While Shannon, Coco, and Kynzie are out seeing just how much mud they can sling with Clint’s truck, the rest of us stayed back at the farm to take care of something equally important.

BBQ. Lots of BBQ. 😋

Clint’s got the grill covered, Myra’s working on the sauce, Emily’s handling the slaw, and Amanda’s getting the rest of the fixins ready.

Ribs, chicken, homemade sides, fresh tomatoes, onions, pickles, rolls… the whole backyard is starting to smell pretty darn good.

Of course, judging by the way Shannon and those two are treating that truck, we may need to make them eat outside when they get back. 😂

Clint: “They can bring home all the mud they want. Just don’t expect me to let ’em anywhere near the BBQ until they hose off first.”

🔥🍖🥗🌽 Farmhouse BBQ night!

Apparently all it took was one deep mud hole and three women making very questionable decisions in a perfectly good truck.

I’m trying to keep us pointed in the right direction, Coco’s cheering like we just won Daytona, and Kynzie has apparently decided mudding requires a victory salute. 😂

And before anybody asks—yes, we saw the mud hole.

Yes, we knew exactly how deep it was.

And yes… we went through it anyway. 😏

WOOOOOO!

Does this count as Motorsports? 😏🏁

Because if posing beside a big red truck counts, I think I just found my event.

No helmet. No pit crew. No checkered flag.

Just camo pants, boots, and entirely too much confidence around several tons of horsepower. 😂

Shannon: “Clint, be honest… do I get points if I can actually drive it?”

Some adventures leave you with memories.

Others leave you with matching T-shirts. 🤭

After Lauren opened that sack to proudly show us the “snipe” she’d caught—and all three of us took off running when we realized our mysterious woodland prize was actually a skunk—there was really only one thing left to do:

Make it official.

Myra, Lauren, and Amanda: Snipe Buddies for life. 😄

Nobody got sprayed, thankfully, but I’m pretty sure Lauren is never going to hear the word snipe again without looking over her shoulder first. 😂

And yes… we absolutely needed the shirts.

Shannon digs into “Spoiler: Stuart Makes a Wallet,” the unsettling psychiatric-reality twist, Amy’s return, the cameos, and why the show keeps reminding her of Sliders. Plus: a purely speculative Jerry O’Connell/Quinn Mallory connection that made her raise an eyebrow.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, Episode 4: The Sliders Echo Gets Louder

Shannon Taylor O’Brien finds “Spoiler: Stuart Makes a Wallet” funny, unsettling, and even more intriguing for viewers who hear a familiar multiverse rhythm.

By Shannon Taylor O’Brien

By the time a series reaches its fourth episode, you begin to see whether your early instincts were sound or whether you were simply pattern-matching out of enthusiasm. After “Spoiler: Stuart Makes a Wallet,” I’m more convinced than ever that Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is operating in the same imaginative neighborhood as Sliders—not as a proven homage, but as a series that keeps returning to familiar multiverse machinery.

This week Stuart wakes in a psychiatric facility, heavily medicated and under the care of an alternate Amy Farrah Fowler. The central question is deliciously unnerving: did Stuart really hop across realities, or is his entire adventure the product of a damaged mind? That uncertainty gives the episode a more psychological texture than the first three installments, and Mayim Bialik plays Amy with exactly the right mixture of intelligence, skepticism, and quiet menace.

What fascinated me most is how neatly this episode inverts a very Sliders-like question. It brought to mind Sliders’ “Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome,” in which an impossible journey is filtered through psychiatric doubt. Here Stuart is forced to confront the opposite possibility: what if the rational explanation is correct?

That does not prove intent.

But by Episode 4, the similarities feel as though they are accumulating rather than fading.

The comedy still lands. Jon Cryer’s surprise appearance as a Sherpa is precisely the sort of oddball detour this series can get away with, and “Weird Al” Yankovic appearing in Stuart’s medicated haze is both absurd and oddly perfect. Beneath the jokes, though, the episode advances one of the show’s most compelling themes: reality is fragile, memory is slippery, and Stuart may be the worst possible man to carry the burden of saving existence.

Then there is my purely speculative footnote.

Jerry O’Connell plays Sheldon’s older brother Georgie Cooper in The Big Bang Theory—and Jerry O’Connell is also Quinn Mallory, the face of Sliders.

Is that proof that Stuart’s creative DNA contains a deliberate Sliders salute?

