local music

MANSFIELD — Richland Source was searching for a way to showcase Mansfield’s local, original music scene in a unique way. We would like to think we’ve found it in Newsroom After Hours. The third season will kickoff on May 18 at Idea Works, 40 W. Fourth St. The opening date will have some relatively big differences we […]

MANSFIELD — The music and tattoo festival, Inkcarceration has announced its music lineup for the July 13-15 event at the Ohio State Reformatory. Inkcarceration will host more than 30 bands and over 70 booths featuring local and regional tattoo artists, the organization stated. “Inkcarceration brings a powerhouse line-up to the Historic Ohio State Reformatory – home […]

MANSFIELD -–  More than 30 local artists are planning to showcase new work at what will be the first of several art exhibitions at La Luna, 32 N. Walnut St. in Mansfield. The Membrane Constellation Exhibit is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. The artists decided to challenge themselves by creating […]

MANSFIELD — On March 24 at 8 p.m., the Mansfield Symphony will do something it has never done before: it will perform rock music with local singers. The orchestra ran an online contest in the winter to find talented local singers, who submitted a video of themselves singing a rock or pop song for online […]

. MANSFIELD — He takes a deep breath and begins to sing. He stops abruptly. Perhaps the energy isn’t right. Maybe it sounds too breathy or it isn’t breathy enough. “Let’s redo that,” he says.  He starts again and reaches the chorus. He pauses. He closes his eyes. “Let me listen to that.” Luke Adkins […]

MANSFIELD — Ernie Thacker was given horrible news, but thanks to the Bluegrass community, he is given hope. Thacker, a former lead-singer for bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, was told by the head surgeon at University of Kentucky’s college of medicine he suffers from osteomyelitis — a rare bone disease. It had spread through out the lower […]

MANSFIELD — There’s a ton of great things going on in the music world of Mansfield, and in Richland County as a whole. And with Christmas right around the corner, community members have the opportunity to support local musicians. Let’s be honest, Taylor Swift and Kanye West have enough money. Below are some of the […]