Springfield newspaper The State Journal Register has recently featured an article on The Horse Show. The Horse Show is a music festival happening tomorrow (Saturday) in Pawnee, Illinois (just outside of Springfield) at The Refuge Ranch. The fest is being put on by Springfield basement venue The Radon Lounge. Here’s a chunk of the article:

The Soil & the Sun, which played at The Radon Lounge in Springfield last year, headlines the day-long festival that includes 22 acts offering everything from electronica to ska to hip-hop spread over two stages.

The setting is again the Refuge Ranch, a nonprofit organization just outside Pawnee that pairs at-risk children and families with horses that have been rescued from abuse and neglect in a mentoring horsemanship program.

The day takes on a festival atmosphere, says Jeff Black, owner and operator of The Radon Lounge, with food, artisan tables, games such as “mondo croquet” and music.

The Soil & the Sun, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has received national attention from National Public Radio, calling it one of 100 “artists to discover” at 2013’s SXSW Festival, and from Paste magazine, which noted that the band sported elements akin to Fleet Foxes.

You can find the rest of that article in Wednesday’s copy of The State Journal Register or also online right here. If you are still wondering what The Horse Show is all about, you might want to take a look at The Radon Lounge’s Horse Show “Preview” where they talk about all of the acts and activities you will be able to find there. Some familiar acts to Black Sheep playing The Horse Show are Soap Scum, Meredosia, Full Chroma, and more.