Aggie Radio hosts traditional music festival in collaboration with SAA, USUSA

Aggie Radio is hosting its traditional Logan City Limits music festival this week. The festival will take place in various locations on campus from Tuesday to Friday. 

Aggie Radio will be hosting a story hour from 12-1 p.m. in The Hub on Wednesday. Students can sign up to tell a short story with the theme “discovery” during this event. 

The music will start up Thursday at 1 p.m. with a series of pop-up concerts in various locations on campus. Artists Sorrymom, Kyle Olsen, Nicole Henrie and the Frank Just Collective will perform. Students can also reserve tickets to get free food at the food truck fair happening from 12-5 p.m.

The music festival will finish up Friday with the End of Year Bash concert featuring artists Brother., Michael Barrow and the Tourists, the Solarists, and the National Parks. This concert is free to students, but students must get tickets in advance online. The concert will start at 7 p.m. in the George Nelson Fieldhouse. 

Attendance is limited to 850 students. Concert attendees will be split into pods of six people in order to maintain social distancing, and face coverings will be required during the event. 

In a typical year, Logan City Limits takes place all over the city of Logan, but this year it will be centralized to campus in a collaboration with the Student Alumni Association and the Utah State University Student Association for the Aggie Block Party.

The Aggie Block Party is a combination of three traditional Utah State University events: Logan City Limits, End of Year Bash and A-Week. 

According to the Aggie Radio events director, Sydney Ho, the pandemic has made cooperation between campus organizations more necessary.

“It’s been really great to get a lot of minds that are all constantly thinking about event planning together to come up with solutions and fix things,” Ho said. “A lot of their resources are why we’ve been able to do anything at all, so I’m really grateful that we were able to work with them in that way and help get some kind of live music for students before the end of the year.” 

The activities director for USUSA events, Alexis Needleman, said the main goal of collaborating was to reach different student demographics. 

“These three organizations are coming together to create one week of events and collaborate hard in order to, you know, meet the goals of all those different weeks that we would typically have,” Needleman said. 

Needleman said the three organizations fought hard to be able to have an End of Year Bash concert because “it’s something that the students reflected that they really wanted.” 

“They wanted live music and a concert, so we have done intense planning and preparation and gone through all the appropriate channels including the safety committee and action committee to get it approved,” Needleman said. “So it has had plenty of oversight and lots of eyes on the project to make sure that we’re doing it right and doing it safely.”

Ho said that one of the biggest losses she has felt during the pandemic was the loss of the local music scene. All performers for Logan City Limits are local to Utah. 

“Though these things aren’t necessarily seen as necessities and they are the things that have been closed down,” Ho said, “they’re still the things that keep us going, and they’re so important for that reason.”

Darcy Ritchie is a second-year journalism student at Utah State from Idaho Falls, Idaho. Outside of writing for the Statesman, she loves to DJ for Aggie Radio, eat french bread in the Walmart parking lot and tweet.

—darcy.ritchie@usu.edu

@darcyrrose