1998 City Stages

The 1998 City Stages was the 10th annual edition of "Birmingham's World-Class Music Festival". It was held during the weekend of June 19-21, 1998 in and around Linn Park in Downtown Birmingham. Attendance for the weekend was estimated at 270,000, the most for any City Stages before or since.

Poster

The 1998 poster was designed by graphic artist Travis Tatum.

Line up

Friday

• Mercy Mercy
• The Sullivan Family
• Valerie Smith with Libery Pike and The Wingates
• Nashville Mandolin Ensemble
• The Quinsonics
• Virgo's Merlot
• Jothan Callins & the Sounds of Togetherness
• Robert Moore & the Wildcats
• City Stages Jazz Camp All-Stars
• UAB SuperJazz Big Band with Kristie Tingle Higginbotham
• Tekneek
• Atlanta Swamp Opera
• The Gospel Stamps
• Vanessa Bell Armstrong
• Mango
• Iron Lion
• O. J. Ekemode & the Nigerian Allstars
• Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas & Tracy Nelson
• Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters
• Bobby Bare, Jr
• Jimmy La Fave
• Dan Fritts
• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
• Skwzbxx
• Semisonic
• Soul Asylum
• Dixie Chicks
• Junior Brown
• Charlie Daniels Band
• Alejandro Escovedo
• Jimmy Dale Gilmore
• Phil Collins Big Band

Saturday

• Auntie Litter
• Runa Pacha
• Mariachi Band Garibaldi
• Sofa Cats
• Churck Reeves, Roy Crawford, Sharon Winters Bounds, and Sabrina Williams
• Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ children's choir
• Southside CME Church Step Ministry
• Summerfest Junior Ensemble
• Alabama Tuba Quartet
• National Sacred Harp Convention singers
• Sacred Steel (Campbell brothers with Katie Jackson)
• Mt Moriah Mass Choir
• World Outreach Center Sanctuary Choir
• Abundant Life Music Ministries
• Faith Apostolic Church Mass Choir
• Sumiton Spirit Singers
• Chosen Generation
• The Victory in Praises Music Ministry
• UAB Gospel Choir
• James Peterson
• Kathryn Tucker Windham
• Sterling Jubilee Singers/Dorothy Henderson's Silver Voices
• Al Malone & the Melody Men
• Little Jimmy Reed with Big Al & the Heavyweights
• Quentin Lane and John McElroy
• Keith W. Gehle
• Montevallo Dixie All-Stars
• Consonare
• Henri's Notion
• Heritage Pipes and Drums
• Inward Expedition
• Fortune
• Phasnick
• Nathifa Dance Company
• Roots Posse
• lost in the Mail
• Tropical Steel Vibes
• Chris Combette
• Sister Carol
• Big Bo McGee
• Shadowood
• Moonbuggy
• Happy Burnells
• In-Laws
• Rob Thorworth Trio
• Rollin' in the Hay
• Flair
• Pain
• City Stages Jazz Camp students
• Karl Drake Dance Troupe
• Tony Lombardo Quartet with Cindy Sproull
• Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown with Cis Hinkle
• Amy & the Hank Sinatras
• Lee Benoit Cajun Band
• Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie
• Mystic Knights of the C
• Davinci's Notebook
• Chris Knight
• Corey Harris
• Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys
• John Danley
• Amy & the Hank Sinatras
• Nancy King & Steve Christopherson
• Fernando Aragon
• Gregory Tardy
• Brad Mehldau Trio
• Mark Turner
• Big Dixie
• Rabbit Branch
• Locust Fork Band
• Mortals
• Joe Sample
• Amazing Rhythm Aces
• Rude Reality
• Te-Jay
• Birmingham African Dance Coalition
• Sam Mangwana
• Booker T. Jones
• Lisa Baldwin & Dave Haney
• Michael Levine & Cool Water
• Chuck Brodsky
• Bet Williams
• Martin Simpson
• Lynn Miles
• Eddie from Ohio
• Peter Case
• Spoonful James
• Olivia Tremor Control
• Swamp Boogie Queen
• Neilson Hubbard
• Gran Torino
• Blue Mountain
• Freddy Jones Band
• Squirrel Nut Zippers
• Neko Case
• Kim Richey
• Roseanne Cash
• Doobie Brothers
• Con Funk Shun
• Lakeside
• Ohio Players
• The Gap Band

Sunday

• Three Finger Cowboy
• Cosmic Rodeo
• Penetrators
• Smithwick Machine
• Autumn Lords
• Haley-Bopp
• Mars Electric
• Marian McKay & the Sleepy Steve Trio
• Birmingham Youth Jazz Ensemble
• First United Methodist Church choir
• 6th Avenue Baptist Church male chorus
• Guiding Light Church mass choir
• Cheneniah
• Birmingham Community Mass Choir
• New Hope Baptist Church mass choir
• Curlew
• Zelda Rose
• Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
• Birmingham Heritage Jazz Band
• Amanda Penick
• Birmingham's Three Tenors
• Full Moon Ensemble
• Goliard Ensemble
• Linda Lowe and Wesley Thompson
• Vulcan's Britches with Claude Stephens
• Las Calientes del Son
• Hadley Castille & the Sharecropper's Cajun Band
• Christ Ardoin & Double Clutchin'
• Duo LiveOak
• Eric Essix
• Brett Taylor
• Mike Ireland & the Holler
• Backsliders
• Trish Murphy
• Jason & the Scorchers
• Mark Turner
• Jimmy McGriff & Hank Crawford Quintet
• Larry Long (with schoolchildren from Packer's Bend, Arley & Notasulga)
• Evan & Jaron
• Soul Tramp
• Debbie Bond & the Kokomo Blues Band
• John Scalici & the Junkyard Men
• Ona Watson
• Birmingham Sunlights
• Natalie MacMaster
• Charlie Mars Band
• Stone
• Pee Shy
• Jolene
• Daryle Singletary
• Neal McCoy
• Kenny Neal
• Take 6
• Jill Carole
• Will Oldham
• Slaid Cleaves
• Holly Palmer
• The Derailers
• Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men
• Roger McGuinn
• Galactic
• Spacehog
• Violent Femmes
• Neville Brothers

Theater

• The Mind Expanding Grits Theater presented the following performances:
  • Billy Abbott & the Band o' Jimmies
  • "Heartaches: The Unauthorized Biography of Patsy Cline"
• The Spoken Word Festival featured the following performances:
  • Alabama School of Fine Arts student poetry
  • Astarte
  • Malcolm X Center
  • Roderick Harris
  • Miles College
  • Ronnie Thompson
  • Aura Literary Arts Review (UAB)
  • Birmingham Poetry Review
  • Robert Collins
  • Agee Baldwin
  • Infinite Currents
  • Clebo Rainey
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Helen Blackshear
  • Flemming Wilson
  • Hunter Bell
  • Alabama Writer's Forum
  • Alabama State Poetry Society
  • Lonnie Holley