When Trey Bartley found out that Anthologies was going to be a part of Stucky Music Festival 2014, he was excited.

“This is our first year playing Stucky. I attended last year,” said Bartley, guitarist for the four-man, Bowling Green-based band. “I’m a big fan of music festivals. I thought it would be fun to play.”

The festival will be from noon to midnight Saturday at the National Corvette Museum, 350 Corvette Drive. Tickets are $20 at Mellow Matt’s Music & More, Tony Lindsey & Company Professional Hair Designs and Tidball’s in Bowling Green and Music is Me in Glasgow. Tickets purchased online at stuckymusicfestival.com are $25 and are $35 at the door. Concessions will be available.

“This is our second year. We’ve had a lot of little events, but this is our second festival,” said Rebecca Sales, festival director. “It’s kid-friendly, good for all ages.”

Proceeds will benefit the Son Rhea Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides children the opportunity to participate in music and art.

“We basically knew when we started this that it was going to be for charity. We knew what we wanted to do was put on a show,” Sales said. “There’s a lot of music talent in the southcentral Kentucky area. We knew how wonderful it would be to get all these bands onstage.

Son Rhea “is good for the economy, good for the kids and prolongs the music scene here,” she said. 

Having young bands perform at the festival gives them a chance to grow.

Sales said the festival is one day instead of two as it was last year.

“It’s good to keep something going and not let it die,” she said.

Picking bands was harder as well, Sales said, as the festival has only 12 slots for bands.

“We turned down 140 bands last year. This year we tried to keep a little of the past but (want others to) have a chance, too,” she said. “It’s really hard to pick a local band because they’re all very good.”

Bands scheduled to play include Chest Rockwell, The Hungry Ears, Family Friends, The Fair-Weather Kings, Otis, Shot Time & Cigarettes, Bucky Covington, Anthologies, Sr., Kopecky Family Band, Five Knives and Outhouse Etiquette. For the schedule, visit stuckymusicfestival.com.

“We support the cause fully,” said Bartley of Anthologies, whose indie rock music is available at Mellow Matt’s and will have some available at the festival.

Baltimore-based Sr., originally called Thee The The, also will be at the festival.

“We are very alternative rock,” said Val Yumm, lead singer and guitarist of the four-person group. “We’re influenced by bands of the early ’90s.”

Yumm lived in Bowling Green for most of 2013 and knows about the festival. “We had a blast last year,” she said.

— For more information about the Son Rhea Foundation, visit sonrhea.org.

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