A Q&A with lead vocalist/guitarist Hardy Morris and bassist Brantley Senn.

The speakers are silenced. The stages are empty.

Highlights of the final night of the 2009 Riverbend Festival

Don't let the quiet on Riverside Drive today fool you.

Meet Patrick O'Connell. He's the guy who stood on street corners outside Riverbend this week, telling festivalgoers they were going to hell for laundry list of sins.

Only one day of Riverbend festivities remains, but in terms of trash, it could be the biggest.

In January, four folk musicians — Steve Daugherty, Christie Burns, Matt Evans and John Boulware — opened Mountain Music Folk School in a Red Bank storefront. Their goal was to perpetuate the traditions of old-time music and folk music by teaching lessons to beginners as well as furthering the skills of developing musicians.

There might be one more night of Riverbend, but for country music fan Steve Newman, of Etowah, Tenn., Friday was the festival's culmination.

Tonight marks one of Riverbend’s loudest traditions: the annual festival-closing fireworks.

Highlights of the 2009 Riverbend Festibal

The B-52’s, the band that made hits with menu names such as rock lobster and quiche Lorraine, pumped it up in their headline Riverbend act Thursday.

When I first visited the festival grounds this year, one thing that immediately caught my eye was just how many of the mobile exhibits were corralled together under the Olgiati Bridge.

MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- Chattanooga artist Roger Alan Wade hit the Troo Music Lounge Stage on Thursday at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, entertaining festivalgoers who'd made it inside to the 700-acre sit

Caught drinking underage at Riverbend, a teen from Tunnel Hill, Ga., sweated bullets for almost an hour, waiting for his father to come pick him up.

Riverbend not only offers 10 days of entertainment, it also provides a sea of fashion choices.