TLC at the Tennessee Soybean Festival

The Tennessee Soybean Festival presents TLC.

• Doors – 5:30 PM
• Openers Start – 6:30 PM
• Headliner Start – following opening acts

This year’s concert is open for all festival attendees and can be viewed from anywhere in downtown Martin. For those seeking a more convenient experience, we offer options such as reserved chair zone passes and front stage access passes, which are available for purchase.

Ticketed Option: BEAN ZONE

• Reserved Chair or Stage Front Access (you pick your ticket type)
• Restroom Access: Enjoy the convenience of special restrooms just for BEAN ZONE pass holders.
• Cooling Tent: Take a break from the heat in the BEAN ZONE Cooling Tent.
• Prime Viewing Spot: Experience the thrill of the concert from a premier location, just steps away from the performers.
• Easy Access: Skip the hassle of arriving early to secure a good spot. Your pass guarantees you a place in the designated pit area or in your reserved chair (depending on ticket type).

Free Option: GA Festival Park Viewing Area

• Open Access: Festival attendees are welcome to bring a blanket or chair and enjoy the concert from the festival park lawn area.

PROHIBITED VENUE ITEMS:Professional cameras & video cameras with detachable lenses, selfie sticks, drones/unmanned aircraft (unless pre-approved by venue & artist), coolers, large backpacks, open umbrellas, guns or weapons/knives, pets (excluding service animals).Smoking, including e-cigarettes, is prohibited (please leave crowded areas to smoke).

Rain Policy:Umbrellas must be closed when the performance starts. Rain ponchos are welcome. The show may be delayed in the event of heavy rain or lightning. The show will go on as scheduled with light rain.Once the artist starts the performance, there will be no refunds.

About TLC: TLC’s influence transcends genres from pop, hip-hop, R&B to fashion and female empowerment. They continue to define generations.

Formed in Atlanta in 1990, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, two girls

with spirit, smarts and spunk, had their sights set on a big future. Navigating some

connections, they started to work on demos with then up-and-coming producer

Jermaine Dupri. Feeling a trio could work better than a duo, a manager recommended

Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas to round out the sound, with their nicknames spelling out the

acronym TLC. By 1992, the girls had not only been signed, but released their first

album, Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip, to both critical and commercial success, selling 4

million copies in the Unites States and yielding 3 top ten singles. Along with their ability

to blend funk, hip hop and soul, the ladies put female empowerment at the forefront of

their songwriting. Two years later they released their breakthrough album,

CrazySexyCool, collaborating, as they had with their first record, Dallas Austin,

Babyface and Jermaine Dupri, as well as Sean Combs. Met with critical and commercial

acclaim once more, Rolling Stone ranked it as one of the best 500 Albums of all time

saying it was “highly enjoyable, incredibly influential and a certified classic.” The album

produced 4 top five singles on the Billboard charts and TLC won Video of the Year for

the song “Waterfalls” at the MTV Awards, making them the first black act to do so.

1999 brought the release of TLC’s 3rd album, FanMail, also produced by Dallas Austin

and, yet again, a commercial and critical triumph. All Music said of the album, “Nobody

else makes urban soul quite as engaging as this.” Upon the album’s 20th anniversary in

2019, music scribes from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone to Vibe to Billboard unanimously

agreed it was way ahead of its time.

Several months after Lopes’ untimely death in 2002, TLC released their last album as a

trio, 3D. Producers included Raphael Saadiq, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins

and the Neptunes, with Lopes appearing vocally as she had already completed her parts.

Billboard called it a “nearly perfect collection,” and the album went double platinum in

the United States.

To date, TLC has sold 85 million Records Worldwide, had 4 Number One singles

in the US, 10 Top Ten singles in the US, won 4 Grammy Awards, 5 MTV Awards, 5 Soul

Train Awards, and 4 Multi-Platinum selling albums, two of them - Fanmail and

CrazySexyCool are certified Diamond by the RIAA and they currently have one billion

plays on Pandora. It’s no surprise that TLC is the best-selling American girl group of all

time.

After a long break, TLC stepped back in to the spotlight in 2015 with plans to release

new music via a Kickstarter campaign. Asking fans to donate, notable admirers such as

New Kids on the Block, Katy Perry, Bette Midler and Justin Timberlake made

contributions, making it the fastest funded pop music project in Kickstarter history. The

duo called their 5th album TLC, releasing it in 2017 and leading with the track “Way

Back” featuring Snoop Dog. Watkins and Thomas hit the road, touring with Nelly, Flo

Rida, New Kids on the Block and others.

The legacy of TLC is in plain sight for all to see; both Destiny’s Child and The Spice Girls

have acknowledged that TLC paved the way for their success. Listeners can hear

TLC’isms in the current works of Rihanna, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj to name just

a few. While all their albums have stood the test of time, it is CrazySexyCool that has

become the bellwether to girl power, righteousness, pride and tenacity.

An album that Billboard said was “timeless” and the NME called “a game-changing R&B

classic” is now going to be the centerpiece of an amphitheater tour. The ‘Celebration of

“CrazySexyCoo1” tour will find T-Boz and Chilli performing songs from the iconic

album, celebrating the 1990s with audiences around North America. In fact, fans are

being encouraged to come to the show dressed from that era. Meant as a celebration of both the album and the time, TLC will have fellow 90s co-horts Bone Thugs-N-

Harmony along for the tour plus special guests, which kicks off in September.

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