One week after having to cancel the much larger Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, because of flooding brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, organizers of the Moon River Festival at Coolidge Park got a gorgeous weekend for their event.
As Reed Caldwell made his way around the completed and partially completed display cases inside the old Songbirds Guitar Museum on Station Street, he described how the foundation he runs with the mission of teaching children to play guitar has continued to grow and thrive over the past almost six years, and how moving into the space makes so much sense.
One could easily forgive Kane Brown for not visiting the Chattanooga area for a couple of years.
For Bill Medley, nothing's better for the blues than performing
Growing up in Chattanooga in a predominantly white neighborhood, Amythyst Kiah attended schools in the East Brainerd-Ooltewah area, hung out with friends and played lots of sports, which she excelled at. But then puberty and middle school hit and she began to notice her interests were no longer those of the people around her.
One week after its larger cousin, Bonnaroo, had to cancel because of heavy rains brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, the Moon River Festival is set to get underway Saturday at Coolidge Park.
After first voting to table a change of ownership application to allow William Henry Chapin and Joan Douglas Chapin to sell beer at Good Dog on Frazier Avenue because it had not passed all of its required inspections, members of the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board voted to allow beer sales under the prior owner's certificate with a contingency that it be approved by the city attorney.
Parker Reed was in a car "packed to the gills" with two friends as they hit the halfway point of their 700-mile drive to Manchester, Tennessee. That's when his phone started blowing up with posts and texts that the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival had been canceled.
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival for 2021 is now officially canceled because of rains brought to the Manchester, Tennessee, area as part of the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Like a lot of people, Cherita Bloodwirth Adams spent much of Sunday glued to a television, getting updates on Hurricane Ida as it tore through the Gulf Coast.
