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A Splendid Time Was Had By All

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The 21st Memphis Music and Heritage Festival was a great success. Holding down my volunteer position as manager of the Folklore Hall Stage kept me from doing too much wandering around, but I did get to see snippets of lots of great acts. There is probably not another festival in the country that offers this much variety. From Rockabilly legends Billy Lee Riley and Eddie Bond to Memphis Hip Hop artist AlKapone; From rising indie star Harlan T. Bobo,
to R & B’s Bobby Rush; From the Jazz stylings of Joyce Cobb, Gary Topper and Tony Thomas to the lightning fast bluegrass of GrassFire, to the incredible gospel harmonies of the Singing Southern Jubilees; and of course, one of a kind mixes like Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge and Jimmy Crosthwait together on stage. Mix the music with the storytellers, dancers, cooking demonstrations,Memphis Roller Derby, and free admission and you have a sure fire winner.
See you next year!
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Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Schedule

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2008 Festival Schedule

Saturday August 30th, 2008

Sunday August 31st, 2008

Peabody Place & Main Street Stage

12:00 pm Greg Hisky and His Dixie Whisky Flyers
(Country)

1:00 pm TBA

2:00 pm Agitators with Joe Gaston & Jimmy
Segerson (Blues)

3:00 pm The City Champs (Jazz)

4:00 pm The Sensational Six (Gospel)

5:00 pm The Billy Gibson Blues Band (Blues)

6:00 pm The Kattawar Brothers (Rhythm & Blues)

7:00 pm Giant Bear (Folk Rock)

8:00 pm The Tim Terry Experience (Funk)

9:00 pm The MellowTones (Gospel)

10:00 pm Bobby Rush (Soul)

Trolley Stop Stage

11:00 am TBA

11:15 am The Flying MonkeyMan Band
(Music for the Family)

11:45 am TBA

12:00 pm Jimmy Crosthwait (Puppet Show)

12:40 pm Voices of the South – High Cotton
(Music for the Family)

1:15 pm Randal Morton (Banjo Workshop)

1:40 pm Felix Hernandez (Puerto Rican Cuisine)

2:05 pm TBA

2:30 pm David Bowen (Guitar Workshop)

2:55 pm Ella Kizzie (Southern Cooking)

3:20 pm TBA

3:45 pm Billy Gibson (Harmonica Workshop)

4:10 pm Thomas Sitt (Chinese Cuisine)

4:35 pm TBA

5:00 pm Choctaw (Cooking and Dancing)

5:25 pm Felix Hernandez (Latin Percussion Workshop)

5:50 pm Salsa Memphis (Dance Routine)

6:30 pm The US Navy Big Band (Big Band)

7:30 pm Valerie June Trio (Folk)

8:30 pm Fitz’s Ultimate Cooking Hoorkers
(Music That Smells Good)

9:30 pm Tonya Dyson & Green Onions (Neo-Soul)

Folklore Store Stage

1:15 pm Charlie Wood (Jazz & Blues)

2:15 pm Deborah Swiney (Jazz)

3:15 pm Roy Harper & Rob Pearcy (Country)

4:15 pm Devin Miller (Blues)

5:15 pm Sidney, Cidney, Sidney (Rhythm & Blues)

6:15 pm Kim Richardson (Folk)

7:15 pm William Lee Ellis (Blues)

8:15 pm Promise (Jazz)

9:15 pm Harlan T Bobo (Rock)

10:15 pm Steve Gardner & The Jake Leg Stompers
(Jug Band)

Folklore Hall Stage

2:45 pm Los Cantadores Trio (Mariachi)

3:45 pm Gary Topper Quartet (Jazz)

4:45 pm Singin Southern Jubilees (Gospel)

5:45 pm Billy Lee Riley (Rockabilly)

6:45 pm Grassfire (Bluegrass)

7:45 pm Tony Thomas Trio featuring Sam Shoup
& Tom Lenardo (Jazz)

8:45 pm Hope Clayburn & Soul Scrimmage
(Funk & Soul)

Gayoso & Main Street Stage

1:30 pm Mr. White (DJ & Vocal Set)

2:30 pm Moments of Joy (Gospel)

3:30 pm Lucas Cates Band (Rock)

4:30 pm Devil Train (Gypsy Jazz)

5:30 pm Elmo & The Shades (Blues)

6:30 pm Alicja Trout & The River City Tanlines
(Rock)

7:30 pm The Dark Side Thugs, Willie Firecracker , & The Tunnel Clones (Rap & Hip Hop)

8:30 pm Al Kapone (Hip Hop)

9:30 pm The Daddy Mack Blues Band (Blues)

Peabody Place & Main Street Stage

12:00 pm Hickory Withe Bluegrass (Bluegrass)

1:00 pm Phil Durham (Rhythm & Blues)

2:00 pm Smoochy Smith & Hooch (Country)

3:00 pm Annointed Cowans Singers (Gospel)

4:00 pm FreeWorld featuring Herman Green
(Rock & Jazz)

5:00 pm Reba Russell (Blues)

6:00 pm Homemade Jamz Blues Band (Blues)

7:00 pm Sonny Burgess & The Pacers (Rockabilly)

8:00 pm Will Graves and Soul (Soul)

9:00 pm Darrell Petties & SIP (Gospel)

10:00 pm Jason D. Williams (Boogie Woogie)

Trolley Stop Stage

11:00 am Michigan City Soul Steppers
(Michigan City, Indiana)

