2018-19 Guide To Yellow Springs

66 the Guide to YelLow Springs y 2018 - 1 9 Y e l l ow S p r i n g s N ews Close to 2,000 music lovers attended Springsfest in 2018 on the Bryan Center lawn. Here indie-rock outfit Twin Peaks, of Chicago, Ill., played hazy tunes to a laid-back crowd in the late afternoon. Among the hometown bands that shared the bill with bigger names was Antioch College act Lori. • photo by robert hasek By Tracy Perkins schmittler For the third year, Yellow Springs cele- brated its own version of Woodstock with Springsfest, an 11-hour music festival in July 2018. Total attendance was 1,835. The nationally and locally known bands were featured on the lawn of the Bryan Center, with genres ranging from folk, experimental, to punk to indie rock. Springsfest is the brainchild of Connor Stratton, who grew up in Yellow Springs, and has always wanted to make the vil- lage more of a music hub. “Springsfest is … a labor of love for the community of Yellow Springs,” Stratton said. “It’s a way of providing something new and exciting to our village and rep - resenting the unique love of the arts that we have.” The 2018 music lineup featured Guided By Voices, an indie and lo-fi rock band formed in 1983 in Dayton; Twin Peaks, a power-pop and garage punk band based in Chicago; Caamp, a guitar and banjo indie- folk duo from Upper Arlington; Counterfeit Madison, originally from Nigeria, a funky, classical, rock solo artist based in Colum - bus; Speaking Suns, the town’s native sons of indie dream pop and art rock; Teen Age; Adam Remnant; The Cordial Sins; Lori; Gap- tooth Grin; and Scary Balance. The seed for Springsfest started with Stratton getting involved with the Dayton Art and Film Festival, which made him dream of doing something similar in Yellow Springs. Stratton had founded Great Guys Entertainment five years before as a small indie record label. It seems perfectly fitting for such a bohemian, artisan and cultured village like Yellow Springs with its own history of locals who have become either famous or semi-famous in the music industry to have a music and arts festival, typified with its unique brand of “Springishness,” according to Stratton. 1 Springsfest—  y  our woodstock y • photo by robert hasek PROUDLY SERVING YELLOW SPRINGS AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY SINCE 1966 WAGNER SUBARU 5470 Intrastate Dr. | Fairborn | 937.878.2171 www.WagnerSubaru.com 9 TH OLDEST SUBARU DEALER IN THE U.S.