Blue Jordan Records
Blue Jordan Records is an independent record label founded by Janet Pressley in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to releasing records the label has organized concerts and music festivals. The Cincinnati Post said, "Blue Jordan is as much a state of mind as a record label" and described its origins, "When the coffeehouse folded the musicians who played and sang there simply stuck together and have been releasing CDs and making music ever since." Festivals and concert series The label has organized a number of shows and music festivals over the years, notably the Blue Jordan Fall Music Festival at the Heritage Village of Sharon Woods Park in Sharonville, Ohio. The festival ran 1998–2000. Headliners included acts like Carrie Newcomer (1998), Over the Rhine (1999), the Cowboy Junkies, and Victoria Williams and the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers (2000). At its peak the festival included a diverse mix of two dozen local and national artists providing 10 hours of music on three stages and was described as "Cincinnati's premiere music event of the fall." All the Fall Music Festivals took place at the historic 19th-century open-air museum; Heritage Village Museum in Sharon Woods Park and funds raised by the events went to