Chattanooga's Live Music Scene: Riverbend Survival Kit 2011

Alan Jackson, Huey Lewis, Uriah Heap, The Chattanooga All-Stars, and dozens more are warming up and getting ready to play in our town. Riverbend is one of the USA’s premier music festivals, and is a great deal for just $30.00. It is Riverbend’s 30th anniversary, so attendance on at least five nights is mandatory, unless you have a doctor’s excuse. Well, not mandatory, but recommended.

After June 09, the pins will run $40.00 at the gate – still a steal of a deal. Children under 10 are admitted free. You can get your pins at any area Kangaroo location. Two tickets to the 3-day Bonaroo cost around $550. Two tickets to the 9-day Riverbend Festival cost $60. According to Pollstar, Alan Jackson’s average concert costs $31.65 for 2011. You can see him and dozens more artists for just $30 at Riverbend. One-day passes are available at the gate for $24 or $12 for Senior Citizens and Military. The best deal is the pin, bought at your local Kangaroo store. Tuesday night, faith and family night, wristbands are $5 for everyone over 10.

Here is what you need to know about Riverbend, once you get your pins. The gates open at 4:30 P.M. each day. The main gate is at 2nd and Chestnut beside the Aquarium. You can also enter up by the Hunter Museum, as well as off of Riverfront Parkway under the Olgiati Bridge. On Monday for the Bessie Smith Strut in downtown Chattanooga, no pin or badge is required – it’s free!)

You can bring lawn chairs, folding chairs and blankets. You cannot bring backpacks, coolers, refillable containers, laser pointers, camcorders, pets, bicycles, skateboards, roller-blades, outside food or beverages, brass knuckles, machetes, pistols, machine guns, grenades, bazookas or any other weapons.

The best way to get to Riverbend is to park down by the Choo-Choo or Findley Stadium and take the shuttle bus for a buck a ride. The Unum lots are now pay lots, so why fight the traffic - sit back and meet fellow festivalgoers while others ride around and around looking for a parking space. You can ride the bus, be back to your car, and be out of the traffic flow before most folks get out of the parking lot downtown.

Creative parkers who think the grass is a parking space, or park on the median, or in the fast lane of the freeway will find their car at an impound lot down the road a bit. You will be able to retrieve it for a first born kid or a kidney.

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We've all seen " The Japanese Way of Folding T-Shirts ," or at least, according to YouTube, 2.8 million of you have. A lesser 1.2 million of you have watched " How an Engineer Folds a T-Shirt ," which I won't embed here because it was apparently edited by an engineer (it's over one minute in length for a ten-second payoff).

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