Memphis’ Main Street Mall is the center of attention during the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival, 9/1/12
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The Memphis Music and Heritage Festival is a 26-year-old free music festival held each year on the Main Street Mall in downtown Memphis. Sponsored by the non-profit Center for Southern Folklore, the event offers four stages of local Memphis music and a fifth stage for regional cooking demonstrations. Various vendors display regional folk art, and there is plenty of food and drink from vendors and nearby restaurants.
The Memphis Music and Heritage Festival is a 26-year-old free music festival held each year on the Main Street Mall in downtown Memphis. Sponsored by the non-profit Center for Southern Folklore, the event offers four stages of local Memphis music and a fifth stage for regional cooking demonstrations. Various vendors display regional folk art, and there is plenty of food and drink from vendors and nearby restaurants.
No Big Names, Just The Blues
The official excuse for the horrendous changes at this year’s Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in Clarksdale is that it costs money to bring …
Come to Clarksdale and Enjoy the Homeland Security Festival!
The evidence of a Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival committee woefully out of touch with the blues, tourism, Clarksdale and basic common sense simply …
More about the 2012 Sunflower Blues Festival (via NMissCommentor)
Yet more comments from people that were distressed by the way this year’s Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival was set up.
More about the 2012 Sunflower Blues Festival (via NMissCommentor)
Other Perspectives on the Not-So-Festive Festival (via Deltaborn.blogspot.com)
Obviously, I wasn’t the only blues fan that disliked the vibe of this year’s Sunflower Blues and Heritage Festival
Other Perspectives on the Not-So-Festive Festival (via Deltaborn.blogspot.com)
Thoughts on Sunflower River Blues Festival and the Infamous Wall
The fenced-in enclosure directly in front of the stage at this year’s Sunflower River Blues Festival has already occasioned much critical comment, and that is …
Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band at the Sunflower River Blues Festival, 2012
Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band play under the main stage in front of the empty chairs and tables at the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, 8/11/12
The New (Elite) Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival
Despite almost perfect weather, this year’s Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival seemed extremely small compared to previous years, with only one stage of performances, and that blocked by a new fenced-in compound with tables and chairs presumably reserved for wealthy donors or paying ticket-holders. Since the compound was nearly-empty, performers got the dubious pleasure of performing to the empty tables in front of the stage, since the crowd was in the free area to the east closer to the Blues Museum.