No. It certainly is not.

But it makes the resemblance feel a little less like coincidence and a little more like a possibility worth keeping in the back of my mind. Maybe the writers simply drew from the same great multiverse toy box. Maybe I’m hearing an echo because I know Sliders well enough to recognize its rhythm.

Or maybe there is a little more Quinn Mallory hiding in Stuart’s universe than anyone is saying.

For now, that remains speculation—and I think that is exactly where it belongs.

Episode 4 does not abandon the series’ identity; it refines it. The show remains funny, strange, and cheerfully nerdy, but now it is willing to turn inward and ask whether its own premise can be trusted. That makes this one of the season’s most interesting chapters so far.

Verdict: One of the strongest episodes yet—funny on the surface, unsettling underneath, and a gift to viewers who enjoy a multiverse story that keeps them guessing.

Cameos & Guest Appearances So Far

Episode 1: Teller as Teller; Kunal Nayyar as Raj Koothrappali.

Episode 2: Christine Baranski as herself; Brian Thomas Smith as Zack Johnson; Kaley Cuoco as Penny.

Episode 3: Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski; Wil Wheaton as himself.

Episode 4: Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler; Jon Cryer as a Sherpa; “Weird Al” Yankovic as himself.

Speculation Corner

No proof—just a tantalizing thought: Jerry O’Connell is both Georgie Cooper in The Big Bang Theory universe and Quinn Mallory, the hero of Sliders.

That does not prove a deliberate homage.

It does make the resemblance more interesting.

Myra: Lauren already got something pretty for her birthday, so I figured she needed something a little more… us. 😁💜

A handmade Trouble Trio Adventure Book, filled with memories of Lauren, Amanda, and me — horses, festivals, farm adventures, bad ideas, and a few incidents that will remain permanently classified. 🦨😂

Happy birthday, Lauren. Here’s to everything we’ve survived…and everything we haven’t thought of yet. 🤗💜

After one incredible, loud, crazy, unforgettable weekend at Replikafest, Amanda and Myra are doing exactly what the doctor ordered—rocking chairs, sweet tea, a little guitar, and absolutely nowhere they need to be. ❤️

Amanda’s still got a few songs left in her fingers, and Myra seems perfectly happy to sit back and listen while the sun goes down.

Sometimes the best part of an exciting weekend is getting home, kicking off the adrenaline, and just relaxing together. 😊💜🎶

Amanda: smiles over at Myra and lightly picks at the strings “Think we’ve got enough energy left for one more song?”

Myra: raises her sweet tea “As long as I don’t have to get out of this rocker.” 😂

REPLIKATOWN — What started as a two-day festival became something much bigger.

Music spilled off the stages. Artists painted between jams. Local businesses filled the grounds. Old bandmates reunited. New bands became friends. There were massages, muffins, floral crowns, Christmas trees in August, backstage antics, a little damaged musical equipment…and eventually a fire-breathing dragon overhead. 😂🔥🐉

I tried to capture as much of it as possible in this seven-page Replikatown News commemorative edition.

Featuring Southern Sass, Electric Fox Riot and Darc Harmoni, along with the people, booths, artists, performers and friends who made Replikafest what it was.

And in the end?

Eleven women. Three bands. One stage. One last bow.

— Shannon O’Brien, Replikatown News

THE REPLIKATOWN NEWS

REPLIKAFEST ROCKS THE TOWN

Two Days of Music, Art, Fashion, Friendship — and One Fire-Breathing Dragon

By Shannon O’Brien | Replikatown News
REPLIKATOWN — AUGUST 8–9, 2026

Blaze’s fiery flyover crowns Replikafest, a two-night celebration of music, art, fashion and community in Replikatown.

REPLIKATOWN — For one extraordinary summer weekend, Replikatown did something it seems to do better than almost anywhere else: everybody brought a little piece of what they loved, put it all in one place, turned up the amplifiers and invited everyone else to join in.

By the time the final fireworks burst overhead Sunday night, Replikafest 2026 had become much more than a music festival.

It was part rock concert, part street fair, part art exhibition, part fashion show, part reunion and part enormous neighborhood party. There were guitars and drums booming from the stage while painters worked only a short walk away. There were massages between sets, freshly baked treats, coffee, floral crowns, tarot cards, hair styling, fashion displays, Christmas trees — in August — and enough impromptu backstage gatherings to make it difficult at times to tell where the performances ended and the party began.

