Bluegrass Festival A Great Success!
Posted by Deborah at 8/27/2009 11:09 AM 
Categories: To Go, In the Village, Old Country Store, Casey Jones Museum, Events and Premieres, Songwriter's Depot
Categories: To Go, In the Village, Old Country Store, Casey Jones Museum, Events and Premieres, Songwriter's Depot
Updated Sunday, September 13th: Our bluegrass festival was a huge success! We had a wonderful festival this weekend! The Casey Jones Museum Theatre made a beautiful location and was the first musical event in our new Train Station building. Many thanks to festival organizers John Few and Coley Graves for all their hard work on the festival and to the Jackson Area Plectral Society members for their amazing music all weekend. Also to Lawrence & Norma Taylor for their hospitality at the Museum and to the Shaw family. It was a great team effort. Check out the Jackson Sun photo Gallery! Pictures taken by Aaron Hardin. http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=PHOTOGALLERIES04
Posted September 8th, 2009: Pack up your lawn chairs and join us this weekend as we celebrate old-time & bluegrass music in Casey Jones Village. The Jackson Area Plectral Society's fall festival is this weekend on Thursday night, Friday night and all day Saturday! Many thanks to John Few, Society president, for going on a press tour this week and to the following media in Jackson for their always generous support of the Casey Jones Old-Time & Bluegrass Music Festival- Shane Connor & Julie Cooke with WYN 106.9, Steve Bowers with JEA Channel 6, Brandon Artiles with WBBJ-TV ABC 7 Good Morning West Tennessee show and Steve Bowers & Greg Wood's morning show on WNWS 101.5 FM. We will be a guest on Steve Bower's afternoon show on 101.5 the Friday of the festival and also on American Family Radio for West Tennessee during the 4 o'clock hour that day. Many thanks to Plectral Society president John Few for making the rounds on the festival's "press tour".
Posted August 27th, 2009: We're getting closer! This year the annual Jackson Area Plectral Society music festival going to all be held in "downtown" Casey Jones Village with jammin' on Thursday night and Friday night outside of the Old Country Store with stage performances on Saturday in the beautiful new theatre at the Casey Jones Museum from 10 am to 8 pm with only $5.00 including Museum admission. There will be free outside pickin' all three days. We always enjoy the wonderful music on Thursday nights with the Plectral Society and this annual festival is a great way to celebrate old-time music. Be sure to stop by the Open House at the Church at the Village on Saturday, September 12th located in the charming Shoppes at the Village.
See the stage schedule below for you to print a copy......
This year we are very proud to welcome WYN 106.9 as a sponsor to the festival along with the Jackson Area Plectral Society and Casey Jones Village. www.wwyn.fm Thank you so much!
Join in the fun September 10th, 11th & 12th! Here is the press release:
Posted September 8th, 2009: Pack up your lawn chairs and join us this weekend as we celebrate old-time & bluegrass music in Casey Jones Village. The Jackson Area Plectral Society's fall festival is this weekend on Thursday night, Friday night and all day Saturday! Many thanks to John Few, Society president, for going on a press tour this week and to the following media in Jackson for their always generous support of the Casey Jones Old-Time & Bluegrass Music Festival- Shane Connor & Julie Cooke with WYN 106.9, Steve Bowers with JEA Channel 6, Brandon Artiles with WBBJ-TV ABC 7 Good Morning West Tennessee show and Steve Bowers & Greg Wood's morning show on WNWS 101.5 FM. We will be a guest on Steve Bower's afternoon show on 101.5 the Friday of the festival and also on American Family Radio for West Tennessee during the 4 o'clock hour that day. Many thanks to Plectral Society president John Few for making the rounds on the festival's "press tour".
Posted August 27th, 2009: We're getting closer! This year the annual Jackson Area Plectral Society music festival going to all be held in "downtown" Casey Jones Village with jammin' on Thursday night and Friday night outside of the Old Country Store with stage performances on Saturday in the beautiful new theatre at the Casey Jones Museum from 10 am to 8 pm with only $5.00 including Museum admission. There will be free outside pickin' all three days. We always enjoy the wonderful music on Thursday nights with the Plectral Society and this annual festival is a great way to celebrate old-time music. Be sure to stop by the Open House at the Church at the Village on Saturday, September 12th located in the charming Shoppes at the Village.
See the stage schedule below for you to print a copy......
This year we are very proud to welcome WYN 106.9 as a sponsor to the festival along with the Jackson Area Plectral Society and Casey Jones Village. www.wwyn.fm Thank you so much!
Join in the fun September 10th, 11th & 12th! Here is the press release:
All Aboard for the Casey Jones
Old-Time & Bluegrass Music Festival
(Jackson, TN) It's full steam ahead for a fun filled weekend at the Casey Jones Old-Time & Bluegrass Music Festival September 10th, 11th and 12th brought to you by the Jackson Area Plectral Society, Casey Jones Village & WYN 106.9. This year the Thursday night weekly Plectral Society Club Jam will be included in the 12th annual festival. Jammin' throughout the Casey Jones Village grounds has been expanded to Friday & Saturday too.
Festival officials announced a brand new location for the Saturday stage performances this year at the historic Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in the theatre of the new 8,000 square foot "Train Station" expansion that opened in June. Outside jammin' festivities are free with a nominal $5.00 admission on Saturday for the stage music that includes Museum admission and the full Casey Jones Museum tour.
The festival is sponsored by the Jackson Area Plectral Society, a non-profit 501 C-3 organization made up of musicians and supporters dedicated to the promotion and preservation of traditional old-time string music. Club president is John Few. Stage performances by Plectral Society members will include old-time bluegrass, old-time gospel and old-time mountain and folk music.
Festival officials announced a brand new location for the Saturday stage performances this year at the historic Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in the theatre of the new 8,000 square foot "Train Station" expansion that opened in June. Outside jammin' festivities are free with a nominal $5.00 admission on Saturday for the stage music that includes Museum admission and the full Casey Jones Museum tour.
The festival is sponsored by the Jackson Area Plectral Society, a non-profit 501 C-3 organization made up of musicians and supporters dedicated to the promotion and preservation of traditional old-time string music. Club president is John Few. Stage performances by Plectral Society members will include old-time bluegrass, old-time gospel and old-time mountain and folk music.
The club holds two festivals each year. The Spring festival is in Dyersburg and the fall festival in Casey Jones Village. The group annually gives our scholarships to young musicians to further their studies for music lessons for acoustic instruments. Club members are also actively involved in volunteer and charity work all over West Tennessee and attend and play in bluegrass festivals all over the region. Casey Jones Village is located on the Highway 45 By-pass at I-40 exit 80A in Jackson, Tennessee. For more information visit www.caseyjones.com .
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