Local Church & Radio Station Bring Bluegrass Festival To Mexico, MO

Dec. 29, 2009 - PRLog -- Local minister Fred Martie and his wife Penny of Ashland Missouri has created a unique way to help raise funds to support a local Christian radio station KJAB.  The first annual Brick City Gospel Bluegrass Festival will take place March 13th and will be held at the Audrain County 4-H center on highway D in Mexico, MO.   This bluegrass festival is different from other bluegrass festivals in that it is strictly Gospel in format.  

This year's group line-up includes The Punches Family from Fredericktown, MO, the Rt 66 Band from the beautiful Missouri Ozarks, and Southern Raised from the Hurley Mo area.    The emcee's for this years event will be Mark Withers and Gene Reasoner of the Believers Bluegrass Show.  

The Punches Family has won band of the year with the SPBGMA organization several times in recent years, The father of the group, Bruce has won entertainer of the year, and his wife Bobette has won bass fiddle player of the year. The kids took first place youth band competition at Silver Dollar City 2009 and has entertained crowds both large and small at many different venues throughout the Midwest.

Cost for the event  is $10.00 per person with children under 10 free.  The concert starts at 5:00 PM and runs till it's finished.  More information including accommodations and directions and online ticket purchase are available at their website at http://www.brickcitybluegrass.com or call the radio station at 800-371-5522.  

About KJAB
KJAB Christian Radio is a Southern Gospel, Bluegrass Gospel station located in Mexico, Missouri.  Broadcasting 24 hours per day at a frequency of 88.3 FM, our format is conservative Southern Gospel, Blue Grass Gospel style music and Gospel programming.  We stream our signal live on the Internet at http://www.kjab.com

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Brick City Gospel Bluegrass Festival is an annual Bluegrass festival held in conjunction with KJAB Christian Radio's Spring Share-a-thon every March. Held on the Saturday of KJAB's fundraiser, this festival is unique in that only Gospel Bluegrass is performed.