Special events in and around arthur...
"The Heart of the Illinois Amish Country"
Chet Kingery Memorial Blue grass Jam
Saturday October 9, 2010
Now back and combined with the CIBR-BBQ in mid-October, this bluegrass event has taken on a life of its own! After trying to take the Jam out of the BBQ weekend a couple of years ago, the response was... Stay with the BBQ. So back again this year, they are together. Bluegrass and BBQ. The hundred of musicians will fill the town on this Saturday and play in groups of two to twenty all over the downtown. Six or more special locations will be set aside for the jammers, but we expect that they will find plenty of places on their own to make their music.
Back
in 2007, the bluegrass/gospel group "The Gunny Sack Revue" adopted a
home in downtown Arthur every Wednesday night. The revue encourages
folks to join in at any time during its weekly jams. The Revue will
be our "anchor" group for the Chet Kingery Memorial. We
will not have any stage entertainment this year... just jams, on the
sidewalks, in the Gazebo, on the sunny south sides of buildings, and
in numerous jam tents set up around the downtown.
Chet,
by the way, was an Arthur native and a well known bluegrass player
across
the Midwest. With his band, he entertained thousands at events and
concerts for many years before his passing.
Bring your instruments, or just a lawn chair and enjoy some great impromptu pickin' and grinnin' all over downtown Arthur. Free all over downtown Arthur on the Last Saturday in September!
IF you come to jam, we will have a main jam registration tent set up on Vine St . BE SURE TO REGISTER AS A JAMMER! When you register you will receive Free food coupons for BBQ and drinks for two, and free raffle tickets for our Guitar Drawing. We are encouraging jammers that can to come over an Friday evening, jam for a while in Dorothy Jurgens Park downtown and then head over to our Hog Roast VIP dinner to fill up afterwards. No registration required, just ask around when you get here for directions.
Come hungry, as we will have a whole lot of championship BBQ available all over the downtown this weekend.
