Music at Market Street Festival

Stage: Main Stage

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Main Stage
Friday, May 7, 2010 - 7:30pm

www.comeongowithus.com

www.myspace.com/comeongowithus

www.facebook.com/ComeOnGoWithUs

Instrumentation Jacob Simpson - Vocals, Guitar

Chase McGill - Vocals, Banjo, Keys, Guitar

Dustin Hedrick - Violin, Guitar

Chris Hurt - Bass, Vocals

Taylor Mills - Drums
Biography “It's the middle of America; kind of a melting pot of all rock and roll.” - Levon Helm

Claiming Mississippi and Alabama as home, Come On Go With Us brings exactly what you would expect from 5 Southern Gentlemen, with scattered upbringings, all the way from North Mississippi to South Alabama. Surrounded by the voodoo of New Orleans, to the black and blue Memphis, all the way up to hill country music from the Carolinas, down to the sweltering swamps of Florida, Come On Go With Us had no choice but to sound Southern in their successful attempts at Rock n Roll.

During their first poorly planned but richly enjoyed tour, the need for a full band and a bigger sound became prevelant as the crowd size grew.
 
In their self-titled debut, the band has created a melting pot of relaxed, energetic, and happy go lucky songs about life, love, and lack thereof, sprinkled with moments of darkness.

 

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Main Stage
Friday, May 7, 2010 - 9:30pm

http://www.bigsamsfunkynation.com/

 

Big Sam’s Funky Nation is a driving force of urban funk. Ryan White, of the Oregonian, says the band is “tight enough (and hot enough) to turn coal into a diamond!” The band is led by trombone powerhouse, Big Sam Williams, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who the San Francisco Chronicle calls “the top man on the slide trombone in the birthplace of jazz.” Combining his distinctive trombone riffs with a call-and-response MC style, Big Sam refuses to let the audience sit still. Between the band’s solos and his trombone riffs, Big Sam second-lines (a uniquely New Orleans style of street-dance) and gets the crowd going.

Big Sam’s Funky Nation is not a one man show; the members of the Funky Nation, a group of well trained and experienced musicians with impressive credentials of their own, meet the challenges of their funky band leader. BSFN masterfully combines a rock sensibility with improv-style associated with jazz and the horn-heavy front section that’s the hallmark of big band funk.

The energy level is high voltage when this band takes the stage, and as Jambase Online proclaims, “as long as groups like Big Sam’s Funky Nation helm communal happenings like this one the funky fever is bound to spread.”

 

2009 Big Easy Music Award: Best Funk Band of 2008
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2009 Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship awarded to
Sammie "Big Sam" Williams 
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June 2009 Where Y'at Magazine's "Best of the Big Easy's
Reader's Pick: Best R&B Band"
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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 11:30am
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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 1:00pm

 

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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 2:30pm
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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 5:15pm

 

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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 6:30pm

 Check out their BIO!

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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 8:15pm
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Main Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 10:00pm

Stage: WCBI Stage

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WCBI Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 9:00am
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WCBI Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 10:30am
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WCBI Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 12:00pm
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WCBI Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 2:30pm

 

Stage: Acoustic Stage

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Acoustic Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 10:00am

 

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Acoustic Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 11:30am
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Acoustic Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 1:00pm

 

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Acoustic Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 2:30pm

 

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Acoustic Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 4:00pm
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Acoustic Stage
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 5:30pm