… Read More
Darrin Hacquard – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Huntington, WV–based musician Darrin Hacquard writes songs that offer smart—sometimes psychedelic in their clarity—depictions of life in modern Appalachia without being precious. His writing is emotionally… Read More
Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Banjo player Nora Brown and fiddler Stephanie Coleman bring old-time music into sharp focus with a duo performance recorded at the 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival for… Read More
Geese, Wednesday, The Altons included in first round of performer announcements for the 2026 Nelsonville Music Festival
NELSONVILLE, Ohio – Stuart’s Opera House presents the Nelsonville Music Festival, returning to Snow Fork Event Center in Nelsonville, Ohio, June 18-20, 2026, for its 20th anniversary. The festival has… Read More
Larry & Joe – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Larry & Joe bring their genre-blending, bilingual energy to a Sycamore Session recorded during the 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival. The duo — made up of Venezuelan-born… Read More
Edsel Axle – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – In this Sycamore Session, Rosali Middleman performs as Edsel Axle, stepping away from her voice-and-guitar indie rock/Americana-leaning songwriting to explore immersive solo electric-guitar soundscapes. The music… Read More
Jordan Smart – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Singer-songwriter Jordan Smart has a reputation for using plainspoken songwriting and straightforward musicality to confront all varieties of contemporary injustice, inequality, and hypocrisy. Smart opens his… Read More
Charlie Parr – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Duluth, Minnesota–based singer-songwriter Charlie Parr has spent more than two decades shaping one of the most compelling catalogs in contemporary American roots music. For his contribution… Read More
Mill Creek Mile – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Mill Creek Mile is an Athens, Ohio–based acoustic Americana duo featuring Jerrod Goggans on vocals and guitar and Bailey Ries on guitar. The two formed the… Read More
Styrofoam Winos – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Session
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Nashville-based Styrofoam Winos brought their eclectic indie-rock sound, which fuses elements of classic rock, jam-band improv, and rootsy Americana in the Little Feat style, to their… Read More
Esther Rose – 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival Sycamore Sessions
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Esther Rose delivers five songs from Want, her latest full-length album, in a Sycamore Session recorded just over a month after the record’s release at the… Read More
Selected photos from the 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival
By: Bradley Cunningham, Sophia Hoffman
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival took place June 20-22, 2025. Find WOUB’s photographs of the event below, broken down into three individual image carousels. Friday, June 20… Read More
Nelsonville Music Festival 2025 brought music, community, and an opportunity to celebrate the life of Michael Hurley
By: Julia Weber
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) — From the alt-country-tinged indie rock of Waxahatchee to the rootsy, genre-blurring blues of Taj Mahal, the 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival (NMF) brought three days of music… Read More
Photos from Friday and Saturday at the 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival
By: Bradley Cunningham, Sophia Hoffman
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The 19th Nelsonville Music Festival attracted large crowds despite soaring temperatures. Find a selection of images of taken over Friday and Saturday at the festival below.
Five ‘must see’ moments from day one of Nelsonville Music Festival
By: Julia Weber
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The first day of the 2025 Nelsonville Music Festival has come and gone, and there were many memorable moments. From the energetic, poetic performance of Shirlette… Read More
Low Cut Connie shares what to expect from their Nelsonville Music Festival performance
By: Talia Milewich
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ATHENS, OH (WOUB) — The frontman for Low Cut Connie promises their Nelsonville Music Festival set will leave you with your “hair messed up.” Adam Weiner said he plans for… Read More
‘Latingrass’ folk duo Larry & Joe discuss collaboration, legacy of folk music ahead of Nelsonville Music Festival performance
By: Julia Weber
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Larry & Joe, composed of folk musicians Larry Bellorín and Joe Troop, are fusing Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music and forging cross-cultural collaboration through their partnership…. Read More