What started as a plan among friends to throw a great party has blossomed into a celebration of local music that now enters its seventh year.

The Northside Music Festival helps to launch the summer music festival season by presenting 18 bands on 3 stages for 2 nights at Northside Tavern - all for free.

It's no Midpoint, it's no Bunbury, it's nothing like that to that scale, but it speaks to our neighborhood and who we are. - Jason Snell.

The music has been curated in such a way as to be representative of the region while still presenting a wide variety of styles and genres. Solo artists and singer-songwriters will perform on the same stage as post-punk garage bands. The selection, like the neighborhood itself, is eclectic and inclusive.

Jason Snell of Ohio Knife and We have Become Vikings co-founded the event with Mike Gibboney and Scot Torres [State Song]. Snell describes the acts at the festival as "...lots a great bands doing great things - not just in Cincinnati but taking their talent outside the city... you're not going to see this caliber of bands in a weekend (anywhere else) for free."

An assortment of food trucks and extended kitchen hours by local restaurants are a new addition to this year's festival.

The Northside Music Festval is June 13 and 14 at Northside Tavern. Doors open at 7pm and the music starts at 7:30.

Artists scheduled to perform:

Friday 13th

FRONT BAR STAGE

9:00p Sometimes

10:00p Halvsis

11:00p The Perfect Children

PATIO STAGE

7:30pm Molly Sullivan

8:30pm Dream Tiger

9:30pm State Song

BACKROOM

10:45pm Pure Predication

11:45pm Ohio Knife

12:45am Brian Olive

Saturday 14th

FRONT BAR STAGE

9:00p Jeremy Pinnell

10:00p Honeyspiders

11:00p Tongue and Lips

PATIO STAGE

7:30pm Young Heirlooms

8:30pm Abiyah

9:30pm Black Signal

BACKROOM

10:45pm Lab Partners

11:45pm Night Beast

12:45am The Sundresses

Music:

"I Wish I Knew (Our Neighborhood Mix)" by Ohio Knife from their upcoming release