Lowertown Arts and Music Festival

Paducah, Kentucky's annual Lowertown Arts and Music Festival was originally supposed to be held in early May, but the pandemic forced the organizers to cancel. The Yeiser Art Center and Lowertown festival committee have tentatively rescheduled for October. Seth Murphy, LTAMF music director, speaks with Tracy Ross about what the festival might look like in a new, socially distanced world.

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band takes classic country blues, fingerstyle picking, and washboard playing to new levels of contemporaneity. Frontman 'The Reverend Peyton' visits Sounds Good to discuss the band's upcoming headlining performance at the Lowertown Arts and Music Festival. 

With a lively funk sound that seems to have traveled straight up the Mississippi from New Orleans, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band is set to headline Paducah, Kentucky's Lowertown Arts and Music Festival next weekend. Guitarist, manager, and founding member of the band, JP Miller, visits Sounds Good to discuss the upcoming performance.

The Lowertown Arts & Music Festival is taking place this weekend, May 18th and 19th, in Paducah, KY. Stacy Reason, the co-director of LTAMF and the executive director of the Yeiser Art Center, visits Sounds Good to discuss the upcoming weekend and what festival goers can expect to see and hear. 

Darrell Scott, who has established himself as one of Nashville's premier songwriters and studio musicians, will be performing at the Lowertown Arts & Music Festival this weekend in Paducah, KY. Scott visits Sounds Good to discuss his prolific musical career and his upcoming performance. 

This week's bonus episode previews music coming to Paducah's Lowertown Arts and Music Festival. Two of the guests (Shanden SImmons and Melanie Davis) are musicians and they add insight into performing in different settings. Librarian Becca Halbmaier gives some helpful information about access to the music that will be heard at the festival. 

The festival is May 18th, 19th. 

Tracy Ross speaks with Addison Rogers of the group Busman's Holiday who perform Friday afternoon at Paducah's Lowertown Arts and Music Festival.