ok Red States -- tell me cool things happening where you are this summer (festivals, freak-outs, kentucky derbies, etc.)

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I'm compiling for my own purposes a not-at-all-comprehensive calendar of interesting summer things happening in the more-or-less Red States of America. Arts events, competitions, rodeos, whatever. I already know some of these things, but I want to know more. If you live in these places or know of them, lemme know what's happening.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

For example, I know Bonnaroo. And Belle Chere in Asheville. And, yes, the KY Derby. But what else? Spelling bees? Quilting bees? Hog-slaughtering contests? I M curious.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

mary j. blige, kanye west, big boi, ludacris, t.i., faith evans, john legend, and some other people i forget who all are playing a big festival down here. doug e. fresh is the host.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. Know when or what it's called?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

o and the national black arts festival is sometime during the summer but i don't know who's playing it.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

vibe's doing the doug e fresh festival, here's the link - http://216.105.98.54/musicfest/ . o man amerie's playing too!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized that I am now in a Red State.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

o and i'm usually miserable at these things (it's hot and crowded), but the lineup for music midtown, another festival thing in atlanta, has a decent lineup this year. white stripes, montgomery gentry, ciara, pixies, def leppard, lou reed, bobby valentino, trace adkins, common, darryl worley, interpol, biz markie, devo, alan jackson, public enemy, john fogerty, whodini, jo dee messina, the killers, joan jett, tift merritt, black eyed peas, bloc party, mc lyte, robert randolph, tom petty and - go figure - doug e. fresh & slick rick.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There are way too many things for me to mention, but here's a helpful link for you to click on that might be able to educate you a bit on what's going on.

Also: Concerts by Machine Head, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Lawrence, Gipsy Kings, Manhattan Transfer, Moody Blues, Judas Priest, the Vans Warped Tour, Cafe Tacuba, Bleeding Through, and John Legend. And something called "1964 the Tribute".

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(Date range: June 1 - August 31.)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are you just going to red states?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately you've already missed Spamarama down here.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

hm well Beat Me In St Louis is coming up I guess, and then there's always the state fair.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

man it depresses me to see "kentucky" and "red states" in the same sentence

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

BREAUX BRIDGE CRAWFISH FESTIVAL

― adam (adam), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

we're pretty much talking blue parts of red states here, right?

anyway, Spoleto

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

no, we're not gabbneb. my parents' us rep is a gop-er, and they live in the most "liberal, weird, democrat" part of louisville.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i'm not talking CDs, necessarily, and dunno bout Louisville, but assume Atlanta and Asheville are more blue than red.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

These are all good, thanks. More! And maybe some of them are in "blue" areas, but that's part of the point of this calendar thing I'm assembling, to highlight again how silly it is to make broad assumptions about entire sections of the country.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I live on a blue street in a red neighborhood in a blue county located inside a red state. I have no idea what to tell you.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear ya. I grew up in a red suburb of a blue city in a red region of a blue state.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's lavender where I live.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

fabulous!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.mcihispeed.net/~efa/images/prince_purple_rain.jpg

U R ALL LIVING A PURPLE LIFE! THERE ARE NO RED AND BLUE STATES!

DIG!

AOWAH!

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

periwinkle!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't believe pleasant plains didn't mention the annual 'toad suck daze' festival taking place in conway, arkansas this weekend.

NO FROGS!

ps:i know its not summer, bitches

― katharine (katharine), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted to keep that to ourselves, katharine. Now, everybody's going to want to come.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I will remember that for my spring calendar next year...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought the KY Derby was in the San Fernando Valley?

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was waiting for that joke.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

burgoo

― squirrelmeat, Friday, 29 April 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the Inter-tribal

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 30 April 2005 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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