The Hocking Hills area,
at the foothills of the Appalachians, has no shortage of roots music.
Every
year, from Friday through Sunday of Father’s Day weekend, the downtown streets
of Logan come alive with the celebration of the washboard as a musical
instrument.
Everything from jug bands to Dixieland groups play the Washboard
Music Festival in the hometown of the Columbus Washboard Company, the only
remaining washboard manufacturing company in the U.S.
Over four
days, usually in late May or early June, the Nelsonville Music Festival offers
multiple stages of music along with local art vendors, food and a beer garden.
The eclectic list of past performers — Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson,
Loretta Lynn, John Prine, Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo, George Jones and Gogol
Bordello — is a slice of Americana in itself.
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