Pinetop Perkins Foundation Awards Record Number of

Scholarships for 2014 Workshop Experience

The Fifth Annual Master Class Workshop Experience will be held June 18- 20, 2014

A total of 23 scholarships were awarded to young musicians from 17 different states around the country

Bob Margolin, Austin Young and intern Christone Kingfish Ingram cover the guitar workshop. The harmonica workshop is led by Gary Allegretto with David Berntson assisting, and Daryl Davis and Clay Swafford lead the piano workshop. They will be joined by a number of adult workshop participants for the three-day event.

The workshops begin on June 17 with a meet-and-greet dinner at Hopson Commissary. It includes a reception Thursday evening at the Delta Blues Museum and concludes with a gala performance at Ground Zero on Friday evening, June 20. Although the scholarships are closed, a limited number of slots are still available in the harmonica and piano workshops. The guitar workshop is filled up for this year.

2014 Ann Rabson Memorial Scholarship Winners

Logan Layman is part of a sibling duo called "In Layman Terms" hailing from Williamsburg, Virginia where Logan is an eight grader at Toano Middle School. Logan and her brother Cole have a passion for the blues and write original, foot stomping music. They have been making music together for as long as they can remember. Logan was named "Blues Kid of the Year" in 2013. She is known as the little girl with the BIG voice. Logan�s favorite female vocalist is Shemekia Copeland.

Eighteen-year-old Mikey Butler hails from Union Beach New Jersey, and has been playing for almost 12 years and studying under blues great Matt O�Ree for seven. His main blues influences are Alvin Lee (of Ten Years After), Steve Miller, and Joe Bonamassa. He says that �I am honestly just an average teenager off-stage with average grades and a good group of fdriends. But on stage I am Mikey B. A whole new persona comes out and I let my guitar take hold of the audience to pull them in.� This is Mikey�s second time studying with Bob Margolin at the Pinetop Foundation Workshops. He writes that Bob �has inspired me to do so much with music and I feel like my time in Clarksdale isn�t done yet.�

Pinetop Perkins Foundation 2014 Scholarship Winners

Further information and a complete schedule of events are available on the Pinetop Perkins Foundation website at www.pinetopperkinsfoundation.org.

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