Adairville South Logan Chamber of Commerce

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06/03/2016

Don't forget the campaign to raise money for the composite picture restoration. Some money has come in but not very much. I am challenging each class to raise $100 for a picture. That is a very small amount. So let's see which class can raise the most. We need about $3000 to get them all redone. Send your check to Adairville School, 226 School Avenue, Adairvlle, Kentucky 42202 and put on there what year you are supporting and we will see which class raises the most. Ok, Class of 69 show me your money.

05/13/2016

Celebrate with us the 210th anniversary of the Jackson-Dickinson Duel

Come and witness a time when honor was worth dying for, on May 21 at 1pm during the Adairville Strawberry Festival.

Dave Dockins as Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States and Alexander Brindley as a young Nashville attorney Charles Dickinson, together with the rest of our creative team and reenactors from the Hermitage will demonstrate an improved and more bloody affair of honor between the two gentlemen, whose rivalry led to one of the most famous duels in American history.

On May 23, 1806 Jackson and Dickinson faced each other in the duel just two miles west of Adairville, on the banks of the Red River.

Martina Brindley, the stage director

04/26/2016

Great entertainment line-up this year for the festival.

Local Talent Showcase on Thursday night.
Clay Bilyeu will be hosting several of our local singers. We have about 8 or 10 people from our area that will be singing. So far we have Hannah Lawrence, Joshua Lawrence, Lydia Manley, Harley Roberton, Jaclyn Batchelor, Janie Tyler Karyn Kutzman, Bella Gaddis, Bryan Thaxton, and Clay Bilyeu which is a great line-up. It anyone else wants to sing, dance, comedy routine, give me a call and we will get you in the line up.
Friday night at 5 we will have Adairvlle's own Gospeltones at 5 p.m., then at 7:30 Four on the Floor will rock us out for the night with all the oldies. So put on your dancing shoes and get ready for a great Friday.
Saturday at 5 the By Faith Band will be on the square at 4:00 singing gospel and some country.
At 7:30 Adairville's own Nick Riggins and The Hard Dog band will close out the festival singing songs from their latest CD. which is very good.
Also we have the Stevenson family and friends singers and pickers that will be performing sometime during the day on Saturday. We have not finalized the time on this yet. This will feature our own Jimmy Laurent on the washtub. You won't want to miss this. They are very good. Love hearing them pick and sing.

04/12/2016

Save the Alumni Pictures Campaign!!!!!
The Alumni Composites that hang in the hall at the Adairville School are in dire need of re-framing and sprucing up. Let's raise the money to do this. There are 28 total so let's shoot for $3000. Send your donations payable to Adairville School, 226 School Avenue, Adairville, Kentucky 42202. Be sure and put on there what it is for

03/28/2016

Please get the word out. Due to low participation in the Sr. Miss pageant at the Strawberry Festival, this year if we don't have 10 contestants by May 1st, we will not have the Sr Pageant.

03/21/2016

Don't miss Nick Riggins, Matt Jenkins and me on WRUS Feedback this Wednesday, 9 am. They will be talking about their friendship, their rivalry, and their new CD. Some of the songs on the CD will be played that morning. Then everyone is invited down to "The Country" on 28th Avenue North in Nashville on April 1st to party down with Nick and the Harddogs. I am also attaching a bio about the two of these guys.

Contact: Matt Jenkins
773-441-3798
[email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Nick Riggins and The Hard Dogs to perform free concert at Adairville Strawberry Festival. Band features reunited Logan County boyhood friends
Nick Riggins and Matt Jenkins
Nashville, TN March 15, 2016 - They met as teens in Logan County talent shows and FFA. They played in a successful rock band in the 1980s, and now Nick Riggins and Matt Jenkins are making music again in the outlaw country band, Nick Riggins and The Hard Dogs.
Riggins grew up on Riggins Road, a sixth generation Adairville to***co and vegetable farmer and son of Bud Riggins and long-time Adairville High School teacher Lois Riggins Ezelle, who now is the executive director at the Tennessee State Museum.
Matt Jenkins was raised in Auburn16 miles down US-68 from Riggins on a farm where his family raised Simmental cows. His father is actor Ken Jenkins, best known for his role as Dr Kelso on TV’s Scrubs and his mother is the artist Joan Patchen.
Nick and Matt first met as teens in 1976 while competing in a talent show at the old Adairville High school Auditorium. Riggins was singing and Jenkins was playing banjo in a duet with his brother, Daniel on fiddle. “I didn’t like them at all”, says Riggins with a laugh, “Who are those these little… jerks from Auburn?”
The boys kept running into each other at competitions and were both active in local FFA chapters. Nick and Matt joined forces as band mates, with Nick on vocals, Matt on drums, and Bob Kommersmith on bass guitar. Their group, ADONIS was a leading force in Nashville’s rock scene throughout the 1980s.
Jenkins moved to New York City and lived and played drums in LA, Detroit, and Chicago. Riggins has been recording and performing his music with some of the region’s top players. Two years ago Nick entered the world of TV starring in the Logan County-filmed CMT To***co Wars with his friends Scott Gainous and Mark Law, among other locals.
Matt returned to Nashville in 2014 and he and Nick reunited with Bob Kommersmith, a seasoned session and touring bass player to rekindle the musical magic they shared in the 1980s. The three are joined by rhythm guitarist Hunter Nash and lead guitarist TJ Larkin who complete The Hard Dogs.
Nicks latest album Farmed and Dangerous on AGR Records features the single, Guitars, Girls and Whiskey. The video was filmed during a live concert at Nashville’s Springwater Supper Club, featuring a rowdy crowd of Logan County longtime fans and friends.
Nick Riggins and The Hard Dogs will bring their signature brand of outlaw country with a free concert at the Adairville Strawberry Festival on Saturday, May 21st, 2016. They will also be performing at The Country Nashville on April 1, 2016 at 7:00.
Nick Riggins and The Hard Dogs
April 1, 2016 7:00 pm No Cover. The Country Nashville, 110 28th Ave. N Nashville, TN www.countrynashville.com
May 7, 2016 Adairville Strawberry Festival, Adairville, KY

Guitars Girls and Whiskey video:
https://youtu.be/sfWlAYNR0qY

Farmed and Dangerous EPK:
https://youtu.be/LBmsvaZEnjc

03/20/2016

As the 70th year for the Strawberry Festival nears the first 2 pictures are of the queen and her court for that first festival. The third picture is an early float of beautiful young ladies