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Cookin’ on the Quarter
September 1, 2007
5 p.m. to 12 a.m.
First Tennessee Pavilion
$10 admission

As most long weekend in Chattanooga are packed with fun events, this coming Labor Day weekend is no exception. Besides the music festival on Lookout Mountain, there is Cookin’ on the Quarter.

On September 1st, Cookin’ on the Quarter returns for an evening of music and food at the First Tennessee Pavilion. The musicians will start up at 5 p.m. and will represent the three states of Tennessee- mountains, plateau, river. The three states translate roughly into bluegrass, country and blues and there will be one local and one national music group performing for each genre.

This quarter’s lineup of musicians are Leaving Miss Blue, Tony Joe White, Lou Wamp and The Dappled Grays, The Waybacks, Buck and Duke, and David Lee Murphy. Music starts at 5 and end roughly around midnight.

The cooking is provided by local food vendors. Moss’ Catering (barbecue and fish sandwiches), Blue Orleans, Griffin’s Foot Longs, Main & Mocha (coffee), and Niedlov’s Breads.

An added benefit of the Southside festival is the Pooch Sitting Service that benefits the local Humane Educational Society.

The Humane Educational Society is excited to provide pooch sitting services for Cookin’ on the Quarter patrons. For a donation of $15, your pooch will be able to play in the Chattanooga Chew Chew Canine Park accompanied by an HES employee or volunteer for one hour. Dog sitting will be done between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. All dogs must be picked up by 8 p.m.!

You have to register your pooch by August 30th, call Jeanine Cloyd at 624-5302, ext. 242 for more information. Visit the Cookin’ on the Quarter website for even more information.

Wristbands are $10 at the gate.

Rock City, the tourist attraction that towers over Chattanooga, wraps up their 75th Anniversary celebration this coming weekend.

To cap off their summer festivities, Rock City will be hosting a Labor Day Music Festival. Admission to the festival is the cost of admission to see Rock City. Music begins on Friday, August 31st, at 2 p.m. and will continue through Monday, September 3rd. Jam sessions will be held at Lover’s Leap. All musicians are welcome to bring their instruments and participate.
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Between the Bridges
Wakeboard Festival
August 10, 11, 12
Chattanooga Riverfront
$22 for three days
$15 for one day

Today at 2 pm, the gates open for this year’s Between the Bridges Festival. This wakeboard and skateboard festival and competition started last year as a way to raise funds for the Joseph Grubbs Memorial Fund. Joseph Grubbs passed away in August of 2005. He was the bassist for Chattanooga’s own Up with the Joneses. The Joseph Grubbs Memorial Fund helps the people of Chattanooga through the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga.

The Between the Bridges Festival mission statement is:

Between the Bridges will introduce Chattanoogas unique 21st Century Waterfront to the wakeboarding community as one of the premier locales for pro and grassroots competitions. By utilizing the cities resources we will unite the boater community in Chattanooga for water sports; establish a working relationship with the City of Chattanooga and local businesses, promote wakeboarding in the city, and provide a venue for local retailers to market their products.

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Chattanooga is a very musical city, and it just keeps coming. Friends of the Festival is now contributing to the city by offering Riverfront Nights. Riverfront Nights is a free music series that began last Saturday on a floating barge next to the Chattanooga Pier down on the riverfront.

You can go down to the 21st Century Waterfront, set up your chairs, enjoy food and drinks, and listen to the sounds that Chattanooga has to offer.

The international award winning Latin jazz group Rolando Matias & The Afro-Rican Ensemble will be coming from the river barge. The event is being sponsored by Bluewater Grill and Big River restaurants.

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The annual Riverbend Festival will begin next Friday and there are still four days left to buy discounted Riverbend pins at Favorite Markets. Discount pins are $28 until June 7th. If you want to buy your pin at the gate, it will be $37. Or if you only want one night wrist bands they are available $23 except except for Family Night June 12th when one night admissions are $5 each. I think the pins are a great value. (Yet, I still haven’t decided if I should go. This is where I admit that in the almost 10 years I have been in Chattanooga, I have never been to Riverbend.)

What does a Riverbend pin get you? Nine nights of music on the river front. On six different stages, musical artists from around the world will come to Chattanooga to perform, some musicians premiering new songs, other performing classics we all know and love, from hometown singer/ songwriters to national Grammy winners. June 8th to the 16th downtown Chattanooga will be alive with the sound of music.

There are many artists performing that I am wanting to see. Earth, Wind, and Fire is second on my list, after The Clumsy Lovers.

And the rest of the performers are:
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One of the things I love about Chattanooga is that there is always something to do. And as a bonus, it usually isn’t too hard to find free activites for you and your family.

The Nightfall concert series is one of those free activies that people flock to in the summer. As a bonus, the concert always features local musicians, of all different kinds of musical stylings. From folk music to jazz to Celtic rock (and more), you can find a them here in Chattanooga.

From the Chattanooga Downtown Partnership:

The Chattanooga Downtown Partnership kicks off the 2007 Nightfall Concert Series on Friday, May 25, at Miller Plaza. Now in its 19th season, Nightfall continues to bring an eclectic mix of rock, blues, jazz, reggae, zydeco, funk, bluegrass and folk music to Downtown Chattanooga. Local musicians take the stage at 7 PM to get the crowd ready for headline performances by national and international talent beginning at 8 PM. This FREE 17-week series is held in Miller Plaza on Friday evenings from Memorial Day weekend through September 28, with the exception of the two Fridays during Riverbend. Beer, wine, food and non-alcoholic drink concessions are available on site. No outside food or beverages are allowed. A limited number of handicapped parking spaces are available on Georgia Avenue in front of the Joel Solomon Federal Building.

The following is the 2007 Nightfall schedule:
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Tonight at 8, Jennifer Daniels will be performing at the Barking Legs theater.

The last time I saw Jennifer perform, she was one of the opening acts at Nightfall. Her tunes were familiar and warm, and her musical talent was mesmerizing to watch. I’m not in Chattanooga right now, but I hope her show is full and if you go, you have a great time.

Call the Barking Legs Theater to reserve tickets now.
423-624-5347
1307 Dodds Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37404

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Wow, this week has moved a long quickly. Which is fine by me. I’m getting a bit cooped up with the daily grind and fitting things in during the evening hours I am at home.

Friday evening is the last event in the Chattanooga Downtown Partnership Winter Days and Lights series. It is time for the Appalachian Christmas!

I really wanted to go last year, but the Div I AA Championship game was the same evening. So I promised myself that I would definitely go this year, even if it meant missing the football game (which I might do anyway). However, even though I knew it was coming, it never really sank in that the event is tomorrow night.

I really would love to hear the bluegrass music and enjoy some cider, but I just don’t know. Did you know that Christmas is coming? Do you know everything I have to do?

So, right now, I am on the fence, I have no idea if I should go (and take the family too). What do you think?

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Growing up, the Christmas season always meant music. Lots and lots of music.

We sang in church, we went to different churches for performances of Handel’s Messiah, and there were the school performances, youth symphony events, and holiday recitals.

Tomorrow evening, if you are not checking out the Starlight Parade on Market Street, then maybe you can get tickets for the Chattanooga Boys Choir in the 2006 Singing Christmas Tree. They have a performance at 7:30 and tickets are $11 each.

Someday I plan hearing that Singing Christmas Tree. Right now I have a two year old who loves lights, so we pick the Chattanooga’s Christmas parade.