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Blood, Flood, and Spilled Beers: Surviving the First Manchester Music Fest in Manchester, Kentucky

2019-08-11
On: 08/11/2019
In: American Travel, Appalachia, Music

The Manchester Music Fest 2018 celebrated bluegrass, outlaw country, and southern rock in a tiny Appalachian town. And things almost went off without a hitch.

Summary graphic: With the top rope blocking the view of his eyes, Walker Hayes steps into the ring wearing a shirt showing his name in heavy metal font and a wolf surrounded by bloody bones.

Rec Room Wrestling: We Put Our Bodies Through Hell For The Crowd

2018-04-29
On: 04/29/2018
In: Memphis

Memphis’s Broad Avenue Brawl involved chairs, poles, buckets, and plenty of flying bodies. This bar-room wrestling match provided the sort of unregulated fun you could never get at a WWE arena event.

Summary graphic: El Escapado performs at Memphis Punk Rock Fest 2016

Memphis Punk Rock Fest 2016: No Sponsors, All Risk

2016-07-03
On: 07/03/2016
In: Memphis, Music

Night 2 of Memphis Punk Rock Fest 4 featured ten bands, one smoker, and a community coming together, not once, but twice to support its own.

Memphis Dive Bar Adventures: Searching for Life on the Mississippi

2014-06-18
On: 06/18/2014
In: Memphis

We really wanted to work the river into our weeklong stay, but that would prove more difficult than we imagined. As usual, day drinking solved the problem.

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