Weekend roundup

5 Things I am loving about this Velvet Ditch of ours this weekend:

1. Naked lady runs around the Water Valley Farmer's Market
2. The new Rock Star Taxi with themed vans and costumes (A-Team driven by a Mr. T look-alike)
3. Oxford Music Festival highlighted all the best this town has to offer.
4. A new corn dog stand in the smelliest alley in Oxford.
5. Not Oxford - but the Como Blues Trailer marker unveiling and the Otha Turner Fife and Drum Picnic. Take the Blues Trail and discover some great music history in our state.

Otha Turner picnic, marker unveiling this weekend

The Otha Turner fife and drum picnic takes place tonight and tomorrow night, and tomorrow (Saturday) at 11am there'll be the dedication of a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in honor of Turner and the African American fife and drum tradition in downtown Como. For more information and directions to the picnic go here.

OXFORD MUSIC FEST THIS WEEKEND

The 2009 Oxford Music Festival is being hosted by various Oxford Musicians and other local personalities, and is intended to showcase the wide range of musical talent that defines the Oxford music scene.

Many of Oxford's most talented bands are scheduled to play at two venues over the course of THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY. These bands represent many different genres from outlaw country, punk/metal, hill country blues, rock and roll, to bluegrass.

These are the Oxford musicians that make our town so cool and unique! SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!!!

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Admission: $30 package for all 3 nights!! @ www.thelyricoxford.com


Thursday (8:00-1:00)- Proud Larry's - $10

Friday (6:00-1:00)- The Lyric Theater- $15

Saturday (5:00-12:00)- The Lyric Theater- $15


There will be food and art vendors and band and festival merchandise will be sold as well, so bring some cash.

This years schedule:

OXFORD MUSIC FEST 2009
Thursday – August 27, 2009 (Proud Larry’s)
8-8:20 Kelley Norris
8:20-8:40 Moon Pie Curtis
8:40-9 Brad Hayden
9-9:40 Hemptones
9:50-10:30 Live Donkey Show
10:40-11:30 Jay Lang & the Ringers
11:45-12:45 Zoogma


Friday - August 28, 2009 (The Lyric)

6-6:30 Stork & Nick B.
6:30-6:50 Young Buffalo
7-7:30 Shannon McNally
7:30-7:45 St. Andrew
7:45-8:15 Sleepwalkers
8:20-8:50 Avenue Hearts
8:55-9:35 The Cooters
9:40-9:55 Patrick McClary
9:55-10:40 Charlie Mars
10:40-10:55 Afrissippi's Guelel Kumba
10:55-11:40 Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition
11:40-11:55 Tyler Keith
11:55-12:50 Colour Revolt

Saturday - August 29, 2009 (The Lyric)

5-6:00 Stork & Nick B.
6-6:30 Silas Reed
6:35-7:05 Sleeping Bulls
7:10-7:40 Kill the Ego
7:45-8:15 Sanders Bohlke
8:20 -9:05 Balance
9:10-9:55 Rocket 88
10-10:45 Mayhem String Band
10:50-11:50 Kudzu Kings

If you have yet to see Joe York's latest short documentary, you can see it below. Titled "Cud," York and the Southern Foodways Alliance take a look at the cattle industry. The Western Diet is starting to get more attention as the health insurance issue is on the center stage. If you missed, Food, Inc at the Amp, then at least get a taste of what is being talked about in York's doc. Of course, I don't have to mention as a film, it is well done.

CUD from Joe York on Vimeo.