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What better way to close out Summer and move into Fall than the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival? Great Music! Great Food! and lots of fun had by all.  I didn’t get to the outside stages much, as  managing the Folklore Hall Stage kept me busy, but everyone who I talked with was awestruck by [...]

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Taking the weekend off

by Joe Spake on September 6, 2009

Oh, have I mentioned the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival?  Today, Sunday 9/6 is the last day, but what a day it will be:  Rockabilly, folk, funk, soul, hip-hop, mariachi, dance, food demos, and much, much more, and it’s free.  Come on Downtown and check it out. Click here forPrintable 1-page schedule I started a [...]

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Wondering what to do with your Labor Day Weekend in Memphis? If you follow this blog or my other social media posts, you know where I’ll be. If you are going to be in Memphis over the weekend DO NOT MISS the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Downtown, the annual multi-cultural, multi-art form even produced [...]

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Wondering what to do with your Labor Day Weekend in Memphis?  If you follow this blog or my other social media posts, you know where I’ll be.  If you are going to be in Memphis over the weekend DO NOT MISS the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Downtown, the annual multi-cultural, multi-art form even produced [...]

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Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Schedule

by Joe Spake on August 27, 2009

So what’s this Memphis Music and Heritage Festival thing? It’s the Bo-Keys, Jason D. Williams, Bobby Rush, Amy LeVere, Giant Bear, Paul Taylor, Al Kapone, Eddie Bond, Joyce Cobb, Kate Campbell, Daddy Mack, Susan Marshall,  and Gary Topper for starters. It’s been one of Memphis’ best kept secrets in the past, but there is really [...]

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No other event represents the rich musical heritage of this region better than the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.  You’ll see and hear the Mid-South’s best singers and musicians performing traditional blues, rockabilly, country, bluegrass, klezmer, soul, jazz, gospel and that good old sweet soul music.   But the Festival is much more than just a [...]

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Jim Dickinson

by Joe Spake on August 15, 2009

I am certainly unqualified to write any kind of eulogy for Jim Dickinson.  I only knew him from the point of view of a fan.  I learned “Louise” from his amazing 1972 Dixie Fried album, which is in my top 10 records of all time.  I saw Mudboy and the Neutrons whenever I heard they [...]

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I don’t know if there is another festival in the world that brings together the diversity of talent we experience every Labor Day weekend at the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival.  The festival features big-name acts on multiple stages, all in a tight venue at South Main and Peabody Place. On September 5 and 6, [...]

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United Breaks Guitars

by Joe Spake on July 8, 2009

All you traveling musicians should get a kick out of this video Seems that this song was based on an all too true story. – In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and Dave’s Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines… Read full story [...]

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