LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The 2016 National Jug Band Jubilee happens at the Brown-Forman Amphitheater on Saturday, September 17 beginning at Noon.
Louisville will host some of the greatest jug bands from around the world.
The 2016 Jubilee will include an expanded vendor's area featuring more local artists, there will be several children's workshops between bands, and much more family-friendly fun.
Grammy Award-winning artist Dom Flemons will headline the 2016 festival.
Flemons is the "American Songster," pulling from various traditions of old-time folk music to create new sounds.
Having performed music professionally since 2005, he has played live for over one million people just within the past three years.
He is a co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
The National Jug Band Jubilee was created to celebrate the legacy of jug band music in the River City.
Louisville is the acknowledged home of jug band music, a pre-war jazz style that features traditional and homemade instruments.
In the late 19th century, African American musicians walked the streets of the River City playing tunes on improvised instruments like empty liquor jugs ("the poor man's tuba"), kazoos and washboards.
By the time the sound reached its peak in the 1930s, it had infiltrated towns up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, especially Memphis and New Orleans.
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