USA – Music Tour 2016

music mainline – robdickens101 – July 17, 2016 at 07:33PM

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No folks, this is not my entry in the 3M Post-it Note Art Competition – Beginner Class.

This is in fact the key device for planning my Music Tour of the South in 2016. It may not look like much, but is gets me what I need. (I think I must be a visual person – yes, really!).

The tour will span almost five weeks, book-ended by the last weeks in August and September and only five days without a car.

That messy map is actually a rough loop, going from west to east and halfway back again.

So far the trip lock-ins are:

fayettevilleroots festival – Fayetteville Arkansas
Chris Stapleton gig – Louisville Kentucky
Rhythm n Roots Reunion Festival – Bristol Virginia/Tennessee
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats show – Nashville Tennessee
Americana Conference and Festival – Nashville

I have quite a few days to fill in between Fayetteville AR – Louisville KY – Bristol/Nashville TN. These are the other possibilities that I am considering including on my travels:

Woody Guthrie Museum – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Grammy Museum – Cleveland, Mississippi

Blue Front Cafe – Bentonville, Mississippi

Johnny Cash Boyhood Home – Dyess, Arkansas

Music City Roots – Franklin, Tennessee

Los Lonely Boys acoustic concert – Franklin, Tennessee

Loretta Lynn’s Ranch – Hurricane Mills, Tennessee

International Bluegrass Museum – Owensboro, Kentucky

Bill Monroe’s House – Rosine, Kentucky

Woodsongs Radio Hour – Lexington, KY

Kentucky Music Hall of Fame – Renfro Valley, Kentucky

Ralph Stanley Museum – Clintwood, Virginia

County Store – Floyd, VA

Earl Scruggs Centre – Shelby, North Carolina

Mountain Song Festival – Brevard, North Carolina

General – Asheville, North Carolina

Dollyworld (you heard right!) – Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

General – Knoxville, Tennessee

The Georgia Satellites – Owensboro, Kentucky

Daniel Boone Festival – Winchester, Kentucky

Russell County Fair and Horse Show – Clintwood Virginia (an outsider at this stage…still I love a good apple dunkin’ competition)

Shrimp and Petrol Festival (!?) – Morganton, North Carolina

Dom Flemons – Louisville, Kentucky

I obviously cannot fit it all in. The trick being to avoid too much criss-crossing thereby minimizing driving time and maximizing music time. But, no decisions made yet as I am waiting for more live shows to be announced, in case I get the calling to change plans.

Any thoughts or advice would be welcome.

By the way, does anyone use pollstar.com for gig checking? I find it pretty good. If you put in a location and then set a date range you get a list of who’s playing and when. Now let’s see, if I search for, say, Asheville NC here is what I get. You can refine the search by date range. I’m not sure how comprehensive it is, but I haven’t found anything better.

Now, where are the blue post-its…