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T.A.G. Blues Society and Mentone Inn Team up for Great Music

Just a note to remind everyone that if you find yourself in Mentone, Alabama on any Third Saturday around 7pm, you can spend an evening with us under the stars on the Pavilion of the Mentone Inn enjoying live music presented by the Mentone Inn and the T.A.G. Blues Society.  

Past artists have included James and Rachel Bryan, James Smith the Auto Harp man from Alabam’,  NACMI winner Brian Bush, The Headliners, The Billy Abbott Trio, International Blues Participants, Memphis Annie , Melissa Sigler and Black Skillet.

Artists who would be interested in performing may contact us at the Mentone Inn by calling 256-634-4836 for more details.

We are coming up on the Fourth of July and this year, our celebration will include cake and ice cream, storytelling and a performance of songs entitled “Songs about our land…” The fun will begin at 6pm on the Pavilion and everyone is welcome. We are encouraging folks to go down to Sequoyah and watch the fireworks display that evening.

It isn’t all that long until our 2nd Annual T.A.G. Blues Fest here on the grounds of the Inn on Sept. 27 from noon –eight pm and Sunday, the 28th one-four pm. We’ll have wristbands for sale at the event for $10 per day. There is a great lineup this year…including TIN FEET out of Pensacola, Fl. This award winning blues band has rocked the house on Beale Street in Memphis at the IBC for 3 years and has quite a following on the Beach at the Gutter in Liberty Lanes Bowling Alley, and Blues on the Beach each Monday. We’re happy to say that the DELTA FLIER, Stevie Dupree, out of Missouri City, Tx. will be playing delta blues guitar and harmonica and MELISSA SIEGLER of Nashville, Tn., Award winning vocalist and songwriter will be here pounding the ivories. We’ll have a serving from the ALABAMA GRAVY SOPPERS and their Piedmont Blues and a big helping of Mentone’s own BLACK SKILLET servin’ up some blues of their own….all in the cool on the Pavilion of the Inn. Also we are offering spaces for artists and vendors during the event. Interested parties can call us at the Inn…256-634-4836.

The Inn will be used solely as a hospitality center for the musicians and vendors at the event but several of the local B and B’s, Inns and Hotels will be taking overnight guests and those will be listed on the website at www.mentoneinn.com. Just click on the T.A.G. Blues Society link at the top of the page for the listings.

Hope to see you soon…Miss G and Miss Cynt

The Historic Mentone InnLV

Mountain Mamas to Celebrate

By Mary Alice Stout

Mountain Mamas Crafts & Rock Shop will celebrate her 14th birthday on Saturday, July 12 and you are invited to the Party from 1 to 5pm GA time.
There will be cake, both chocolate & carrot, cold apple herbal tea, hourly door prizes, and women artists doing demonstrations. Continuing our practice of celebrating women who keep local businesses moving forward and upward—Janet Cochran, Northwest Georgia’s Regional Tourism Representative for the Georgia Dept. of Economic Development, honors us to cut our cake. The cake cutting will happen at 1:30pm.

Mountain Mamas began 14 years ago when 8 mountain women joined together to create a place for women to sell their art & crafts. Today there are more than 70 women artists, mostly from Alabama and Georgia, and a rock shop. The arts range from A—apple butter to Z—zipper pulls, with everything in-between from pottery, fabric art, paintings, beaded jewelry, and more.

The original eight women are: potters Morgana MacVicar & Fayann Schmidt, rug maker Sherry Tamburo, candle maker Susan Bradley, Jam maker-folk artist Mary Alice Stout, wood worker-earring maker Ellen Spangler, and two “Jills of all trades” –Barbara Lieu and Jean Adele.

Mountain Mamas is located on Lookout Mountain, East of Mentone, in Cloudland, GA, on GA Hwy 48 (1/2 mile Eat of the AL/GA state line where AL Hwy 117 ends and becomes GA 48). The Shop is open Saturday & Sunday from Noon to 6pm (GA time) or week-days by appointment –call Mary Alice at 706-862-2142.
Come and help us celebrate!LV