Get Ready For the 29th Annual Jazz Fest!

Friday, June 14, 6pm
Strand Park, Downtown Alexander City
Saturday, June 15, 6pm
The AMP on Lake Martin
FREE!

Each year, the Alexander City Jazz Fest draws music lovers from all over to this festive and free annual tradition. Here’s your lineup for our 29th year!

Friday, June 14

The Bank Walkers

Five local guys who refuse to quit their day jobs! But, after nearly eight years together, they’ve learned to cover—cover up for each other’s mistakes—and cover a fairly wide swath from Outlaw Country and Southern Rock to Folk and Classic Rock. Their music includes Tom Petty, The Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie and Waylon, The Band, Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers (of course), and a whole lot more. Plus, they don’t take themselves too seriously.

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Sam Burchfield and the Scoundrels

Sam Burchfield is a southern folk/soul artist out of Atlanta, GA. Lyrical depth paired with a soulful vocal delivery and catchy melodies drives home the message. Burchfield transports listeners into a wide array of musical truths, commanding the stage with a joyful honesty.  His latest EP, Unarmored, digs a few layers deeper into a genre-crossing career that has only just begun. From folk, to funk, to southern soul—Sam and his band of ‘Scoundrels’ capture it all. The rowdy crew puts on a show that is electrifyingly entertaining and yet full of Burchfield’s lyrical honesty and depth.

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Willie Sugarcapps

The dynamic collective of Will Kimbrough, Anthony Crawford & Savana Lee of Sugarcane Jane, Grayson Capps, and Corky Hughes. Birthed from a series of casual southern Alabama songwriter-in-the-round jam sessions, Willie Sugarcapps is an organic outgrowth of the chemistry between these five distinct musicians.

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Saturday, June 15

Nikki and the Phantom Callers

Atlanta’s Nikki & the Phantom Callers are a jangling country-tinged indie-rock outfit with one boot heel planted firmly in retro 1960s sounds and the other in the now. Leader Nikki Speake grew up singing at church in small-town Dadeville, Alabama.

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Empire Strikes Brass

Empire Strikes Brass (ESB) is a high-energy Brass-Funk-Rock band hailing from the city of Asheville, North Carolina. Formed on the streets of their hometown, ESB is rooted in the New Orleans Brass Band tradition of second-line parades and deep-moving grooves reminiscent of old school funk.

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Honey Island Swamp Band

Formed in San Francisco, CA, via New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina displaced the founding members. With little hope of returning to their beloved city, the band channeled the blues and emotions of their circumstances to develop a soulful style and sound that critics have compared to legendary Blues-Roots-Rock artists such as The Allman Brothers, Little Feat and The Band. “Their all-encompassing sound of blues, roots, country, and soul has been described as “Bayou Americana.”