
Gratefulfest at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Paradise Waits by Bill Kurzenberger This coming weekend Gratefulfest, Ohio’s iconic and longest-running festival dedicated to the memory of the Grateful Dead, returns to the idyllic Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville. This year, some of the foremost Dead-family and Dead-adjacent musicians of this era from coast…

Grassfire at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue by Bill Kurzenberger On the semiquincentennial anniversary weekend marking the United States’ 250 years of independence from a tyrannical government (the past year or so notwithstanding) there are over a hundred festivals around the Buckeye state celebrating the 4th of July…

Stargazer Cannabis Festival Leans Into Its Homegrown Nature – Festival Preview Event Celebrates Recreational Marijuana In Ohio With Workshops and Uplifting Jams by Bill Kurzenberger This weekend June 12-13-14th, the Stargazer Cannabis Festival will liven the banks of the Scioto River to celebrate adult recreational and medicinal usage of marijuana in Ohio. Billed as…