The Riverbend Festival of Chattanooga is now in it 28th year. The first year 1,000 came to the festival. The intent was to bring the "diverse elements of Chattanooga together through music." Over the year the festival has accomplished its goal.
The festival has grown up and has been a part of the revitalization of the down town area.
The festival began as the "Five Nights in Chattanooga" and was held along a narrow walkway along the river. It has grown to as many as 6 stages, taking up several blocks of down town Chattanooga, with nightly attendance of more than 100,000.
With some of the most popular acts (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Alabama to name two) attendance can exceed 150,000.
The local radio stations generally present on the main stage a major act each night from one of the various most popular music types: rock, country, R&B. Classical, Celtic, folk, instrumental, and other music types also have performers throughout the week on the other stages. You can find your favorite type of music almost every night. You can enjoy something new every night.
Here is my playlist from night 2 at Riverbend 2008.
The main stage was Anthony Hamilton. He is an artist I had not heard of. His voice and the musical performance were amazing. Here are some of his songs.
Some photos from the day.
The photo on the left is the crowd the Mark Farner concert. He is the former lead singer of Grand Funk Railroad. He gave a tremendous show. The photo on the right is Summer Hullendar, a local singer song writer. You might just hear her name again. Her song selection, Me and Bobby McGee, Dock of the Bay, and many others, were songs that required a powerful and ranging voice. She certainly has that. She sang many of her own songs.
The Tennessee Aquarium from the main street at Riverbend. The aquarium has been one of the main features of the down town renaissance in Chattanooga.
The video is Roberto the Magnificent, one of the street performers at Riverbend.
My previous blog on the Riverbend festival is here.
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The photos are from early the first day at Riverbend. The first photo is the main street scene. The second photo is the Southern Belle, our own Tennessee River riverboat. The bottom photo is the CocaCola stage, where each night the main act performs