SoHud Music Festival

The First Ever SoHud Music Festival Summer 2010. Featuring painters, hulahoopers, jugglers, and of course, great music. Online voting by our fans and family led to "Your Top 10 Requests"

Cant wait till next year...

SoHud Super Show III: The Zeppelin Set

Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

Good Times Bad Times


Living Loving Maid


Song Remains the Same

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Columbus Alive features The Floorwalkers, Joey Hebdo, The Max Power Trio, & The SoHud Music Collective

Featured Story in "Columbus Alive - The Best of Columbus 2010 Issue" by Chris Deville

Though The Floorwalkers, Joey Hebdo and Max Power Trio are playing at Skully's Friday, their hearts will be a few freeway stops to the north. The bands, who comprise the SoHud Music Collective, have joined forces to promote each other's music and the city blocks they inhabit.

The neighborhood south of Hudson Street just west of I-71 has long been a hotbed for musicians and artists. Half a decade ago, some of the area's punk, indie and experimental musicians half-jokingly dubbed their 'hood "Washington Beach" and built a vibrant community around Summit Street dive Cafe Bourbon Street.

Now a different set of bands are out to advance their little slice of Columbus, using the burgeoning strip of businesses south of Rumba Cafe as their rallying point.

Where the Washington Beach thing was basically an inside joke, the SoHud bands are organized - complete with interns! - and eager to import attention and export sounds.

"It's not Campus. It's not Clintonville. It doesn't have big arches over the streets. It's always been like a no-man's land," said Jesse Barr of Max Power Trio. "And then Rumba moved in, and now there's a little scene here."

The idea originated last year with Barr, who hosts a radio show called "The SoHud Sound" at 7 p.m. Thursdays on WCRS (102.1 & 98.3 FM). The collective, which originally included Andy Shaw Band, mostly lived within a few blocks of each other.

They frequently shared the stage at venues like Rumba and Ruby Tuesday, inhabiting an aesthetic somewhere near the intersection of blues, folk, pop and soul. Barr figured, why not use each other's skills and connections to mutual advantage?

"Before, we were just like three-legged dogs," Barr said. "Now we're like a nine-legged super dog."

Their first step has been throwing a series of SoHud Super Shows, in which all three bands perform their own sets and combine for something special; they're collaborating on a Led Zeppelin tribute Friday.

Next, they'll use proceeds from the concerts to hole up in a cabin and record together for a weekend. Ideally, they'll emerge with an album that can showcase their combined talents and draw new ears to each act, Floorwalkers frontman Jon Elliott said.

He referenced Toronto collective Broken Social Scene, whose communal creations brought exposure to contributors' other projects such as Feist, Metric, Stars and Do Make Say Think.

Meanwhile, the SoHud bands are seeking to partner with a video production company, scouting for groups to join the fold and looking for ways to translate their talk into action.

"It's just too easy to sit around," Hebdo said. "You can actually take that step forward and do something."

...And another feature Story in Metromix Columbus

Washington Beach Boys

With large amounts of mutual respect and adoration for Brian Wilson's harmonic compositions and for each other's singing voice, Jesse, Joey, & Happy tackled this classic tune and other vocal lovelies for this one-time show entitled "Washington Beach Boys"

Review of Live show on Cringe.com by Mark Fisher

SoHud Trucker Hat

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Neil Young "In Harmony" Tour 2010

Featuring: Joey Hebdo, Happy Chichester, Jesse Michael Barr, Ben Meinhold & Friends

Tour Dates:

May 28th, 2010: Rumba Cafe, Columbus, OH
May 29th, 2010: Jackie O's, Athens, OH

Jimi Hendrix 67th Birthday Experience!

Bob Dylan Birthday Spectacular

Jesse Henry
Jon Elliot
Jesse Michael Barr
Ben Meinhold
Paul Newman
Phil Clark
Za Henson
Jason Quicksall
and more...

A one-time-only show that was an instant classic. It was a memorizing show. Never a dull moment. Most folks have never heard these recordings.

Live Recording Here

SoHud Super Show II

Our second go featuring now 5 bands complete with beach decor and all-Vegan Mexicali menu by Lindsay Cieulla from Burglar. Watch out for the magic brownies ;-)

Jimi Hendrix 66th Birthday Experience!

66th annual Jimi Hendrix Birthday Experience: 2008

Live! in Columbus, Ohio

Join us every Michigan Saturday

Show starts at 10pm and rocks till 2 am.

All the top guitarists and singers in Ohio come together to pay tribute to this awe-inspiring musical hero and American icon.

Live Recording

First Ever SoHud Super Show

No media available from this show.
Guess you had to be there.