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.

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 Church 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