Rockabilly Week Festivities
Daily Schedule: Rockabilly Fest
2002
Friday August 9th
Joe Melson - His songs "Only the Lonely",
"Crying" and "Blue Bayou" are in BMIs 100 most famous songs of the
century.
6pm TBA
6:30
Pm
“Music Highway Review’
7pm
Larry Cole & Band
8pm TBA
8:30
Pm
Marvin Rainwater
9pm
Narvel Felts
10:30
Pm
Billy Adams
11pm TBA
Saturday Night August 10th:
Music Begins 6pm
6pm
Andy Anderson (Johnny Valentine)
6:30pm
Alton Lott & Bobby Joe Swilley
7pm
“Rocky” Burnette & Paul Burlison
8pm
“Ace” Cannon
9:Pm
The Original Comets
10:30
Sonny Burgess & The Pacers
11:30
Leslie “Bird” Anderson & Billy Poore
Sunday August 11th
1pm
The Firebirds (Great Brittian)
1:30pm
Strat Girl
2pm
Patsy Christy
2:30pm
Gary Elvis
3:Pm TBA
3:30pm TBA
4pm 10-0-C
(Lee Mcalpin, Carl Perkin’s Pianist)
5:30pm
TBA
More details in the coming weeks.
| August 5th - 10th |
Paul Burlison - Rocky
Burnette - D.J. Fontana "Rockabilly Pool Party" Country Inn & Suites Motel
6:00 p.m. |
| August 6th - 10th |
Ace Cannon host
"Rockabilly Pool Party" Microtel Inn & Suites |
| August 6th - 10th |
The Original Comets
"autograph party" Garden Plaza Hotel |
| August 6th - 10th |
Sonny Burgess & the
Legendary Pacers "Pool Parties" Baymont Inn & Suites |
| August 6th - 10th |
Billy Burnette, Narvel
Felts, Autograph - Four Points Sheraton |
| August 6th - 10th |
Billy Adams, Strat-Girl @ Hampton
Inn |
| August 6th - 10th |
Dave Moore & Saddle
Pals, Billy Adams, Memphis Mike, at the Casey Jones Station Inn |
Other hotel rockabilly parties will be announced soon. Bobby
Joe Swilley, Andy Anderson, Barbara Warhurst, Music Highway Review, Jay Young, Eddie
Austin, Jerry Plunk and others will perform and autograph at area hotels. (Hotels, dates
and artists may change without notice).
| August 7th |
Media-sponsor party. Jimmy
Wallace's Barn
The Original Comets & other guest appearance |
| August 8th |
Sun Record Company Party -
Shelby Singleton host, Four Points Sheraton. All rockabilly artists present. |
| August 9th - 10th |
Carl Perkins Center Live
Performance by Rockabilly Legends such as but not limited to "Sonny Burgess and the
Legendary Pacers, The Original Comets, D.J. Fontana, Stan Perkins, Narvel Felts, Billy
Adams, Bobby Joe Swilly, Andy Anderson and the Dawn Breakers, Strat-Girl, Jim Weider, Ace
Canon, Paul Burlison, Rocky Burnette, Billy Burnette, Music Highway Review, Barbara
Warhurst, etc. (many of these will be in Jackson early for the pool parties) |
Videos made by
Rockabilly Artists will be shown at THE INTERNATIONAL ROCK-A-BILLY HALL OF FAME, INC.
during "ROCKABILLY WEEK". They tell the "tales and stories" of their
life in music on video. These will be shown in the "Little Theater". Sam
Phillips speech at Last Year's Festival will be shown first. He will be followed by films
of The Original Comets, Maria Elena Holley, Wanda Jackson, Narvel Felts, Ace Cannon,
D. J. Fontana, Big Al Downing, Tommy Alsup, Buddy Harmon, Jack Clement, Shelby Singleton,
Sonny Burgess, Billy Lee Riley, Billy Burnette, Paul Burlison, Billy Poore, The
Jordanaires, Brenda Lee and a host of other Rockabilly Artists.
History that was made will be shown.
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