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PHOTO GALLERY: Musicians perform on final night of festival

Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 12:54 a.m. CDT

SteelDrivers fiddler Tammy Rogers performs on Saturday at the Peace Park stage near the end of the third annual Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival. Although the bluegrass band hails from Nashville, Tenn., two of the band members met and played at MU in the late 1970s.   ¦  Chris Dunn

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The Steel Drivers and the Blind Boys of Alabama came out to play Saturday at the Peace Park Stage. Both groups drew large crowds.

Joyce Whitney, Mohamed Shakir and Andes Veintimilla listen to the Blind Boys of Alabama perform on Sept. 26 at the Peace Park stage. The Blind Boys were the last to perform at the stage for the third annual Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival.   ¦  Chris Dunn

Bishop Billy Powers, Jimmy Carter and Ben Moore take their seats at the start of their closing show at the Peace Park stage on Saturday. Powers, Carter and Moore - all vocalists for the gospel band - are blind. Carter and the other four original band members started up the group at the Talladega Institute for the Blind.   ¦  Chris Dunn

The Blind Boys of Alabama perform "Amazing Grace" to the tune and beat of "House of the Rising Sun" at the end of the Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival on Saturday, at the Peace Park stage. The band played at the first Roots 'N Blues festival in 2007.   ¦  Chris Dunn

Jimmy Carter of the Blind Boys of Alabama starts singing "Spirit in the Sky" to close the third annual Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival on Saturday at the Peace Park stage. Carter has led the Grammy-winning gospel band since its formation in 1939 in Talladega, Ala.   ¦  Chris Dunn

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