Bud Garrett’s blues to be performed

CELINA-The sounds of late local legendary blues musician and marble maker/player Bud Garrett are set to fill the Clay County Performing Arts Center (Clay PAC) here inside the Historic Clay County Courthouse Saturday.

Garrett’s traditional blues interpreted by the Bugtussle Blues band will take the stage at 7 p.m. as a concert called “Way Out in Free Hill” will be performed.

“Over his career, Bud wrote numerous songs and recorded dozens more,” courthouse curator Thomas Watson said.  “Bud’s work will be performed with a full backup band, giving them appeal to a whole new group of fans.

“We invite everyone to come out and enjoy the show.”

Watson explained Garrett started from humble beginnings in the Free Hill Community, before becoming a world-famous bluesman, as well as the inventor of a marble-making machine.

Garrett ironically passed away playing marbles in 1987, but not before he received broad attention throughout the South during his heyday as both a musician and marbles mainstay.

Tickets for Saturday’s show to take the stage here at ClayPAC’s E.W. and Anna Lee Fox Family Theater are available at the Clay County Chamber of Commerce and both local banks for $10 each.

The production is being sponsored by a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.