Get Down @ the 23rd annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival!

Memphis knows that it loves it’s music and food festivals! With Labor Day weekend coming up, you know there had to be at least one festival that you could attend, and that’s the 23rd annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival! The festival takes place this Saturday and Sunday, September 4 and 5, at The Center for Southern Folklore.

The Memphis Music and Heritage Festival is a prime event for music aficionado’s around the world. Memphis is sharing it’s gift of music, so it’s only right that you take advantage of this FREE offer. There are 30 + performers performing on the three outside stages and two stages inside the Center for Southern Folklore over the two days of the festival. So that means none stop music!

Every year, the Center for Southern Folklore salutes a musician at the Festival whose life and work have left their mark not only on the music of Memphis, but on the Center itself. This year, the festival celebrates Jim Dickinson. Jim Dickinson was a good friend of the Center for Southern Folklore and a perennial performer at the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.

The great thing about Memphis music is that it’s so diverse. On the five stages at the festivals, you’ll bear witness to blues, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, soul and much more.  You’ll also be privy to cooking demonstrations, dance performances, storytellers, quilters, baseball players, musicians and more talking about their crafts in a relaxing setting, and a host of other activities.

Make sure that you come out! The festival is about 30 minutes from the Madison at Schilling Farms Apartments, so if you’re in the downtown Memphis area this weekend, you may want to check it out!

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The Greater Memphis Area: So Culturally Inclined

During the summer months, and any time really, the greater Memphis area has so much going on! And it’s not only focused on one group; everyone gets a chance to show their style and culture at anyone of Memphis’ great cultural festival. Along with the Memphis Italian Festival happening this week, there’s the Latino News Festival.

It will take place Friday June 4th thru Sunday June 6th, 2010 at the corner of Winchester Rd and Riverdale in Memphis TN.

In addition to the lively and colorful aspects that you come to expect with festivals, which encompasses music, fair rides, arts and crafts, and food; the Latinos News Festival will also provide a venue for services and information from local businesses to the Latino community. This gives festival goers a chance to expand their horizons to new fields that may have been previously unseen.

Admission is only $6 and kids 4 and under are free. Come out and enjoy  yourselves!

Fair on the Square

Hey Madison @ Schilling, are you ready for Fair on the Square? Fair on the Square is an annual event held in the Collierville Square. It offers a wide variety of arts and crafts, food, and entertainment for people of all ages.

In my opinion, the best thing about the festival is the food. Then again, the best thing about any festival in my opinion is food. At the Fair on the Square, you’ll be privy to B-B-Q, scones, egg rolls, Italian sausage, pizza and other delights, which will be freshly prepared on-site. You won’t be able to walk past the square without wanting to stop in for some goodies!

For the kiddies and young at heart, you have games, puppet shows, wagon, pony and train rides, face painting and a petting zoo.

All profits from the fair are returned to the Collierville community in the form of grants in four areas: education, environment, art and community. So you get to give back, while having a blast!

Have you ever been? If not, are you planning on going this year?