POP-PUNK ALL DAY, CONTINUED FROM PG. 35
Four Chord bands (from
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December. He was talking to Nate Dorough, who puts on Bled Fest, an all-ages, mixedgenre one-day music festival in Howell, Mich. Dorough asked if Pittsburgh had anything similar to Bled. Bahl said there wasn’t; “You should just do it,” replied Dorough. Since preparations began in early April, Bahl says he has spent four to five hours a day planning, fielding emails, designing all festival media (website, program and so on) and teaching himself HTML code and Adobe Flash just for the event. While planning the 1,500-capacity festival, he is also juggling writing his Ph.D. dissertation
Real Friends, The Wonder
Years, We Are the Union
in integrated marketing, and preparing his curriculum as a visiting professor of marketing at LaRoche College, where he was recently hired. Between all his commitments, professional and musical, he says he’s been catching four hours of sleep a night since planning began. “I’m a super control freak. So when I get my mind on something, I do it until there’s nothing left to do,” Bahl says. “It’s fun. It seems stressful, and it is stressful, but it’s actually really fun: taking something from the ground up and trying to make something of it.” CONTINUES ON PG. 46
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