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Turtledoves perform during the first installment of Joyful Noise on the Green. P H OTO : C H U R C H O F T H E A DV E N T
Uplifting Music with an Intentional Twist Joyful Noise on the Green in Walnut Hills presents all-are-welcome, free outdoor concerts featuring local — and regional — bands BY K AT R I N A E R E S M A N
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s live musical performances gradually make their way back into our post-vaccine world, a new local concert series could become a staple this summer. Joyful Noise on the Green — which launched at the end of May — takes place roughly every other Saturday through October on the lawn of the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Walnut Hills. It is the brainchild of church
employees Reverend Jason Oden, also known as Espresso Priest on Instagram, and Brianna Kelly, a local musician. The music series is not quite what you might expect from a religious institution, though. Part of Rev. Oden’s role is to bring new life and ideas to a diminishing congregation. After he took his job at the church last fall, he began meeting with Kelly, whom he knew from
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