The Black Swamp Arts Festival has announced its 2022 Main Stage Performing Arts Main Stage lineup.
Headliners include a several acts including The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and The Commonheart, from the 2021 festival.
The festival features a diversity of national, international, regional, and local musical talent, from Mongolia to right around the corner.
The Black Swamp Arts Festival features music, artists, a kids area, teen activities, food trucks and a beer garden. It will be held this year on Sept. 9, 10, and 11.
Music starts on the Main Stage Friday at 5 p.m. (See full music schedule below.)
The headliners will be:
FRIDAY
- The Jon Stickley Trio (www.jonstickley.com), bluegrass fusion instrumentalists at 6:30 p.m.
- The Suffers (www.thesuffers.com), R&B, soul, world music, octet, 8 p.m.
- The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (www.bigdamnband.com) high-energy, gritty roots blues, 10 p.m., returning from 2021.
SATURDAY
- The Commonheart (www.thecommonheart.com), featuring the soulful lead vocals of Clinton Clegg, 10 p.m. Returning from 2021.
- Up-and-coming roots country singer-songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin (www.charleswgodwin.com at 8 p.m. returning from 2021.
- Roots country singer Kelsey Waldon (www.kelseywaldon.com) 6:15 p.m.
SUNDAY
- Kansas City-based Latin rock band Making Movies (www.makingmovies.world), 3:30 a.m.
- Foghorn Stringband (www.foghornstringband.com), traditional old time music at 2 p.m.,
- The Chicago-based Tuvergen Band (www.tuvergenband.com), Mongolian fusion-folk music, 12:30 p.m.
The full lineup will be:
Friday Sept. 9
5 p.m. Noah I MUA, Toledo=based rock and blues
6:30 p.m.: Jon Stickley Trio
8 p.m.: The Suffers
10 p.m.: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Saturday Sept. 10
Noon: Freight Street, hometown indy folk rock quintet
1:30 pm: Never Come Down
3 pm: Singer-songwriter Angela C. Howell & the Happening
4:30 pm: Bluegrass jam band Armchair Boogie
6:15 pm: Kelsey Waldon
8:00 pm: Charles Wesley Godwin
10:00 pm: The Commonheart
Sunday Sept. 11
11 a.m.: Toledo bluesman Tito Villarreal
12:30 pm: Tuvergen Band
2:00 pm: Foghorn Stringband
3:30 pm: Making Movies
For more information and to connect to the festival including about volunteering, visit www.blackswampfest.org, BlackSwamp Arts Festival on Facebook, and @blackswampfest on Twitter and Instagram.
