America’s Delta Blues: The Blessissippi Crossroads Concert
Limited Tickets Available
- Order Yours Before They're Gone
General Admission $45
VIP $150 - ticket includes special VIP reception
UPDATE: 04/27/2012 - Please stop by the Ground Zero Blues
Club for general admission tickets on Saturday, April
28, 2012. VIP tickets are SOLD OUT - only General Admission
is available through the club.
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Bobby
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Morgan
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Maria Muldaur |
Special Delta Blues
Event Featuring Actor Morgan Freeman Will Help Fund Music
and Music Technology Education in Mississippi’s Delta
Region
Clarksdale,
MS and Santa Monica, CA -- This April,
dozens of Delta Blues greats from Mississippi and beyond
will converge in Clarksdale, Mississippi to play their
hearts out to blues fans around the world. The event,
dubbed America’s Delta Blues: The Blessissippi Crossroads Concert, is
an effort by philanthropic media organization explore.org
and the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale to raise
attention around the value of music and music technology education in the Mississippi
Delta region, and to benefit the America’s Delta Blues
Scholarship Fund at Delta State University. Acclaimed
actor/narrator Morgan Freeman and explore.org founder
Charlie Annenberg Weingarten will be on hand to host the
night, which will be broadcast live nationwide on LINK
TV and streamed live globally via explore.org and delayed
and/or live on XM Radio’s Bluesville Channel.
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The Blessissippi
Crossroads Concert will feature some of the best
blues and Delta Blues acts on the scene today including
performances by Bobby Keys and Sugar Blue
of the Rolling Stones, Bill
Payne of Little Feat, Grammy
nominated singer Maria Muldaur, Albert Bashor,
James “Superchikan” Johnson, Bill “Howlin Madd” Perry,
T-Model, Robert “Wolfman” Belfour, Alphonso Sanders,
King Edward, Mickey Rogers, Jeremy Jemmot, Rick Lewis,
Jimmi Mayes, Sharo Perry, Stacy Mitchhart, Mark Yacavone, Big
T, Big A, Big Dave, Mark “Muleman” Massey, Stan Street,
Watermelon Slim, Heather Cross and Heavy Suga, Kingfish,
All Night Long Band, Abdul Rasheed, Lightening Malcolm,
Andy Frasco, La La, Rachel Coba, Daddy Rich,
and Josh "Razorblade" Stewart. The
musicians will perform in an effort to raise money for
the America’s Delta Blues Scholarship Fund, which will help
children and young adults achieve an education in music or
music technology through various programs run by Delta
State University’s Delta Music Institute  (DMI), and
the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale.
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explore.org, the
multimedia arm of the Annenberg Foundation, will donate
the first $250K to help start the fund, which they hope
will give underprivileged kids and young adults a chance
to pursue their dreams and change our world.
“Music is the soundtrack to our life
and follows us everywhere we go,” said Charlie Annenberg
Weingarten. “By giving underprivileged kids the chance
to pursue their dream of working within the music industry,
we are giving them a chance to not only change their own
lives, but to possibly change ours too.”
America’s Delta
Blues: The Blessissippi Crossroads Concert takes
place from 8:00pm to 12:00am CST on April 28, 2012 at
the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Tickets are available in limited quantities, and
cost $45 for General Admission and $150 for VIP. VIP
includes a private catered reception on Friday evening
at The Delta Blues Museum featuring the premiere of the Explore.org documentary
Blessissippi--Blues Ground America, live music by Delta Blues musicians
and special guests.
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The event will be
aired live on LINKTV from 8:00 to 11:00pm CST, and streamed
live on explore.org from 8:00--12:00am CST.
For more information
please visit www.explore.org.
Tickets can be purchased through the Delta Blues
Museum
online or call 662-627-6820.
About Ground Zero Blues
Club www.groundzerobluesclub.com
About explore.org
explore.org
is a multimedia organization that documents visionary
leaders fromaround the world who have devoted their lives
to extraordinary causes. Both educational and inspirational,
explore.org creates a portal into the soul of humanity
by championing the selfless acts of others. explore.org’s
growing library consists of more than 250 original films and
30,000 photographs from around the world. explore.org
showcases its work at film festivals, on over 100 public broadcast
and cable channels, and on numerous online destinations
including explore.org, Snag Films, Hulu and TakePart,
featuring a wide range of topics—from animal rights, health
and human services, and poverty, to the environment, education
and spirituality. Delivered in short, digestible bites,
explore.org films appeal to viewers of all ages, from
children learning about other cultures for the first time,
to adults looking for a fresh perspective on the world
around them.
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