1989 City Stages

The 1989 City Stages was the inaugural edition of "Birmingham's World-Class Music Festival". The entire festival took place on five stages within Linn Park on June 16-18 with about 70 acts. Tickets cost $3.00 per day or $5.00 for the weekend and beer was served in re-usable yellow plastic mugs. The estimated attendance for the weekend was 38,000.

Line-up

Friday

• Tim Dewitt
• Plaid Camels
• Webb Wilder
• John Prine
• Georgia Satellites

Saturday

• The Nighthawks
• Chuck Berry
• Alex Chilton
• John Hiatt
• Sun Ra
• Beausoleil
• Ellis Marsalis
• Birmingham Heritage Jazz Band featuring Erskine Hawkins
• The Cast
• The Snakes
• Locust Fork Band
• Steve Forbert
• The Wagoneers
• Travis Tritt
• Bounty Hunter

Sunday

• Nicolette Larson
• Corinth Baptist Church Choir
• Mt Canaan Full Gospel Choir
• Johnny Adams
• Eric Essix
• Bebe and Cece Winans
• UAB SuperJazz
• The Temptations with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Preceded by: none

City Stages 1989

Succeeded by: 1990 City Stages

References

• Carlton, Bob (June 12, 1998) "City Stages retrospective." Birmingham News.