The decades long running Dayton Music Fest is back this year, September 5 and 6, across multiple downtown Dayton venues. Dayton band The Fotons stopped by WYSO with festival organizers Paige Beller and Brandon Hawk to chat about the festival with WYSO music director Juliet Fromholt.
Dayton Music Fest has a tradition of switching organizers every few years, with a couple or group of folks taking on the organizing for for a period of time and then passing it on to the next team. This year Paige Beller and Brandon Hawk have taken the reigns.
“It’s an immense undertaking- every single band’s schedules in line with two dates, with all the venues. Just working on the back end of getting sponsors, working with the different venues, making sure that what we have put together vibes with them is… it’s intense, but it has been incredibly rewarding.” said Hawk…