Harvest Moon Benefit Festival
harvest moon festival annual music festival based cincinnati ohio fundraiser charity benefit homeless hungry ohio created cincinnati native kent meloy collins gate staring sea kelp kid jupiter jay nungesser collins gate staring sea virgoblique ran annually growing size popularity year originally conceived concert featuring band sounded like fall—local folk rootsrock bands—the festival musical scope grew include jazzrock doug perry ensemble jazz moon experimental electronica sedate reggae kris brown constant katie reider festival headliner entire run festival even grew beyond cincinnati sister festival name sprung around america coordinated meloy festival brought together wide variety ohio kentuckybased musician year—each band donating time cause—and raised additional money awareness selling cd event collecting night band collectible album called voice harvest moon vols festival became one bestknown musical event fall increasing scheduling conflict band venue lack sponsorship difficulty keeping audience earlyoctober music festival caused meloy nungesser cancel annual event replace christmastimethemed festivus maximus festival proved popular twoyear run southgate house newport kentucky festival debuted th century theatre oakley ohio fundraiser freestore foodbank following band played bagpiper ceremonially piped festival collins gate treefrogs katie reider tracy walker grace gravity lux festival second year th century theatre raised money oakley soup kitchen ric hordinski formerly rhine joined festival rare public performance band monk collins gate final performance katie reider monk mohenjo daro festival outgrown venue moved historic southgate house response local band join festival great three stage used simultaneously main stage full band smaller stage upstairs solo acoustic act small group thirdfloor experimentalmusic stage electronica dj show raised several thousand dollar cincinnati childrens hospital also marked first year compilation cd voice harvest moon produced sale show local music store katie reider staring sea gwendolyn speaks heidi howe janet pressley dave purcell pike kris brown family sauce ryan adcock band virgoblique swarthy mood ring northern road perkolaters sedate tracy walker huge public response festival took southgate house three floor dozen act ranging folk rock experimental electronica benefitting cincinnati childrens hospital second volume voice harvest moon produced kent meloy organized sister harvest moon festival chicago los angeles held simultaneously cincinnati fest katie reider staring sea vic daniel quartet swarthy doug perry ensemble venus mission kenya dubois dave hisch eric loy moon local elizabeth kemler janet pressleybarr lohio festival held southgate house much lineup festival benefitted cincinnati childrens hospital raising nearly festival broadcast live local radio station waif overall festival marked dramatically low attendance mainly due construction road surrounding venue made possibility show much less likely katie reider staring sea vic daniel quartet swarthy doug perry ensemble screaming mime matthew shadley band hungry lucy eric loy elizabeth moon jimmy joe ramblin rambler sixth annual show benefit cincinnati childrens hospital scheduled october featured lineup greenhornes ashley peacock abiyah kelp screaming mime tracy walker boom bip due scheduling conflict band southgate house venue festival cancelled last minute impromptu festival put together december renamed festivus maximus featured katie reider screaming mime kelp venus mission lovely crash swarthy whitney barricklow smittys holiday karaoke ho ho ho upstairs parlor festivus maximus declared event week front page cincinnati enquirer founder kent meloy jay nungesser dave storm interviewed feature article cincinnati citybeat event benefitted autism society raised lineup featured screaming mime kelp sleepybird steven gregory kohai factory itunes link matthew shadley band visceral elixir pale beneath blue beau alquizola band le technopusss infinite number sound dj empirical stash kelly thomas fabulous pickup cincinnati enquirer article harvest moon benefit festival midwest show revives jockey club cincinnati post e w scripps company archived original