LELAND: Crawfish Festival 2010

The Lillo’s Band, Lazy Bone, The Mayhem String Band, and The Tangents featuring Duff Dorrough….
 
Crawfish plates and barbeque plates will be served by Ryan Moore’s team from Cicero ’s Restaurant…………..
Starts at 1 pm.
Contact:  662.347.4223
 
See:   www.highway61blues.com  for more blues news.

Leland, Mississippi

www.highway61blues.com
Annual festival with blues and rock music.

CLARKSDALE: Cat Head Mini Blues Fest II w/Big George Brock and others, 10am!

CAT HEAD MINI BLUES FEST II
10:00 a.m. – until

Clarksdale, Mississippi

Annual free blues festival in street, under tents in front of Cat Head store… starring 5-time Blues Music Award nominee Big George Brock, Grammy winner Jimbo Mathus, IBC finalist Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry and more!  “Please tip your musicians.”  BBQ also available.

CLARKSDALE: Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival

23rd annual SUNFLOWER RIVER BLUES & GOSPEL FESTIVAL in…
historic Clarksdale, Mississippi

www.sunflowerfest.org
Clarksdale’s oldest blues and gospel festival is still free and fabulous! Line-up below represents many of the very best Mississippi-connected blues acts performing today.

PLUS, look for many special related blues events at local clubs, jukes, stores and museums all weekend long — including the Cat Head Mini Blues Fest on Sunday. More non-fest listing for Sunflower Week by CLICKING HERE.

LINE-UP:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2010 – Main Stage
4:15pm – 4:45pm Delta Blues Museum Band
5:00pm – 5:45pm Richard “Daddy Rich” Crisman
6:00pm – 6:45pm Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry
7:00pm – 7:45pm Robert “Bilbo” Walker
8:00pm – 9:00pm Joshua “Razorblade” Stewart
9:15pm – 10:15pm James “Super Chikan” Johnson
 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2010 – Main Stage
1:30pm – 2:00pm Bill Abel Band
2:15pm – 2:45pm All Night Long Band
3:00pm – 3:30pm Phillip Carter Band featuring Jacqueline
3:45pm – 4:30pm Venessia Young & Pure Blues Express
4:45pm – 5:30pm Terry “Big T” Williams & Family Band
5:45pm – 6:45pm James “Jimbo” Mathis
7:00pm – 8:00pm Johnny Rawls
8:00pm – 8:15pm Awards
8:15pm – 9:15pm Homemade Jamz Blues band
9:30pm – 10:30pm Juke Joint Duo- Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm
 
Acoustic Stage #1 @ New Roxy Theater (Issaquena Ave.)
9:00am Arthneice “Gas Man” Jones
9:40am Robert Belfour
10:15am Eddie Cusic
10:50am Pat Thomas
11:25am Lucious Spiller
12:00noon Big Jack Johnson
12:35pm Sharde Turner & Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
 
Acoustic Stage #2 @ Sunflower Ave. Park
2:00pm         Charles Fowler
2:40pm         Foster “Tater” Wiley
3:10pm         Bill Abel & Cadillac John
3:40pm         Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
4:10pm         Kenny Brown
4:50pm         Johnny Lowe Bow
 
SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2010 – Gospel Stage
4:00pm Christopher Coleman
4:40pm Voice of Joy
5:35pm Chapel Hill Men’s Chorus
6:25pm The Myles Family

HELENA, ARKANSAS: Mother’s Best Music Fest (w/MS acts and more)

MOTHER’S BEST MUSIC FEST in…
Helena, Arkansas

www.deltaculturalcenter.org
The Delta Cultural Center presents an eclectic music festival featuring the diversity of musical talent — including several Mississippi acts — in the Delta each June.
Enjoy an afternoon and evening of music lounging on the Helena levee on the banks of the Mississippi River at the Delta Cultural Center’s FREE Mother’s Best Music Fest on Saturday, June 5.
Acts include:
1 p.m. Blue Mother Tupelo (pictured)
2 p.m. Ben Peyton
3 p.m. Vince Cheney
4 p.m. Bill Abel
5 p.m. Eddie Harrison & The Short Kuts
6 p.m. Spoonfed Blues featuring The Mississippi Spoonman
7 p.m. Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm
8 p.m. Lucious Spiller
9 p.m. Earnest “Guitar” Roy
For more information, interested persons can call the DCC at (800) 358-0972.
Contact the Delta Cultural Center at (870) 338-4350 or (800) 358-0972 for more information.
Free admission. Rain or shine!

