Save the Date!

6th Annual Louie Bluie Festival

Celebrating the Life of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong

The 2012 Sounds Like Home concert will be September 28. The Louie Bluie Festival will be September 29.

Check back soon for more details!

This all-day family-fun festival features three stages of music including traditional Old-time, Blues, Gospel, Mountain Jazz, and Bluegrass, plus storytelling and theater and our Kid’s Fun Zone with lots of activities for the children.  High quality art and handmade crafts will be sold in the Craft Village, and a judged Art and Quilt Show will be in the Recreation Center.   Regional food vendors will be serving up a mouthwatering array of authentic Southern cooking, East Tennessee style.

The Louie Bluie Festival is named in honor of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong (1909-2003), a LaFollette native and internationally acclaimed string band musician who grew up in LaFollette in the 1920s and became one of the nation's finest string band musicians, as well as artist, storyteller, and writer.  

A $2 per person/$5 per family donation is encouraged and funds Campbell Culture Coalition, an all-volunteer non-profit community arts organization.

Coalition Event:  

Sounds Like Home: A Night of Music From the Cumberlands

September 28, 2012 Cove Lake State Park | Caryville, TN

Last Year's Concert Featured:

• Grasstowne,
• Dale Ann Bradley with guests Steve and Don Gulley,
• and a special reunion of the legendary Pinnacle Mountain Boys with Charlie Collins and Larry McNeely

Against the backdrop of the Cumberland Mountains, we present the second annual Sounds Like Home: A Night of Music from the Cumberlands, an extraordinary evening of regional music, fun, and festivity. The concert brings together, once again, Grasstowne and the legendary Pinnacle Mountain Boys - two bluegrass supergroups from two eras, connected by a tight family bond.  Also appearing is acclaimed bluegrass artist Dale Ann Bradley, the 2007, 2008, and 2009 International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year. This year’s concert will also be a special tribute to Buster Turner, founder of the Pinnacle Mountain Boys, who passed away in March.

Join us for Sounds Like Home: A Night of Music from the Cumberlands, a concert certain to be the East Tennessee bluegrass event of the year brought to you by the Friends of the Cumberland Trail and the Coalition.

Bring your appetite!  Rickard Ridge Restaurant will be selling barbeque and dessert.

Learn more about Sounds Like Home: A Night of Music From the Cumberlands musicians

Tickets $10 Advance, $12 at the door

Buy your tickets at any of the following locations:

• Campbell County Chamber of Commerce, Jacksboro
• Peoples Bank of the South (all Campbell County locations)
• Hampton Inn, Caryville
• Rickard Ridge Restaurant in Cove Lake State Park
• Powell-Clinch Utilities, LaFollette/Lake City
• First Volunteer Bank (all Campbell County locations)

Or, you can purchase your tickets online Your tickets will be waiting for you that evening at the gate's will call.

 

Festival Footage

 

 

Learn More About the Campbell Culture Coalition which puts on the Louie Bluie Festival.