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CNN's Tom Foreman
At the excellent Delta Blues Museum here I walked around and
looked at their pictures, their guitars, and more. Then I
sat down and chatted with a regular ... Read
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You can find the Delta Blues Museum in the
"Blues Highway, Clarksdale, MS" chapter of
the publication "1,000 Places to See Before
You Die", by the author Patricia Schultz.
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Jackson Clarion Ledger
The session at the Delta Blues Museum is free. "The weekend
celebrates the range and richness of Southern culture, in
the flesh, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, ...
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“Blues, Booze
& BBQ” is Michael’s first book but he
has a very strong portfolio of images that you can see
at his website.
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Country
music star Randy Houser recently filmed a video of his
new single, "Whistlin' Dixie" in Clarksdale.
Randy wanted...
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Twice as Nice—Down in Mississippi to be released at the Chicago Blues Festival
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Benefit (in Tampa, FL) to raise money for a Willie Brown grave marker in Tunica, MS!
The event will take place September 26th 2010 at Ricks’s On The River, in Tampa Florida.
2305 N. Willow Ave. Tampa, Florida |
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The Delta
Blues Museum regrets
to announce that Lil' Dave Thompson was killed in a car accident
on Sunday, February 14,
2010, on his way home
from playing the Blues Bash at Fiery
Ron's
in Charleston, SC.
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Photos from 2010 Blues Hall of Fame induction ceremony May 5, 2010, Blues Foundation, Marriott Hotel, Memphis
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KTVU San Francisco
Good blues museums include the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale and the Blues Heritage Museum and Gallery in Greenwood. The wail of live blues can be heard ...
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Jackson, Mississippi (April 15, 2010) – On May 6 and 7, 2010, Mississippi will join Amtrak in celebrating National Train Day with a series of whistle stops and other events around the state.
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Clarksdale Press Register
He met famed bluesman David “Honeyboy” Edwards at the Delta Blues Museum (DBM) during Edwards' talk last Friday. Edwards signed his name on Sherman's ...
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Funeral Arrangements Saturday, April 24th Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church 217 Third Street Greenville, MS 12 noon |
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Clarksdale Press Register
From there, additional events travel down the street and include "Conversations with Honeyboy Edwards" at the Delta Blues Museum and a "Theo The Boogieman" ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Stolle said Edwards will play two sets and give a question-and-answer session on Friday at 3 pm at the Delta Blues Museum with a show called, ...
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Jackson Clarion Ledger
At 3 pm on Friday there will be a public interview at the Delta Blues Museum of 94-year-old Delta bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who will be performing ...
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On the heels of his 2009 "Best Guitar Player of the Year" award from the Bay Area Blues Society, Mississippi bluesman Terry "Big T" Williams is slated to release a brand-new album on a brand-new label in late March. Entitled "Jump Back, Big T's in the House," the CD will signal a new phase in Williams' storied musical career.
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Downbeat Daily News
Students who want to study the style of blues piano’s most venerated living master will have a hands-on learning experience at the Pinetop Perkins Foundation’s inaugural youth workshop series.
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The vivid work of New Orleans-based music and fine arts photographer Erika Molleck Goldring will be featured in an upcoming exhibit of new photos, “Performance Portraiture,” in the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery at Loyola University New Orleans.
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Willie "Rip" Butler, a local musician
and member of the Wesley Jefferson Southern Soul & Blues
Band has recently been hospitalized due to heart problems.
After going to the emergency room, he learned that two of
his arteries are 100% blocked and another one is 75% blocked.
He is currently at home until he is able to have heart surgery.
It is uncertain if he will be able to return to work. Cards
and donations may be sent to:
Rip Butler
PO Box 831
Shelby, MS 38774 |
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The Delta
Blues Museum mourns the loss of Willie Mitchell, a record
producer, label head and musician who worked with Al Green
and many others. He died Tuesday, Jan. 5 at Methodist University
Hospital in Memphis. He was 81.
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a new Web section that outlines the life and art
of Muddy Waters, has been posted to the Delta Blues Museum's
site. It is designed to give a vivid, graphic overview of the
essential facts of the blues master's life and musical highlights.
Learn about his career as his talent takes him from birth in
Rolling Fork, Mississippi to career capstone concerts in London,
England. The addition is the first in a series that will chronicle
the life and work of major blues figures represented in the
Delta Blues Museum.
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Legacy
Podcasts celebrates Black History
Month 2009 with 28 features in 28
days, saluting some of the greatest
African-American pop, jazz, soul
and blues musicians. Buddy Guy, Sam
Cooke and more.
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John
Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" was
added to this year's National
Recording Registry today.
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Miss
Sarah Moore of Sarah's
Kitchen & Blues Club on Sunflower Avenue in downtown
Clarksdale was killed this
morning (October 30) in an
early morning traffic accident
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The Delta Blues Museum
is saddened to announce
the loss of the legendary
Sam Carr. Born Sam Lee
McCollum, the son of
Robert Lee McCollum (the
legendary
slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk) he was adopted by the Carr family at
an early age. Sam is best known for his longtime association with Frank Frost & the
Jelly Roll Kings. He was preceded in death last November by his wife of sixty-seven
years, Doris Carr. Sam was 83.
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soul sensation Eli “Paperboy” Reed has announced
the release of his brand
new album, Come And Get It.
It will be the follow-up
to his first two independently-released
albums (Sings Walkin' and
Talkin and Other Smash Hits!
and Roll With You), Come
And Get It is Reed’s major-label
debut.
