Memphis Area Bluegrass Association

~ Founded in December 1999 ~   

“Dedicated to the perpetuation of an American art form.”

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Welcome to our official website. MABA is a non-profit organization promoting Bluegrass in the Mid-South. If you're not a member, look around and see what we're all about. The Membership page will provide you with information about our By-Laws, a Slow Jam session for beginners, Workshops, family oriented Picnics, Pot-lucks, Festivals, Giving Rural Assistance, Newsgrass newsletter, Yahoo Email Group, Business Meeting Minutes and Membership Form. Come on out and pick or sing with us...

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Special Announcements...

SPECIAL NOTICE

Saturday Pickin' moving to

HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

       Starting March 15th    Noon to 3:00pm    Every Saturday

Every Saturday from Noon to 3pm there is picking at the Hope Presbyterian Church located at 8500 Walnut Grove Rd  Map. A major feature of this weekly picking is the Slow Jam...a special picking session  where everything is slowed down just a bit to give the new pickers an opportunity to learn some new songs.

 

Monday Night Pickin' at the Memphis Navy Flying Club

Jam 6:30 pm to ?, Millington, TN, Turn off Hwy 51 onto Navy Rd. heading East, Make a left onto Hornet, (the street before you go under the crosswalk over Navy Rd.), Make a right onto Eniwetok St., It's the last building on the left, Bldg. N110 or contact Helen Davis: gertrude2@juno.com 

Friday Night Pickin' at Collierville (Church of the Redeemer)

Some folks may be wondering where all the Friday night pickers from the Collierville  Historic Town Square went when it turned cold. Have no fear! We’re at Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal) at 3100 So. Houston Levee Road, about half a mile north of Landers Ford on Poplar.

 The jam is free and open to all skill levels. Our music is hot and the coffee is, too. There is music all over the church! The good people of Redeemer have generously opened the sanctuary, fellowship hall, Sunday school rooms, and all the hallways, for us to pick right on through the winter. Special thanks go out to the congregation, especially to Pete Spaulding and crew, for making it happen. In about mid-April of 2008, we will head on back out on the square for our ninth season!

Come on by this Friday night around 6:30-ish PM, and pick a tune or two with some of the finest bluegrass and old-time musicians in the Mid-South. We’re pickin’ up a storm at Redeemer in Collierville. All we need is YOU!

HARRISON CRAWFORD

MEMORIAL

BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL

WILLISTON, TENNESSEE

30 miles East of Memphis, TN on Hwy 76 in Williston, TN

6 miles South of Somerville, TN

7 .5 miles North of Moscow, TN

JUNE 13 and 14 (2008)

Adults $5.00 Children under 12 FREE

• Live Bluegrass Music Fri & Sat
• Shade Tree Picking (Jamming)
• Great BBQ and Other Concessions
• Fishing For Kids and Big Kids!
• Moon Walk and Other Fun For The Kids
• Bring Your Lawn Chair and Instrument
• Car Show (Somerville Car Club)
• Camping (no hook ups)

Stage Shows

Cypress Creek, Jeff Long Band, Town Square Pickers,

Brush Arbor, Deep Hollow, Bluegrass Conspiracy,

Delta Blue, Hard Times, Gone South, Bob Waters Group,

 Grass Hoppers, Wild Willy, Single Tree and Goin' Home.

 

Fri from 5:00 pm-10:00 pm

Sat from 10:00 am-10:00 pm

The Harrison Crawford Festival is Sponsored By

MABA (Memphis Area Bluegrass Association)

Call Harry: 901-262-7609

Sol: 901-413-9445

Click here for Printable Flyer

 

MABA's Newsgrass monthly newsletter
 now available on line.

You can now view and/or print the monthly newsletter from the web. 

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