Chet Kingery Bluegrass Jam stays with the BBQ weekend - october 9 2010

Each year over a hundred bluegrass pickers would descend upon downtown Arthur forming and pickersreforming groups on all the corners to play their favorite bluegrass songs.  These pickers and grinners would come from everywhere in the state of Illinois to honor the memory of Chet Kingery by playing the type of music Chet was known for.

The Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Jam started two years ago as a side event to Arthur's Downtown BBQ Competition.  The first year consisted of 8 bbq'ers and 50 bluegrass players.  The second year the BBQ became sanctioned as a state championship and word about the Chet Kingery Memorial got around to other bluegrass players.  The second year had 45 big rig championship bbq'ers and over a hundred bluegrass players.  GrinnersThe third year grew even more and while BBQ and bluegrass go together perfectly the events grew so large that the town of Arthur has decided to turn them into separate events. However, even with good jammer participation in 2007, they all missed the BBQ. So, back we go to combine the two events again.

The Arthur Downtown Merchants Committee is proud to announce that the Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Jam will again be held on October 9, 2010 in downtown Arthur, Illinois. 

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.

Bring your guitars, banjos, bass fiddles, mandolins, or any other instrument that is favorite and join in on the fun and jam with the folks. Plan to have a crowd of people, a whole lot of good bbq, and a lot of bluegrass fun all over the downtown.

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