It's a homecoming, she says, since her last gala on Mud Island was the Bridge of Lights more than a decade ago. Beyond using the Mud Island Amphitheatre, Tigrett plans to turn the entire complex into an indoor-outdoor event, one that will host some 2,500 people. Tents, tables, stages, everything just like we always do. I'll probably have casinos out there and a mechanical bull. . . . I think that is the most magical amphitheater.
Mud Island is really a gem.
To purchase seats, call the Blues Ball hotline at 527-5683. Some rare Jeff Buckley memorabilia has been put on eBay to benefit the Crittenden Arts Council in West Memphis. Guibert wanted to help partly because Memphis was the last place where Buckley lived, according to Cunningham. A recent dual biography by David Browne, Dream Brother, chronicles the lives of Buckley and his late father, musician Tim Buckley. Bidding largely ends on Monday.