11:15 am The Flying MonkeyMan Band
(Music for the Family)

11:45 am The Sophisticated Sound & Steppers
(Hythorn, California)

12:00 pm Jimmy Crosthwait (Puppet Show)

12:40 pm Voices of the South – Virginia Ralph
(Children’s Storytelling)

1:40 pm Pyramid Dancers (Belly Dance Performers)

2:05 pm Ella Kizzie (Southern Cooking)

2:30 pm David Evans (Jug Band Workshop)

2:55 pm Chinese Dance & Martial Arts

3:20 pm Chef Judd Grisanti (Spindini / Italian Cuisine)

3:45 pm The Isiserettes Drill and Drum Corp
(Des Moines, Iowa)

4:00 pm Johnny Yancy Big Band (Big Band)

4:50 pm Chef Michael Patrick (Creole Gumbo)

5:15 pm TBA

5:45 pm Millennium Maddness Fancy Trick Drill &
Drum Show Team (Memphis, Tennessee)

6:00 pm Ekpe (African Drumming)

6:25 pm Deanna Lubin (Working with Challah)

6:45 pm Jumpback Jake (Soul)

7:45 pm Don McMinn & Nightrain (Blues)

8:45 pm The Gypsy Hombres (Jazz)

9:45 pm Willie Covington (Soul)

Folklore Store Stage

1:15 pm Caleb Sweazy (Folk & Country)

2:15 pm Barbara Blue (Blues)

3:15 pm Roy Harper & Rob Pearcy (Country)

4:15 pm Dan Montgomery Trio (Rock)

5:15 pm Audie Smith & Vicki Newsum (Jazz)

6:15 pm Eden Brent (Blues)

7:15 pm Thomas Spurlock (Neo-Soul)

8:15 pm Last Chance Jug Band (Jug Band)

9:15 pm Pierce Pettis (Folk)

10:15 pm Blind Mississippi Morris (Blues)

Folklore Hall Stage

1:45 pm The Jumpin Chi Chis (Jazz)

2:45 pm TBA

3:45 pm Eddie Bond (Country)

4:45 pm Memphis Klezmer Allstars (Klezmer)

5:45 pm Orange Mound Jazz Messengers (Jazz)

6:45 pm Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge , &
Jimmy Crosthwait (Blues)

7:45 pm Niko Lyras Trio

8:45 pm Joyce Cobb (Jazz, Blues & Rock)

Gayoso & Main Street Stage

1:30 pm Mr. White & David Agape
(Gospel & House Set)

2:30 pm FreeVerse (Jam Band & Funk)

3:30 pm The Golden Keys (Gospel)

4:30 pm Charles Johnson & Kwest
(Jazz & Rhythm & Blues)

5:30 pm Kenny Brown

6:30 pm Brown Singers (Gospel)

7:30 pm Susan Marshall (Jazz, Rock & Blues)

8:30 pm Exodus (Reggae)

9:45 pm Los Cantadores (Latin)

IT’S GOING TO BE A GOOD ONE- DON’T MISS IT! SEE YOU THERE!
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Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Needs YOU!

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NEWS FROM THE CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE

Contact: Tim Curry

901-525-3655

[email protected]

www.southernfolklore.com

EVENT: Memphis Music & heritage festival

Place: Center For Southern Folklore

South Main Street between Peabody Place & Gayoso

Downtown Memphis

DATES: Saturday, August 30, 2008

Sunday, August 31, 2008

TIME: 11:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.

WEBSITE: www.MemphisMusicAndHeritageFestival.com

www.southernfolklore.com


CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS AND VENDORS

For Memphis Music & Heritage Festival

VOLUNTEERS

One of the most amazing facts about an enormous undertaking like the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival is that it’s produced by the Center for Southern Folklore with a full and part-time staff of only a half dozen people. The secret is VOLUNTEERS. Every year, dozens of Memphians and Mid-Southerners contribute their time and their energy to a variety of jobs – setting up vendor booths, serving dinners, keeping the trolley tracks clear, decorating Main Street with festive lighting and so on. This volunteer spirit makes it a truly Memphis festival and represents all the good things about our region that the Center celebrates every day.

If you or your organization would like to be part of the special team of volunteers that produces the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival –Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31 – just fill out the short volunteer form posted at http://www.memphismusicandheritagefestival.com/2008mmhf.html and send it in or contact the Center at 901-525-3655. The Festival staff asks that prospective volunteers attend the remaining volunteer orientation meeting on August 18 at 6:00 p.m. in the Folklore Store at 123 S. Main. There, volunteers will meet the staff, learn about the duties involved, and get a background briefing about the Festival. Volunteers must attend this meeting if they weren’t there for the previous ones. Whether or not the volunteer form has been filled out, volunteers are still welcome to attend this meeting. The staff will do their best to put this year’s volunteers into positions fitting their desired placement and overall abilities.

VENDORS

Music is only part of the story at the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival. For years, dozens of regional artists and craftspeople have found the Festival a wonderful showplace to display and sell their works to an audience estimated at over 30,000 people. There’s still room for more vendors at this year’s Festival held August 30 and 31. If you would like to be a vendor, please fill out and send in the Vendor Application at the Festival website at: http://www.memphismusicandheritagefestival.com/images/Vendor_application_june_08.pdf or call the Center at 901-525-3655.

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Tim Curry

Center for Southern Folklore

119 S. Main Street

Memphis, TN 38103

901-525-3655 (phone)

901-544-9965 (fax)

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