Battle at Rock Creek Schedule

Battle at Rock Creek Battle of the Bands Competition at Rock Creek Park in Downtown Lewisburg, TN Sept. 4, 18 & 25.

Sept. 4 - 5 p.m.

5 p.m. - Ashley McBryde and Whiskey Business

6 p.m. - Rayz'N Cain

7 p.m. - Three Shades of Grey

8 p.m. - Special Guest - Buddy Jewel - Benefit Concert for Caney Springs Volunteer Fire Department

Sept. 18 - 6 p.m.

6 p.m. - South of Somewhere

6:45 p.m. - The Springs

7:30 p.m.- Uncle Tom

8:15 p.m. - Overdrive

Sept. 25 - 6 p.m.

6 p.m. - Conquer the Sky

6:45 p.m. - Confidential Ingredients

7:30 p.m. - The Fraziers

8:15 p.m. - Five Live

Semifinals will be held on Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. at Rock Creek Park

Two Finalists will Perform Oct. 8 at the Goats, Music and More Festival as Opening Acts for Johnny Lee & the Urban Cowboy Band

Come and Hear the Battle at Rock Creek

The 2nd Annual Battle at Rock Creek battle of the bands competition returns to Rock Creek Park in Lewisburg starting in August and leading up to the Goats, Music and More Festival on Oct. 8, 9 and 10, 2010.
Last year, twelve bands from across the region competed for the chance to play as an opening act at the Goats, Music and More Festival with the winner, Tyterope, of Chapel Hill, taking home the grand prize. This year, twelve more bands will compete for the Battle at Rock Creek title beginning with three bands on August 28 at Rock Creek Park in Lewisburg. The next three bands hit the stage on Sept. 4 followed by three more bands on Sept. 18 and the final three taking the stage on Sept. 25. All Battle at Rock Creek shows are free admission so just bring your lawn chairs and enjoy the music beginning at each night at 7 p.m. except for the Sept. 4 show.
On Sept. 4, a special Battle at Rock Creek Show will be held as Buddy Jewell will headline the event to help raise money for the Caney Springs Volunteer Fire Department.
Buddy Jewell burst onto the country music scene in 2003 when he won the coveted title of USA Network’s first ever Nashville Star. A true crowd favorite from the premiere episode to the finale, TV audiences and critics alike fell in love with Buddy Jewell’s gentility, enthusiasm and true musical passion.
Buddy’s self-titled debut album on Columbia Records was certified gold, and garnered two back-to-back top five hits with “Sweet Southern Comfort” and “Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey’s Song.)” Buddy Jewell debuted at 1 on the Top Country Album charts, and was recognized by the ACM, CMA and CMT Awards with multiple nominations.
At the time of this writing, Buddy’s current single “Somebody Who Would Die For You” is number 2 on the Power Source Christian Country Chart as well as enjoying its second week at the top position on Chart Country in April 2010. “Somebody Who Would Die For You” is available through several on line retailers including iTunes.
The Battle at Rock Creek will begin at 5 p.m. on Sept. 4 followed by Buddy Jewell in a benefit concert for the Caney Springs Volunteer Fire Department who will be raising money to assist in its formation.
There is still a few band slots left for any bands who would like the chance to compete. One band winner from each night of competition will advance to the Oct. 7 show at Rock Creek Park for the semifinals. The two band winners from that night will open the Goats, Music and More Festival show on Friday, Oct. 9 for headliner Johnny Lee. Lee and the Urban Cowboy Band are best known for the smash hit song, “Lookin’ for Love,” the theme for the movie, “Urban Cowboy.”
The winner of the Battle at Rock Creek will be announced following Johnny Lee’s performance and will win $2,000 with the Runner-up band taking home $500.
The Battle at Rock Creek proved a fan favorite last year providing music in the park on a Saturday night for folks from Marshall and surrounding counties. If you didn’t catch the talent last year, come out on August 28, September 4, September 18 or September 25 to vote for your favorite as the Battle at Rock Creek winner.
For more information on the shows or to put your band in the lineup of contestants, contact the City of Lewisburg at (931) 359-1544.