Annual music festival that usually features some Mississippi blues and more!  Deltans Bill Abel, Lightnin Malcolm and others perform….

LELAND: Highway 61 Blues Festival (Sat) & Jam (Sun)… w/Johnny Winter, Big George Brock & more!

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES FESTIVAL & JAM
Leland and Holly Ridge, Mississippi

www.highway61blues.com
Annual blues festival in Leland all day/evening Saturday followed by a blues jam in Holly Ridge on that Sunday afternoon. Many Mississippi blues acts including blues-rock legend (and former Lelander) JOHNNY WINTER, 5-time Blues Music Award nominee Big George Brock, “M for Mississippi” co-star Pat Thomas, Highwater recording act Eddie Cusic and others play this wonderful event in the historic downtown of Leland, MS.  Also be sure to visit the Highway 61 Blues Museum during your stay.  More details on web site.

LINE-UP:

Johnny Winter
Big Jack Johnson
John Horton and the Speciall Occasion Band
Mickey Rogers and the Soulmasters
The Mike Holloway Band
Eddie Cusic
Alphonso Sanders and Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry
Adam Gussow
The Jimmy Phillips Band
Brenda and the Go Cats
Lazy Bone
19th Street Red Band
Kairos Gospel and Blues Band

TUPELO: Tupelo Elvis Festival

Tupelo, Mississippi

www.tupeloelvisfestival.com

MUSIC:
Fairpark Music
Friday June 4, 2010 
Robert Earl Keen   
Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce
Nash Street
Rocket 88
Braden Land
Jon McLeod
 
Saturday June 5, 2010
Paul Thorn
Cowboy Mouth
Busted Screen Door
John Milstead Band
Velvet Jones
Cooter Brown
 Frankie and The Boys
Just Playin’
Crashin’ Broadway
Cadillac Funk
Stone Lizard
Kevin Waide Band
Full Tilt
 
All Elvis at The Lyric

June 4th – Tribute Artist Competition Round 1 at 9:00 am – tickets available
June 4th – Sonny Burgess and The Pacers with DJ Fontana and Shawn Klush with the EAS Band at 7:30 pm – SOLD OUT
June 5th – Tribute Artist competition Round 2 at 1:00 pm – tickets available
June 5th – Tribute Artist Competition Finals, Brandon Bennett and Bill Cherry in Concert at 7:00 pm – SOLD OUT 
Call (662) 841-6598 or Order Online Here!
Gospel Concert
Sunday June 6th 12:30 at The Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum
Foyer Bozy, Tupelo- Lee County Community Choir, Landmarks, and The Martins
Tickets are $22 and includes Dinner on the Ground.
For tickets call 662-841-6598.

CLARKSDALE CARAVAN MUSIC FEST at Cat Head and Rock & Blues Museum!

After the Blues Music Awards up in Memphis, c’mon down to the Delta…
5/8 (Sat) – CLARKSDALE CARAVAN MUSIC FEST
in historic downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi
FREE annual street festival featuring blues and more (“Please tip your musicians!”):
• CAT HEAD DELTA BLUES & FOLK ART (252 Delta Ave.)
10am till – All Night Long Blues Band, La La and Mary Ann “Action” Jackson!
• ROCK & BLUES MUSEUM (113 E. 2nd St.)
2pm till – Theo D “The Boogieman,” Selwyn Cooper, Bob Walters, Black Smoke and Little Bobby & the Storm.
• RELATED NIGHTTIME MUSIC (normal cover charges apply)
Ground Zero Blues Club, Red’s Lounge, Tricia’s, Anniebelle’s Lounge and Bluesberry Cafe!
• FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE:
2 collectible show poster designs — 1 by Hatch Showprint and 1 by Tribune Showprint (shown above) — available at Cat Head or Rock & Blues Museum.

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