Ogden City School District Art and Music students from Kindergarten to 12th grade showcase art, music and dance. 

A panel of esteemed judges will select showcase winners. 

Artwork will be for sale.

We wish to thank the art teachers and students of Ogden School District.

OFOAM presents LAS CAFETERAS on Friday, November 5 at 6:00 PM as part of a FREE week-long series of events, Dia de los Muertos at the Monarch. Masks are required. Las Cafeteras is on tour this fall supporting a pro-vaccination campaign called ANDALE! There will be a vaccination clinic on site at the Monarch. Also on the lineup: students from Mariachi Aguilas de la Esperanza and Mariachi Juvenil de Utah and WSUs Ballet Folklorico to start the evening.

Saturday, October 21, 2023, 1 - 7:00 PM FREE

OFOAM is officially launching the Weber Instrument Lending Library (WILL) for Weber Acoustic Youth (WAY) in memory of Raychel Jayne LeBlanc. Visit the Instrument Petting Zoo at the Ogden Music Festival to see our library of acoustic instruments. Instruments will be available for loan after the festival and lessons may be available. Donations of new and gently used instruments are accepted. With OFOAM, where there's a WILL, there's a WAY.

Special thanks to Weber County RAMP

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Raychel Jayne LeBlanc served as OFOAM’s Marketing Director and as a member of the OFOAM Board from 2016 to 2019 when she landed her dream job in New Mexico. In 2020, Raychel resumed her Marketing Director position with OFOAM, working remotely from New Mexico. We fell in love with Raychel’s marketing skills reading her well-crafted arts and entertainment articles for the Ogden Standard-Examiner and her attention-grabbing social media posts. Raychel had the ability to get people out to events in Ogden. Far beyond being a job, Raychel had a mission to build and strengthen community through her writing and photos. She could tell Ogden’s story, and OFOAM’s story, like no one else.

“I LOVE Ogden! This city is my home and means a whole lot more to me than a place to rest my head. The mountains, the music, the people, and the sense of danger and community will ALWAYS call me back home no matter where I rest my head at night. I'm not leaving until I do my part to make her better!” #onlyogden #ogdenisrad #25thst #historic25thstreet #indieogden #hipsterogden #ogdenlovin #flashbackfriday #fbf #instautah #instagood #home #communityraycheljayne

“Feeling immense gratitude for my most excellent life. Chillin backstage with some of the best live music I've ever heard.” @sarahjarosz, thank you for coming to my festival. #thankful #ogden #ogdenmusicfestival #ofoam #folk #love

“Best seats in the house at the #OFOAM Ogden Music Festival. Check out my article in Sunday's Standard-Examiner.” #musicfestival #ogdenonly #onlyogden #journalist

 “Throw back to that one time I was on the news for @ofoam, wearing all black of course.” #news #bigbuddah #ofoam #musicfestival #ogdenmusicfestival

Raychel Jayne LeBlanc, loving wife, mother, and daughter, passed away at the young age of 28 on January 31, 2021. Raychel was born on May 27th 1992 in Ontario, Oregon. Her legacy lives on through her loving husband Alex LeBlanc and their daughter Genevievé Jayne. Raychel grew up in Northern Utah where she attended Weber State University, fueling her deep love of journalism and kick starting her career in communications. She had a knack for finding adventure which led her to Taos, fulfilling her life’s dream of living in the Sangre de Cristo mountains with her beautiful young family. Raychel landed her dream job as the Marketing Specialist of Angel Fire Resort and she continued her work as a freelance journalist writing for the Taos News. Raychel was legendary, fearless, and passionate. “Legends Never Die.” She will be remembered and deeply missed by her husband and daughter, closest friends, family and the many people that she has met and impacted throughout her life. She certainly left her mark on her OFOAM family and we will forever miss and celebrate the life of the beautiful and brilliant Raychel Jayne LeBlanc.

