Downtown Florence Alliance Director Chris Stangel says Handy Fest shows everyone what the Shoals are made of. He says most of the W.C. Handy Music Festival is, yes, about celebrating the music culture ...

The 2025 W.C. Handy Music Festival continues this week, with events happening around the Shoals through July 29. The following list of Handy Fest events for the second week (July 20-29) was ...

A view of Mr. Handy : one afternoon in Memphis, 1918 -- Slavery, the AME Church, and emancipation : the Handy family of Alabama, 1811-1873 -- W.C. Handy and the music of black and white America, ...

When Gwen Woods was asked to volunteer for the very first W.C. Handy Music Festival in Florence in 1982, she had no idea her involvement would lead to a 40-year ...

Downtown Florence Alliance shares the fun planned for Handy Fest's 44th year! Mom Worried If New Rescue Dog Had ‘Bonded’ With Baby, Then She Caught Them My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My ...

W.C. Handy Music Festival officially kicked off Wednesday and will last for the next two weeks.