The are two things I love about September in Memphis - the Music & Heritage Festival and f we are lucky cooler weather. Well it is our lucky weekend. One of the best music events in town is this weekend. The Center for Southern Folklore’s Heritage festival is free and a wonderful expericne in southern culture. If you have never been, do yourself a favor and check it out.

Memphis Music & Heritage Festival Takes Center Stage

Downtown Memphis

Saturday and Sunday, Labor Day Weekend, September 5-6.

Memphis, TN. August 20, 2009. Center for Southern Folklore transforms a two block area of Main   Street Labor Day Weekend Street September 5th and 6^th for its annual Memphis Music & Heritage Festival. The festival runs from11:00 AM to 11:00 PM each day. At the heart of the festival is the music.  From dynamic soul man Bobby Rush to the wild man of rock, Jason D. Williams the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival presents over 400 musical performers who made Memphis the great melting pot of America’s musical heritage and keep it cooking today.

The entire festival roster reads like a who’s who of both the traditional and contemporary Memphis music scene including: new South singer/songwriter Kate Campbell, rockabilly legend Sonny Burgess & The Pacers, insightful songstress  Amy LaVere, neo-soul from Tonya Dyson & Green Onions, hip hop artist Al Kapone, the dynamic gospel sounds of Darrel Petties & SIP, country legend Eddie Bond, bluegrass jam band Devil Train; jazz-blues diva Joyce Cobb, authentic Delta blues from Blind Mississippi Morris and Brad Webb, jazz and swing with Johnny Yancey and the Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra, jazz-funk-and-fusion artists FreeWorld featuring Herman Green, reggae from Nathaniel Kent and Exodus; urban blues from The Daddy Mack Blues Band, jug band music from The Bluff City Backsliders, youthful jam band Tempeh Four, the energized Millennium Maddness Drill Team, and the list goes on and on. 

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