Festival adds some more quality names to lineup

Stuart's Opera House has added some more national acts to the lineup for this year's eighth annual Nelsonville Music Festival.

Andrew Bird, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Hayes Carll, and Time and Temperature have been added to a lineup that already includes Iron and Wine, M. Ward, Roky Erickson, Dawes, Charles Bradley, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Jorma Kaukonen, and many more.

The festival will take place May 18-20 at Robbins Crossing on the campus of Hocking College in Nelsonville.

Weekend passes and individual camping passes are on sale now. To purchase passes or for more information, visit www.nelsonvillefest.org or call (740) 753-1924.

• Andrew Bird, singer, songwriter and eclectic musician, has impressed huge festival audiences at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, SXSW, the Montreal Jazz Festival and Radio France.

• Lee "Scratch" Perry is one of the pioneers of the dub/reggae style of music, and was key to bringing it to an international audience. He is responsible for the hit record "People Funny Boy," which moved over 70,000 units in Jamaica by itself.

• Texas country singer-songwriter Hayes Carll is well respected on both the mainstream and alt.country scenes.

• Time and Temperature is a Columbus band.