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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!
Join us on  
"... 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.
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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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