Art, Music & Wellness Festival Features 60 Bands, 25 Artists, Wellness EXPO+ & Conference, Classes in Yoga, Meditation & Sound Healing, Late-Night SALO+N, Bike Rides & More

All-access wristbands are available now for the sixth O+ Festival of art, music and wellness, which takes place Oct. 9-11 in the small Hudson River city of Kingston. The bands Screaming Females, Prince Rama, Quilt and Widowspeak are among more than 60 musical acts — which also include singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins, reunited ’80s power pop band The Bongos (fronted by Richard Barone), and Corey Glover, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock-funk band Living Colour — who will take the stage at intimate and unique venues in the city’s uptown and midtown neighborhoods.

The bands and more than 25 artists (six murals plus installations, performances and projections) — many of whom are uninsured or underinsured — will have the opportunity to receive complimentary health and wellness care from community-minded providers as a thank you for the donation of their talents to the O+ Festival audience.

The weekend-long celebration also includes a kickoff parade featuring the Hungry March Band, late-night literary SALO+N and CO+LLAGE Cafe, unlimited EXPLO+RE classes in yoga, dance, meditation and sound healing, a Wellness EXPO+ and Conference (featuring topics of particular interest to Hudson Valley residents and/or the creative community) andbike rides for all skill levels.

The estimated $78,000 cost of this year’s festival includes lifts and paint, sound and projection equipment, and ancillary medical and dental equipment. We ask our loyal and new fans to give as generously as possible when making a donation for an all-access wristband. A $50 donation entitles the wristband holder to a DO+NOR card, good for discounts and freebies on goods and services for a year at festival-supporting businesses aka Blood Relatives.

The art curatorial team welcomes back international street artist Gaia, who created the “Artemis Emerging From the Quarry” mural in 2013. In response to this year’s festival theme, “The Other,”Gaia will make another mural for the city that focuses on Ulster County-born abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth and Kingston-born neoclassicist painter John Vanderlyn. He is also serving as the festival’s curator of murals of which there are six this year. Gaia will be joined by more than 25 other artists (working in murals, installation, performance and projection), including muralist jetsonorama of The Painted Desert Project, The New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson, and feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano, who is also a festival alumna.

Location
Seven21 Media Center Studio A

Art, Music & Wellness Festival Features 60 Bands, 25 Artists, Wellness EXPO+ & Conference, Classes in Yoga, Meditation & Sound Healing, Late-Night SALO+N, Bike Rides & More

All-access wristbands are available now for the sixth O+ Festival of art, music and wellness, which takes place Oct. 9-11 in the small Hudson River city of Kingston. The bands Screaming Females, Prince Rama, Quilt and Widowspeak are among more than 60 musical acts — which also include singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins, reunited ’80s power pop band The Bongos (fronted by Richard Barone), and Corey Glover, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock-funk band Living Colour — who will take the stage at intimate and unique venues in the city’s uptown and midtown neighborhoods.

The bands and more than 25 artists (six murals plus installations, performances and projections) — many of whom are uninsured or underinsured — will have the opportunity to receive complimentary health and wellness care from community-minded providers as a thank you for the donation of their talents to the O+ Festival audience.

The weekend-long celebration also includes a kickoff parade featuring the Hungry March Band, late-night literary SALO+N and CO+LLAGE Cafe, unlimited EXPLO+RE classes in yoga, dance, meditation and sound healing, a Wellness EXPO+ and Conference (featuring topics of particular interest to Hudson Valley residents and/or the creative community) andbike rides for all skill levels.

The estimated $78,000 cost of this year’s festival includes lifts and paint, sound and projection equipment, and ancillary medical and dental equipment. We ask our loyal and new fans to give as generously as possible when making a donation for an all-access wristband. A $50 donation entitles the wristband holder to a DO+NOR card, good for discounts and freebies on goods and services for a year at festival-supporting businesses aka Blood Relatives.

The art curatorial team welcomes back international street artist Gaia, who created the “Artemis Emerging From the Quarry” mural in 2013. In response to this year’s festival theme, “The Other,”Gaia will make another mural for the city that focuses on Ulster County-born abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth and Kingston-born neoclassicist painter John Vanderlyn. He is also serving as the festival’s curator of murals of which there are six this year. Gaia will be joined by more than 25 other artists (working in murals, installation, performance and projection), including muralist jetsonorama of The Painted Desert Project, The New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson, and feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano, who is also a festival alumna.

Location
Seven21 Media Center Studio A