Eyewitness News 24/30 reports that the last three concerts of the Court Square Concert Series will be forced to move due to the extensive fire damage in the area. The new location will be Jefferson Davis Park on Riverside Drive, across from the Tennessee Welcome Center.
The last three concerts will be The Memphis Allstars (October 11), Jim Dickinson and the North Mississippi Allstars (October 18), and the Reba Russell Band (October 25). You know, the morning of the fire, I ran into Stephanie Ziemba of the Center City Commission who coordinates the concert series, and she said people had been coming up to her all morning asking, “Is this going to affect the North Mississippi Allstars show?”
A grassroots effort is underway to inform all the downtown bums and pigeons of the venue change, so that it will seem as much as possible like an authentic Court Square concert.