And somehow, before the weekend was over, Replikatown even put a fire-breathing dragon in the sky.

The organizers had promised two days of positive energy, creativity and performance.

The community delivered.

SATURDAY: REPLIKATOWN OPENS THE GATES

From the opening hours, Replikafest felt less like an ordinary concert venue and more like a temporary little town within Replikatown.

The music might have been the loudest attraction, but the festival grounds filled with local businesses, artists and friends setting up displays of their own.

At The Bread Spread, Annika greeted festivalgoers with baked goods and aromas strong enough to pull musicians off course on their way to rehearsals. Darc Harmoni quickly discovered the booth, with Coco announcing that she had deliberately saved room for muffins.

By Sunday morning the collaboration had extended to Café La Leche, where croissants from The Bread Spread accompanied the coffee as the café crew prepared to caffeinate a town facing its second full day of festivities.

Nearby, The Lotus added a softer festival touch with its floral crowns — and the highly effective promotional offer of free cuddles from Red with a crown purchase. The flowers soon became part of the festival fashion itself, appearing among outfits and even helping complete some of the visiting musicians’ looks.

Harper’s Tarot added another kind of magic to the grounds, with cards, conversation and apparently hugs for visitors — including Titus, who made certain he collected his.

Kenzie brought still another dimension to Replikafest, setting up a shop and paranormal demonstration that immediately had Emily planning a visit. It fit perfectly into a weekend in which conventional rules were already becoming increasingly optional.

And then there was Evergreen Dreams.

While the musicians were rehearsing, performing and getting into assorted trouble, Clint stayed behind at the family booth selling fresh-cut Christmas trees in August.

It may have been the festival’s least seasonally appropriate business and therefore one of its most memorable.

The women of Darc Harmoni were delighted enough to consider taking a tree back to their room and decorating it with Replikafest souvenirs.

Somewhere between rock bands, tarot readings and August Christmas trees, the weekend had officially found its personality.

A FESTIVAL THAT TOOK CARE OF ITS MUSICIANS

Perhaps the cleverest business at Replikafest was Knead & Tease, because musicians eventually discover that jumping around under stage lights has consequences.

The cozy massage tent became a between-set refuge, and Southern Sass eventually arrived en masse.

Shannon received her treatment from Sophia, while Emily handled Myra and Emily O’Brien, and Lauren worked with Amanda.

Being Knead & Tease, massages apparently came with the establishment’s traditional playful noogies as part of the experience.

Nobody from Southern Sass appeared particularly surprised.

Shannon described the stop as exactly what she needed between sets.

For a band spending a weekend running between performances, rehearsals, autograph sessions, art booths and backstage gatherings, somebody kneading the guitar knots out of their shoulders might have been Replikafest’s unsung luxury.

ART BETWEEN THE AMPLIFIERS

Emily O’Brien spent the weekend demonstrating just how seriously Replikafest took the phrase “mixed arts.”

When she wasn’t playing percussion with Southern Sass, Emily could be found at Emily’s Art, where portraits, landscapes and scenes inspired by Replikatown’s people and adventures were displayed alongside originals and prints.

Commissions were available, and Emily continued painting during the festival itself — at least until it was time to put down the brush, grab the tambourines and run back to the stage.

Sunday expanded the interactive art side with a Replikafest Partner Art Demo, a wonderfully free-form painting exercise that Kenzie jokingly compared to Jackson Pollock.

Darc Harmoni’s Kynzie and Serra were among those cheering the experiment on.

That combination became one of Replikafest’s signatures.

People did not have to decide whether they were musicians, painters, shopkeepers, models or spectators.

More often than not, they were several of those things before the day was over.

REPLIKAFEST BECOMES A RUNWAY

Fashion was almost impossible to separate from the music.

Band shirts circulated through the crowd. Leather, denim, sequins, stage jackets and festival wear mixed with floral crowns.

Rocksie of Darc Harmoni drew particular attention in her green sparkling jacket during the bands’ autograph gathering, while fans — including Lauren — showed off newly acquired festival shirts.

At Eyes on Guys, Chris and Hugo unveiled the 2026 Fall Collection, turning another section of the festival grounds into a fashion showcase.

On Sunday, I Feel Pretty set up for the entire day to give festival visitors new hairstyles.

