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Memphis Music and Heritage Festival 2012

Memphis Music and Heritage Festival 2012

Labor Day Weekend! September 1-2

Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 11pm both days

Family Friendly and FREE!

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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, Commerical Appeal

 Full schedule with stages and times to be posted very soon!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 2012

Al Kapone, Exodus, Star & Micey, Bluff City Backsliders, Freeworld feat Herman Green and Nokie Taylor, Preston Shannon, Deering & Down, The Bell Singers, Kenneth Jackson, Roy Harper, Elmo and The Shades, Joe Guyton, Nancy Apple and Kate Lawson, Vending Machine, Azteca Quetzalcoatl, Devil Train, Delta Blue, Songwriting with Mary Unobsky and Kate Campbell, Marcella Pinella, Smoochy Smith, The Glo, Johnny Yancey's Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra, Jericho Road Show, Annointed Cowans Singers, Wampa, Bean, Billy Gibson, SubCultrueRoyalty, Lila Jazz Kids, Blue Violin Foundation, Caza Teatro, Southern Halo, Ballet Memphis open rehearsal "The River Project", Jeremiah and The Gospelettes, Talent Showcase with Carolyn Yancey, Ecclesiastes Project, Los Cantadores Mariachi Band, Kattawar Bros, Sensational Six, Comedy with Aunt Jane, Lila, Swampkatz, Mellowtones, Tonya Dyson, Deborah Swiney, 2 Fingaz, Hope Clayburn, Steve Anne DJ, Hybrid Performance Group, Millennium Maddness

 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd, 2012

JM Van Eaton and his band will perform a tribute to musician Billy Lee Riley, to whom this year’s festival is dedicated.

Denise LaSalle, Kate Campbell, Cedric Burnside, Ms. Nikki & Jesse Frank with The Blues Bandits, David Onley, Darell Petties and SIP, Susan Marshall, Barbara Blue, Dan Montgomery, Singa B, Brittany Russell, Joyce Cobb, Brad Webb and Earl the Pearl, Shufflegrit, Copper Possum, Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers, Roy Harper, Two Mule Plow, Pilgrim Wonders, The Jazz Collective, Mali, Michaelyn Oby, Willie Firecracker, Mixed Breed, Tennessee Mass Choir, Merry Mobile, Isaac Bramlett, Tropix, All Night Long Blues Band, Lisa Lambert, Last Chance Jug Band, Los Cantadores, Side St. Steppers, Favor, Beastfinger, Ghost Town Blues Band, Moments of Joy, Millennium Maddness, Sidney, Cidney, Sidney, Modern Dance w/ Sharona, Blue Chips, St. Benedict Academy Soul Band        



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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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