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Delta Blues
Advisory
September 22, 2014
AUTUMN EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
AT DELTA BLUES MUSEUM
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI
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NATIONAL RIVER PARKWAY
INTERPRETIVE CENTER MARKER UNVEILING / RECEPTION
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Open to the public
at Delta Blues Museum.
Ceremony at 5:00pm; reception
immediately following with music by the Delta Blues
Museum Band, a 2014 finalist for the National Arts
& Humanities Youth Program Award.
Reception sponsored by Yazoo-Mississippi
Delta Levee Board |
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OCTOBER 9 - 12: |
KING BISCUIT
BLUES FESTIVAL (HELENA, ARKANSAS) |
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Special Museum hours, as
part of "Bridging the Blues," on Sunday, October 12,
2014 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm. |
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OCTOBER 16: |
WELCOMING RECEPTION FOR NEW INTERNAL MEDICINE PHYSICIANS |
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Open to the public
Sponsored by Northwest Mississippi Regional
Medical Center |
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| OCTOBER 17 - 19: |
DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL |
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Events held primarily at Shack Up Inn
Special Museum hours TBD |
About the Delta
Blues Museum
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The
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 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--as well
as a 2014 Finalist for 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's current DEEPER
ROOTS campaign seeks $1.2 million for new and enhanced
exhibits for Phase II of its expansion -- which includes
the new Muddy Waters Addition--enabling the Museum to better
preserve and display the history and work of Blues artists
from the Mississippi Delta, and advancing the Museum's ability
to "tell" stories that inspire and educate future generations
about this important American art form. Find out more at
www.deltabluesmuseum.org/deeperroots.
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 Museum's PRESS
ROOM to access additional information, images
and materials on the Museum website.
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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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