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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
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
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
Michael Hurley – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Michael Hurley is a singer-songwriter with a cult following, known as a kind of “progenitor” of the “freak-folk” genre. He’s also a longtime annual staple of… Read More
The Local Honeys – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The Local Honeys are a Kentucky-based duo known for their deep-rooted Appalachian sound, blending traditional bluegrass, folk, and old-time music with sharp storytelling and modern perspectives…. Read More
The Peel – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The Peel is an Athens-based instrumental trio made up of David Colagiovanni on guitar, Lucy Schwallie and violin and fiddle, and Adam Fuller on banjo. SETLIST 1. Harmonics … Read More
Fust – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Fust is the brainchild of musician and Duke University literature Ph.D. candidate Aaron Dowdy. The project captured widespread attention from the music press after earning glowing… Read More
Jeffrey Martin – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Jeffrey Martin is an indie folk singer-songwriter based out of Portland, whose most recent release, 2023’s Thank God We Left the Garden (Fluff and Gravy), notably… Read More
SUSS – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Haley Loveless
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The music created by SUSS embodies a genre that they call “ambient country.” It’s a type of music that does not require lyrics to tell the… Read More
The Deslondes – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Sydney Tisdale
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The evening set in and the lights strung on the branches of the surrounding trees illuminated a packed crowd as The Deslondes took to the Creekside… Read More
Yasmin Williams – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Sydney Tisdale
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – The audience gathered under the shady canopy of the trees as Yasmin Williams took to the Creekside stage in the late afternoon on Saturday at the… Read More
Jake Ewald of Slaughter Beach, Dog – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Sydney Tisdale
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Known for his thoughtful lyrics and down to earth stage presence, Slaughter Beach, Dog’s Jake Ewald has the audience captivated as soon as he took to… Read More
The Wonderfool – 2024 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Bella DePasquale
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – As the lights shining up at the trees cascade off of the leaves, more people at the Nelsonville Music Festival gather around for The Wonderfool. The… Read More
Sycamore Sessions Returns for Ninth Season, Showcasing Performances from the 2024 Nelsonville Music Festival
By: Emily Votaw
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NELSONVILLE, OH – The Ohio Valley Emmy Award-nominated Sycamore Sessions returns Tuesday for its ninth season, presenting 12 performances from both rising stars and veteran musicians filmed at the Nelsonville… Read More
Michael Hurley – 2023 NMF Sycamore Sessions
By: Reed Holt
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB) – Michael Hurley has played the Nelsonville Music Festival nearly every year, so it only made sense to have the folk troubadour close out the 2023 Sycamore… Read More