It’s time for our annual EPB Strawberry Festival this Sunday, May 20th at Chattanooga Market…and we’ll have enough for everyone! Try some strawberry salsa, strawberry cake, chocolate dipped strawberries and more. Our strawberries are hand-picked early Sunday morning and are juicy and red all the way through; not like the imported strawberries at your grocer. Local really is better and you’ll taste the difference!
Live at Chattanooga Market 5/20, 2pm: Juliana Finch
Juliana Finch “sounds the way a good bourbon tastes.” A Georgia-based singer/songwriter with strong Americana roots, Juliana earns her spot in a long tradition of storytelling songwriters with a sultry, soothing voice and carefully crafted lyrics.
She loves playing music festivals and house concerts because of the strong sense of community and joy fostered there. Juliana has been featured at the Nashville Pride Festival, the Bele Chere Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, Ladyfest South, The Atlantis Music Conference, and was selected for the prestigious Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s Emerging Artist Showcase in 2008.
She has played songwriter showcases at such iconic venues as Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta, the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and been featured several years in a row at 99x’s Unplugged In The Park Concert Series.
She’s a social media addict, as evidenced by her growing number of Twitter & Facebook followers and her bi-weekly online shows. Her current project is called “Songs for Fans”, where she writes & records a brand new song for every 100 Facebook fans.
She’s never met a pie she didn’t like.
Live at River Market 5/19, 12pm AND Chattanooga Market 5/20, 12:30: Bluebilly Grit
BlueBilly Grit takes you to a crossroad where Old Fashioned Bluegrass meets Progressive, Contemporary, and Rockabilly. With a love for all genres of music, BlueBilly Grit performs the music everyone loves along with new and innovative originals driven by a style all their own. Just three short years ago BlueBilly Grit was jamming once a year around an old grist mill at a county park. In February of 2011 a song the group wrote and recorded about that old grist mill was shipped to 800 radio stations in the US, Europe, and Australia. The song was released on a compilation cd along with songs from Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Steve Martin, and The Grascals. Not bad for a group fairly new to the bluegrass Americana scene. Having just recorded their 2nd CD, “Ready For A Change”, this group continues to evolve into what they hope will be a force to be reckoned with.
Amidst much uncertainty in the music world these days, BlueBilly Grit seems to be holding their course, and will be the first to tell you that a source greater than themselves appears to be calling the shots. BlueBilly Grit takes pride in the fact that they’re not just another “hot lick, blazing solo” bluegrass group. It’s all about the song with this group and rightly so because they have something to say. The theme of their performance schedule for 2011/2012 is, “Ready For A Change”. Try to catch them live or purchase some of their music this year and hear for yourselves what BlueBilly Grit has to say.
Chattanooga Market is the PERFECT Mother’s Day outing! We’ll help make her day special by pampering her with a selection of wines and champagnes along with fresh picked strawberries as she enjoys live music on the EBP stage. Grab that special lady some fresh cut flowers, fresh meat & produce for dinner, a piece of local art, and voila - you’ve just made it the best Mother’s Day ever!
Live at Chattanooga Market 5/13, 12:30pm: Louise Mosrie
Louise Mosrie’s new album “Home” is a return to her Southern roots. Unlike the pop sounds of her first two albums, the songs on “Home” combine Americana, bluegrass and folk genres drawing on the sensual imagery of the Deep South and carve new melodies out of old ideas and stories. Louise creates a world of lush detail and wide-open emotion through her lyrics and vocal delivery.
Her British parents (Dad from Gloucestershire and Mom from Cheshire) emigrated to the U.S. in the 60’s for work and finally landed in middle Tennessee. As a child, Louise had trouble reconciling the two cultures around her - shunning all things Southern - disliking the accent, the food and the slow sleepy ways of doing things in her small rural town. She couldn’t wait to leave the farm behind. Louise began writing pop/folk songs in her early 20s while living in Knoxville, producing two independent albums before moving to Nashville in 2004 to work on her song-craft. There, she made friends and contacts in the Americana and bluegrass side of Nashville, playing rounds and writing with artists like Donna Ulisse & Rick Stanley, Diana Jones and producer Ray Kennedy. Ironically, the melodies and imagery that emerged most strongly in her writing after 2004 came straight from the southern culture she once dismissed. Influenced by artists such as Nanci Griffith, Allison Krauss and Lucinda Williams, her songs tell stories of joy, love, struggle and heartbreak through the vivid characters and scenery of southern life. She now dreams of moving back to the country someday….
