About the Artist:
KUDZU KINGS (kud-zoo kingz) (Reges pueraria sollemnitas) have been on a musical crusade since 1994, playing at festivals and music venues in the Southeast and beyond with their diverse catalogue of original music and decidedly waggish banter. These good-time botanical royalists gained early popularity playing the jamband circuit. However, the majority of their songs are in a more traditional vein: true stories about life in the South, in a style they describe as “funktry (see excerpt in the book “Jambands: the Complete Guide to the Players, Music, & Scene” by Dean Budnick ). Over the years, Kudzu Kings have shared the stage with the likes of Widespread Panic, Black Crowes, Chris Stapleton, Larkin Poe, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Weir/Wasserman, Oteil & Friends, Leftover Salmon, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Junior Brown, just to name a few. In 2020, the band was honored with an exhibit and living e-archive in the University of Mississippi Blues Archive.
Although the band has had personnel changes over the past thirty years, the original lineup has been reunited and play together for the last decade: Tate Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar), Robert Chaffe (keyboards), “Kudzu” Dave Woolworth (vocals, bass), Max Williams (vocals, lead guitar), Chuck Sigler (drums), and George McConnell (vocals, rhythm, and lead guitars; also, formerly of Beanland and Widespread Panic).
With two live releases in 2023 and 2020 that include previously undistributed material, the band continues to write and play new songs live and collaborate with other projects. The band has sold over 10,000 units each of their first two albums (1996’s Kudzu Kings and 1999’s Y2Kow), and fans continue to post and trade live shows online. Kudzu Kings’ music has a broad and empyrean appeal to the young and adventurous at heart across the entire Southern Zodiac; where this band goes, good times follow.
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Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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