Steve Azar to headline Tallahatchie RiverFest

New Albany’s Community Development and Main Street Association staff has announced that Steve Azar, Mississippi’s Music & Culture Ambassador, will be the headliner for the 2020 Tallahatchie RiverFest. The festival weekend, September 24-26 will offer a host of activities from literature to family activities with the main music event planned for the Riverview Stage on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 26.

Billye Jean Stroud, office director, said, “We are looking forward to a fun weekend as we welcome Steve Azar back to New Albany. Our city leaders want everyone to enjoy a day outside, strolling and supporting local.”

Main Street is calling for entries for the 2020 Tallahatchie RiverFest’s Arts Market and Marketplace which will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in downtown New Albany. Artists, makers, creators and vendors of all sorts are welcome to stop by the Main Street office, 135 E. Bankhead Street. Applications are also available by emailing visitnewalbany@gmail.com or going to newalbanymainstreet.com. Food trucks and food vendors who are interested in participating should do the same.

Headliner Steve Azar was named as the Music & Culture Ambassador of Mississippi by Governor Phil Bryant and has three chart topping #1 music videos. “Oprah’s 2011 Top Things to buy at Christmas” list, featured Azar’s album Slide On Over Here. He hosts his own radio show and podcast called In a Mississippi Minute on Supertalk MS.

Azar was the 2018 Recipient of Mississippi Arts Commission’s Governor’s Choice Award and has penned songs for artist such as Reba McEntire, Danny Gokey and many others.

He also has penned and recorded feature songs in major motion films, Mall Cop 2 and Here Comes the Boom 2012 which has donated almost “one million dollars” to various art programs and supported many scholarship recipients emphasizing and promoting the arts in the Mississippi Delta.

He co-founded the multiple award-winning Mighty Mississippi Music Festival in 2013 and in October of 2019, received his own Country Music Trail Marker in his hometown of Greenville, along with other recipients Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Marty Gamblin and Jimmy Rodgers.

Azar co-founded The Mighty Roots Music Festival. The inaugural event will be held Oct. 2-3 on historic Stovall Farms, just outside of Clarksdale. He is currently working on two record projects to be released summer and fall of 2020.

Follow I Love New Albany on Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram for up to date information about this year’s Tallahatchie RiverFest or call the Community Development & Main Street office at 662-534-3438.