LINEUP FOR THE FREE 19th ANNUAL SUNFLOWER RIVER BLUES AND GOSPEL FESTIVAL – SAM CARR’S HOUSEPARTY
AUGUST 11, 12, 13, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006 – Main Stage – John Lee Hooker Lane
4:30 p.m. – Delta Blues Museum Students
5:00 p.m. – Eddie Lee Coleman Band
6:00 p.m. – Maximum Blues Band – From the Sunflower’s Sister Festival in Quebec, Canada
7:00 p.m. – Jimbo Mathus Knockdown South
8:00 p.m. – Duwayne Burnside & the Mississippi Mafia
9:00 p.m. – Latimore
Saturday, August 12, 2006 – Main Stage – John Lee Hooker Lane
2:00 p.m. – Wesley Jefferson Southern Soul Band
3:00 p.m. – David Lee Durham & the True Blues Band
4:00 p.m. – Big T & the Family
5:00 p.m. – Terry “Harmonica” Bean & Bill Abel Blues Band
6:00 p.m. – Big George Brock & the Houserockers
7:00 p.m. – Early Wright & Julius Guy Award Presentations
7:15 p.m. – Sam Carr – Tribute and Award Presentation
7:30 p.m. – Super Chikan & the Fighting Cocks
8:30 p.m. – Shardee Turner and the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
9:00 p.m. – The North Mississippi Allstars
Saturday, August 12, 2006 Acoustic Stages
Othar Turner Acoustic Stage – Clarksdale Station (Historic Passenger Depot)
10:00 a.m. – Tater Foster
10:30 a.m. – Pat Thomas
11:00 a.m. – Eddie Cusic
11:30 a.m. – Big T & Arthneice “Gas Man” Jones
12:00 noon – Kenny Brown
12:45 p.m. -Shardee Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band leading
procession to the Main Stage
Delta Avenue Park
1:00 p.m. – Louis “Gearshift” Youngblood
2:00 p.m. – Cadillac John & Bill Abel
3:00 p.m. – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
4:00 p.m. – T-Model Ford
5:00 p.m. – James “Super Chikan” Johnson
Sunday, August 13, 2006 – Gospel Stage – John Lee Hooker Lane
2:00 p.m. – Donnie Richmond
2:30 p.m. – Voice of Faith Dance Ministry
3:00 p.m. – New Tradition
3:30 p.m. – Jonestown Crusaders
4:00 p.m. – Delta Big Four
4:30 p.m. – Diane Greenleaf
5:00 p.m. – Jackson Goldenaires
5:45 p.m. – Doc McKinley
Free Educational/Enrichment Programs Sponsored by Grants to the Sunflower River Blues Association from the Southern Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts will be hosted by the Delta Blues Museum inside its Arts and Education Auditorium.
Friday, August 11, 2006 – Delta Blues Museum
1:30 p.m. – “Hard Times from Mississippi: Big George Brock” – The 74-year-old, Mississippi-born sharecropper/boxer/bluesman Big George Brock will talk about his tough Delta upbringing, blues club-owning days and friendships with musicians from Muddy Waters to Steven Seagal.
3:00 p.m. – “Conversations with Latimore” – The sauve, celebrity soul master and Friday night headliner will be interviewed, will converse, and answer questions about memorable experiences and influences in his long and successful career as superstar.
Sponsors
Thanks to all of our fine supporters for making the 19th Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival a “roaring” success.