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Buddy Jewell will headline the Battle at Rock Creek show on September 4 at Rock Creek Park in Lewisburg, TN to help raise money for the Caney Springs Volunteer Fire Department.

8th Annual Goats, Music and More Festival - Rockin' Rock Creek Park in Lewisburg, TN

The festival that began in honor of those famous fainting goats of Marshall County returns for its 8th year at Rock Creek Park in Lewisburg, TN and this year’s lineup of goat shows, musical entertainment and activities for the whole family promises to draw crowds from all across the nation and beyond.
The Goats, Music and More Festival has been honored by the Southeast Tourism Society as a Top 20 Event for October twice with its unique southern flavor, top-notch free musical entertainment, goat shows that celebrate fainting and Boer goats, barbecue, food of every description, arts and crafts and kids games and activities.
Coming to the stage this year will be acts to keep Rock Creek Park rockin’ as Johnny Lee and the Urban Cowboy Band perform a free show Friday night. Johnny Lee is best known for the song that helped make the movie “Urban Cowboy” a classic as “Lookin’ for Love in All the Wrong Places” hit the charts. He followed up "Lookin' For Love" with "One In A Million", which spent two weeks at number one. More number one singles during this time included - "Bet Your Heart On Me", "The Yellow Rose (a duet with Lane Brody)", & "You Could've Heard a Heart Break". Lee’s string of Top 10 hits continued with "Pickin' Up Strangers," "Prisoner of Hope," "Be There for Me Baby," "Cherokee Fiddle," "Sounds Like Love," "Hey Bartender" and "Rollin' Lonely."
On Saturday night, the Kentucky Headhunters hit the stage for a free show at Rock Creek Park. The Headhunters will be firing up a brand of country, blues and rock and roll sure to be as tasty as a “slaw-burger, fries and a bottle of ‘ski.” This October celebrates the 21st anniversary of the multi-platinum, Grammy award winning LP, "Pickin' On Nashville," The Kentucky Headhunters 1st release on Mercury records. The song, “Dumas Walker” exploded up the charts and was soon followed by other big hits “Walk Softly” and “Oh Lonesome Me.” The band has been a staple of southern rock, country and blues collections ever since and always a fan favorite when they play live.
The Music part of the festival kicks things off on Thursday, Oct. 7 when the semifinalists of the Battle at Rock Creek battle of the bands competition take the stage. The Battle at Rock Creek tunes up on August 28 at Rock Creek Park with three bands competing to make the semifinals on Oct. 7. The next three will compete on Sept. 4 followed by three more bands on Sept. 18 and the final set of three on Sept. 25. The four winners from those competition nights will compete on Oct. 7 with the two finalists opening the show for Johnny Lee and the Urban Cowboy Band on Friday, October 8 during the first-night finale of the Goats, Music and More Festival.
Saturday, various acts will take the stage at Rock Creek Park leading up to the second-night finale with the Kentucky Headhunters closing the show. All the musical events are free so bring a lawn chair and make room to dance the days and nights away.
Sunday at the festival will feature gospel music headed up by the local ministerial association of Marshall County.
The real stars of the festival take the show tents on Friday with Myotonic Goat Registry Goat Shows and the Southern Middle Tennessee Junior ABGA Boer Goat Show. Saturday hosts the World Championship Fainting Goat Show and the John D. Taylor Memorial Boer Goat Show. The Southern Middle Tennessee ABGA Boer Goat Show will close the goat shows on Sunday.
Vendors of all kinds will line the road at Rock Creek Park beginning Friday morning with anything and everything for which a festival could ask. There is always great food, arts and crafts, unique products of all kinds and more.
And for the kids, the Goats, Music and More Festival features a whole section of games and activities from train rides and pony rides to rock wall climbing and moon bounce. There are just so many fun activities you just have to come and see for yourself.
Walk or run in the 3rd Annual 5K Goat Gallop Friday morning at 7 a.m. To pre-register or to find out more, look for Goats Gallop 5K on Facebook or at www.twitter.com/GoatsGallop5k.
Compete in the Lewisburg Rotary Club 4th Annual State Championship Barbecue Cook Off. Professional Teams and Shade Tree of Backyard cookers come from all around to showcase their culinary skills at this KCBS sanctioned event. To learn more, log onto http://www.rotaryoflewisburg.org/.
See the Nannies and Kids pageant hosted by WAXO Radio/TV. For more information, call (931) 359-6641 or 6642.
Or, for a complete look at this year’s festival updated as information comes in, log onto http://www.goatsmusicandmore.com/ or http://www.goatsmusicandmore.blogspot.com/

