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Memphis Music and Heritage Festival

August 30-August 31, 2008

Get your $20.00 FestPass. Support the festival and receive $1.00 off all CSF beverages for the weekend; the 2008 Festival poster for half price; priority seating. Purchase your FestPass at www.southernfolklore.com & at CSF Sales and concession stands.

Eat great food. You won’t go hungry at this year’s festival. The CSF Café in our Folklore Hall is serving: Ella Kizzie’s Chicken Dinner
with Greens & HotWater Cornbread, and Slaw. Peach cobbler. Plus great Neely’s barbecue: CSF Stands: Coors Light, Blue Moon, Yazoo Brewery’s Pale Ale and Dos Perros, Wine, Water, and Coke Products. Ronnie Maxwell will have great festival food: Lemonade,Corn Dogs,& more Flying Fish will serve up: Fried Fish, Fried Shrimp, Hush Puppies and you can eat at our neighborhood restaurants: Majestic Grille, Blues City Pastry Shop & Coffee Bar, Circa, Blue Fin, Wang’s China Bistro, Jillian’s Memphis, Sauces, and Second Street Convenience Store.

Festival Schedule:

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Peabody Place Stage
Main St.@ Peabody Place Ave.
12:00 p m. Greg Hisky &
Dixie Whiskey Flyers Country
1:00 p.m. The Mighty Kings of Harmony Gospel
2:00 p.m. Agitators Blues
3:00 p.m. City Champs Jazz
4:00 p.m. Sensational Six Gospel
5:00 p.m. Billy Gibson Band Blues
6:00 p.m. Kattawar Brothers R&B
7:00 p.m. Giant Bear Jam Band
8:00 p.m. Tim Terry Funk
9:00 p.m. The Mellow Tones Gospel
10:00 pm. Bobby Rush Blues, R&B
Verizon Wireless Trolley Stop Stage
11:15 a.m. The Flying Monkey Man Band
Music for the Family
12:00 p.m. Jimmy Crosthwait Puppeteer
12:45 p.m. Voices of the South – High Cotton
Music for the Family
1:15 p.m. Randal Morton Banjo Workshop
1:40 p.m. Felix Hernandez Puerto Rican
Cooking
2:05 p.m. Dance
2:30 p.m. David Bowen Guitar Workshop
2:55 p.m. Ella Kizzie Southern Cooking
3:20 p.m. TBA
3:45 p.m. Billy Gibson Harmonica Workshop
4:10 p.m. Thomas Sit, Sr. Chinese Cooking
4:35 p.m. Willie Firecracker Freestyle Workshop
5:00 p.m. Choctaw Cooking and Dancing
5:25 p.m. Felix Hernandez Latin Drum Workshop
5:50 p.m. Salsa Memphis Dancers
6:20 p.m. U. S. Navy Big Band
7:15p.m. Valerie June Trio Folk
8:30 p.m. Fitz’s Ultimate Cooking Hookers
Music That Smells Good
9:15 p.m. Tonya Dyson & Green Onions Neo-Soul
Folklore Store Stage
1:15 p.m. Charlie Wood Blues & Jazz
2:15 p.m. Deborah Swiney Jazz
3:15 p.m. Roy Harper & Rob Pearcy Country
4:15 p.m. Devin Miller Blues
5:15 p.m. Sidney, Cidney, Sidney R&B
6:15 p.m. Kim Richardson Folk
7:15 p.m. William Lee Ellis Blues
8:15 p.m. Promise Jazz
9:15 p.m. Harlan T. Bobo Indie Rock
10:15 p.m. Steve Gardner & The Jake Leg
Stompers Jug Band
Folklore Hall Stage
2:45 p.m. Los Cantadores Trio Mariachi
3:45 p.m. Gary Topper Quartet Jazz
4:45 p.m. Singing Southern Jubilees Gospel
5:45 p.m. Billy Lee Riley Blues and Rockabilly
6:45 p.m. Grassfire Bluegrass
7:45 p.m. Tony Thomas Trio featuring Tom
Lenardo & Sam Shoup Jazz
8:45 p.m. Hope Clayburn & Soul Scrimmage Funk
Comcast Gayoso Stage
1:30 p.m. Mr. White DJ & Vocal Set
2:30 p.m. Moments of Joy Gospel
3:30 p.m. Lucas Cates Band Rock
4:30 p.m. Devil Train String Jam Band
5:30 p.m. Elmo and the Shades R&B, Blues
6:30 p.m. Alicja Trout & River City Tanlines
Rock
7:25 p.m. Amemphis Prodigy Records &
Dark Side Thugs
7:50 p.m. Tunnel Clones Rap
8:30 p.m. Al Kapone Rap
9:30 p.m. Daddy Mack Blues Band Blues

