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Delta Blues
Calendar Listing
March 25, 2015
CELEBRATE "MUDDY WATERS MONTH"
AT DELTA BLUES MUSEUM
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI
Special Museum Events and Exhibits Running Throughout the Month of April
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MUDDY WATERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
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Open to the public
at Delta Blues Museum
Cupcakes free while supplies last.
Sponsored by Kroger |
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APRIL 7: |
ARTWALK |
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Open to the public
at Delta Blues Museum
Extended Museum hours 9:00am - 7:00pm.
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APRIL 10: |
BOOKSIGNING & CONVERSATIONS IN THE BLUES
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Open to the public
at Delta Blues Museum Classroom |
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1:00pm
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BOOKSIGNING with Ben
Wynne,
Author of "IN TUNE - Charley Patton, Jimmie
Rodgers and the Roots of American Music"
Though Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers lived under dissimilar laws, playing different styles of music, Ben Wynne explains in his new book these touchstone Mississippi pickers shared similar experiences. In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music not only traces the two legends' trajectories but also the social context in which they played.
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2:30pm
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Call and Response with 86-year-old LC Ulmer
Blues artist/educator Big Jon Short leads the discussion. |
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4:00pm
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Call and Response with 83-year-old Leo "Bud" Welch
Blues artist/educator Big Jon Short leads the discussion. |
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2015 JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL |
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Open to the public
Live music on the Delta Blues Museum Stage
1:00pm - Delta Blues Museum Band
2:00pm - Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
3:00pm - The Griot Ensemble
4:00pm - DeltaRoX (Delta State University)
5:00pm - Ol' Skool Revue (Delta State University)
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MUSEUM SPECIAL HOURS
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Open to the public
Special Museum hours 12:00pm (Noon) - 5:00pm |
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.
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 for 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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