Help save the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival

Geoff Brown · From: Nashvegas

http://www.bluesandheritage.com/

Pretty disgusting if you ask me...another sad example of the cultural castration that is taking place in this country.

Please take a few minutes to read about this. If you're so inclined, sign the petition...takes two minutes. Buy a cool T-shirt for 20 bucks, what the hell.

*I'm in no way affiliated with the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival. It's a great festival. I think it would be a shame to see it taken over by a bunch of business suits. I'm just passin' along the info.

Bill McCloskey · Posted 17 Mar 2006 7:11 am

I couldn't find out from the site what the issue is? Does anyone know what the story is?

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

I received this email in January, through the VintageAmpsandGuitarLovers newsgroup, that I think explains the situation.

{mailto:VintageAmpsandGuitarLovers@yahoogroups.com} On Behalf Of Junior Jackson

Most of you have heard about the big rip-off of The King Biscuit Blues Festival name by Performa Entertainment Real Estate in Memphis. In short, the NYC company "King Biscuit Entertainment", who produced the rock shows for radio in the early 70s, won the rights in a New York court to the King Biscuit name and leased the use of that name to Performa. Performa is now planning to hold a festival just across the river from Helena, AR (where "The Biscuit" is held) on the same weekend as the original festival, bringing in hip-hop and pop acts, and calling it "The King Biscuit Music Festival". They also plan to force the "King Biscuit Time" radio show off the air at KFFA in Helena, where it has been broadcast from since 1941, so that they can broadcast it from Beale Street. they are also planning to open a chain of "King Biscuit" restaurants.

This move of pure corporate greed is a huge slap in the face to all Blues fans. They are stealing the heritage of the best free festival in the country and trying to steal festival goers and income from an impoverished area in the Delta, the place where it all started. It may be legal, but it is WRONG.

An online petition has been started to help combat this injustice and return the King Biscuit name to the festival that has nurtured it for 20 years. Please help by signing this petition and boycotting the Memphis Festival and any project Performa is involved in. It`s simple to do. Just click this link, sign the petition. You have to include your e-mail address, but rest assured it will be kept private. Only one person (me) can see your e-mail address if you choose to keep it private. My only agenda is to bring The King Biscuit name back to the Helena Festival, and your e-mail address is only needed, and will only be used, for confirmation purposes.

Please show your support as a Blues fan and help us bring the "Biscuit" back where it belongs!

Just click this link and sign, and Thank you for your support!
http://new.PetitionOnline.com/Biscuit/petition.html

{end of email}

Adrienne Clasky · From: Florida, USA

Just signed it. What unbelievable gall those people have.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

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