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Delta Blues
Calendar Listing
July 31, 2015
2015 SUNFLOWER FESTIVAL EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
AT DELTA BLUES MUSEUM
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI
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AUGUST 06: |
MEET
THE ARTIST: Q&A WITH SCOTT CAWOOD
The artist behind "Blues
Portraits in Steel" will discuss his featured
exhibit, a series of original portrait sculptures
depicting legendary Mississippi Delta Blues artists.
Open to the public, at 2:00pm |
Furry Lewis,
from the exhibit "Blues Portraits in Steel"
by artist Scott Cawood. |
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| FRIDAY,
AUGUST 07: |
DELTA
BLUES MUSEUM BAND PERFORMANCE
Award-winning student band opens the 2015 Sunflower
River Blues & Gospel Festival
On the Delta Blues Museum stage, at 5:00pm
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| SATURDAY,
AUGUST 08: |
DELTA
BLUES MUSEUM OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
From 9:00am to 5:00pm |
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SUNDAY,
AUGUST 09: |
DELTA BLUES MUSEUM OPEN TO THE
PUBLIC Special Festival hours from
12:00pm to 5:00pm,
An additional "Meet the Artist" Q&A with Scott
Cawood at 2:00pm |
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About
the Delta Blues Museum
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Delta Blues Museum
Clarksdale, Mississippi |
Established in 1979 by the Carnegie Public Library
Board of Trustees and re-organized as a stand-alone museum
in 1999, the Delta Blues Museum is Mississippi's first music
museum and the nation's first museum dedicated to the American
art form known as the Blues. A 2013 recipient of
the IMLS National Medal for Museum and Library Services-the
nation's highest honor for museum and library service to
the community- as well as a 2014 winner of the National
Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award, the Delta Blues Museum
is dedicated to creating a welcoming place where visitors
find meaning, value and perspective by exploring the history
and heritage of the unique American musical art form, the
Blues. The Museum is also recognized as a Great River Road
Interpretive Center.
For more information on events or programs, please call (662) 627-6820, or visit the Museum web site at www.deltabluesmuseum.org.
Members of the press may
register in the PRESS
ROOM on the Museum's website to access further
information, downloadable images and related materials.
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This newsletter is supported in part
by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state
agency, and,
in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal
agency.
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