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(January 27, 2012)
Press Release - Pinetop Perkins Foundation
The Pinetop Perkins Foundation is pleased to announce the
availability of nine scholarships for the 2012 Master Class
Youth Workshops in Guitar, Piano and Harmonica. Held in Clarksdale
Mississippi June 13-15th, 2012 and open to the young and the
young at heart, scholarships are available to youth ages 12
to 21 nationwide.
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(January 20, 2012)
New York Times
Etta James, whose powerful, versatile and emotionally direct voice could enliven the raunchiest blues as well as the subtlest love songs, most indelibly in her signature hit, “At Last,” died on Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. She was 73.
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(January 17, 2012)
Monroe Jones, Jr., was born in Skene in 1939 and raised in the Delta. He became known as "Little Monroe," an expert B.B. King
stylist, after moving to Chicago, and once bested Robert "Bilbo" Walker so badly in...
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(January 9, 2012)
Press Release, Delta State University
Michael Gann, Director
Composer, poet, pianist and vocalist
Mose Allison will appear in concert on Wednesday, February
15, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Jobe Hall on the Delta State campus.
The concert, titled “DSU Welcomes Mose Allison Home,” is free
and open to the public.
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(January 9, 2012)
Press Release, Delta State University
Michael Gann, Director
The
Delta Music Institute, a music industry studies program at
Delta State University, will host Grammy nominated singer
Dorothy Moore Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in Jobe
Hall on the campus of Delta State University for an interactive
discussion as part of the DMI All Access series.
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(January 6, 2012)
Press Release, Coahoma Community College
Panny Mayfield, Director
Busy planning for the Thursday,
February 2, 2012 performance of the internationally-acclaimed
Ailey II dancers in Clarksdale’s Civic Auditorium are members
of the Coahoma Community College Lyceum Committee and...
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