by Dave Parsons There’s something about David Lee Murphy. There always has been. The summer sun was beginning its descent over the rolling hills of the...
by Dave Parsons It had been 45 years…….45 summers under Ohio skies…..It was Saturday, July 19, 1980. I was 15 years old and had begged my...
by Dave Parsons Three days. Three weather events. One incredible country music festival. There was never any doubt who’d kick off the Saturday lineup of the...
by Dave Parsons Rain had shortened the first half of the day at the Old Washington Music Festival on Friday, July 18. 2025. I had tried...
by Dave Parsons By the time The Band Perry was ready to step onto the stage at the Old Washington Music Festival, the rain had retreated,...
by Dave Parsons The skies above Guernsey County Fairgrounds hung thick with uncertainty on the early afternoon of Friday, July 18. 2025. Rain fell all night...
The sky opened up around noon. Not in a poetic, country-ballad way, but in that bone-soaking, puddle-splashing, fried-dough-melting way that threatens to derail even the best-laid...
by Dave Parsons When the gates swung open at the Guernsey County Fairgrounds on Thursday afternoon, everything was ready. There was a preview show the previous...
by Dave Parsons On the late afternoon of July 17, 2025, the Guernsey County Fairgrounds found itself hosting the Old Washington Music Festival, and the second...
by Dave Parsons It started the way the best country music nights at the Old Washington Music Festival always do, with the sun melting over the...