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The Kentucky Headhunters- Doug Phelps, Greg Martin, Fred Young, Richard Young

Johnny Lee

Two More Goat Show Information Packets Now Available

The World Grand Champion Fainting Goat Show Information Packet for 2010 and the Myotonic Goat Registry Fainter Show Information Packet for 2010 were just released today. Click on the links above or on the right side of this page under LINKS to open these documents in pdf format.

2010 Goat Show Packets Released

Three Goat Show Packets have been released and are now available. These packets contain rules, regulations, class lists and applications. A link for each can be located under the Links heading on this site, on the Goats, Music and More Festival website or by clicking the links below:
John D. Taylor Memorial Boer Goat Show
Southern Middle Tennessee ABGA Boer Goat Show
Southern Middle Tennessee ABGA Junior Boer Goat Show

Additional Goat Show Packets for World Championship Fainting Goat Show and Myotonic Goat Registry Shows will be released soon.

Goats, Music and More Festival Named a Top 20 Event by Southeast Tourism Society

The Southeast Tourism Society first put the Goats, Music and More Festival in its list of top events back in 2006 and now it has been selected as one of the Top 20 Events in the entire Southeast again for 2009.
The Southeast Tourism Society – www.southeasttourism.org - is dedicated to the promotion of travel to and within the Southeastern United States. It recognizes the importance of festivals, events and attractions in the Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
To qualify as a top event in the Southeast, festivals, events and attractions must submit information on activities, attendance and media coverage to the Southeast Tourism Society. The organization then compiles all the information and determines which events, festivals and attractions are worthy of being named as a top event. After submission of materials from the 2008 Goats, Music and More Festival, the organization choose it as a Top 20 Event in the Southeast.
The Goats, Music and More Festival has grown from a few thousand its first year to over 17,000 from all 50 states, 4 countries and 68 counties in Tennessee last year. The seventh annual Goats, Music and More Festival will be held in downtown Lewisburg at Rock Creek Park on Friday, October 9, Saturday, October 10, and Sunday, October 11, 2009. The festival aims to honor goats, particularly Marshall’s County famous native “Fainting” goat and Boer goat.
The first recorded mention of “fainting” or “nervous” goats was from Marshall County during the 1880s, according to festival officials. A man named Tinsley moved into the northern part of the county bringing with him four “bulgy-eyed” goats and a “sacred” cow. The goats demonstrated a strange tendency to become temporarily rigid, even to the point of losing balance and falling over, when startled. Tinsley stayed long enough to marry and harvest a corn crop. He then left unexpectedly, leaving his wife but taking his cow. Before departing, he sold his goats to a local doctor; and the odd but otherwise healthy goats went on to reproduce and continue living in the area. Fainting goats were almost extinct by the 1980s, but today the quirky breed is thriving throughout the world thanks to its novelty appeal.
Fainting goat shows and Boer goat shows are the core of the festival; but visitors will also find a full slate of planned fun including arts & crafts, great food, children’s activities and acoustic, bluegrass, country and rock and roll music. Bring your best barbeque recipe and enter the Kansas City Barbeque Society sanctioned Lewisburg Rotary Club Barbecue Cook Off or simply bring those taste buds and enjoy a unique taste of the South.
Each day of the event features a slue of fun activities from a 5K Fun Run to children’s games, arts and crafts from mosaics to paintings and food from fried chicken to goat meat. Come see who is this year’s Old Billy and Nanny couple or take part in the Nannies and Kids Pageant sponsored by WAXO. And the Goatly Goblins costume competition is always a riot. The Goats, Music and More Festival has something the whole family can enjoy.
