Country Ham Festival Entertainment Friday, October 9th 10:00A Opening Ceremony Mayor Opening Remarks National Anthem- Kyle Rader 10:30A Cadiz Baptist Church- Pre-School Kids 11:00A Bluegrass Review(4 piece Bluegrass Group from Sharpe, KY ) 12N WKDZ NEWS LIVE ON STAGE 1:30P Trigg Jazz Band 2:30P Jamie McClaughlin (his father is a well known Nashville Songwriter, Pat McClaughlin, this kid is 16 and a prodigy...great rock/blues player and singer, saw him at BACK 2 BACK show this year. Incredible, I had to make sure he could get out of high school to play this gig.) (solo guitar and mic) 3:30P Pete Kennedy (first IRISHMAN I think we've had play the festival. Born and raised in Ireland, lives in Nashville now, and plays and writes country music) (solo acoustic and mic) 4:30p H&R Agri Power Hog Calling Contest 5:30P Hamtastic Drawing 6P The WannaBeatles (great oldies group, these guys are entertainers....they play BEATLES music, but have a whole routine, with impressions, etc...one of the guys does an ED SULLIVAN impression. Crowd Pleasers) Full Band Country Ham Festival Entertainment Saturday, October 10th 10:00A Opening Ceremony Judge Executive Opening Remarks. National Anthem- 10:45A WKDZ COUNTRY SHOWDOWN winner Kelsey Hart (talented songwriter singer, competing later this month in the regional Country Showdown to try to advance to the finals at the RYMAN to win $100,000. This guy is from Central City, KY and has the whole package.) (acoustic solo) 12:00P Eric Lee Beddingfield (2011 Independent Artist of the Year named by Music Row Magazine. Just placed another single in the Music Row top 20 with his song, "I Just Wanna Play.") Great guy lives in Springfield TN...just finished a country music tour in Australia. Full band 1:30P Rachel HolderThis Tennessee native, and CURB recording artist, has already had big hits with "IN YOUR ARMS" "I THINK OF YOU"and "SHINING NOW"plus she can yodel on command! 3:00P 4H Country Ham Auction 4:00P Bucky Covington (this former American IDOL finalist is a crowd pleaser with such hits as (A Different World, It's Good to Be Us, I'll Walk, I Want My Life Back, A Father's Love) His new single is doing extremely well called "I Feel Ya." Since he's a North Carolina boy, he knows what to do with a Country Ham too. 3 pieces 5:30 P Hamtastic Drawing 6:30P James Otto (had the number one country song in all of 2008, Just Got Started Loving You....Country Music runs through his family, his Brother-In Law is Jay Demarcus of Rascal Flatts. His latest song "Somewhere Tonight was a big hit on the Music Row Country Charts) He physically a very tall big man, with an even bigger heart. James is fitting in the Country Ham Festival between shows in California and Seattle, Washington. Full band .