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STONE PONY (226 Delta Ave.)

COMINGSOON:

SOUNDS AROUND TOWN – Clarksdale, Mississippi:

Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & Allstars w/Space Cowboy, 9pm

JUNE 10th INDUCTION CEREMONY: The Ealey Brothers (YZ, Theodis, David and Melwin) will be inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame in a ceremony that will take place at the Arcade Theater. Theodis Ealey, a full-time musician based in Atlanta, GA has been invited to attend.

All four Ealey brothers are featured on a MS Blues Trail marker in Natchez, MS and in Ferriday, LA. The ceremony will feature Mojo Mudd Band and other blues artists invited on stage include Brint Anderson, Philip Trosclair, Jack Garroway Kelly and others. The evening will be filled with lots of great stories and awesome blues music.

Delta Music Museum & Arcade Theater
P. O. Box 1733, Ferriday, LA 71334
www.deltamusicmuseum.com

At noon on Wednesday, May 17,as part of the department’s History Is Lunch series, Scott Barretta andJoe York will screen their documentary “Shake ‘Em On Down: The BluesAccording to Fred McDowell.”

Fred McDowell was the godfather ofthe north Mississippi style of blues and an important influence on themusic of the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, R.L. Burnside, and the NorthMississippi Allstars. McDowell was working as a cotton picker andtractor driver when he was first recorded by Alan Lomax and ShirleyCollins in 1959. Those recordings launched McDowell into the upperechelons of the burgeoning folk movement in the 1960s and carried himaround the globe in the thirteen years between those first recordings …andhis death in 1972. Barretta and York’s film features previously unseenfootage of McDowell and interviews with Raitt, Taj Mahal, and manyMississippians, including Malaco’s Wolf Stephenson, Dick Waterman,Charlie Musselwhite, Cedric Burnside, Luther Dickinson, and R.L. Boyce.

Scott Barretta is a writer/researcher for the Mississippi Blues Trail,the host of Highway 61 on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and a musiccolumnist for the Clarion-Ledger newspaper. He teaches courses on bluesat the University of Mississippi and Delta State University, and is theformer editor and a continuing contributor to Living Blues magazine. Heis the co-author, with photographer Ken Murphy, of Mississippi: State ofBlues, and co-author of a curriculum for elementary school studentsbased on the Mississippi Blues Trail. In 2016 he received theMississippi Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for MississippiHeritage.

Joe York is an award-winning filmmaker, who untilrecently worked as senior producer of documentary projects at theUniversity of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project. He hasproduced more than forty short documentaries in association with theSouthern Foodways Alliance, including Whole Hog, Hot Chicken, and Smokes& Ears. His feature films include Mississippi Innocence and Pride& Joy.

The program will take place in the William F. WinterArchives and History Building, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201.There is no charge to attend. For more information call 601-576-6998 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

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STONE PONY (226 Delta Ave.)

COMINGSOON:

Jus’ Blues Music Foundation
“Night Of The Living Legends”
Jus’ Blues Music Awards 2017

The Jus’ Blues Music Foundation, Inc. (JBMF) will be hosting their 17th annual summer event spectacular – the 2017 Jus` Blues Music Awards Conference Week August 2nd through August 5th
. We look forward to continuing our celebration of the legacy of the Blues down in the Delta at the Horseshoe Casino Hotel Resort in Tunica, MS for 4 remarkable days of festivities.

Multiple Live Performances, Showcasing the Best in Today’s Blues markets, Dancing, Prizes & Surprises.

Sat., 5/13 – 11am-7pm – Leland, MS – Crawfish Festival w/John Horton, Cedric Burnside & more.

Kimbrough Cotton-Patch Blues Festival celebrates the life and legacy of David “Junior” Kimbrough at The Hut, Holly Springs Ms., May 12-14, 2017

Shannon McNally

Thursday, June 22, 2017

7:00 pm

Tickets: $15 Museum Members; $20 Non-members

GRAMMY Museum Mississippi, 800 W. Sunflower Rd., Cleveland, MS

GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi is thrilled to welcome Shannon McNally to the Sanders Soundstage for an intimate discussion on the next part of her musical and personal journey and her latest album, Black Irish. The conversation will be followed by a special performance.  The evening will be moderated by Tennessee-based singer/songwriter Susan Marshall. CD signing to follow the program.

More details & tickets: http://www.grammymuseumms.org/events/detail/shannon-mcnally

The GRAMMY Museum®, in conjunction with the John Lee Hooker Estate, Craft Recordings and the Catalog Division of Concord Music Group, will celebrate the centennial of the legendary GRAMMY®-winning bluesman with the opening of a new exhibit titled “John Lee Hooker: King of the Boogie,” on Aug. 22 at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi in Cleveland, Mississippi, Hooker’s home state.

The exhibit will open on what would have been the late blues icon’s 100th birthday and will celebrate Hooker’s lasting legacy through rare recordings, photos and one-of-a-kind artifacts. http://www.grammymuseumms.org/

Don’t miss this new exhibit honoring one of the Mississippi Delta’s most important bluesmen, JOHN LEE HOOKER: KING OF THE BOOGIE, at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi in nearby Cleveland!

Opening on what would have been the late blues icon’s 100th birthday, the new exhibit honors legendary GRAMMY®-winner John Lee Hooker and his lasting legacy through rare recordings, photos and one-of-a-kind artifacts.

TUESDAY, 8/22, 2017 – 2:30-5:30 PM:
– Preview new exhibit – General Admission rates apply.
– Live blues music throughout the afternoon.
– Birthday cupcakes and RC products for all guests.
– Hourly drawings for exclusive merchandise & prizes.

PLUS, “Do you share a birthday with John Lee Hooker? Receive FREE General Admission all day on August 22!”

More info: www.grammymuseumms.org

(Also, open now… a related new John Lee Hooker exhibit at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale.)

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