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Memphis Music and Heritage Festival

This Labor Day Weekend!
Memphis Music & Heritage Festival:   September 4 - 5, 2010  FREE!
Center of Downtown Memphis from Peabody Place to Gayoso avenue on Main St.
11 AM - 11PM each day -- Family Friendly!
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"... a grand parade of the best Memphis has to offer, where our greatest gift to the world - music - is writ symphoniously large. It is a destination for music aficionados from around the world, who make a pilgrimage to downtown Memphis every Labor Day Weekend. It is the only weekend where you can boogie, strut, jitterbug, sway to your heart's content - and with good reason - the Center assembles the best artists and musicians the South has to offer!"                 
- Bill Ellis, Commercial Appeal

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.
 



Memphis is a special place where music is not played in the background.  It is a place where music and dance and song tells us who we are and tells visitors more about our home and community. For over two decades every Labor Day weekend, the Center for Southern Folklore's Memphis Music & Heritage Festival has showcased artists whose music has helped define our region to the world. From urban blues and jazz to rockabilly, folk to gospel, soul and neo-soul, salsa and drum lines to Chinese dancers, the line-ups continue to be diverse as ever.

For folks who want to know about Memphis music past and present, this is the Festival to attend. In 2007 over 30,000 people attended this festival which showcased over 100 artists and groups on five stages over two days. The audiences are diverse, multi-generational and excited to be part of an event which celebrates the cultural and musical roots of the Memphis/Mid-South region - and it's free thanks to sponsorship and contributions from businesses and community agencies.

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