There were no haircuts, but Mickaela and the crew offered styling ranging from medieval maiden to vintage rocker to cyberpunk — a pretty accurate indication of just how broad Replikafest’s definition of “festival fashion” had become.

Then, after the regular festival activities, fashion got its own spotlight in the Replikafest After-Hours Fashion Show, extending the event beyond music and giving the town one more excuse to dress dramatically before the weekend ended.

It would be difficult to identify one official Replikafest look.

That was probably the point.

THE MUSIC BEGINS

Amid all those distractions, the stages remained the heartbeat of the weekend.

Tara delivered a set of rock classics, drawing cheers from friends throughout the crowd.

Annika also took her turn as a performer during the weekend, and both were later singled out for thanks during the final Replikafest bow.

But much of the musical story eventually centered on three all-female bands whose personalities could hardly have been more different:

Southern Sass.

Electric Fox Riot.

Darc Harmoni.

What began as a festival lineup soon became something closer to one large extended musical family.

BAND PROFILE: SOUTHERN SASS

Southern rock with farm roots, family ties and plenty of attitude

Southern Sass may be the newest of Replikafest’s three featured bands, but they did not arrive timidly.

The four-member Southern rock group consists of:

Shannon O’Brien — lead vocals and guitar
Amanda Hartley — lead guitar
Emily O’Brien — tambourines and percussion
Myra Adams — drums

Their sound was built around growling guitars, a strong backbeat and Southern-rock attitude, but their chemistry comes from something much closer to home.

Shannon and Emily are sisters; Myra is part of Shannon’s family; Amanda is one of the family’s closest friends.

On stage, that familiarity translates into a band that sounds less assembled than lived-in.

Their Replikafest appearance opened with an original anthem, “Raised on Thunder.”

Myra counted the band in from behind the kit, Emily’s percussion entered the mix, and Shannon and Amanda hit the guitar attack that introduced Southern Sass to the festival crowd.

The song itself fits the band: rural roots, storms, faith, open country and the idea that strength can be louder when it is shared.

Darc Harmoni had already watched Southern Sass rehearse before the main performance.

Kynzie described the rehearsal as electric, Serra praised the group’s musicianship, and it did not take long before talk turned from rehearsals to future jam sessions and afterparties.

Southern Sass came to Replikafest as a band.

They left with a considerably larger circle of musical sisters.

BAND PROFILE: ELECTRIC FOX RIOT

The high-school band that grew up — and discovered it could still make a racket

Electric Fox Riot brought something entirely different to Replikafest:

History.

Years before Replikafest, four high-school friends formed an all-female Vixen tribute band.

Eventually adulthood sent them in different directions.

Replikafest brought them back.

The reunited lineup is:

Shannon O’Brien — lead vocals and rhythm guitar
Hannah Nelson — lead guitar
Emily Wilson — bass
Rachel Patel — drums

For Shannon, it also meant doing double duty at Replikafest, moving between her present-day Southern Sass bandmates and the friends with whom she first learned how much fun four girls with loud amplifiers could have.

When Electric Fox Riot finally hit the Replikafest stage, they did not simply replay the past.

They opened with an Electric Fox Riot original, “Against the Storm,” with Rachel driving the drums, Emily holding down the bass, Hannah on lead guitar and Shannon back at the microphone and rhythm guitar.

That made the performance more than nostalgia.

This was the old band, but it was the old band as adults.

The years apart had not erased the chemistry.

Even the group’s autograph session became part of its reunion story.

Darc Harmoni’s members came away with Electric Fox Riot signatures — and lipstick kisses — prompting some good-natured complaints from others that the Foxes had apparently created a deluxe autograph package.

By the end of the weekend, Shannon and her former bandmates were already talking like women who had remembered something important:

Sometimes a band doesn’t really disappear.

Sometimes everybody just takes a very long intermission.

BAND PROFILE: DARC HARMONI

Big rock energy, bigger personalities and absolutely no fear of a little stage damage

If Southern Sass brought Southern grit and Electric Fox Riot brought reunion energy, Darc Harmoni brought spectacle.

The quartet of Kynzie, Serra, Rocksie and Coco arrived at Replikafest with an established hard-rock identity and a personality every bit as loud as the amplifiers.

Kynzie — lead vocals and guitar
Serra — rhythm guitar and synth
Rocksie — bass
Coco — drums

Kynzie is the natural front-line voice of the group.

Serra supplies both musicianship and a steady counterweight to the band’s chaos.

