MANSFIELD — Newsroom After Hours is back after a year’s hiatus.

The once-monthly, Friday evening concert series kicks off at 6:30 p.m. on July 16 at Idea Works in Mansfield.

Entrance to the show is free and includes complimentary beer and food. Sponsors include Mechanics Bank, Phoenix Brewing Company, Doc’s Deli and WRDL in Ashland.

Here is the show lineup:

Sarah Goff, 30, of Mansfield takes the stage first. Her soulful sound has seen some success recently, with the video of her spoken word single “Fearfully Mad” climbing its way up to the Indie Short Fest’s top five music videos. 

In 2020, two Goff originals — “Sending Love Your Way” and “Give it Space” — were nominated in the Indie Short Film Festival for Best Original Song. The latter won the Outstanding Achievement Award for that category. 

Most recently, Goff won the Lexington Idol title. But the win was bittersweet. It came the same night her father, Jeffrey Goff, died unexpectedly. He was 59. 

“That was … I was in shock,” Goff said, describing the night she won Lexington Idol and learning shortly after about her dad. 

Now, Goff is navigating through oxymoronic emotions: joy and grief. On one hand, she’s joyful of the success her singer/songwriter career has experienced — and for more opportunities to perform live shows after a year of virtually nothing. 

But the grief is real, she said. 

“The process has mainly been taking one day at a time,” she said. “It’s been knowing the fact that he’s at peace now and with God and I will see him again. It ebbs and flows. There are different emotions on different days.”

Playing and writing music is her way of processing life.

“I’m in the middle of writing something right now, and I’m expressing some of those feelings,” Goff said. 

Goff will take the stage at 7 p.m. Here’s her setlist:

• Bikes in the Yard

• Good Days

• I Am Here

• The Chase

• Eyes to See

• The Most

Losers’ Club, a four-piece pop/punk, alternative rock band hailing from Galion will follow Goff. 

Frontman Joe Frazier, 26, of Ashland said the band is stoked to be playing live shows again. The band, which has been playing under its moniker since 2017, kicked around the idea of going on tour in 2020.

“We were heading into band practice when the notification that there was going to be a quarantine,” Frazier said. “We called each other and we’re like, ‘well, this sucks. What do we do now?’” 

The isolation that followed led to Frazier’s writing of the band’s newest four-song EP, which released July 9. 

Songwriting is shared between Frazier, the band’s primary songwriter, and drummer Jamie Buckley. Frazier said he draws from personal experience to write lyrics. The EP’s single, “You can be DK, if I can be Captain Falcon,” is a tribute to times spent with his brother playing video games growing up.

“I’m a very nostalgic person,” he said. “I try not to make it sound like a Dr. Seuss song, where every line rhymes.” 

The band’s sound draws from a “weird amalgamation” of musical influences, Frazier said — ranging from blink-182, Modest Mouse and Turnover.

Expect a high-energy show, sprinkled with “bad banter,” Frazier said. 

“None of us are really good at talking, but our shows are high-energy and we’re jumping around and we’ll just awkwardly talk about our day and play the next song,” he said, laughing. 

Nevertheless, the band is “chomping at the bit” to get back to playing live shows on a more-regular basis, Frazier said.

Losers’ Club setlist:

• Outside At Night

• Helter Seltzer

• Winter’s End

• You can be DK, if I can be Captain Falcon

• A Year Spent in Love

• Curtain Call

• Suture

Friday’s headliner, I Told You, takes the stage around 8:30 p.m. The duo, Adam Holman and Andre “Dre” Robinson, formed in 2017 and  has been performing together since 2018. Like most bands, performing took a break through 2020. 

Holman, 32, of Ontario — who goes by his stage name “Skip Taylor” — took the opportunity to use the year as a way to build up the band’s web presence through social media and to write new material. 

Holman became known in college as “Skip” for his tendency to skip class. His devotion to Chuck Taylor’s Converse shoe earned his second nickname, “Taylor.”

But don’t let his college-slacker nickname fool — Holman and Dre feed off negative criticism. The band’s name a is a hail to the phrase they hope to utter someday once it’s reached superstardom.

“Everybody that told somebody they couldn’t do something … ‘I told you,’” said Robinson, of Columbus, in an Open Mic podcast episode in November 2019. 

Starting Jan. 1, Holman set out to write and produce 365 original songs. So far, he’s completed around 200, which are posted daily to the band’s Facebook page. 

Holman, who holds a full-time job at Warren Rupp, spends up to four hours a day with the project. 

“I put the kids to sleep and then go downstairs until midnight,” he said. “It’s been tough, but I moved some things around in my life because it’s very important to me. I really like to do things versus just saying things.” 

Holman hopes the song-a-day project helps the band’s repertoire and sound grow. The influences include pop, indie alt-rock and hip hop. 

“But I just love music,” Holman said. So he hopes the 365 songs help the band play different shows in the future, like country or metal. 

Here’s I Told You’s setlist for Friday: 

• Single for the Summer (SFTS)

• Campfire

• Televiction

• No One’s Safe

• The Fountain

• East Mansfield Boys

• DGAF