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American Idol
will be holding auditions at the Delta Blues
Museum on Sunday, August 19, 2012 beginning
at 8:00am...Read
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The Delta Blues
Museum needs your help to raise $1.2 million
designated for the expansion of current
exhibits and creation of new installations
at the museum. Read
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Be sure to check out our
new section dedicated to the Sunflower Festival. This
chronological section will link you to 25 years of
festival information, since the beginning in 1988.
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By adding your pictures and comments to our new Sunflower Chronology page you can help us
celebrate 25 years of great music and fun.
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When the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012 with a tribute to its hometown music
legends, multiple celebrities and one of the world’s most famous musicians – Robert Plant - will be headlining the celebration.
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The number of blues events in the Mid South region has increased dramatically in the last decade,
but there's been relatively little action taken to link them together.
"We'll work with the BB King Museum, the Delta Blues Museum
and the Delta Cultural Center in Helena to create activities
between the festivals...
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New Photos Added
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the progress of the new Muddy Waters addition
while it is under construction. Be sure to check
back regularly for updates! Read
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George
Wright, co-owner/manager and 5-star chef at Uncle
Henry's Place & Inn died Monday, April 16, 2012...
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Ella
Dean Wright, 81, widow of Clarksdale’s acclaimed radio
broadcaster Early Wright, died early Saturday, April
14, 2012... Read
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Iverson Minter AKA "Lousiana Red"
passed away Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the age of 79. Read
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The 150th Blues Marker features
Furry Lewis and was unveiled in Greenwood, MS February 21, 2012 Read
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Clarksdale resident musician, Guitar Mikey, has signed with
Earwig Music of Chicago to release a new studio album, Out
of the Box, with a street date of April 17, 2012. The music
was recorded in...
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Red Paden, owner of Red’s Blues Club in Clarksdale, is honored
with the Blues Foundation’s prestigious ‘Keeping the Blues
Alive’ (KBA) award...
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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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1939 - 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... Read
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Blue Star Museums
Blog
Just as New Orleans is inextricably linked with jazz, Clarksdale, Mississippi is ground zero for its soulful sister, the blues.
Here, deep in “the land where the blues began,” the Delta Blues Museum is dedicated to preserving and teaching this uniquely American musical form.
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Cleveland.com
U.S. 61 is more than the
stuff of musical myth. The artery connects Memphis
and New Orleans and runs through the Mississippi Delta
country. No trip through the past would be complete
without a ride down Highway 61 or a stop in Clarksdale,
Miss...
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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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CNN's
Tom Foreman explains how the Mississippi blues
are cheering up an economically depressed region.
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Video
The Huffington
Post
At the Delta Blues Museum, crowds are growing steadily
with people from every state and dozens of countries
flooding in to visit the historically rich region...
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The remains of the cabin
from Stovall
Farms where Muddy Waters lived during his days as
a sharecropper and tractor driver are displayed
in the gallery.
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Click
here to see the
life and times of the legendary bluesman Muddy
Waters. |
Click
here to see the
life and times of the legendary bluesman Son
House.
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Click
here to see the life
and times of the legendary bluesman Charlie Musselwhite.
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Made from a plank of wood
from Muddy Waters' Cabin and used on tour by ZZ Top.
On view at the Delta Blues
Museum
(March - October )
Monday - Saturday
9 AM - 5 PM
(November - February)
Monday - Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
1 Blues Alley PO Box 459
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-627-6820
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The Great River Road Mississippi River
Parkway Commission
www.experiencemississippiriver.com
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 For
more information on the Delta Blues Museum, including
exhibits, collections and driving directions, Click
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| The Delta Blues Museum has become a partnered
place with the National Trust for Historic Preservation
headquartered in Washington DC.
www.preservationnation.org |
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DBM Band CD "From Clarksdale to Kansas City,
Vol. 1". Order your copy today of the Museum's
own student band CD featuring artists such as Charlie
Musselwhite and more!
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Probably
the one myth about the blues that every blues fan
knows the place where bluesmen supposedly sold their
sold to the Devil to play well. Highways 61 and
49 cross again on our tees.
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Gift Shop
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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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Mark your calendars for the upcoming
ceremony dates along both the Mississippi
Blues Trail and Mississippi Country
Music Trail.
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Blues, Booze, & BBQ