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Friday, May 11, 2012
King Biscuit / Contests Design a poster for King Biscuit Blues Festival
All you artistic types who are also fans of the King Biscuit Blues Festival might wanna get out the brushes and oil paints and pastels and crayons and colored pencils and laptops, or whatever it is people use to make art these days. Because the Arkansas Delta Arts Partnership is seeking submissions for poster artwork for the 2012 KBBF, which is Oct. 4-6 in historic downtown Helena.
If the judges dig your work the most, you'll get $800 and VIP access at King Biscuit. Catches: they get to keep the original and can use it for T shirts, postcards, mailers, knick-knacks, doo-dads and so forth. Encouraged: art that incorporates visual elements of Helena. Details: right over here.
The press release is after the jump.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Coming soon / King Biscuit Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Bobby Rush to headline King Biscuit Blues Festival
The King Biscuit Blues Festival announced its complete 2012 lineup today. The headliners are Bonnie Raitt on Saturday, Taj Mahal on Friday and Bobby Rush on Thursday.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
What's going on / Music / King Biscuit King Biscuit Blues Festival photos
- Brian Chilson
- Buddy Guy
Tireless Times photographer Brian Chilson sent in some dispatches from the King Biscuit Blues Festival, which got started yesterday.
The Arkansas Times Blues Bus hits the road to Helena tomorrow at 10 a.m.
UPDATE: See more pics in a slideshow on the jump.
UPDATE II: See even more pics in a slideshow on the jump.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
King Biscuit The Arkansas Times Blues Bus is filling up...
Time's tickin' for those of you considering hopping on the Arkansas Times Blues Bus to the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena-West Helena.
Once again, we're hauling busloads of blues-lovers to the Saturday portion of the festival, and once again, it's a hell of a bargain, at $99 a person for round-trip transportation, free booze and entertainment on the bus, plus a stopover in DeValls Bluff for barbecue at Craig's.
The bus leaves Sat. Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. from the parking garage at 2nd and Main streets downtown and returns that evening. The headliner for Saturday night is Keb' Mo' (above). Other performers include Marcus "Mookie" Cartwright, Lonnie Shields, Tommy Castro and the Stax Review with Eddie Floyd, Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper, plus many more.
Call 501-375-2985 to order tickets, or send check or money order to: Arkansas Times Blues Bus, Box 34010, Little Rock, AR 72203.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Music / Coming soon / King Biscuit Ride the Arkansas Times Blues Bus
Is there a better way to go to a music festival than by riding a bus with a keg and live entertainment? Probably not, but if you're still not sold, just ask any of the 150-plus folks who rode along with the Arkansas Times to the Johnny Cash Music Festival last week.
Once again, the Times will be taking busloads of blues-lovers to the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena. And once again, it's a hell of a bargain, at $99 a person for round-trip transportation, free booze and entertainment on the bus, plus a stopover in DeValls Bluff for barbecue at Craig's.
The bus leaves Sat. Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. from the parking garage at 2nd and Main streets downtown and returns that evening. The headliner for Saturday night is Keb' Mo'. Other performers include Marcus "Mookie" Cartwright, Lonnie Shields, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Tommy Castro, the Stax Review with Eddie Floyd, Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper, plus many more.
Call 501-375-2985 to order tickets, or send check or money order to: Arkansas Times Blues Bus, Box 34010, Little Rock, AR 72203.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Music / King Biscuit / Year in Review K for King Biscuit
- Brian Chilson
- BB King accepts the key to the city at King Biscuit
Can we stage a burial ceremony for that antiseptic mouthful of a name that stood in for "King Biscuit" while out-of-state marauders held it hostage? Something cleansing like setting a canoe filled with all the unsold "Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival" merch on fire and kicking it out to the Mississippi River? Because the Biscuit's back, y'all. Not only did organizers — led by irrepressible director Munnie Jordan — manage to negotiate an agreement to, once again, use the festival's original name, they staged one hell of a festival in 2010. BB King, Dr. John, Taj Mahal — where else are you going to find headliners like that for a $25 weekend pass? Times readers got to witness the renaissance firsthand on the last day of the festival. Nearly 100 of 'em rode the Arkansas Times Blues Buses, which came equipped with kegs of beer and live on-bus performances from North Little Rock cigarbox guitar whiz Bluesboy Jag. It was a party.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
King Biscuit Blues fest slideshow
Times photographer Brian Chilson was on the scene in Helena all weekend. Check out his slideshow from the festival on the jump.
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Music / King Biscuit Blues fest street scene
Courtesy of Times photographer Brian Chilson. More on the jump.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
King Biscuit Live from King Biscuit: Valerie June
The "$5 Cover" star was on the scene yesterday and today at the blues festival in Helena-West Helena. Video by Brian Chilson.
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