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A festival for the people, by the people
he Opelika Songwriters festival was founded in 2019, and with health on the horizon, the festival is looking forward to completing this year what they could not in 2020. This October, The Sound Wall — in partnership with Russell Carter Artist Management (RCAM) — will be hosting singers and songwriters nationwide for its second annual festival. Located in historic downtown Opelika, the festival will run over for three days, Oct. 15-17. The Sound Wall is owned by Rob and Jen Slocumb, partners in life and in music. The husband-and-wife duo started their band, Martha’s Trouble, more than two decades ago. “Rob and I thought about doing a festival of this type for a while,” Jen said. “In January 2019, we decided we would reach out to certain people in the community to see if it was something people would respond well to. We had nothing but positive feedback about it, so we thought the next step was to see if we could get artists to come.” That was when Bailey Jones entered the picture. Jones is best known for running
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