Center Stage
(On S. Dearborn St. in Printers Row Park between Polk and Harrison Streets, West Side of Dearborn.)
Sunday 9/13, 3pm

Erin Osmon is a music journalist, critic, and author of the new book Won’t Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America. She’s also published books on John Prine and Jason Molina. A native of Evansville, IN, and a veteran of Chicago newsrooms, her writing appears in the LA Times, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Guardian, No Depression, and others. She won the ASCAP Foundation’s Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award for album notes in 2023, and is the recipient of several Southern California Journalism Awards from the LA Press Club for her profile and feature writing.