The annual International Folk Alliance Conference kicks off this week in downtown Memphis, and while most of the action is restricted to conference registrants, there’s a nice selection of stuff open to the public.
The biggest open event is the conference’s official “Public Night,” happening tonight at the downtown Marriott, with twin-bill concerts happening concurrently at seven different rooms on the hotel’s second-floor meeting area. The lineup is heavy with local folk/roots stalwarts, including Deering & Down and Sid Selvidge pairing up in the Chattanooga room and, perhaps most interestingly, The Bo-Keys and Amy LaVere playing in the Nashville Room. But the Public Night will also feature Mississippi songwriter Paul Thorn, Texas blues musicians Ruthie Foster, and Ohio folk-pop band Over the Rhine in the Marriott’s Heritage 4 Ballroom. Tickets to the Folk Alliance’s Public Night are $15 and the doors open at 7 p.m. For a full lineup and more info, go here.
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