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Delta Blues
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February 16, 2017
DELTA BLUES MUSEUM HOSTS
BRAZILIAN PHOTOGRAPHER
SERGIO POROGER
Saturday, February 25, 2017
1:00pm - 3:00pm
DELTA BLUES MUSEUM
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Join us for a Q&A and booksigning
event with the author of Cold Hot, a journey of
sights and sounds through the most musical region in the
United States, at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale on
Saturday February 25, 2017 from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm.
For Cold Hot,
Poroger travelled nearly 2,000 miles through the states
of Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
journeying along the legendary Blues Highway, Route 61,
passing through landscapes that alternated between humble
countryside lined with farmlands and opulent cities crowned
with skyscrapers, but all with a common theme - the ever-present
musicality. Few regions of the country offer such musical
diversity, from old, sacred blues to country, branching
through classic jazz and 50's rock and roll.
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 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 - and 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 honored to be a Great River Road Interpretive
Center.
The "Delta Blues Foundation" is a qualified 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
organization that supports the work of Delta Blues Museum.
All funds solicited through the Delta Blues Foundation are
raised to benefit the Delta Blues Museum. On-line tax deductible
contributions to the Delta Blues Foundation include the
Deeper Roots program and the General Fund (a monetarily
unrestricted contribution made to the foundation in support
of the museum). Memberships and the Buy a Brick program
are funded directly to the Delta Blues Museum and are not
considered tax deductible.
For more information on events or programs, please
call (662) 627-6820, or visit the Museum web site at www.deltabluesmuseum.org.
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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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