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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Saharan Desert sound comes to region via Etran de L'Aïr
NELSONVILLE, Ohio Stuart's Opera House will host Etran de L'Aïr at Snow Fork Event Center, home of the Nelsonville Music Festival, at 8 p.m. on May 8. Hailing from Agadez, Niger, Etran de L'Aïr ('Stars of the Aïr region') has spent more than 25 years performing high-energy compositions of Saharan rock, blending traditional Tuareg sounds with pan-African influences from Northern Malian blues to Congolese Soukous. Etran is a family band of brothers and cousins, formed in 1995 when leader Moussa 'Abindi' Ibra was 9. Over the decades, they have built a reputation as one of Agadez's most celebrated musical groups, performing everywhere from bustling city streets to remote desert gatherings. Advance general admission tickets are $22, with prices increasing to $25 on the day of the show. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at or by calling (740) 753-1924. For more information about Stuart's Opera House, at 52 Public Square, call (740) 753-1924.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Childers, Stapleton to headline Healing Appalachia
Apr. 24—BOYD COUNTY — Tyler Childers, who began his music career in the Tri-State, will be headlining the Healing Appalachia concert on Sept. 19 and 20, along with Chris Stapleton. Childers, a Lawrence County, Kentucky native, began his music career in 2011 when he was just 19. In 2013, he played the Appalachian Uprising concert in Scottown. He played at the first Valstock in Kitts Hills in 2016, the Paramount Arts Center in 2018, the Nelsonville Music Festival in 2019 and numerous gigs in this area from Huntington to Chillicothe. In fact, he's played this area so many times that, in his song "Country Squire," he mentions Chillicothe, Circleville and the Country Music Highway. In 2020, Childers name was added to the Country Music Highway sign in Lawrence County, Kentucky, along with Ricky Skaggs, Larry Cordle, Don Rigsby and Keith Whitley. It was the Country Music Highway that brought Healing Appalachia to Boyd County from after the concert attendance outgrew the West Virginia State Fairgrounds where it had been held for the last five years. In its first year, the audience was about 1,500. Last year, it attracted nearly 20,000 music fans from 42 states and three countries. And the organizers decided to look for a bigger space along the Country Music Highway and decided on the Boyd County Fairgrounds. Healing Appalachia co-founder and show producer Charlie Hatcher explains he originally envisioned the concert "like a Farm Aid that would move around Appalachia. Let's not forget Appalachia is thirteen states and we love Appalachia whether you're from New York or Mississippi." Healing Appalachia's aim is to celebrate recovery and raise awareness of the opioid crisis in the region. In addition to its music acts, the event features speeches from those impacted by addiction, as well as resources and free Naloxone training. The rest of this year's lineup has yet to be announced, but "Blind Faith" tickets to the three-day show are on sale now at Organizations and businesses that would like to sponsor or partner with Healing Appalachia can email producer David Johnson at djohnson@
