FIRST ANNUAL MAC ARNOLD CORNBREAD & COLLARD GREENS BLUES FESTIVAL

April 26th through April 29th. April 26th & 27th --The Blues will be brewing all around Downtown Greenville just to get things warmed up--stay tuned for more details and venue locations for Thursday and Friday's event!

JOIN US SATURDAY AT THE HANDLEBAR FOR A NIGHT OF BLUES WITH MAC ARNOLD & PLATE FULL O' BLUES with special guests 2006 WC Handy Award winner / Guitar Hero HUBERT SUMLIN and Howlin' Wolf's band leader / Sax Man EDDIE SHAW, Reunited for the first time in over 40 years.

KEEP THE FEELIN' GOING ON SUNDAY APRIL 29TH FOR THE FINALE: THE MAC ARNOLD CORNBREAD & COLLARD GREENS BLUES FESTIVAL TO BE HOSTED BY LARKIN'S ON THE RIVER at the DOW BRANDS AMPHITHEATER ON THE REEDY RIVER BEHIND THE PEACE CENTER .

Opening the show, an amazing new young band brother and sister act "HOMEMADE JAMZ BAND" (2nd place winners out of 157 bands in the 2007 International Blues Challenge!)Their Ages: 14, 12, and on drums is 8 year old little sister

Next up...STEADY ROLLIN' BOB MARGOLIN and WILLIE "BIG EYES" SMITH team up with MAC ARNOLD & PLATE FULL O' BLUES for another Amazing day of Chicago blues. All former members of the legendary Muddy Waters Blues band.

a Special Feature for the Day ...MAC ARNOLD & PLATE FULL O' BLUES will perform their new song I Can Do Anything with approximately 200 local youth and the Greer High School Marching Band