Goats – The Goats, Music and More Festival was founded in honor of the fainting goats of Marshall County. Each year, the shows have grown as goat lovers and curious onlookers take in the World Champion Fainting Goat Show, the Mini Silky Goat Show, the Myotonic Registry Goat Show, the John D. Taylor Memorial Boer Goat Show, the Southern Middle Tennessee ABGA Boer Goat Show and added this year the Nigerian Dwarf Goat Show. Each show brings goat breeders and exhibitors from across the country to compete for ribbons, titles and prizes.
Music –
Each night of the Goats, Music and More Festival brings to the center stage amazing musical acts to cap all of the day’s fun events and each show is free to the public. Last year featured musical legend Delbert McClinton who joined a growing list of stars that have performed on the Goats, Music and More Festival stage from T.G. Shepherd and B.J. Thomas to Percy Sledge, Ronnie Milsap and John Anderson. This year, country music sensation Shenandoah takes the main stage Friday night to cap the opening night of music. The band will perform following the Battle at Rock Creek finalists who will be vying for the best band in the southern middle Tennessee area. The Battle at Rock Creek competition features local bands from around Southern Middle Tennessee who will begin competing in Lewisburg in August. The final four bands standing will perform Thursday Night, October 8 on the Goats, Music and More stage and the final two will open Friday night’s show for Shenandoah.
Saturday night features “Elvis Meets Motown” as Elvis impersonator Shawn Klush brings the King to life with Motown Madness. Shawn Klush has been called the Closest Thing to the King and returns to the Goats, Music and More stage following last year’s incredible show in front of a record crowd. The Motown Madness band brings to the stage Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, the Blues Brothers, Little Richard and more. This group of impersonators has wowed crowds all across America and join returning standout Shawn Klush to close the Goats, Music and More night of entertainment.
More –
The Lewisburg Rotary Club State Championship Barbecue Cook Off returns for its third season at the festival bringing professional and backyard grill masters to dish up their best in pork, chicken, beef and goat. The festival begins with the return of the 5K Goat Gallop along the beautiful greenway at Rock Creek Park. Last year, over 80 competitors joined the run and even more runners are expected this year. Kids can enjoy a train ride through the park as well as a mechanical bull ride, video game tournaments and moon bounce rides. There will be over 100 vendors at this year’s festival serving great food and offering an incredible assortment of crafts.
Admission to the festival is free and open to the public. Just bring your lawn chairs to enjoy the both nights of musical entertainment and take advantage of the parking across the bridge over Rock Creek at this year’s festival. Do not miss this year’s Goats, Music and More Festival October 9, 10 and 11, 2009 in Lewisburg, TN at the beautiful Rock Creek Park.
For more specific directions and a complete schedule of events, please visit http://www.goatsmusicandmore.com. For information concerning lodging, contact the Marshall County Chamber of Commerce at 931.359.3863 or http://www.marshallchamber.org. For more information about Tennessee products, farms, farmers markets and crop festivals, visit the TDA Web site at http://www.picktnproducts.org. For more information on other Tennessee festivals visit www.TNvacation.com or call 1.800.GO.2.TENN
For more information about the Lewisburg Rotary Club Barbecue Cook Off, contact Lewisburg Rotary Club President Jeff Jordan at 931.703.8243, drjjordan@bellsouth.net.

Goats, Music and More Festival

Welcome to the Goats, Music and More Festival Blog

This October 8, 9 & 10, 2010, the 8th Annual Goats, Music and More Festival Returns to Rock Creek Park in Lewisburg, TN. This blog will follow the festival during its formation up to and during the festival's final performers. Who will take the stage this year? Stay Tuned.
Goats Shows this year include the Myotonic Goat Registry Show, the World Grand Champion Fainting Goat Show, the John D. Taylor Memorial Boer Goat Show, the Junior Southern Middle TN ABGA Boer Goat Show and the Southern Middle TN ABGA Boer Goat Show.