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www.deltabluesmuseum.org, was awarded a "gold" certification in the Corporate Design, small budget, multimedia category, by the Southeastern Museums Conference at their annual meeting, held in Charleston, West Virginia. The current site was designed by Quimby Vance of E.Q. Design, with site mapping, copywriting and editing, and research by John Howell of Greenland Inc. Site building was performed by the design team at Verity Internet. |
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The music of the Jelly Roll Kings -- Mr. Carr, guitarist Jack Johnson and pianist/harp player Frank Frost -- was raw electric Delta blues; a reminder of a time when such music was made in Mississippi and Arkansas' rural roadhouses, "juke joints" that hosted gambling and often served moonshine whiskey.
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CLARKSDALE – Broadway stars, regional artists, scholars and fledgling actors from high schools across Mississippi are waiting in the wings to take center stage Oct. 16-17 at the 17th annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival.
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Dorothy Moore will start a musical tour October 1, 2009 for eighteen days. She will be performing dates with the David Gest My Life Concert Extravaganza. Moore, best known for her song Misty Blue, will join pop and soul artists like Russell Tompkins Jr. and the New Stylistics, Percy Sledge, Billy Paul, Peabo Bryson, James Ingram, Jean Knight, Deniece Williams, William Bell and others. Read More |
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The Board and Staff of the Delta Blues Museum is saddened by the news of the loss of Koko Taylor.
She performed in Clarksdale at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival and the Delta Blues Museum Gala. She will be missed. Read More |
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- Ticketing will only be done at the Main Stage. Tickets for this year’s event will cost $5 a day and $10 for a three-day pass.
- All other stages and areas of the festival, including vendors, will be open to the general public.
- Tickets are available for presale online and in Food Giant and Tobacco Warehouse stores starting September 10.
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The Sunflower River
Blues and Gospel Festival
is recognized internationally
for its stellar lineups,
but many fans head to Clarksdale
this weekend... Read
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He had been suffering from cancer. Cards and donations may be sent to Mr. Wesley's widow: Mrs. Sarah Carr, 737 Maple Street, Clarksdale, MS 38614. |
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- Delta Blues Museum Students to be Featured
The Mississippi Valley State University Ninth Annual B.B. King Blues workshop is scheduled for Friday, June 5, beginning at 9 a.m. Read More |
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Hello Picnic Fans, It's that time of year again. We're working hard to get ready for the Picnic and once again I'm asking for your help to spread the word, the press release is below so send to everyone in your address book! Read More |
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Unveiling party set July 3 at Ground Zero Blues Club. |
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In Clarksdale, Miss., they saw guitars of bluesmen Robert Johnson and BB King, and remnants of Muddy Waters' birthplace at the Delta Blues Museum. Read More |
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Falconi's work has taken him across the country, especially the South and Clarksdale, Miss., the crossroads and the home of the Delta Blues Museum. Read More
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Twelve journalism students in the Loyola University New Orleans College of Social Sciences are on an eight-day tour of the Mississippi Delta, in search of stories and photos along its historic blues trails. Read More
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The Board and Staff of the Delta Blues Museum is saddened by the news of the loss of Koko Taylor. She performed in Clarksdale at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival and the Delta Blues Museum Gala. She will be missed. Read More
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June 10, 1965 - April 7, 2009
The Delta Blues Museum is saddened by the loss of Michael "Dr. Mike" James. Born in Shaw, MS June 10, 1965, Michael was a longtime member
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NewOrleans.Com - New Orleans,La.,USA
It's 3 pm on a Monday at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss., and students are trickling in for the Delta Blues Arts and Education Program...
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Son of Mississippi, Citizen of the World - OPENING RECEPTION - APRIL 21
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Boston, April 22, 2009 – PJ Walker, from Clarksdale, and Demetrius Williams, from Brookhaven, both 18, will spend five weeks this summer in Boston, studying at the prestigious
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Jackson native, Cassandra Wilson won Best Jazz Vocal Album, for Loverly.
Indianola native and blues legend, B.B. King won Best Traditional Blues Album, for One Kind Favor. Pinetop Perkins was a nominee in this category for Pinetop Perkins and Friends. |
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The project
was the culmination of the students’ study of the historical significance of the Delta’s role in the development of indigenous American music as a reaction to the social conditions of the time. The primary goal of this collaboration was to expand each student’s
know-ledge of the music and history of the Delta while
encouraging parents and community leaders to take an
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Dorothy Moore, best known for Misty Blue, will sing the National Anthem a cappella for the Jackson Police Department recruit graduation.
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The Seventh Annual Two Rivers Gala, benefiting Tougaloo College, will be held on April 4, 2009. This years headline act is legendary blues artist, B.B. King. |
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The blues has its spiritual home in the southern state of Mississippi. Geography, politics and history all had their parts to play for better or worse, with the grand old Mississippi River, the privations of the cotton farms and the evolution of beautiful black spirituals coming together in Read Full Article/Watch Video
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Mississippi
Delta Blues,
Inc. and the
308 Blues Club
and Café present “A
Movie and Music
Showcase”Friday,
February 20,
2009at the 308
Blues Club and
Café,
308 Depot Avenue,
Indianola, MS
38751.
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Tuesday, December
2, 2008 3:04 PM CST
Larry Liddell I
trust your Thanksgiving
was a happy occasion
surrounded by family
and turkey (not necessarily
in that order).
As usual, we as Americans
have more to be thankful
for than people from
other countries around
the world. We have
no war being fought
on our soil, nor on
our continent or any
continent close to
us. We are the land
of plenty and we should
be grateful for that.
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