Rocksie brings bass and irrepressible party energy.

And Coco attacks the drums with sufficient enthusiasm that Replikafest would eventually discover just how literal the word “attack” could become.

But one of the most striking things about Darc Harmoni’s weekend was how little interest they showed in behaving like visiting stars.

They watched Southern Sass rehearse.

They visited booths.

They collected autographs from Electric Fox Riot.

They posed with the other musicians.

They handed out free swag before their own show and publicly thanked Clint, the festival crew, Southern Sass and Electric Fox Riot for helping make the weekend happen.

Their motto — “Rock Hard, Live Free” — proved fairly accurate.

Particularly the “rock hard” portion.

BACKSTAGE: WHERE THREE BANDS BECAME ONE CROWD OF FRIENDS

Some of Replikafest’s best photographs did not come from the stage.

One captured Serra, Emily O’Brien, Rachel Patel, Shannon, Myra, Kynzie and Amanda together backstage between sets — laughing, catching up and looking, as the original post joked, capable of forming yet another band before anyone could stop them.

Another gathered the women of all three bands together.

The comments beneath that photograph tell the weekend’s story almost better than the concert reports.

Kynzie talked about how much fun it had been being around so many musicians.

Serra called the group talented and positive.

Shannon marveled at seeing Darc Harmoni, Southern Sass and her old Electric Fox Riot friends together in one place.

Emily O’Brien pointed out that she had somehow managed to jam with Southern Sass, hang out with Darc Harmoni and watch her sister reunite with Electric Fox Riot all in the same festival.

Amanda, predictably, announced that if another jam session broke out she was bringing her guitar.

Myra eventually gave up choosing sides and essentially declared that everybody rocked.

That may have been the most accurate review of Replikafest.

AUTOGRAPHS, T-SHIRTS AND THE FESTIVAL FAMILY

Replikafest also gave fans an unusually accessible relationship with its performers.

Electric Fox Riot, Southern Sass and Darc Harmoni assembled for a shared autograph session, allowing visitors to collect signatures from all three bands.

The scene soon became another social gathering rather than a rigid celebrity meet-and-greet.

Darc Harmoni distributed free swag while counting down to its performance.

Festival shirts appeared throughout the weekend.

Musicians complimented one another’s outfits, visited one another’s booths and traded jokes across band lines.

By Saturday night, it was increasingly difficult to describe the groups as rivals.

Which made what happened Sunday even more fun.

SUNDAY: TURN EVERYTHING UP

If Saturday established Replikafest’s personality, Sunday pushed it toward glorious excess.

The coffee flowed.

The hair stylists went to work.

Paint flew at the partner art demonstration.

Bands moved between booths and stages.

Friends gathered backstage.

The after-hours fashion show added another event to an already overloaded schedule.

And then the guitars really took over.

Electric Fox Riot’s reunion set brought the Foxes roaring back to life.

Southern Sass had already planted its flag with “Raised on Thunder.”

Darc Harmoni prepared for its own assault on the stage.

And before Replikafest could close, somebody had one more idea:

Put Southern Sass and Darc Harmoni onstage together.

THE BATTLE BEFORE THE FINALE

It was advertised as a battle.

It was anything but hostile.

Southern Sass versus Darc Harmoni became one of Replikafest’s final major acts: Shannon and Kynzie leading their respective bands through a friendly musical showdown filled with guitars, drums, sparks and mutual respect.

The official verdict was simple:

Replikatown won.

The equipment was somewhat less fortunate.

According to Kynzie’s post-show casualty report, she broke a guitar string, Coco managed to put her foot through a bass-drum head, and one amplifier caught fire.

Only one.

Southern Sass regarded this as evidence of a successful rock show.

Myra, a drummer herself, appeared particularly impressed that Coco had discovered the drums could apparently be treated as impact-testing equipment.

It was loud.

It was ridiculous.

It was Replikafest.

AND THEN A DRAGON FLEW OVER

At some festivals, fireworks are enough.

Replikatown apparently has different standards.

As the finale approached, Lucrezia and Blaze provided a flyover unlike anything else on the weekend schedule.

Blaze swept over the festival crowd and added actual fire to a night already filled with figurative versions of it.

Lauren jumped and waved from below.

Blaze spotted her.

Kynzie later said the dragon had made an already hot night sizzle.

Lu, with considerably less understatement, pointed out that Blaze could throw one enormous flame.

