56th Annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Partners with Yellow Couch Studio

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces a new video series collaboration to be launched as part of the 56th annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. In collaboration with Yellow Couch Studios, Yellow Couch Sessions Live! will be an on-site pop up studio that films behind-the scenes sessions featuring artists performing on the Dollar Bank Main Stage during each day of the festival which takes place June 5-14, 2015.

To date, the series has featured stripped down, live performances from artists including Sean Rowe (ANTI- Records), Field Report (Partisan Records) and Jon Langford & Skull Orchestra (Bloodshot Records), among many others. Yellow Couch's owner and producer, Steven Foxbury called upon his decades of experience as an accomplished songwriter and producer to create a cozy environment conducive to inspiring great performances. This aesthetic will be re-created at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival with help from the design team at Abode, a Pittsburgh-based staging and styling company, Empire Music and the acclaimed boutique microphone company, Peluso Microphone Lab.

"This unique collaboration facilitates a backstage look for our audiences that is unseen throughout the 10 days of the festival. In line with other local and national festivals around the country, the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival is providing deeper artistic content connecting the community with artists who believe that art matters and are dedicated to talking about-and making-art that is vibrant, diverse and meaningful," shared Veronica Corpuz, Director of Festival Management and Special Projects for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Steven Foxbury, Owner and Producer at Yellow Couch Studio shared, "This is a meaningful opportunity in line with our mission of highlighting artist. The objective of this video series is to capture bands and song writers at their most raw, stripped-down essence. By partnering with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, we will have the chance to work with artists that have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, their ability to push creative boundaries and change the landscape of popular music."

Sessions captured during the 2015 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival will be posted on the Yellow Couch Studio website (yellowcouchstudio.com) and posted at a later date on the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Vimeo page (vimeo.com/culturaltrust), following the Festival.

Yellow Couch Studio & Steven Foxbury
Steven Foxbury, owner and producer at Yellow Couch Studio is a songwriter with experience in record/publishing deals, who has had some radio success and has had work featured in film, television, and commercials. He has worked with some of the best producers, musicians and engineers working in the business including Neal Avron (Sara Bareilles, Fallout Boy, Danny Elfman), Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) and Brian Paulson (Wilco, Son Volt, Beck). Yellow Couch Sessions, produced by the studio of the same name, creates an atmosphere that puts artists at ease and inspires intimate performances of stellar quality. Steven is proud to be participating in the 2015 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, along with his wife, who has been selected as an emerging artist this year. Partners for Yellow Couch Sessions Live! include Heather Visneski (Abode), Peluso Microphone Lab and Empire Music.

Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a celebration of the arts in downtown Pittsburgh unlike any other in the nation. Each of its world-class, multi-disciplinary performing and visual arts attractions is free to attend and open to the public! The Festival begins on the first Friday in June and takes place at the confluence of Pittsburgh's famed three rivers in Point State Park, throughout picturesque Gateway Center, and in the city's world-renowned Cultural District.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh's most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country's largest land masses "curated" by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh's quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.