Plenty of Good Times at Hot Times!
The annual Hot Times Community Music and Arts Festival is an independent and all volunteer driven community arts and music festival in Columbus, Ohio. The location of the festival is a beautiful grassy area with mature hardwood trees providing the perfect spot to relax and enjoy music!
The 2011 Hot Times Headliner Performance
Sunday September 11, 2011 - Main Stage - 6:45pm
Hot Times welcomes Grady Champion on Sunday evening this year.
From the inception of his career as a blues performer, Champion has sought to tackle new lyrical themes with his original compositions. As a triple threat harmonica player, guitarist and songwriter, he accomplishes that in grand style.
Grady Champion is a native of Canton, Mississippi. He started performing at the age of 8 in the Church Choir where his love for music began. Through the years he has developed into not only a great singer and harmonica player, but also an innovative songwriter and producer. In 1994, Grady Champion won the McDonald's MusicFest with his performance of Damn Right, I've Got the Blues and brought the audience of 10,000 to their feet. He has had the pleasure of performing with Blues Greats Luther Allison, Lucky Peterson, and Junior Wells as well as "Clean-Up Woman" Betty Wright.
Champion has not been afraid to speak his mind with social commentary songs about racial profiling andthe rising tide of youth violence.
Dave McIntyre, BLUES ACCESS magazine, Summer 1996 issue, p. 109 states "Grady's voice not only made me think of Robert Johnson, but the way he worked the crowd seemed as though Johnson's, or Luther Allison's, fire and raw sense of what the audience needs was being born inside him."
The Hot Times Community Music and Arts Festival also hosts:
From the inception of his career as a blues performer, Champion has sought to tackle new lyrical themes with his original compositions. As a triple threat harmonica player, guitarist and songwriter, he accomplishes that in grand style.
Grady Champion is a native of Canton, Mississippi. He started performing at the age of 8 in the Church Choir where his love for music began. Through the years he has developed into not only a great singer and harmonica player, but also an innovative songwriter and producer. In 1994, Grady Champion won the McDonald's MusicFest with his performance of Damn Right, I've Got the Blues and brought the audience of 10,000 to their feet. He has had the pleasure of performing with Blues Greats Luther Allison, Lucky Peterson, and Junior Wells as well as "Clean-Up Woman" Betty Wright.
Champion has not been afraid to speak his mind with social commentary songs about racial profiling andthe rising tide of youth violence.
Dave McIntyre, BLUES ACCESS magazine, Summer 1996 issue, p. 109 states "Grady's voice not only made me think of Robert Johnson, but the way he worked the crowd seemed as though Johnson's, or Luther Allison's, fire and raw sense of what the audience needs was being born inside him."
Find more about Grady at www.gradychmpion.com
Click here to view last years Hot Times Program!
Don't miss the Comfest Volunteer Appreciation Party!
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Each year, the Hot Times festival holds an Appreciation Party for Comfest Volunteers! Thank you for volunteering!
The Columbus Children's Parade takes place every year at Hot Times!
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The Hot Times Community Music and Arts Festival also hosts:
The LARGEST Gathering of Art Cars in Central Ohio!
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to check them out!
