The festival celebrates the life of infamous moonshiner Popcorn Sutton. It combines music and food, but no moonshine. The Memorial Jam moved to Newport last year after being held in Maggie Valley, ...

Mar. 31—At the end of his life, Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton was revered as a folk hero, a rebel and is still referred to as the "king of moonshine." And even though it has been 12 years since his death, ...