

Saturday’s lineup brought even more heavy hitters with the return of Twiddle, who last played the festival in 2014, plus The Magic Beans, Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, The North 41, crypto WAVE radio, and Domefest newcomers Houseplant. The bird band also welcomed fellow domies to jam throughout the night, including Alric Carter of TAUK on originals “Overtime” and “Beneath The Surface,” as well as the aforementioned “Hella Floppy,” plus Matt Jalbert of TAUK and vocalist Kanika Moore on a show-stopping rendition of Led Zeppelin's “Black Dog.” The final Pigeons set of the evening was a special "Under Cover” set containing a wide-ranging mix of cover songs and mashups that included the X-Files theme song, Radiohead’s “The National Anthem” sung by drummer Alex Petropulos, a debut mashup of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” and Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” a mashup of Talking Heads’ “Making Flippy Floppy” and No Doubt’s “Hella Good,” and a Phish mashup ("Down with Disease" and "Run Like An Antelope"), among others. The band’s first set contained a rousing cover debut of Modest Mouse’s “Float On,” while the second set featured a brand new original, the funky and dark “Underworld.” Kicking off the festivities on Thursday night with a pre-party at Columbus, OH establishment Skully’s Music-Diner, Pigeons started not with a “Bang!” but with a “Hell Yeah!,” playing a one-song second set, featuring a 70-minute version of the relatively new original, “Hell Yeah.”ĭomefest then properly began at Legend Valley on Friday afternoon, featuring TAUK Moore, Barefuzz, Chalk Dinosaur, Gunk, and Pigeons’ first three of five sets across the weekend. Kanika Moore), The Magic Beans, Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers and more on the lineup, this year’s edition was never in doubt of producing some of that classic Dome-magic.


Since its inception, Domfest has been all about magical collaborations, and with bands like Pigeons, Twiddle, TAUK Moore (TAUK ft. Baltimore jam-funk quartet Pigeons Playing Ping Pong returned to Legend Valley in Thornville, OH this weekend for their annual music festival, Domefest.
