Arts Section

• Viv & Riley stretch out, stay rooted

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 8, 2026

  

  Viv & Riley will bring a little old-time music, a little indie folk and some songs that wander comfortably between to the Foundry Theater at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.

• ‘Endangered and Extinct’— The analog, archived

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 3, 2026

  

  “Endangered and Extinct” lives somewhere within the overlap between what’s disappeared or disappearing and what’s still hanging on. Stephen Rumbaugh, a Yellow Springs-based graphic designer and conceptual artist, has filled the newly named Dr. Bob Brandt Jr. Event Space at WYSO with 28 such “specimens,” on display now through Nov. 30.

• More screenings, more venues— Yellow Springs Film Fest to return

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 29, 2026

  

  Set for Wednesday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 4, the YS Film Fest’s nearly 30 events, programs  and films will take place on stages and screens across the village — at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater, Little Art Theatre, briefly on a closed-down Short Street and, new this year, 91.3 WYSO’s Union Schoolhouse. 

• The Corndrinkers cheers to 50 years of old-time tunes

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 28, 2026

  

  There’s no telling the number of do-si-does, promenades and swings the Corndrinkers have seen over the last half-century. To this day, the five-piece string band’s calendar is chock full of square dances and folk festivals, small-town gigs and unplugged jams.

• Yellow Springs resident publishes a ‘Lullaby’

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 25, 2026

  

  “Lullaby: A Bedtime Story,” recently published by Belle Isle Books and illustrated by Shannon Szczepanski, grew from the only lullaby villager Scott Lindberg said he has written in about 50 years of songwriting.

• Holly Near’s half-century of ‘singing for our lives’

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 24, 2026

  

  “An Evening with Holly Near” begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at the Foundry Theater. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $5 for students.

• ‘Revival’ nods to Blues Fest, H.U.M.A.N.

  By Lauren Shows

  

  “Revival” will be held Friday–Sunday, Sept. 25–27, and is presented by the Village through PACC in partnership with the Yellow Springs Community Foundation and the Beloved Community Project of Yellow Springs as part of the Village’s America 250 observance.

• Chamber Music in Yellow Springs to open season

  By YS News StaffSeptember 18, 2026

  

  Chamber Music in Yellow Springs will open its 2026–2027 season Sunday, Sept. 20, with a 4 p.m. concert by Calidore String Quartet.

• Yellow Springs Porchfest returns — now with more porches

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 17, 2026

  

  The free, villagewide music festival returns Saturday, Sept. 19, with 79 acts scheduled to perform on 50 porches, patios, yards and other outdoor spaces.

• Cult Movie Campout takes horror outdoors

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 11, 2026

  

  The inaugural Cult Movie Campout, featuring four horror flicks that involve “camp” in every sense of the word, will debut Saturday, Sept. 12, at Butter Flower Farm. The night will feature live music, vendors and screenings of cult films “Sleepaway Camp,” “Cannibal Campout,” “Camp Blood Christmas” and “Don’t F–k In the Woods.”