Author: demo

CLARKSDALE: Sounds Around Town for late July/early Aug!

Posted on by demo

Live Blues 7 Nights a Week in
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI’S SOUNDS AROUND TOWN:

DELTA BLUES MUSEUM (1 Blues Alley)
Thurs., 7/27 – John Lee Hooker “Endless Boogie” Exhibit opening reception, 5pm

RED’S LOUNGE (395 Sunflower Ave.)
Wednesdays – Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & Allstars w/Space Cowboy, 8pm
Fri., 7/28 – Leo “Bud” Welch, 9pm
Sat., 7/29 – Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry, 9pm
Sun., 7/30 – Lucious Spiller, 7pm

GROUND ZERO BLUES CLUB (0 Blues Alley)

Wed., 7/26 – Deak Harp, 8pm
Thurs., 7/27 – Blues Jam w/Lala, 8pm
Fri., 7/28 – live music TBA, 8pm

Sat., 7/29 – Memphis Rhythm & Blues Band, 8pm

BLUESBERRY CAFE (235 Yazoo Ave.)

Sat., 7/29 – Blues Breakfast w/David Dunavent, 10am
Sun., 7/30 – Blues Breakfast w/Bill Abel, 10am
Mon., 7/31 – Lightnin’ Malcolm, 7:30pm

LEVON‘S BAR & GRILL (232 Sunflower Ave.)
Thurs., 7/27 – Jax Nassar, 8pm
Fri., 7/28 – Marshall Drew, 8pm
Sat., 7/29 – live music TBA, 8pm
Sun., 7/30 – Levon‘s Sunday Ramble w/live music TBA, 3:30pm

DOWNTOWN CLARKSDALE CRAFT FAIR (Yazoo Ave. Park)
Sat., 7/29 – Local artists, crafts and food, 8am-noon

HAMBONE GALLERY (111 E. 2nd St.)
Tues., 8/1 – live blues TBA, 8pm

HOPSON COMMISSARY (001 Commissary Circle)
Mondays – Happy hour w/live music, 6pm

Sat., 7/29 – David Dunavent, 9pm
SHACK UP INN (The Gin)
Wed., 7/26 – Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers, 5:30pm
Thurs., 7/27 – Boyd & Evans, 6:15pm
Fri., 7/28 – John Paul Keith, 7pm

​
STONE PONY (226 Delta Ave.)

Fri., 7/28 – Mississippi Marshall, 7pm

YAZOO PASS (Yazoo & E. 2nd St.)
Thurs., 7/27 – Justin Zamm, 6-9pm

CLARKSDALE FARMER’S MARKET (Train Depot)
Thurs., 7/22 – Market, live music & more, 5pm

COMING SOON:​ 8/11-13 – Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival, www.sunflowerfest.org

​

CAT HEAD MUSIC CALENDAR at www.cathead.biz

JACKSON: Alamo Theater w/blues event

Posted on by demo

Saturday afternoon, July 29, from 1-7, at the historic Alamo Theater, Central MS Blues Society is celebrating 200 years of shared history – Mississippi and The Blues!  Please join us.  Free and open to the public. Free food.  Pat Brown, hostess; Bobby Rush, Ben Payton, Chris Gill, Amanda Humphrey-Bradley, Bluesman McKinney Williams and the Blue Monday Band, plus excellent blues documentary films, and presentations by Dr. Edgar Smith of the MS Blues Foundation and Ms. Angela D. Stewart of JSU’s Margaret Walker Center. 

