Third Annual Eddie Durham Music Tribute and Dunbar Heritage Festival, August 20, 2005  

Welcome to the Eddie Durham Centennial Event and 4rd Annual Music Tribute. Check here for the schedule of events.

This year, the fourth annual Eddie Durham Musical Tribute will feature New York's Michael Powers Frequency Band.

Michael Powers is without a doubt a true master of the blues. The road to success has led him to performances and recordings with such icons as: Chuck Berry, Johnny Winters, Robert Cray and John Lee Hooker. Influenced by the greatest bluesmen in history, Michael Powers is one of them with his own unique sound, style and soulful talent.

Jazz history aficionado, Dave Oliphant, will talk about the enduring legacy of Eddie Durham and will co- MC the event with Eddie Durham's daughter, Marsha Durham.

Other performers will include, New York's Whitney Marchelle, San Marcos' “Dr. G” & The Mudcats, Austin's Stanley Smith and the Jazz Pharoahs with special guest
Tony Campise, and San Antonio's Spot Barnett Trio.

The Sam Ash Music Company has had several specially crafted guitars made to commemorate Eddie Durham in this Centennial year. They have donated two of these guitars, worth more than $500 each, to this year's Eddie Durham Music Tribute. These guitars will be raffled off as part of the on-going fundraising towards the creation of a permanent Eddie Durham Museum here in San Marcos. Numerous other exciting raffle and silent auction items will also be available at the Music Tribute.