Riverbend Festival
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The Riverbend Festival is an annual music festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Named for the bend in the Tennessee River on which Chattanooga is built, the festival features a wide array of performers representing different musical genres on various stages set up around the downtown area.
More than a hundred acts converge each year to perform on multiple stages. Headline performers are featured on the Coca-cola stage, a barge which has been converted into a full concert stage. The barge floats just off the shore against a large collection of amphitheater seats built into a hillside at the water's edge. Major companies, such as Covista Communications, Unum, and Budweiser, sponsor other stages throughout the riverfront area.
While a large number of the performers fall in the Country music genre, many performers in pop, rock, Christian, and other genres also perform.
Admission is given to people with "Riverbend Pins", which can be purchased around town in the weeks leading up to the festival, or purchased at the gate for an escalated price. One pin provides admission to every night of the festival. Concessions are purchased using a token system and many street vendors set up food and souvenir stands.
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[edit] This year's festival
Riverbend 2008 is slated to be held June 6th through June 14th. The schedule -- per various press releases from the Official Riverbend site, Pollstar listings, and news articles -- is as follows:
Scheduled to appear, but no date announced:
- Alex Chilton Trio & Box Tops
- Angel Snow
- Futureman and the Black Mozart Ensemble
- Ogya
- The David Bromberg Quartet
- University Orchestra
Friday, June 6th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Honkey Dogs -- 6:15pm-7:30pm
- Railroad Earth -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
On the Coke Stage:
- The Black Crowes -- 9:30pm-11pm
On the River Stage:
- Johnny Neel & Russell Gully -- 7:45pm-10:30pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Class of '64 -- 6:30pm-7:45pm
Saturday, June 7th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
On the Coke Stage:
- Anthony Hamilton -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
On the River Stage:
- Luna Halo -- 7:45pm-10:30pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Summer Hullender -- 6:30pm-7:45pm
- Jake Shimabukuro -- 8:00pm-10:45pm
Sunday, June 8th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Tabitha Weast & Yee-Won Liew -- 5:00pm-5:55pm
- Mike Zito -- 6:15pm-7:30pm
- The Ohio Players -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
On the Coke Stage:
- America with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
On the River Stage:
- Troy Andrews -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
- Nick Moss & The Fliptops -- 9:15pm-10:30pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Mustang Sally -- 9:30pm-12:00am
Monday, June 9th:
In the Bessie Smith Hall:
- Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers -- 5:15pm-6:45pm (Stage 2)
- Troy Andrews -- 7:00pm-8:15pm
In Miller Plaza:
- Nick Moss & The Fliptops -- 7:00pm-8:45pm (Stage 1)
Tuesday, June 10th -- "Family Night":
On the Coke Stage:
- Mercy Me -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
Wednesday, June 11th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Smokey Lonesome -- 6:15pm-7:30pm
- Joe Bonamassa -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
On the Coke Stage:
- Josh Turner -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
On the River Stage:
- Rosie Flores & Katy Moffatt -- 6:15pm-7:30pm
- Monte Montgomery -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Ralph Roddenberry -- 6:30pm-7:45pm
- Angel Band -- 8:00pm-10:45pm
Thursday, June 12th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Blaze -- 11:00pm-12:00am
On the Coke Stage:
- ZZ Top -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
On the River Stage:
- [[Julius Curcio] -- 9:15pm-10:30pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Ana Popovic -- 7:45pm-8:45pm
- Paul Thorn -- 9:00pm-11:00pm
Friday, June 13th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Rathkeltair -- 11:00am-12:00pm
- Corinne Chapman -- 6:15pm-7:30pm
- The Derailers -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
On the Coke Stage:
On the River Stage:
- The Dismembered Tennesseans -- 6:15pm-7:30pm
- Shannon Whitworth -- 7:45pm-9:00pm
- The Greencards -- 9:15pm-10:30pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Jason Ricci -- 8:00pm-9:15pm
- T-Broussard & Zydeco Steppers -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
- Blues Nation -- 11:00pm-12:00am
Saturday, June 14th:
On the Budweiser Stage:
- Galactic
- Marissa Pappas -- 5:00pm-5:25pm
- Erica Ray -- 5:30pm-5:55pm
- Bobby Yang and his Unrivaled Players -- 11:00pm-12:00am
On the Coke Stage:
- Burton Cummings (of The Guess Who) & Randy Bachman (of Bachman-Turner Overdrive/The Guess Who) (a.k.a. The Bachman Cummings Band) -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
On the River Stage:
- Steel Mill -- 7:45pm-10:30pm
On the Unum Stage:
- Tulsi -- 6:30pm-7:45pm
- Fareed Haque -- 8:00pm-9:15pm
- Toubab Krewe -- 9:30pm-11:00pm
[edit] Notable past performers
[edit] 2007
- The Alan Parsons Project
- Blake Shelton
- Daughtry
- Earth, Wind, and Fire
- Jars of Clay
- moe.
- Ricky Skaggs
- Steve Miller Band
- Vince Gill
- Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance
- 2007 also debuted Riverbend's first ever classical recital featuring pianist Ning An.
[edit] 2006
- The Allman Brothers Band
- Kenny Rogers
- Los Lonely Boys
- Angie Stone
- Hank Williams, Jr.
- Sugarland
- Trisha Yearwood
- Audio Adrenaline
