Chattanooga Riverbend: A Big Festival in a Small Community

by Georgia Cracker
(Ringgold, Georgia)

I've been attending the Riverbend Festival for a number of years.

During blistering sun, humid southern afternoons that could be cut with a knife, 5 minute thunder boomers,and beautiful sunset river bank breezes to make you realize, no where else but here in Chattanooga, on the river.

This year for some reason, with the help of my friend Michelob, I came to realize the best scenario is having a super early evening band on the TVA stage with the top liner on the Coke stage.

Getting yourself planted somewhere in between so that you turn your chair one way and when time for the other band, just swing that chair around for the other.

I hope the producers of Riverbend recognize this valuable point, because it is an extremely enjoyable time to have such good music, one right after the other.

The first enlightening moment was Nothing and the Nobodies followed by Train. Excellence is putting it mildly.