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2012 Festival Hours: Friday, May 18: 3 pm - 10 pmSaturday, May 19: 10 am - 10:30 pmSunday, May 20: Noon - 5 pmSee a complete schedule of events and the band lineup at lowertownamf.com. Hear a LIVE Broadcast from LowerTown on WKMS!May 18th from 7 - 10 p.m.Tracy Ross hosts a live broadcast from the LowerTown Arts and Music Festival in Paducah.

'Fourchestra' Brings Steel Pan Funk to LowerTown

Amidst an eclectic lineup of musicians performing at this weekend's LowerTown Arts & Music Festival is the Asheville, North Carolina jazz fusion ensemble called the Jonathon Scales Fourchestra.  Bandleader Scales is a graduate of Appalachian State University. He was the saxophonist before turning to steel pans in 2002. We meet Jonathan Scales and hear the Fourchestra with Kate Lochte.

You can see the entire music schedule for the festival at lowertownamf.com.

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra performs at the LowerTown Arts & Music Festival Friday at 5 p.m. and later for the after party starting at 10:30 p.m. in Maiden Alley Cinema. 

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra "Mississippi"

http://youtu.be/yO6x7ruiJQE

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