This looks like it might be a local blues fest, but it looks like it is going to be pretty cool. I am kinda of a sucker for delta, hill, Piedmont, and jug bands, and this fest looks like it might be right up my alley. Unfortunately work and high gas prices will keep me from this one, but if you are around Bristol Tennessee you should stop and check this one out.
According to the TriCities website:
Broken Strings Productions, along with Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion and the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance will present “The Inaugural Bristol Old-Time & Mountain Blues Jubilee” on May 25,at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Center for the Arts in historic downtown Bristol, Tenn.Looks like a fun time. If anyone makes the show be sure to comment on it.
The Jubilee will feature five of the south’s most talented and up and coming old-time acts for one electrifying evening of music. Joining the Carolina Chocolate Drops on the bill are local favorites Roy Andrade & Greg Burgler, Knoxville's Maid Rite String Band and The Bearded, and Atlanta's Rising Appalachia.
UPDATE
The band pictured above is the Carolina Chocolate Drops I found a myspace page for them here.
I must admit that they sound a lot like the hillbilly music that my grandparents listened to down on the farm:-) Pretty funky stuff. In fact the song Ricketts Hornpipe sounds a lot like an Irish Reel.
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