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Photos: Sandy Ewen and Pete Fosco utilize strings as surface at The Outside Presents season finale

WYSO | By Ruthie Herman,
Juliet Fromholt
Published June 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM EDT
Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Evan Miller interviews Pete Fosco at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Evan Miller interviews Pete Fosco at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Evan Miller interviews Pete Fosco at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Evan Miller interviews Pete Fosco at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Billy Gruber (SOS Lightshow) crafts liquid light visuals at The Outside Presents.
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Billy Gruber (SOS Lightshow) crafts liquid light visuals at The Outside Presents.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Pete Fosco performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Attendees at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Sandy Ewan’s table of experimental musical implements at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan’s table of experimental musical implements at The Outside Presents.
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Evan Miller interviews Sandy Ewan at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Evan Miller interviews Sandy Ewan at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Billy Gruber (SOS Lightshow) crafts liquid light visuals at The Outside Presents.
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Billy Gruber (SOS Lightshow) crafts liquid light visuals at The Outside Presents.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Billy Gruber (SOS Lightshow) crafts liquid light visuals at The Outside Presents.
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Billy Gruber (SOS Lightshow) crafts liquid light visuals at The Outside Presents.
Ruthie Herman/WYSO
Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Sandy Ewan performs at The Outside Presents.
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Season two of The Outside Presents wrapped up on June 12, 2025 at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College. The free experimental music series is curated by host of The Outside and WYSO assistant music director Evan Miller.

This edition of the series, entitled "Strings as a Surface" featured performances from Brooklyn-based experimental electric guitar improviser Sandy Ewen and Cincinnati drone guitarist Pete Fosco. Dayton-based SOS Lightshow provided visuals.

WYSO music photographer Ruthie Herman captured the evening.
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Juliet Fromholt
Juliet Fromholt is proud to be music director at 91.3FM WYSO and Novaphonic.FM. Juliet began volunteering at WYSO while working at WWSU, the student station at her alma mater, Wright State University. After joining the station staff in 2009, Juliet developed WYSO’s digital and social media strategy. She moved into the music director role in 2021, and in 2024, oversaw the launch of Novaphonic.FM, a 24/7 music channel curated by the WYSO team, available streaming and on WYSO HD-2.
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