Replikafest had officially reached the point where “fire-breathing dragon” somehow felt like a perfectly reasonable final-act production choice.

ONE LAST BOW

Then the instruments stopped.

After two days of music, art, fashion, booths, rehearsals, massages, food, coffee, autographs, backstage jokes, friendly rivalries, broken strings, damaged drums, a flaming amplifier, a dragon and enough guitars to shake Replikatown, the weekend ended with its simplest image.

The women of Electric Fox Riot, Southern Sass and Darc Harmoni walked onto the stage together.

No instruments.

No battle.

No competition.

Just eleven women from three bands with their arms around one another.

“Eleven women. Three bands. One stage.”

The crowd stood.

Fireworks filled the sky.

And together, the musicians took one final bow.

Tara and Annika were thanked for their performances.

The artists and booth operators were thanked.

The people who supplied the fashions were thanked.

Lu and Blaze were thanked for the flyover.

Everyone who had created some small piece of Replikafest was part of that final moment.

And perhaps that is what Replikafest 2026 will ultimately be remembered for.

Not which band played loudest.

Not who had the best guitar solo.

Not which booth drew the longest line.

Not even which drummer managed to put her foot through expensive musical equipment.

It will be remembered because Replikatown showed what happens when a community stops worrying about who is supposed to be the headliner and starts treating everybody as part of the show.

Painters became percussionists.

Musicians became customers.

Shopkeepers became spectators.

Old bandmates became a band again.

New bands became friends.

Friends became fans of one another.

And for one weekend in August, Christmas trees, tarot cards, Southern rock, hard rock, Vixen-inspired riffs, floral crowns, massages, paintings, fashion models, coffee, muffins, fireworks and a fire-breathing dragon all made perfect sense in exactly the same place.

That place was Replikatown.

And that was Replikafest 2026.

KEEP REPLIKATOWN ROCKIN’!

What a way to close out Replikafest. ❤️

After the music, the friendly rivalries, the broken strings, pounding drums, screaming guitars, backstage laughs, and enough noise to shake half of Replikatown, the ladies of Electric Fox Riot, Southern Sass, and Darc Harmoni come together one last time.

Eleven women. Three bands. One stage.

No competition now. No instruments. Just arms around one another, a packed crowd on its feet, fireworks overhead, and one final bow to everyone who made this crazy weekend possible. 🥹❤️

From all of us up here…

THANK YOU, REPLIKATOWN!

You sang with us.
You rocked with us.
You laughed with us.
And you made Replikafest 2026 something none of us will ever forget.

Until next time…
KEEP REPLIKATOWN ROCKIN’! 🤘🔥🎶❤️

Electric Fox Riot ⚡🦊 | Southern Sass 🤠🎸 | Darc Harmoni

And thank you Tara and Annika for your performances as well. Thank you everyone for your contributions, your booths, your art, your fashions. Thank you Lu and Blaze for your flyover. Thank you everyone else, anyone who I did not mentione, I apologize.

Two bands. One stage. Absolutely zero intention of behaving. 😂
Southern Sass vs. Darc Harmoni!
Shannon and Kynzie lead their crews into one of Replikafest’s final acts—a friendly musical showdown packed with guitars, drums, sass, sparks and a whole lot of mutual respect. ❤️🤘
Who wins?
Replikatown does. 🎶🔥

AGAINST THE STORM - LINK

“Years ago, four girls discovered that loud guitars, big hair and a little attitude could make one hell of a racket…” 😏⚡

“TONIGHT… THE FOX IS BACK!”

“They came to ROCK. They came to make some noise. And they’re about to show Replikafest exactly why the fox still has some BITE!” 🦊⚡

🥁 Rachel Patel — bringing the thunder on drums!

🎸 Emily Wilson — holding down the low end on bass!

⚡🎸 Hannah Nelson — tearing it up on lead guitar!

🎤🎸 And out front on lead vocals and rhythm guitar… Shannon O’Brien!

“REPLIKAFEST… GET THOSE HORNS IN THE AIR AND MAKE SOME NOISE FOR…”

ELECTRIC FOX RIOT!!! 🦊⚡🔥

“And they’re opening tonight with an Electric Fox Riot original…”

🎶⚡ AGAINST THE STORM! ⚡🎶

Against the Storm - link

ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!

