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Ella Skinner

Co-founder and producer of Seneca Sounds, a music and arts festival series in Geneva, New York, and an organizer with Three Stories/Smith Center for the Arts.

Oct 8, 2026

Common Ground FLX

Common Ground FLX

Bonus 1- Making a Scene with Seneca Sounds + Ponte Collective

Oct 8 · 28m

Lindsay DeanGUEST
15:07
And Ella could probably speak more to all of that, but that's kind of how I saw it.
Ella SkinnerGUEST
15:12
Yeah, I just wanted to add that I think it is interesting to me that a lot of music festivals pick a genre and go with that route.
Ella SkinnerGUEST
15:21
So when we were first talking about it, we decided we wanted to go for more regional bands.
Ella SkinnerGUEST
15:27
I mean, I think that's the nature of a first annual festival as well.
Ella SkinnerGUEST
15:31
But we couldn't really pick a specific genre.
Ella SkinnerGUEST
15:36
We wanted to keep things, like Lindsay said, dancey, uplifted, good time bands.
Ella SkinnerGUEST
15:43
And yeah, I agree that the performance art and the DJs brought a new element to Geneva that is not already here.
Lindsay DeanGUEST
20:14
That's kind of how I feel about that.

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