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Peabody Place Stage
Main St.@ Peabody Place Ave
12:00 p.m. Hickory Withe Bluegrass
1:00 p.m. Phil Durham R&B
2:00 p.m. Smoochy Smith & Hooch Country
3:00 p.m. Anointed Cowan Singers Gospel
4:00 p.m. Will Graves & Soul Neo-Soul
5:00 p.m. Reba Russell Blues
6:00 p.m. Homemade Jamz Blues Band Blues
7:00 p.m. Sonny Burgess & the Pacers
Rockabilly
8:00 p.m. FreeWorld featuring Herman Green
Rock/Funk/Jazz
9:00 p.m. Darrell Petties & SIP Gospel
10:00 p.m. Jason D. Williams Rockabilly/Boogie
Verizon Wireless Trolley Stop Stage
11:00 a.m. Michigan City Soul Steppers
11:15 a.m. The Flying MonkeyMan Band
11:45 a.m. Drum Line
12:00 p.m. Jimmy Crosthwait Puppeteer
12:40 p.m. Voices of the South – Virginia Ralph
Children’s Storytelling
1:15 p.m. Karen Febles Mexican Cooking
1:40 p.m. Pyramid Dancers Belly Dancing
2:05 p.m. Deanna Lubin Bread Making
2:30 p.m. David Evans Jug Band Workshop
2:55 p.m. Chinese Dance Zoom & Martial Arts
3:20 p.m. Chef Judd Grisanti Spindini Cooking
3:45 p.m. Isiserettes Drill and Drum Corps
4:00 p.m. Johnny Yancey Big Band
4:50 p.m. Ella Kizzie Southern Cooking
5:15 p.m. Memphis Area Square Dancers
5:40 p.m. The Millennium Maddness Fancy
Trick Drill & Drum Show Team
5:55 p.m. Ekpe African Drumming
6:20 p.m. Chef Michael Patrick Creole Gumbo
6:45 p.m. Jumpback Jake Soul
7:45 p.m. Don McMinn & Nightrain Blues
8:45 p.m. Gypsy Hombres Gypsy Jazz
9:45 p.m. Willie Covington Soul
Folklore Store
1:15 p.m. Caleb Sweazy Folk & Country
2:15 p.m. Barbara Blue Blues
3:15 p.m. Roy Harper & Rob Pearcy Country
4:15 p.m. Dan Montgomery Trio Rock
5:15 p.m. Audie Smith & Vicki Newsum Jazz
6:15 p.m. Eden Brent Blues
7:15 p.m. Thomas Spurlock R&B
8:15 p.m. Last Chance Jug Band
9:15 p.m. Pierce Pettis Folk
10:15 p.m. Blind Mississippi Morris Blues
Folklore Hall
1:45 p.m. Jumpin’ Chi Chis Jazz
2:45 p.m. MS. Nikki Blues
3:45 p.m. Eddie Bond Rockabilly
4:45 p.m. Memphis Klezmers
5:45 p.m. Orange Mound Jazz Messengers Jazz
6:45 p.m. Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge, Jimmy
Crosthwait Blues
7:45 p.m. Niko Lyras Trio Funk Fusion
8:45 p.m. Joyce Cobb Jazz, Rock & Blues
Comcast Gayoso Stage
1:30 p.m. Mr. White & Dave Agape
Gospel & House Set
2:30 p.m. FreeVerse Jam Band
3:30 p.m. The Golden Keys Gospel
4:30 p.m. Charles Johnson & Kwest Jazz Gospel
5:30 p.m. Kenny Brown Blues
6:30 p.m. Brown Singers Gospel
7:30 p.m. Susan Marshall Jazz, Rock &Blues
8:30 p.m. Exodus Reggae
9:30 p.m. Los Cantadores Latin