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Delta Blues
Press Release
June 23, 2011
Newest exhibit focuses on the
bluesman who taught Robert Johnson,
features the work of Blues Hall of Fame inductee Dick Waterman
The
opening reception will be held at the Delta Blues Museum
on Thursday, June 23rd, and is sponsored by The Community
Foundation of Northwest Mississippi, Mississippi Arts Commission,
National Guitar Company, and Friends of the Delta Blues
Museum. Mississippi musician Bill Abel will perform at the
reception, showcasing Son House's music on a replica steel
guitar donated by National. PRESS
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The "Follow Son House" interactive feature, located on the Delta Blues Museum's website
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adding that Waterman managed Son House in the 1960s
and helped to promote House's music and his contribution
to the blues as an art form. A current resident of Oxford,
MS, Waterman remains the only non-musician or music industry
executive to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and
will be part of the museum's opening reception.
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Opening
reception invitation,
featuring photography by Dick Waterman
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The museum is
dedicated to creating a welcoming place where visitors find
meaning, value, and perspective by exploring evolution of
the unique American musical art form of the blues. The City
of Clarksdale, located at the intersection of Highways 61
and 49 ("the crossroads"), and the surrounding Delta region
are known as "the land where the blues began." Since its
creation, the Delta Blues Museum has preserved, interpreted,
and encouraged a deep interest in the story of the blues.
The Delta Blues Museum Stage serves as the main venue for
local festivals such as the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel
Festival in August and the Juke Joint Festival in April.
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