TUPELO: special Thacker Mtn Radio

Posted on by demo

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO
live radio show featuring blues acts, below:

Saturday, August 5, 2017
Link Centre | Tupelo, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Alysia Burton Steele
Music: The Tumbling Wheels
Music: Walter “Wolfman” Washington

Saturday, August 19, 2017
Duling Hall | Jackson, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Mississippi Book Festival special guest
Music: Devon Gilfillian
Music: The Artisanals

Saturday, August 26, 2017
The Mary C | Ocean Springs, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Mary Miller
Music: Blackwater Brass Band
Music: Jamell Richardson 

JACKSON: Duling Hall w/Thacker Mountain Radio

Posted on by demo

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO
live radio show featuring blues acts, below:

Saturday, August 19, 2017
Duling Hall | Jackson, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Mississippi Book Festival special guest
Music: Devon Gilfillian
Music: The Artisanals

Saturday, August 26, 2017
The Mary C | Ocean Springs, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Mary Miller
Music: Blackwater Brass Band
Music: Jamell Richardson 

OCEAN SPRINGS: The Mary C w/Thacker Mtn Radio

Posted on by demo

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO
live radio show featuring blues acts, below:

Saturday, August 5, 2017
Link Centre | Tupelo, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Alysia Burton Steele
Music: The Tumbling Wheels
Music: Walter “Wolfman” Washington

Saturday, August 19, 2017
Duling Hall | Jackson, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Mississippi Book Festival special guest
Music: Devon Gilfillian
Music: The Artisanals

Saturday, August 26, 2017
The Mary C | Ocean Springs, MS
Showtime: 7:30pm
Author: Mary Miller
Music: Blackwater Brass Band
Music: Jamell Richardson 

CLARKSDALE: Reds juke joint Sunflower Blues Fest week music

Posted on by demo

Red’s Lounge — blues-only juke joint featured in We Juke Up In Here and M for Mississippi films!

Clarksdale, MS

(395 Sunflower Ave. @ MLK Dr.)

Live blues show every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night (plus some Thursdays)…

Wednesdays – Big A & Allstars, 8pm

Tuesday-Sunday night live blues at Red’s juke for Sunflower Fest week, including:
Fri., 8/11 – 85-year-old Clarksdale blues legend BIG GEORGE BROCK & New Houserockers w/Clarine Wagner, 9pm

​

CLARKSDALE: Ground Zero lineup during Sunflower Fest week!

Posted on by demo

Ground Zero Blues Club (co-owned by Morgan Freeman) — in M for Mississippi  and Moonshine & Mojo Hands films!

Clarksdale, MS

www.groundzerobluesclub.com

Live music (mostly blues) weekly, Wed thru Sat — including WEEKLY THURSDAY BLUES JAM NIGHTS!

(8pm showtimes):

During Sunflower River Blues Fest week in AUGUST:

9 Heavy Suga and The SweeTones
10 Blues Jam Night — come join in the fun!
11 Tyler Kinchen and The Right Pieces
12 Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks

near CLARKSDALE: Bilbo Walker juke joing Wonder Light City during fest week

Posted on by demo

Wonder Light City

near Clarksdale, MS

(18 min. from downtown at 2000 Kline-Johnson Rd.)

MAP: www.tinyurl.com/bluehut

80-year-old bluesman Robert “Bilbo” Walker’s new old-school rural juke joint!! Here’s a news story on it: https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-a-juke-joint-s-field-of-dreams
Open for Sunflower River Blues Festival week (8/10-13, 2017) – Details TBA.

CLARKSDALE: Delta Blues Museum events during Sunflower Fest week

Posted on by demo

Delta Blues Museum

Clarksdale, MS

www.deltabluesmuseum.org

Open Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm. Also:

– August 11 – 13th | 30th Annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival
and special Museum hours on Sunday, August 13th from 1 – 5PM
– August 11th | Q&A with Panny Flautt Mayfield, author of LIVE FROMTHE MISSISSIPPI      DELTA. In the Museum classroom, at 4PM
– August 12th | Q&A with Panny Flautt Mayfield, author of LIVE FROMTHE MISSISSIPPI      DELTA. In the Museum classroom, at 5:30PM
– August 13th | Q&A with Delta Blues Museum Ambassador CharlieMusslewhite. The Grammy award-winning musician and Rock & Roll Hallof Fame inductee will join host Jim O’Neal to share his thoughts on JohnLee Hooker’s legacy and the “state of the Blues.”  Panny FlauttMayfield will offer additional Q&A sessions on her new book, Livefrom the Mississippi Delta, before and after Mr. Musselwhite’s talk.

Privacy Policy