The 2010 Louie Bluie Festival - Celebrating the Life of Howard Armstrong

June 12, 2010 | 10am - 8:30pm | Cove Lake State Park | Caryville, TN

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.  The festival is a project of Campbell Culture Coalition an all-volunteer non-profit community arts organization.  Festival admission is free and donations are welcomed.

Preview Event:  

Sounds Like Home: A Night of Music From the Cumberlands

June 11Grasstowne, 2010 | 6 pm - 9:00pm Cove Lake State Park | Caryville, TN

Come see and hear history in the making.  For the second time in over 40 years the classic line-up of the Pinnacle Mountain Boys, featuring Charlie Collins and Larry McNeely, will reunite on stage to once again thrill audiences with their distinctive harmony singing, virtuosic picking and lively humor.  This time paired with Grasstowne, a new generation of locally rooted bluegrass talent featuring IBMA winner Steve Gulley, son of Don Gulley of the Pinnacle Mountain Boys.  Only $10 for an evening of music. 

Buy Tickets to the Pre-Festival Bluegrass Show. Your tickets will be waiting for you that evening at the gate's will call.

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Added Bonus

Come early for a workshop on the roots of Bluegrass.   This session starts at 5:15 and features Charlie Collins, Larry McNeely, Don Gulley, and Steve Gulley demonstrating and discussing fiddle, banjo, and string band techniques that evolved from old-time music into newer post-WWII bluegrass styles.

Food available on site from Rickard Ridge BBQ.

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