1997 City Stages
The 1997 City Stages was the 9th annual edition of "Birmingham's World-Class Music Festival". It was held June 13-15, 1997 in and around Linn Park in Downtown Birmingham. There were 270 acts, and the estimated attendance was 255,000 people. Thunderstorms skirted the site early Friday and Saturday afternoons, but no performances were canceled due to weather. Day passes were $18 and 3-day passes were $25 in advance.
Poster
The 1997 City Stages poster was designed by Susan Oliver
Line up
Friday
- Birmingham's Three Tenors
- Birmingham Heritage Band
- Rusted Root
- Matthew Sweet
- Collective Soul
- Trisha Yearwood
- Kool & the Gang
Saturday
- Auntie Litter
- Topper Price and Scott Boyer
- The Connection
- The Blues Healers
- The Skeletons
- Satan & Adam
- Crooked Road
- Partial to Mabel
- Chris Scheurich & Junior Atomic
- Little Charlie & the Nightcats
- Allen Toussaint
- Charles Brown
- Telluride
- Farmer Not So John
- BR-549
- Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe
- Dee Carstenson
- Emmylou Harris
- Ray Charles
Sunday
- Guy Davis
- Southern Culture on the Skids
- Trout Fishing in America
- Sister Hazel
- Celebration Winds
- Cordelia's Dad
- Beausoleil
- Barenaked Ladies
- Willie King
- John Prine
- The Temptations
Notes
The Birmingham Police Department reported 25 arrests during the festival, which was staffed by more than 100 officers. Of the arrests, only one was on a felony charge, with the remainder being for disorderly conduct, intoxication, possession of alcohol by a minor, and traffic offenses.
The northbound lanes of I-59 were closed for a little over an hour following a fatal collission between the 4th Avenue South and Roebuck Parkway exits just as the festival was closing on Sunday evening.
The 1997 City Stages coincided with an ongoing touring exhibition of objects from the Smithsonian Institution on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art, which also hosted the Mind Expanding Grits Theater.
Template:End| Preceded by: 1996 City Stages |
City Stages 1997 |
Succeeded by: 1998 City Stages |