WATERVILLE — The summer music festival ticket has started for Northwest Ohio with the expanding Oliver Hazard Day Music Festival.

Featured at their fifth annual event, local favorites Oliver Hazard, the indie folk trio from Waterville, host the all-day festival in their hometown by sectioning off Third Street for music, art, food and micro-brew beer. The festival will take place on Aug.12, and tickets started selling this week.

“We’re super excited about it, the fans really showed up last year, despite the weather,” Oliver Hazard member Mike Belazis said. “We have our first international artist, from Canada, playing this year, as well as bands from Virginia and Georgia. I think it’s going to be a good one.”

This year’s lineup will continue the familiar modern folk feel to include Oliver Hazard, Illiterate Light, Sam Burchfield & the Scoundrels and Field Guide.

Oliver Hazard will be slowing down to take a summer break from a tour that has included more than 18,000 miles on the road, covering 40 cities on both coasts and parts of Canada, to release their new album and host the festival. They have been touring on the strength of their albums “Northern Lights” and “34 North River,” as well as their EP “The Flood.”

Hailing from Canada, Field Guide is the event’s first international artist. Field Guide is Dylan MacDonald, who explains his sound as “weaving worlds” with unshakeable melodies that are between darkness and hopefulness.

Illiterate Light have expanded their guitar and drums sound to include keyboards to go beyond the guitar driven indie sound to include neo-psychedelia for a synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk.

Then Sam Burchfield & the Scoundrels are solid Americana, with Burchfield from Appalachia and Georgia. There is folk, southern soul and gospel woven into their mixed sound.

There will also be a special DJ set from local vinyl collector, Jon Zenz.

Local mural artist Cathy Tyda will have a large-scale art installation.

The years of festivals and touring have paid off with the die-hard fan base Oliver Hazard has developed.

“Last year was super successful, but we ended up having seven hours of rain, non-stop, during the entire event. A lot of folks didn’t think we would have a turnout, but we had about 1,000 very excited people with rain ponchos standing at the stage for seven hours straight. It was really cool,” Belazis said. “Hopefully lightning doesn’t strike in the same place twice, but we were pleased to see all the fans.”

Oliver Hazard has teamed up with local brewery Buffalo Rock Brewing Co. to create a custom beer, made specially for the event, the Oli-Ale. Food options have also expanded from last year with the following local food trucks scheduled: The Rolling Chef, Leaf and Seed, Deets BBQ, Taqueria Agave and the Wandering Bean Coffee Co.

All alcohol proceeds from the event will be donated to the Toledo Arts Commission.

Belazis said that last year’s tour saw the last of pandemic restrictions ease up, with this year already looking very normal again.

“2021 was pretty tough, even as 2022 was getting a little more normal, with people making their own choices. This year the venues aren’t even asking for masks,” Belazis said.

Tickets went on sale this week with general admission at $25 and are available through the link at the www.oliverhazardday.com website. The website also has preview links for music from the bands that will be playing the festival.