Lineup, Wristbands on Sale Now for Oct. 9-11 O+ Festival in Kingston, N.Y.

All-access wristbands are available now for the sixth O+ Festival of art, music and wellness, which takes place Oct. 9-11 in the small Hudson River city of Kingston. The bands Screaming Females, Prince Rama, Quilt and Widowspeak are among more than 60 musical acts — which also include singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins, reunited ’80s power pop band The Bongos (fronted by Richard Barone), and Corey Glover, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock-funk band Living Colour — who will take the stage at intimate and unique venues in the city’s uptown and midtown neighborhoods.

The bands and more than 25 artists (six murals plus installations, performances and projections) — many of whom are uninsured or underinsured — will have the opportunity to receive complimentary health and wellness care from community-minded providers as a thank you for the donation of their talents to the O+ Festival audience.

The weekend-long celebration also includes a kickoff parade featuring the Hungry March Band, late-night literary SALO+N and CO+LLAGE Cafe, unlimited EXPLO+RE classes in yoga, dance, meditation and sound healing, a Wellness EXPO+ and Conference (featuring topics of particular interest to Hudson Valley residents and/or the creative community) andbike rides for all skill levels.

The estimated $78,000 cost of this year’s festival includes lifts and paint, sound and projection equipment, and ancillary medical and dental equipment. We ask our loyal and new fans to give as generously as possible when making a donation for an all-access wristband. A $50 donation entitles the wristband holder to a DO+NOR card, good for discounts and freebies on goods and services for a year at festival-supporting businesses aka Blood Relatives.

The art curatorial team welcomes back international street artist Gaia, who created the “Artemis Emerging From the Quarry” mural in 2013. In response to this year’s festival theme, “The Other,”Gaia will make another mural for the city that focuses on Ulster County-born abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth and Kingston-born neoclassicist painter John Vanderlyn. He is also serving as the festival’s curator of murals of which there are six this year. Gaia will be joined by more than 25 other artists (working in murals, installation, performance and projection), including muralist jetsonorama of The Painted Desert Project, The New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson, and feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano, who is also a festival alumna.

The music curatorial team welcomes back some O+ Festival favorites, including singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins, indie-pop band And The Kids and “acoustic troubadour” Christopher Paul Stelling, and confirms that experimental/art rock band Roz and the Rice Cakes and punk rock duo Shellshagare part of this year’s lineup.

Confirmed musical acts include: Peter Aaron/Brian Chase Duo, And The Kids,Arranged Marriage, Nicole Atkins (solo), Blunt Bangs, The Bongos, Catskill Mountain Gamelan, Clover, Sean Crimmins, Dead Empires, Decora, Los Doggies, Tica Douglas, GET OUT, Corey Glover, The Grape And The Grain,Great Smokey, Brittany Haas, Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones, Hungry March Band,It’s Not Night, It’s Space, Kaatskillachia, Connor Kennedy & Minstrel, Kyle & The Pity Party, The Loom, Mamalama, Mega Bog, Michael Bernier Duo, The Motor Tom, Nathan Kalish and the Lastcallers, festival alumni The Parlor, pecas, Sondra Sun-Odeon, Stranger at Home, Anders Parker (solo), Prince Rama, Quilt, Red Neckromancer, Eric Redd, Adrien Reju, Roz and the Rice Cakes, Screaming Females, Scruffy Pearls, Shellshag, Stellar Young, Christopher Paul Stelling, The Sun Parade, Los Thujones, Twin Guns, Ultraam, Upstate Rubdown, Walking Distance, A. Joseph Weaver, Lindsey Webster, Wild Bill Drucker, Widowspeak, and Elijah Wolf.

Confirmed artists include: painter Jacinta Bunnell and illustrator Leela Corman, filmmaker Sarah Carlson, interdisciplinary artists Cave Dogs, architect Jim Fish, international street artist Gaia, painter Kathleen Griffin in collaboration with physicist Christos Kapetanakos, sculptor Kate Hamilton in collaboration with multi-media artist Tona Wilson, collective political art project The Illuminator, author, playwright/director and poetIONE in collaboration with composer and performer Pauline Oliveros, public artist team Jessie & Katey aka Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn, muralist jetsonorama, photographer Laura Johansen, The New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson, muralist Lunar New Year in collaboration with street artist Nanook and artist/activist/archivist Mata Ruda, illustrator Will Lytle of Thorneater Comics,KaKe Art collaborators Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Keller, music photographer Miss Magpi, performance artist Linda Mary Montano, Emily Roberts-Négron, healing artist Sacred Melting Pot, painter Ernest Shaw, mixed media conceptual artist Rosary Solimanto, and neon artist Erika deVries.

For photos or to interview our participating artists, musicians or wellness providers, please e-mail Kathleen Murray at kathleen@opositivefestival.org

Sponsorships are also available and truly appreciated. Apply Pressure and Elevate!

The non-profit O+ Festival (pronounced o-positive) connects musicians, artists, and health & wellness providers for weekend-long celebrations featuring concerts and performances, art making, and wellness offerings for the entire community. This year’s festivals take place in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood (Sept. 3-5), Kingston, N.Y. (Oct. 9-11) and Petaluma, Calif. (Nov. 6-8).

“The O+ concept is, in a word, genius.” — Sound It Out