Memphis Music & Heritage Festival
Center for Southern Folklore
119 S. Main St.
Memphis, TN 38103
Category: Music Events
Date: September 04, 2010 - September 05, 2010
Time: 11am - 11pm
Website: www.southernfolklore.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=89
901-525-3655
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Downtown Memphis comes alive as the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival returns to Downtown Memphis. In the past, 30,000+ people enjoyed two days and five stages of the best music, art, crafts, cooks, heritage talkers and storytellers the Memphis/Mid-South region has to offer - and this year should be even better!
The late Jim Dickinson was a good friend of the Center for Southern Folklore and a perennial performer at the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival. With his typical naked and perceptive honesty he summed up the Festival and its executive producer, Judy Peiser, thusly: "Judy's a curious person. To her, Memphis music - whether it's blues or punk or rap or gospel - is all the same. Imagine if you took this festival to Paris. People would bow down and worship it."
- Jim Dickinson, from A World of Our Own by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer
* Indoor and outdoor stages
* 6 Stages featuring blues, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, soul and more
* Cooking Stage showcasing regional and ethnic cooks (making everything from peach cobbler to Chinese salads), recipes and stories from cooks who learned their cooking from their parents.
* Talkers Corner: Storytellers, Quilters, Baseball Players, Musicians and more talk about their crafts in a relaxing setting.
* Dance performances by Drum Lines, African, Chinese, and Salsa dancers and more.
* Demonstration and sales booths showcasing traditional and ethnic folk arts and crafts.
* Music and songwriting workshops.
For details about the Center for Southern Folklore, go to their website: www.southernfolklore.com. Admission to the public is FREE!
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