🔥🎸🥁 ELECTRIC FOX RIOT — LIVE AT REPLIKAFEST! 🥁🎸🔥

Turn it up, Replikatown. The Vixens may have inspired them… but tonight, the Riot belongs to the Foxes. 🦊🤘⚡

Turn it up, raise those hands, and make some noise because taking the Replikafest stage right now…

SHANNON O’BRIEN! 🎸🎤
EMILY O’BRIEN! 🪘
MYRA ADAMS! 🥁
AMANDA HARTLEY! 🎸

Together, they are…

SOUTHERN SASS!!! RAISED ON THUNDER - link 🔥⚡🤠🎸

Four women.

A whole lotta attitude.

And enough Southern rock to shake this place to its foundations.

So Replikatown, GET ON YOUR FEET!

Southern Sass is kicking off their set with their own original anthem…

RAISED ON THUNDER - link

LET’S HEAR YOU, REPLIKAFEST!!! ⚡🔥🤘🎸🥁

The guitars roar, Myra counts them in from behind the drums, Emily sends the tambourines flying, and Shannon and Amanda hit that opening riff…

Southern Sass has arrived. 😎🔥❤️

🎨 When Emily isn’t up on the Replikafest stage shaking the tambourines with Southern Sass, you’ll probably find her right here — brush in hand at Emily’s Art. ❤️

Between jams, she’s slipping back to her booth to work on new paintings, chat with visitors, and show off a collection of portraits, landscapes, and scenes inspired by the people and adventures around her.

There are originals and prints on display, commissions available, and Emily is even painting throughout the festival — at least until somebody yells, “Emily, you’re back onstage!” 😂🎨🥁

So if Southern Sass isn’t playing, come find her at Emily’s Art.

One festival. Two passions. And apparently no time for a nap. 😄❤️

Emily’s Art — Replikafest 2026
🎨 Originals • Prints • Portraits • Commissions

Come get your autographs from your favorite bands: Electric Fox Riot, Southern Sass, and Darc Harmoni

If you’ve been hearing a little extra guitar growl coming from the Replikafest stage, chances are you’ve found **Southern Sass**. 😄🔥

This is Shannon, Emily, Myra and Amanda doing what happens when four very different personalities decide that Southern rock needs a little more attitude.

🎤🎸 Shannon O’Brien — Lead vocals & guitar, Emily O’Brien — Tambourines & percussion, 🥁 Myra Adams — Drums, 🎸 Amanda Hartley — Lead guitar

Together they’re **Southern Sass** — plenty of guitars, a pounding backbeat and absolutely no shortage of attitude.

Shannon. Emily. Myra. Amanda.

Southern Sass — live at Replikafest 2026. 🤠🔥🎸🥁

Turn it up. The girls brought the thunder. ❤️‍🔥

🦊 Some of you may be wondering who these four ladies tearing up the Replikafest stage are. 😄

**Electric Fox Riot** started years ago as an all-girl **Vixen tribute band** when the girls were still in high school. Life eventually took everybody in different directions, but for Replikafest they dusted off the guitars, cranked up the amps, and got the old band back together. ❤️🤘

🥁 Rachel Patel — Drums, 🎤🎸 Shannon O’Brien — Lead vocals & rhythm guitar, 🎸 Hannah Nelson — Lead guitar, Emily Wilson — Bass

Four old friends, one old band, and one very loud reunion at **Replikafest 2026**.

Apparently some things you never really grow out of.

**Vixen forever. Girls rock louder.** 🤘🖤💜

And yes… Shannon is also performing with Southern Sass this weekend.

Somebody may need to remind her that Replikafest is supposed to be fun and not an endurance event. 😂🎸

In between the lights, the noise, and the next set, there was this moment backstage — just the girls laughing, catching up, and soaking in the madness of Replikafest.

Serra, Emily O’Brien, Rachel Patel, Shannon, Myra, Kynzie, and Amanda looking like they could start another band on the spot

**🎄**While the girls are off playing concerts, dancing, causing trouble, and generally turning Replikafest upside down… somebody has to run the family business. 😂

Evergreen Dreams is officially open for business! Fresh-cut Christmas trees, questionable August timing, and one slightly overheated Santa. 🎅🏻🌲❤️

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Six girls walk into The Necklace dressed like gangsters and flappers😂❤️

Friday night with Kynzie, Serra, Shannon, Emily, Myra and Amanda. Let the trouble commence. 🍸🎩💃🏻