America’s
First Annual Redd Stewart Country Music Festival!
Welcome
To The Official Website For The Redd Stewart Country Music Festival! On this site you will find complete information about the festival
from entertainment to ways to get involved with this event. We hope
this site will answer all of your questions, and inspire you to come
to Olive Branch, Mississippi for a down-home country music festival that
is sure to please the entire family! We look forward to entertaining,
you and hope to see you there! Though Redd is no longer with us,
he is still entertaining us today. Come pay tribute to the man and
his music.
Billy Stewart
In
Memory Of Dave Kirby
Renowned
country music songwriter, guitar session player and singer Dave Kirby passed
away at.... More
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About
Redd
Redd Stewart; country-music
singer, guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler perhaps
best known for co-writing
"Tennessee Waltz," a song about stolen love that became the state's official
song and a massive hit. He began his career writing
commercial jingles, and in 1937 became a singer and fiddler in Pee Wee King's
Golden West Cowboys, which made regular appearances on the Grand Ole Opry stage
and in films starring Gene Autry and Johnny Mack Brown. One of his first
successes as a songwriter, written while in the Army during World War II, was
"Soldier's Last Letter," recorded by Ernest Tubb. He co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz" in 1948 with King
during a road trip from Nashville to Texarkana on the
Texas-Arkansas border. The
Stewart-King team was
responsible for the best-selling "Bonaparte's Retreat" and, in collaboration with Chilton
Price, "Slow Poke" and "You Belong to Me."
To learn more about The Man & His Music, please
visit our newly launched tribute site in honor of Redd at: www.reddstewart.com
A
Special Thanks To The Mayor Of Olive Branch!
All
of us at the Redd Stewart Festival would like to take this opportunity to
thank Mayor Sam Rikard
for allowing us to have our festival in his wonderful city! From all of us to you,
you're the best!
A
Special Thanks To Memphis Sound
the
offical sound, stage, and lighting company for The Redd Stewart
Country Music Festival 2004. Lets face it, without you guys we would
just be a bunch of goobers jamming in a cornfield!
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Billy
& Sharon Stewart
would like to take this
opportunity to thank Colonel
Robert Morris and
his wife Irene along with Bob Timmers, founder
of The Rockabilly And Traditional Country
Music Hall Of
Fame, for helping
to put this
festival together, and for Redd's induction into
The Hall Of Fame!
2004
Artist Line-up
Main
Events
Special
Guest: Buster Doss
Guitar
Pickin' Mama
Leona
Williams
Keith
Thompson
CanJoe
John
Lolene
Ernie
Ashworth
Frank James
Colonel Robert Morris
W.S. Holland
Dalton
Roberts
Joe Rucker
Lowell Shyette
Britni Jean Hendrickson
The
Mateki's
Ben
Adler
Tammy
Cassidy
Bobby
Wynne
Jose
Daniel
FOXX
Margaret
Penn
Joanna
And Julie Allen
Les
Alexander
Angela
White
Karissa
Stepter
Bob
Timmers
Fred
Atkins
Robert
Clarkson
Phil
McGarrah
James
Segrest
Roger
Liles
John
Story
Aaron
Jesy Keys
Harold
Rogers
Milton
Woolridge
Jack
Greene
Candi
Carpenter
Steve
Turnbow