Bands on Barkley and Cannonball Run draws large crowds

Bands on Barkley and Cannonball Run draws large crowds

Kuttawa’s famed Cannonball Run and the newly introduced “Bands on Barkley” music festival is something Kuttawa Tourism Justin Kimbro has described as quite the success.

Mason’s Children Fire Up the “Great Northeast Cannonball Run” Summer Tour

Mason’s Children, the California–based quintet devoted exclusively to the primal, free-wheeling era of Grateful Dead music from 1966 to 1972, will barrel up and down the Eastern seaboard this summer on a whirlwind seven-show trek they’ve dubbed the “Great Northeast Cannonball Run.” Known for channeling the Dead’s early psychedelic edge, the band leans into the quake-inducing jams of Viola Lee Blues, the shuffle of Big Railroad Blues, and the shi…