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Delta Blues
Calendar Listing
March 23, 2017
CELEBRATE MUDDY WATERS
THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF APRIL
AT DELTA BLUES MUSEUM
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI
Annual "Muddy Waters Month" to feature
special museum events,
sponsored by SafTCart, Coahoma County Tourism, Shack Up Inn,
Mississippi
Arts Commission & Kroger
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MUDDY
WATERS SPECIALTY ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
In the Delta Blues Museum Gift shop during normal business hours
MUDDY WATERS "ARTIST
SPOTLIGHT" FEATURE
On the Delta Blues Museum website
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APRIL 04: |
MUDDY
WATERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Open to the public at Delta
Blues Museum; cupcakes free while supplies last.
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APRIL 07: |
1:30PM - "THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC EDUCATION" with Dr. Kerry Simon
The Coahoma Community College Director of Bands will share her thoughts and insight.
Open to the public - in the Delta Blues Museum classroom
5:30PM - "CELEBRATION OF BANDS" TRIBUTE
Featuring seven area high school drumlines, including Broadstreet High School, Leflore High School, Greenwood High School, Eastside High School and other special guests.
Delta Blues Museum Stage - free and open to the public
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APRIL 21: |
10:30AM & 1:30PM - CONVERSATIONS IN THE BLUES with Big Jon Short
Blues artist/educator leads the discussion, joined by Super Chikan (morning session) and Big George Brock (afternoon session).
Delta Blues Museum classroom
3:30PM - Q&A AND BOOKSIGNING with Kim Rushing
Author/photographer discusses and signs copies of his book, PARCHMAN: "In 1994, photographer R. Kim Rushing was the first outside photographer in Parchman's history to be allowed to photograph inmates. In Parchman, he offers a glimpse of the men incarcerated in this famous place. Eighteen volunteer inmates, ranging in custody level from trustee to death row, are presented through images and their own handwritten letters." Photography is also on display in the Delta Blues Museum gallery.
Open to the public - in the Delta Blues Museum classroom
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APRIL 22: |
2017
JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
Live music on the Delta Blues Museum Stage
1:00PM - Delta
Blues Museum Band
2:00PM - TBA
3:00PM - Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
4:00PM - Ol' Skool Revue
4 :45PM - DeltaRoX
5:30PM - B4Y2K
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SUNDAY,
APRIL 23: |
SPECIAL MUSEUM HOURS
Open from 10:00am - 4:00pm
1:00pm
- REMEMBERING MUDDY with Joseph Morganfield
The son of Muddy Waters shares his personal stories of the Blues legend
Open to the public - in the Delta Blues Museum classroom
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MONDAY,
APRIL 24: |
7:00pm
- MOVIE NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM!
Featuring "THE LAST WALTZ" with a guest appearance by Muddy Waters
Delta Blues Museum stage - free and open to the public.
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FRIDAY,
APRIL 28: |
FRIDAYS AT THE STAGE
Joe Garcia & The Big Guns
Delta Blues Museum stage - free and open to the public.
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About Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield - better known as Muddy Waters - is one of the most powerful forces behind American music today. Muddy was born on April 4th, 1915, in the Delta near Rolling Fork, Mississippi, and later moved to Clarksdale, where he worked and lived on Stovall Plantation. The son of a talented bluesman, Muddy taught himself to play bottleneck slide guitar as a teen; a chance recording with Alan Lomax inspired Muddy to become a full-time musician.
Playing with Son Sims around the Mississippi Delta, in Memphis and in St. Louis, Muddy eventually found his musical home in Chicago, where he signed with Chess Records and changed the game by electrifying the blues. He scored 15 hits in the 1950s alone, effectively creating the sound known as "Chicago blues," a sound that immediately resonated with aspiring young musicians like Paul Butterfield and Johnny Winter. Muddy took his amplified sound overseas to Europe, where his musical shockwaves started a revolution that continues today, through the artists he influenced - most notably Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and The Rolling Stones, who took their name from a Muddy Waters song.
Only at the Delta Blues Museum can visitors "Follow
Muddy" and learn more about Muddy Waters' musical journey
through an interactive educational feature available online,
and only at the Delta Blues Museum can guests see Muddy's
actual cabin from Stovall Plantation - the remains of which
have been preserved and housed in the Delta Blues Museum's
Muddy Waters Addition.
About
the Delta Blues Museum
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 oldest
music museum. 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 -
and a 2014 recipient 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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