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The Delta Blues Museum will receive the National Medal at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House today... Read
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The Delta Blues Museum has been named
as one of ten recipients of this year's National Medal by The
Institute of Museum and Library Services... Read
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Join us for the unveiling of the Delta Blues Museum
Blues Trail Marker.
Hosted by the Music Trails Program
& the Mississippi Development Authority / Division of Tourism.
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The Delta Blues Museum will offer a full calendar of events for Muddy Waters Month and the 10th Annual Juke Joint Festival.
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April means one thing at the Delta
Blues Museum: it's "Muddy Month!" It's the 100th anniversary of
the great blues master (b. April 4, 1913) who grew up on Stovall
Farm, near Clarksdale, and created the music now heard around
the world. We've got a lot going on at the Museum to celebrate
this milestone, thanks to...
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Delta Blues Museum Selected as 2013 National Medal Finalist
The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced the
Delta Blues Museum as a National Medal for Museum and Library
Service finalist. The National Medal is the nation's
highest honor conferred on museums and...
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The Delta
Blues is one very local musical culture that has
been heard around the world. To make sure that this great
music and its rich history continue to sound out loud and
clear, we've built the Muddy Waters Addition,
a new, 7,300-square foot expansion of our gallery space
that features our Muddy Waters collection and special exhibits.
Among our many Muddy artifacts are the cabin he grew up
in on Stovall Farms; the "Muddywood" guitar,
made from wood from the cabin and donated to us by ZZ
Top; a replicaof the 1939 auto in which Alan
Lomax drove up to the cabin to record Muddy for
the Library of Congress in 1940; and many
more items.
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This year's festival season ends with quite a fanfare. From
Thursday, September 27 through Monday, October 8,
the whole Delta region, including Mississippi, Arkansas,
and Memphis, will be jamming to the music of America's great
blues artists. Leland's Highway 61 Blues Festival will take
place on September 29-30, followed by the King Biscuit Blues
Festival in Helena, Arkansas, October 4, 5, and 6.
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The Delta Blues Museum will offer a
full calendar of free events for this year's 25th Annual Sunflower
Blues & Gospel Festival.
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We are putting together
an exhibit for the gallery to celebrate 25 years of the
Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival-and have created
a special area of our web site to compliment it. To make
the website feature more meaningful we need the help of
everyone who has previously attended the Sunflower Fest.
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The
long, hot Mississippi summer has begun, and so has our prime
season for visitors at the Delta Blues Museum. After nearly
seven years in the planning and several months of construction,
Phase I of the Muddy Waters Addition expansion is now a
reality.
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Delta Blues Museum Announces Juke Joint Festival Events, Launches "Deeper Roots" Campaign
In addition to planned Juke Joint Festival events, the museum
will officially launch its Deeper Roots campaign for new
and expanded exhibits.
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Delta
Blues Museum Events for Juke Joint Festival, April 13th
- 15th
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We've rolled and tumbled through
another busy summer and fall festival season here at the
Delta Blues Museum...But the really big event that takes
place every day right outside our door is the ongoing construction
of our new Muddy Waters Addition.
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Delta
Blues Museum to host book signing for Roger Stolle, Author
of Hidden History of Mississippi Blues on October
5, 2011.
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Delta
Blues Museum to host book signings for Charles Farley, Author
of Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland, New Biography
on August 12th and 13th, 2011.
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The
weather this spring in the Delta was downright Biblical:
historic floods, record tornadoes in both number and size,
and great big hail. There was high water everywhere, but
the Delta Blues Museum was undamaged.
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Delta
Blues Museum to host reception for Dick Waterman, Photographer
on Thursday, June 23, 2011. This event will mark the opening of the museums
newest exhibit, which features 13 portraits by Waterman
of Son House.
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Delta
Blues Museum and Ground Zero Blues Club to host CD Release
Party on Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Delta
Blues Museum Presents George Winston Harmonica Concert and
Workshop on Friday, May 6, 2011
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Delta
Blues Museum Events for Juke Joint Festival Week, April
13-17
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Delta
Blues Museum Reminder of events occuring April 7 - 17, 2011.
Mississippi: State of the Blues Reception, Juke Joint Festival
and much more...
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Our
"quiet" winter season has been a busy time this year at
the Delta Blues Museum. After a flurry of meetings in January
and February to set up the final preparatory work, the Delta
Blues Museum officially broke ground for the Muddy Waters
Addition.
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Delta Blues Museum Breaks Ground on Muddy Waters Addition
The Delta Blues Museum hosted its groundbreaking ceremony
for the new Muddy Waters addition to the museum on March
22, 2011. The new addition is planned to be open to the
public in 2012.
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On
the eve of the holiday season, there's a lot of blues news
that makes us grateful for our many blessings here at the
Delta Blues Museum.
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Delta Blues Museum Hosts Special
Events This Weekend During 25th Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival
As you plan your trip to the 25th Annual Arkansas Blues & Heritage
Festival in Helena,
be sure to include the Delta Blues Museum.
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The Museum has been jumping as we
host our many summer visitors-it's the busiest season
for us. Since it's been so blamed hot everywhere around the
country and the world this year, our summer Delta heat is not
keeping the blues fans away!
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