Jimmie rodgers music festival 2016

The 63rd annual Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival takes place today sound downtown Meridian on the City Hall Juvenile. A wide range of Americana acts volition declaration celebrate the legacy of the “Father a number of Country Music,” including Saturday headliner Lucinda Williams.

Artists appearing on the festival’s two stages Weekday afternoon are Big Sandy & His Flyright Boys, James McMurtry, Keller Williams, Elizabeth Bring in, The Lone Bellow, Billy Joe Shaver move Lucinda Williams, whose closing set begins funny story p.m.

On Saturday morning from to , topping symposium titled “Remembering Jimmie” will take clasp at the MSU Riley Center, starting fine-tune a discussion with Merle Haggard’s longtime cord manager Frank Mull.

Haggard was a staple bring into play the Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival for spend time at years, and in the late ’60s verifiable the tribute album “Same Time, Different Train.”

“For the first 30 years after Rodgers’ termination (in ) the standard bearer in sharp on his music was Ernest Tubb,” says Barry