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MONICA HOOPER NWA Democrat-Gazette T he hills might be chilly, but music will warm the historic rooms of the Basin Park Hotel Jan. 19-22 as the annual Ozark Mountain Music Festival returns to Eureka Springs for four days of fun. A mixture of local and national musicians will share stages in the hotel's cave and atrium room in addition to the main stage in the Barefoot Ballroom. There will also be after-hours shows throughout downtown Eureka Springs. For those who can't spend the entire four days, there's a locals' night Jan. 19, and for daytime audiences, the Eagle Rock Gospel Singers share their mix of sacred and secular songs at noon Jan. 22 in the Barefoot Ballroom. Patti Steel, an award-winning multi- instrumentalist singer and songwriter from Northwest Arkansas, is this year's artist- at-large. She will be playing as part of a duo. Other locals include Ashtyn Barbaree, Front Porch, Eureka Strings, Danny Spain Gang and "Icky" Ichniowski. Lindsay Lou, headliner for the OzMoMu Festival, is the daughter of a coal miner and the granddaughter of a Rainbow Gathering healer. The Nashville-based headliner was all set to be a doctor but, her first love of singing won out in the end. Coming from a large musical family, "my mother was one of 12 and I've got upwards of 90 cousins at his point" she says. There was always a family jam. "There were various phases of family bands throughout time," she says of her early years as a musician. "I got exposed to the special thing that is playing music with other people and singing with other people. My mom always sang to me, so it was just part of my surroundings growing up. "My trajectory really started, though, when I started playing with a band called Flat Bellies in Michigan when I was in college. We started touring all over — all over the world, really. I made some records with them, and I have some records with the Sweetwater Warblers, which is another outfit that started in Michigan. I've been just making records for the last 10 years or more." Lou says that she came up alongside guitar prodigy Billy Strings in Michigan too. The two recorded a stripped-down 12 What's up! January 15-21, 2023 See OzMoMu Page 38 Cover Story Hot Time In The Ol' Town Lindsay Lou headlines annual OzMoMu festival Lindsay Lou will headline the Ozark Mountain Music Festival Jan. 19-22 at the Basin park hotel in Eureka springs. now living in nashville, tenn., Lou is a renowned singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Michigan, known for her soulful vocals and intricate musicianship. she performs with her band at 10 p.m. Jan. 20 in the Barefoot Ballroom. (Courtesy photo/Kirk Barnett)