Check out: www.louisemosrie.com for preview clips of the new CD and more information.
Live at Chattanooga Market 5/13, 2pm: Moors & McCumber
James Moors and Kort McCumber are an acoustic duo that crafts beautiful story songs that walk the line between rootsy folk and melodic pop. The two songwriters met at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in 2005. Sitting around a campfire swapping songs, they each heard something in the music of the other that just fit. The two have been performing and writing together ever since. Having collectively sold more than 15,000 copies of independent releases from the stage, the duo has now released two of their own full-length albums.
Based in Superior, Wisconsin, James Moors is heralded by Steve Morse, longtime Boston Globe writer, as “Sharing some of the same melodic gifts of Neil Finn, enhanced by a warm-hearted spirit that makes you want to hear more.” Born and raised in Minneapolis, he grew up with the music of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and Prince but today draws inspiration from troubadours like Ron Sexsmith and Eliza Gilkyson. An official recipient of the prestigious McKnight Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, his songwriting has been recognized three years in a row by the Big Top Chautauqua competition.
A talented multi-instrumentalist, Colorado artist Kort McCumber plays a variety of instruments (guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, piano) in his own brand of Americana that is one part rock and blues, two parts country-bluegrass and all parts McCumber. But it is his songwriting abilities that have made him a Colorado favorite and garnered him national and international recognition. He won last year’s Flat Rock Festival Songwriting Competition in North Carolina and was a finalist in this year’s International Songwriting Competition.
Although successful solo songwriters, Moors & McCumber discovered that their music together is more than the sum of the parts. Embracing a bigger sound than most duos, they switch up instruments on almost every song (playing guitar, mandolin, piano, bouzouki, fiddle, harmonica, cello, 12-string guitar and Dobro), creating catchy melodies that are big, bright and electrifying to watch live.
Moors & McCumber are on tour now, supporting their new album Gravity. www.moorsandmccumber.com
This Sunday we’ll be hosting the Cinco de Mayo after-party, Hair of the Chihuahua, with plenty of local brews, farm-fresh produce, handmade arts and live music! Sample fresh salsas from several local chefs. Don’t miss the HITS 96 Running of The Chihuahuas event on Saturday at 2pm at the First Tennessee Pavilion. HITS96.com for more information on signing up your pooch. Sunday Market does remain a “pet free” environment at the pavilion, please bring your chihuahuas to the Saturday event!
Live at Chattanooga River Market, Saturday, 5/5, 12:30 - Mark “Porkchop” Holder
The Pulse Contributor, Chris Kelly writes:
Mark “Porkchop” Holder, a talented Delta Blues guitarist and somewhat of a local institution, presides over the weekly open mic here. A Tennessee native raised on traditional southern gospel, he’s a real music veteran who has toured Europe half a dozen times and performed in all the contiguous 48 states. See more at The Pulse.
The Chattanooga River Market will be in full swing on the Tennessee Aquarium Plaza this Saturday, 4/28, 10am-9pm (extended hours). This weekend’s festivities will coincide with the Tennessee Aquarium’s 20th Anniversary celebration and include the first night-time street market by Chattanooga Market. Over 40 artisans hand-making local products will be at River Market and more will be added in the 5-9pm hours with additional live music & street entertainment.
The schedule of entertainment includes:
12:30 Monday Night Big Band
3:00 Chattanooga Symphony & Opera String Quartet
4:00 Mawre & Co. Traditional African Dance and Drum
5:00 Drum Circle (everyone bring an instrument and your dancing shoes)
6:00 KidsPlay (drums, bells, shakers, tambourines)
7:00 “Party by the Peaks” with special performance by Ogya World Music Band
Join us for the after-hours party inside the Aquarium from 9:00 pm until 11:00 pm. This ticketed event will support the Aquarium’s conservation and education initiatives. More information about the Tennessee Aquarium’s special 20th Anniversary plans can be found at tnaqua.org.
This Sunday, Newschannel 9 is teaming up with Chattanooga Market, Walgreen’s and Midland Weather Radios to bring you another “Community of Caring” event at the Chattanooga Market . Walgreen’s will be selling Midland Weather Radios for $29.95, and Newschannel 9 staff and the StormTrack 9 team will be on hand to program the radios for the public. A portion of the weather radio sales will be donated to charity.
