2026 Handy Headliner: Shemekia Copeland!

Shemekia Copeland * Mike Farris * Alvin Garrett

Doors open at 6:30 pm

Featuring: Alvin Garrett, Grammy Nominated Singer, Songwriter, Producer

Alvin Garrett is a Grammy nominated songwriter from Birmingham, AL, who is also an inspirational soul artist, vocalist, producer, businessman, and all-around visionary. HIs masterful songwriting, captivating smile, and spine-tingling voice has led to honorable comparisons the soul legends Al Green and Sam Cooke.

Also featuring: Mike Farris, Grammy Award winner. Blues, Rock, Gospel

Mike Farris is an artist’s artist and a musician’s musician, celebrated and revered by his fellow performers. He is a GRAMMY, Americana Association, and Dove Music award winner, with six solo albums since 2001. He is also a founding member of 90’s mainstream rock group, The Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies.  For The Sound of Muscle Shoals, Mike Farris’s first album since 2018’s Silver & Stone, Farris made the pilgrimage that many soul shakers and stirrers have made before him, across the O’Neal Bridge and over the Tennessee River, straight into the creative vortex of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and right up to the door of the legendary Fame Studios. www.MikeFarrisMusic.com

Starring:  Shemekia Copeland, American Electric Blues Singer

Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. The multi-GRAMMY nominee is beloved and honored worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs, as well as for her winning, engaging personality. The Chicago Tribune says, “Copeland is the greatest female blues vocalist working today. There’s no mistaking the majesty of her instrument, nor the ferocity of her delivery.”

Free general admission tickets are available here.

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UPDATE: There will be a silent auction for a 1-night stay in the Renaissance Shoals Resort Rick Hall Presidential Suite!  There will also be a DRAWING for an additional 1-Night stay in the suite. You must be present to win!

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