Bellwether Music Festival: Summer's Last Hurrah
Affordable and an hour drive from Columbus? Bellwether Music Festival must be an Ohio State student’s wet dream.
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Renaissance Park, Waynesville, Ohio—a 260 acre field-property known for hosting Ohio’s annual Renaissance Festival and now a music festival? Instead of lords and ladies, bands and festival-goers will flood the Renaissance Park field for the first ever Bellwether Music Festival on August 10th and 11th.
“Alternative Music Festival and Camping” reads the Bellwether website. Emerging as a middle-ground festival, between giants like Bonnaroo and more localized camping festivals like Nelsonville, Bellwether has organized an impressive lineup for its freshman year while still honoring artists from Ohio’s local music scene.
Columbus’s own Cordial Sins open the festival Saturday at the Sunrise Stage, the same stage that Local Natives — one of the festival’s headliners — will close the night before.
National acts MGMT, The Flaming Lips, and The Psychedelic Furs front the lineup amongst female stars Japanese Breakfast and Alex Lahey.
Finally, a festival where fans don’t have to call heads or tails to decide who to see in a painfully overlapped schedule. With the Sunrise and Sunset stages across the field from each other and 15 minutes in between set times, festival-goers are free to leisurely drift from one stage to another while enjoying Bellwether’s many vendors and amenities in between.
Bellwether will also spare you the biting guilt over buying a pricey festival ticket. One and two day passes are currently available for $65 and $112.50 on the Bellwether website. Additionally, the festival is accepting applications for volunteers through August 3rd.
Affordable and an hour drive from Columbus? Bellwether Music Festival must be an Ohio State student’s wet dream.
Get out of that dog day funk and celebrate the last few weeks of summer’s irresponsibilities with camping and live music in Waynesville, Ohio. Here’s the official playlist to get you started:
Further information, directions, and tickets available at https://bellwetherfest.com.
Alexandra Adcock is an AROUSE contributor and DJ, cohost to RADIOCOCK on AROUSE last semester.