“Feelin the love ❤❤❤ tell the people in your life that you LOVE them! Spread love, life is too short!”

 “I made a wish and you came true ❤ @teleroots and Geneviève have shown me that happiness is homemade. You need anything? Because I'm good, I've got everything I need in this picture right here.” #ofoam #musicfestival #bluegrass #ogdenmusicfestival #love #baby #family #truelove #happiness

Approximately 30 children from Esperanza School and 20 youth graduates of Esperanza School will be at The Ogden Music Festival this fall to entertain with Mariachi, Banda, Norteño, and Sierreño music. 

Esperanza's programs, school organization, and community are research-based and designed to close the academic gap for Hispanic youth. All aspects of our school exist to support this primary purpose. Esperanza welcomes students of all backgrounds and ethnicities. Esperanza values ​​a diverse school community. Esperanza's school design will help all students be academically successful. 

Our Mariachi is special because:

• We welcome children of all backgrounds and ethnicities.
• One of the main purposes of Esperanza is to close the academic gap for Hispanic youth.
• It has a sparkle of its own and provides learning that celebrates culture and family.
• Esperanza offers a school-wide Spanish-English dual language immersion program.
• Esperanza teachers and staff are bilingual and multicultural, with no language barriers.
• Esperanza actively involves parents and families in the success of their students.

The person in charge of making this dream come true and leading this group of young people is Allan Moreno. Allan Moreno came to the school to consolidate one of the goals of the director, Eulogio Alejandre, and that with a lot of work and effort makes the Mariachi Águilas de la Esperaza, a reality today. Teachers Melanie Broadhead and Yesenia Delgado, who are Teachers of Music and are part of this great team of teachers help all the children of Mariachi Águilas de la Esperanza.

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With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sound, Sierra Ferrell makes music that's as fantastically vagabond as the artist herself. Growing up in West Virginia, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist got her start belting out Shania Twain songs in a local bar at the age of seven, and left home in her early 20s to journey across the country with a troupe of wandering musicians. "I met all these homeless kids who were traveling all over the place and playing amazing old songs, and I wanted to be a part of that," says Ferrell, who played everywhere from truck stops to alleyways to freight train boxcars speeding down the railroad tracks. "The music they were making was so honest, so pure. It seemed important to bring that kind of music back, and it's been with me ever since."

After years of living in her van and busking on the streets of New Orleans and Seattle, Ferrell moved to Nashville and started landing gigs around town. Soon enough, her magnetic live show drew the attention of Rounder Records, who signed Ferrell in 2019. To date, she's enchanted audiences at major festivals like The Avett Brothers at the Beach, AmericanaFest, and Out on The Weekend, and also shared the stage with the likes of Trampled by Turtles, Parker Millsap, Charley Crockett, and The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band.

Produced by Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Gillian Welch), Ferrell's debut singles for Rounder feature a stellar lineup of musicians, including country royalty like Chris Scruggs and her longtime collaborator Nathan Leath (a fiddle player she first met at the American Legion Post 82's Honky-Tonk Tuesday). Sprung from her self-described "country heart but a jazz mind," those tracks include "Why'd Ya Do It": a beguiling and bittersweet lament partly inspired by Ferrell's fascination with calypso and tango music. ("That song took me a few years to put together -- it's such a different vibe for me, and I'm ridiculously happy with the outcome," Ferrell notes.) And with its galloping rhythm and classic bluegrass storytelling -- as well as a guest appearance from Grammy Award-winner Sarah Jarosz on background vocals -- "Jeremiah" sweetly delivers what Ferrell dubs "a broken song, with a gleam of hope at the end."

Now at work on her full-length debut for Rounder, Ferrell delights in defying all convention in everything she creates. "I want my music to be like my mind is -- all over the place," she says. "I listen to everything from bluegrass to techno to goth metal, and it all inspires me in different ways that I try to incorporate into my songs and make people really feel something."

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