In less than a week, I’ll be trading in my OLG swag for my Allen County Fairgrounds Board of Directors t-shirt. I’ll spend my week bringing joy to families by running countless events during the Allen County Fair—like Kids Day, the hot air balloon flight and glow, Art & Music Night and Little Miss coronation. There’s just something about the county fair that makes my heart light up. It was always hard for the board to put into words exactly what it meant to attend the fair. With some help [...]
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OLG’s “house band” is The Legendary Trainhoppers, an American band from Fort Wayne. (Full disclosure: Matt Kelley plays guitar and mandolin and writes songs in the band.) The band writes, rehearses and performs in The B-Side at One Lucky Guitar, the small listening venue within our office. Over 2019–2020, the band released three EPs, and during the pandemic wrote and recorded five new songs. All of that material has been compiled on the double-album Hard Times, which features 18 songs over two discs, along with a bonus DVD featuring a [...]
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Gig poster art has been one of the more influential mediums in my life. Bright colors, cartoon culture, wacky visions—all tied together with your favorite music. What’s not to love?! I first started working on poster illustration in college, and as soon as I was able to attend more shows as a 21-year-old, I began interacting with the promotors and bands in the local DIY scene. This led to opportunities to use my imagery on a regular basis, and in some cases, with bands that I work with to this [...]
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This morning, as I'm writing this, I'm watching my eight-year-old cousin excitedly discover that Bo The Elf had taken advantage of the fact that we all went to bed early last night. The mischievous fellow hopped on his motorcycle and took a joy ride through the living room—dispersing my cousin's green and tan army men in the tree, on the mantle, atop the doorway, on the ceiling fan. I moved to Fort Wayne in 2011 to attend the University of Saint Francis, and I decided to stay in Fort Wayne post-graduation. [...]
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