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 Great music! Good food! Hot Classics & Hogs! Come to the Taylorville Main Street's BBQ, Blues & Cruise! Where you can enjoy live blues music, family activities such as kids art and Salsa Dancing, look at classic cars and great motorcycles, and last but not least enjoy local arts and crafts. Most of all attend the Kansas City Barbeque Society sanctioned BBQ cook-off and make a pig of yourself. It's fun for everyone!
Kansas City Barbeque Society Sanctioned Cook-off
Saturday, May 31st,
2008 Live Blues Festival  Starting at noon until 3 pm The Voodoo Blues Band is a six-piece band, featuring Raul Consuegra on lead guitar and vocals, Eric Marshall on piano, Craig Thornton on bass and Michael Howell on drums, with Rob Endicott and Will "Blind Willie" Dineen combining for a two-piece horn section that emulates the famed Memphis Horn sound that put Stax Records and Muscle Shoals on the map. (You don't see many bands these days with a real, functioning horn section, but Willie and Rob have been grooving together for over three years---and it gives the band a unique sound that you don't hear much of these days but that audiences love.) Raul leads the band with verve and style, and it features soul/R&B classics, funky jazz tunes, and, of course, its signature gut-bucket, raunchy blues with that slide guitar sound and boogie piano on top.
 The Kilborn Alley Blues Band from Champaign. From 3:30-6:30 The Kilborn Alley Blues Band from Champaign. This five-piece band with 3 guitars and a harp player has gained regional recognition, recently playing at the Alamo’s Blue Monday, throughout Central Illinois and in Chicago. The band does gritty Chicago blues and southern fried soul for all the generations of blues lovers. This music speaks for itself; better still, it convinces you to listen.
 SOULARD BLUES BAND Headlining at 7-10:30 pm After 25 years and many incarnations, the Soulard Blues Band - arguably the hardest working bands around - still tears up the town one show at a time. It is not every band you run across that has a mission beyond just steady giggin', but then again, as one of the longest-lasting acts around - and with many wins in the "Best Blues Band" category in a popular St. Louis poll - the Soulard Blues Band is not just any band. Expect an exciting mixture of R&B, New Orleans, Zydeco, and St. Louis jazz. The fact that they were on the stage with Albert King, Albert Collins, Son Seals, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds...is the proof that they are real and bring distinct quality. As bassist and sole remaining founder Art Dwyer will tell you, "Our mission always is just to leave things around a little better than we found 'em."
BBQ
Our BBQ Cook-off event will be split into two divisions:
Salsa dance lessons face painting jingle braclets small musical instruments individual splatter paints large splatter painting Harmonica workshop Event Post (5x10) local artist Pony Rides the Bounce Castle
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Our recipe for success starts with our assigned Kansas City Barbeque Society Sanctioned
Cook-off that will bring the nationally recognized barbeque competition to Taylorville.
As part of the prestige of the KCBS they send authorized reps to oversee the judging
and to help develop the event. We are posted on the KCBS web site and already have
contacts from BBQ Contestants and BBQ Judges.
