"Riverboat John" References
"Riverboat John" Ferguson

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References:

 

J.H. Martin, CEO, Greater Baton Rouge State Fair, Baton Rouge, LA….225-802-1576

 

Scott Jones, Entertainment, Tennessee State Fair, Nashville, TN…

 

Norman Ross, Director, North Alabama State Fair, Muscle Shoals, AL

 

Norm Hill, Asst Fair Manager, DuQuoin State Fair, DuQuoin, IL…1-618-542-1515

 

Brian Eastman, Director, The Talent Center, Cincinnati, OH…1-800-878-2287

 

Charles Meisenheimer, Chaz the Magician, North Carolina…1-704-463-5299

 

Bobby Welch, Director, The Cultural Arts Center, Gadsden, AL…1-256-543-2787

 

Dixie Fuller, Friends of  the Riverbend Festival, Chattanooga, TN…1-423-394-2206

 

Dorothy Young, Director, Yuma Main Street, Yuma, AZ…1-928-782-5105

 

Emily Mims, Director, Atmore Chamber of Commerce, Atmore, AL…1251-294-1577

 

F.D. Williams, Owner, Chattahoochie Princess Riverboat, Eufaula, AL…1-706-6848

 

Jane Hopeck, Georgia Peach Festival, Ft. Valley, GA…1-478-825-4002

 

Mrs. Lowery, School Program Chair, RSVP, Guntersville, AL…1-256-571-7735

 

Joan Ryder, Director, Harford County Fair, Bel Air, MD…1-410-977-8231

 

LeRoy Cowan, Director, Birmingham Fairgrounds, Birmingham, AL…1205-786-8100

 

Jane Ellen, Director, Monroe County Museum, Monroeville, AL…1-251-575-7433

 

Carol Kinnard, Office of Special Events, Jacksonville, FL…1-904-630-3690

 

Wm. Holman, Landmark Park AL Museum of Agriculture, Dothan, AL. (334) 794-3452

Patsy Hollingsworth, Gulf Shores Civic Center, Gulf Shores, AL. (251) 968-1465

Barbara Edwards, Dir. AL State Council on the Arts   (334) 242-4076

Judy Taylor, Ft. Rucker Elementary, Enterprise, Alabama (334) 347-3535

Cathy Wade, Ripley Elementary, Ripley, Tennessee (901) 221-3066

Ned Jenkins, Ft. Toulouse/Ft. Jackson Museum, Wetumpka, Al.(334) 567-3002

 
 

 

Career Personal Highlights:
The Olympics-Atlanta, Georgia

The Worlds Fair- New Orleans, Louisiana; Knoxville, Tennessee; Canada

Chautauqua Institute- New York

Performing on the following riverboats: The Delta Queen, The American Queen, The Mississippi Queen, all out of New Orleans; The Memphis Queen, The Island Queen, out of Memphis; The Julia Belle Swain, out of LaCrosse, Wicsonsin; The Belle of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; The Alabama Princess ,Gadsden, Alabama; The Cotton Blossom, Mobile, Alabama; The Anne Belle Lee, Jacksonville, Florida; The Chattahoochie Princess, Columbus, Georgia.
Being on the river with The Chattanooga Star & Capt. Pete Hoseman out of Chattanooga

Attending and performing at Tall Stacks in Cincinnati: Steamboat festival held every 4 years (been to 4 of them); and other steamboat festivals in Augusta, Kentucky; Charleston, W. Va.; etc.

Performing 12 years at Panoply of the Arts in Huntsville, Alabama (my home town)

Touring with The Dukes of Dixieland and sharing the stage with them

Performing with a symphony

Meeting & performing with Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Grandpa Jones, Waylon Jennings, and John Hartford

Opening for Steppin Wolf in Tupelo

Performing Oh! Susannah for The Alabama State Legislature at The Capitol

Performing at the Vatican

Playing my banjo at The Berlin Wall

Playing my banjo on the steps of Federal Hill (My Old Kentucky Home), Bardstown, Kentucky

Standing on the bridge on the Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona, "The Gateway to the Pacific".

Sitting around the chuckwagon campfire with Rusty & Bud Rankin, two "real" American Cowboys and singing "real" Cowboy songs.

Singing a love song to my wife Shirley and being married to her

Adopting little Holly Ferguson dob: 12-01-97 and watching her grow.

Entertaining children

Listening to an older person tell a tale

Remembering my mother in the audience

Remembering and thanking those who have helped me in the past

Remembering our soldiers (especially those fallen Eddie, Leslie, Howard & Joe), our country and how proud I am to be an American