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Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: The D-Rays
By: Weiler Harmon
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: The D-Rays Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the Virtual Nelsonville Music… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Vieux Farka Touré
By: Emily Votaw
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Vieux Farka Touré is a West African guitar hero from Mali, son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré. He is also one of the performers who submitted a pre-recorded set to the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival, which will stream August 21-22 as a fundraiser for Stuart’s Opera House and their arts education efforts. Below, read… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Hubby Jenkins
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Hubby Jenkins Over the summer, Hubby Jenkins’ livestreams have included his reading of Choose Your Own Adventure books. If you are a child of the ’80s or ’90s, these gamebooks, which sold over 250 million copies for publisher Bantam Books between 1979 to 1998, are likely familiar… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: CAAMP
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: CAAMP Evan Westfall of CAAMP made time to speak to WOUB’s Emily Votaw about the group’s forthcoming contribution to the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival, the importance of supporting arts education, and CAAMP’s deep love for Athens County, OH. Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival: Water Witches
By: Weiler Harmon
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Water Witches Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the Virtual Nelsonville Music… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Lydia Loveless
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Lydia Loveless “Love Is Not Enough,” the heart-wrenching leading single from Lydia Loveless’ forthcoming fourth full-length, Daughter, (and the first she’s released on her own label, Honey, You’re Gonna Be Late) feels like a lesson in dire emotional truths. “I know when I was putting together my… Read More

VNMF: The Art Creating a Music Festival in the Midst of a Pandemic
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · VNMF: The Art Creating a Music Festival in the Midst of a Pandemic Spring and summer are typically chockfull of opportunities for budding media professionals: music festivals to cover or organize, internships with record labels and PR firms, and perhaps most importantly to this region, the Nelsonville Music Festival. Ohio University students… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Angela Perley
By: Madyson Lewellyn
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Angela Perley Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the Virtual… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Counterfeit Madison
By: Lauren McCain
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Counterfeit Madison Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the Virtual… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Bedouine
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Bedouine Azniv Korkejian says she’s “on desert time” when we connect for our interview. The Syrian born singer-songwriter who performs as Bedouine purchased a house a few hours outside of Los Angeles a while ago, and it wasn’t until the COVID-19 crisis made touring impossible that the… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Snarls
By: Weiler Harmon
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Snarls Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the Virtual Nelsonville… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Caitlin Kraus
By: Madyson Lewellyn
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Caitlin Kraus Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the Virtual… Read More

Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Lisa Bella Donna
By: Lauren McCain
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WOUB Digital · Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival Interviews: Lisa Bella Donna Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Nelsonville Music Festival announced its cancellation due to the infectious disease outbreak. In its place, Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies Director Josh Antonuccio and Nelsonville Music Festival Executive Director Tim Peacock created the… Read More

The Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival to Take Place Aug. 21-22
The Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival will take place on the Stuart’s Opera House official YouTube channel on August 21-22 at 8 p.m. EST. Each night will feature a different lineup of performers including CAAMP, Mandolin Orange, Hot Tuna, Shovels & Rope, Todd Snider, Haley Heynderickx, Bedouine, Joan Shelley, Tre Burt, Vieux Farka Toure, Cedric Burnside,… Read More

OU Partners With NMF to Create Virtual Festival
Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication and the School of Media Arts & Studies are partnering with the Nelsonville Music Festival to bring the annual festival to audiences through an innovative, virtual collaboration called Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival (VNMF). Due to COVID-19, the four-day festival that features local, regional, national and international musicians from multiple… Read More