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Honeysuckle is a progressive folk act that blends older influences and traditional instrumentation with modern effects and inspiration. Comprised of Holly McGarry, Benjamin Burns, and Chris Bloniarz, the trio can frequently be found performing in the Boston area and surrounding cities in the Northeast, playing alongside bands like Drive-By Truckers, The Ballroom Thieves, Boy & Bear, Sam Moss, The Western Den, The Novel Ideas, Shook Twins, John Craigie, Grey Season, Damn Tall Buildings and others. In 2015, Honeysuckle performed at Newport Folk Festival, was chosen as a Converse Rubber Tracks artist, and was nominated for Best Folk Artist of the Year, and Best Americana Artist of the Year at the annual Boston Music Awards. In 2016 the group played Lollapalooza on the Pepsi Stage as well as CMJ in New York City.They have also been nominated again for the categories Best Americana and Best Folk Artist at the 2016 Boston Music Awards, as well as new nominations, Americana/Roots Act Of The Year and Album Of The Year for Red Line Roots' 2016 Big Reds. As a recipient of Club Passim's Iguana Music Grant, Honeysuckle recently released a new full-length album on March 24th, 2016 to a sold out crowd at Club Passim. Also available is their debut EP, "Arrows," released on April 29th, 2015.

Chelsea Jo and the far less talented backing band will reunite and rock the stage for Bryer's Song and Nationwide Children's Hospital with songs that will want to make you empty your pockets. Make this your pre-Columbus Marathon party as we rock the night and raise money for genetic research in honor of Bryer Largent. All ticket sales will go directly to research at NCH

This family friendly event will have a little something for everyone. From inflatables, to face paiting, to food vendors and dunk tanks. Not to mention some of the best music in the city to round it off! Full line up below: 

DOC ROBINSON 

PARKER LOUIS  

HEBDO  

LIZ WOOLLEY

HONEY & BLUE  

GEORGE BARRIE BAND

JESSE HENRY & THE HI-DEFINITIONS

RILEY DEAN  

LILY McBRIDE 

As part of their annual W. Grandview Fringe Festival, O.G. PRODUCTIONS presents : THEATRE TAPAS - a short play theatrical taste bud teaser for every taste! .Here's the line-up:

GIMME A MINUTE (one minute plays)
If You Want These Things Tay Lane
New Kitten Jennifer O’Grady
Connections Christine Foster
The Winning Ticket Patrick Gabridge
Dead Wood Vivian C. Lermond

TAKE FIVE (5 minute plays)
A Better Periscope Randy Gross
Friendly Fire Glen Dickson
Peenie Wallie Wishes Wendy Marie Martin
Electronic Divisive Glen Dickson

TEN MINUTE QUICKIES (8-10 minute plays)
Skull Duggery Donna Latham
Four Letter Words Vivian C. Lermond
Final Rest Victoria Z. Daly
Joy Ride Christine Foster

Join us!
Tickets: $10 CASH at the door

9/24 - WOODLANDS TAVERN, 1200 W. 3RD AVE. GRANDVIEW 7pm - 8:15pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
9/26 - THE JURY ROOM, 22 E. MOUND ST. (DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS) 7pm - 8:15pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

PLEASE respond through this Event Invite as "GOING" or "MAYBE" so we can provide Woodlands and our friends Megan Stapleton Dempsey and Mark Dempsey at The Jury Room with an accurate head count for seating configurations. PLEASE LET US KNOW IN THE POLL BELOW WHICH VENUE YOU PLAN TO ATTEND.

DIRECTORS, ACTORS:: The plan is to throw a wide net and engage new and different audiences. So invite YOUR friends, those Baby Boomer relatives (and anybody else who needs a fun night of full throttle laughs), through this event invite. O.G. PRODUCTIONS is going to love you for it!

Johnny Stanec is a singer-songwriter from Youngstown, OH. Since 2011 he has released seven full-length records under his own name and performed from the mid-west to the east coast and into Canada. His music is a mix of stripped-down acoustic songs to uptempo rock and roll, with an emphasis on lyrics, melodies and harmonies. His songs have appeared on radio shows, podcasts, blogs and websites from the US, UK, Spain, France, Sweden and Japan, among others. Musically he has been described as a mix of Replacements meets Tom Petty, but fans of all types of hook-laden, singer-songwriters will find something to like about his songs. His two most recent releases, 2018's 'The Future of Nothing', and his just released seventh record, 2019's 'Things Were Better, When', showcase different sides of his songwriting abilities. All of his releases can be found wherever music is downloaded or streamed.

Chance McCoy is a Grammy Award winning Indie Folk musician from West Virginia.
 

“It can be scary to step away from something that’s been so successful,” says Chance McCoy, “but it’s important to follow your passion. I really believe in the music that I’m making right now, so it feels like the right time for me as an artist to get off the main road and explore the path less trodden.”

A virtuoso fiddler, guitarist, and banjo player, McCoy is best known as a member of GRAMMY-winning Americana powerhouse Old Crow Medicine Show, but ‘Wander Wide,’ his debut solo album, reveals a remarkable depth and versatility far beyond anything we’ve heard from him yet. Captivating in its cross of the traditional and the progressive, the record shows little regard for the conventional boundaries of genre and decade, blending old-school bluegrass melodies with modern rock and roll arrangements and rich, atmospheric production. McCoy based the album off of a live residency show he put on weekly at The Basement in Nashville, and the studio recordings here tap into the same exuberant energy he brought to the stage every night, complete with dazzling performances that unexpectedly twist and turn, sometimes transitioning from one tune to the next within the same track.

 

“This whole record was built to be performed live,” explains McCoy. “We recorded everything exactly the way we played it at the Basement, just three people making music together in the moment. Even my vocals were recorded live. It was really important for me to capture that feel.”

 

McCoy’s been chasing that same feel for most of his life. Raised in West Virginia, his first musical loves weren’t the folk and bluegrass he’d eventually become known for, but rather the grunge and classic rock he heard on the radio. When he finally discovered old-time mountain music in his early 20’s, he fell head over heels, instantly drawn in by the raw honesty and dark beauty of it all.

 

“I heard about these fiddle conventions where people would camp out in the mountains and jam all week,” remembers McCoy. “I packed my stuff in my truck and started traveling around to every single one I could find. All I played was an acoustic guitar at the time, but I was so taken with the music that I decided it was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.”

 

McCoy grabbed himself a fiddle and headed straight to the source, apprenticing under a series of master Appalachian players through a program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. As his chops developed, he quit his construction job in order to pursue music full time, devoting his weekdays to busking on the streets of Harper’s Ferry and his weekends to performing in a loose-knit group called The Speakeasy Boys.

 

“It wasn’t so much a band as it was an excuse for twelve guys to get together and drink,” McCoy laughs. “Every Sunday, we’d throw these speakeasy parties outside of Shepardstown, WV, where we’d cook up a bunch of catfish from the Potomac River over a barrel fire and sell beer. Two or three hundred kids from the local college would show up to see us play, and they’d party and dance the whole time.”