The annual Bewilderfest music festival (sometimes styled as “beWILDerfest”) returns to Urban Artifact in Northside this weekend boasting its best lineup yet.
Besides being top-loaded with some impressive touring headliners, including Cults, Moon Hooch, Gangstagrass and Saintseneca, Friday and Saturday’s Bewilder-festivities also include sets from some of Greater Cincinnati’s top local artists from various genres. Cincinnati-area performers slated to appear throughout the weekend include Dawg Yawp, Chuck Cleaver, Freekbass, Us, Today, Lemon Sky, Go Go Buffalo, Founding Fathers, smut, Triiibe, Acarya, Room for Zero, Jennifer Simone, Mara Moon, Blossom Hall, Animal Mother, New Moons, Queen City Silver Stars and Tooth Lures A Fang, among many others.
The music will be performed on three stages — one inside U.A.’s larger sanctuary, one in the taproom and one outside.
Urban Artifact is becoming “local music festival central” lately. On Sunday, the venue hosts the Artifact Metal Fest and next weekend is the massive two-day Overcast Hip-Hop Festival.
Here is the full schedule:
FRIDAY
Upstairs Sanctuary
Moon Hooch (Brooklyn, NY) 10:30pm
Freekbass 9pm
Bassel & The Supernaturals (Chicago/Kent) 8pm
Taproom Lounge
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (Maryland) 11:30pm
Go Go Buffalo10pm
Tooth Lures a Fang 8:30pm
The Tangled Roots (West Virginia) 7pm
Gran Bel Fisher 6pm
Outside Radio Artifact Stage
Lemon Sky12:20am
Blossom Hall 11:30 pm
Zach Shonkwiler Comedy Block 10pm
Ample Parking 8:50pm
ROOM FOR ZERO 8pm
Toph 7:10 – 7:40pm
Mara Moon 6:20pm
In2itiv3 5:30pm
Kyla Mainous 2pm
SATURDAY
Upstairs Sanctuary
Cults (California/New York) 10:30pm
Saintseneca (Columbus, OH) 9:10pm
Dawg Yawp 8pm
Taproom Lounge
Gangstagrass (Brooklyn, NY) 11:30pm
Hello Luna (Columbus, OH) 8:45pm
FOUNDING FATHERS 7:30pm
Fritz Pape‘s Guitar Buddies 6pm
Acarya 5:10pm
Queen City Silver Stars 4:00pm
Outside Radio Artifact Stage
smut 11:30pm
Lipstick Fiction 10pm
Betsy Ross (Columbus, OH) 9pm
Us, Today 8pm
Chuck Cleaver (of Wussy) 7pm
New Moons 6:10pm
Preston Bell Charles III 5:20pm
Juan Cosby 4:30pm
Xzela 3pm
Tickets, per day, are $16 in advance (through cincyticket.com) or $20 at the door. Today is the last day to score the advanced ticket discount — get ‘em here.
Befitting the setting (a church-turned-bar/brewery!), Urban Artifact will also have a variety of specialty beers available, including some new barrel-aged sour beers that are being released Saturday at noon (no ticket is required to attend the beer unveiling).
Visit bewilderfest.com for full details.
This article appears in Aug 22-29, 2018.
