LD’s Kitchen — cool venue, great soul food lunch!
Vicksburg, MS
(1111 Mulberry St.)
Tuesdays – live blues (Sounds Unlimited Band and Central MS Blues Band rotate).

Bottleneck Blues Bar Line-up
Ameristar Casino, Vicksburg, MS
http://www.vicksburgblues.net/
http://www.ameristar.com/vicksburg/bottleneck-blues-bar
4116 Washington Street; 601-638-1000
SATURDAY NIGHT BLUES — FREE starting at 8pm
May 21 – Eddie Cotton
(Plus: June 11 – Vasti Jackson and June 18 – Jarekus Singleton)

Smoot’s Grocery Blues Lounge

Natchez, MS

319 N Broadway • 601-870-6882
9PM showtime:
Thursday, April 28: Jimmy duck holmes’ album pre-release party
Friday, April 29: Mark Arshak
Saturday, April 30: Jonathan “Boogie” Long
Thursday, May 5: Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
Friday, May 6: Lady “L” River City Blues Band
Saturday, May 7: Marc Stone
Saturday, May 14: Cedric Burnside
Saturday, May 21: Mark and the Pentones

Smoot’s Grocery Blues Lounge

Natchez, MS

319 N Broadway • 601-870-6882
9PM showtime:
Thursday, May 5: Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
Friday, May 6: Lady “L” River City Blues Band
Saturday, May 7: Marc Stone
Saturday, May 14: Cedric Burnside
Saturday, May 21: Mark and the Pentones

Smoot’s Grocery Blues Lounge

Natchez, MS

319 N Broadway • 601-870-6882
9PM showtime:
Saturday, May 14: Cedric Burnside
Saturday, May 21: Mark and the Pentones

Smoot’s Grocery Blues Lounge

Natchez, MS

319 N Broadway • 601-870-6882
9PM showtime:
Saturday, May 21: Mark and the Pentones

Bruce, Blues & BBQ Festival Celebrates Leo “Bud” Welch This Saturday

Blues, barbeque and good times are on the menu this Saturday inBruce as the Bruce Chamber of Commerce, Bruce Arts Council and CannonMotors host the inaugural “Backwoods Music Festival.”

The first annual festival will celebrate the Blues and local musicianLeo “Bud” Welch, who will later appear at Oxford’s Double Decker ArtsFestival, presented by Caterpillar, on April 23. The event will kickoffSaturday (April 2) afternoon with a barbeque meal in the Bruce Museum.

Barbeque plates will be available starting at 4:30 p.m. The museumwill also host a “Meet and Greet” with Welch and live music by “Soundsof Tyme.” There will also be autograph and photo opportunities withWelch.

Festivities will shift to the Bruce Theater at 7 p.m. where JanaeWinter and Linda Ann Ward, Vinnie “C,” and South of Memphis will allbriefly perform prior to Welch taking the stage to share his uniqueBlues sound.

Tickets are available at the chamber office for $10 for each event, or you can get a pair of tickets for everything for $35.

All proceeds from the event will go toward the cost of a Mississippi Blues Trail Marker for Bruce honoring Welch.

The long-awaited premiere of the world’s first blues music reality show will take place this spring. The first episode of Moonshine & Mojo Hands: The Mississippi Blues Series will begin streaming online on Thursday, April 21 with additional episodes to debut each week. The entire 10-episode series will stream exclusively online at www.moonshineandmojohands.com.

The web series was created by Roger Stolle and Jeff Konkel, who previously teamed up on the award-winning blues documentaries M for Mississippi: A Road Trip Through the Birthplace of the Blues and We Juke Up in Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads.

For the new project, the duo traveled Mississippi’s back roads in search of juke joints, house parties, barbecue, soul food, folk artists and – of course – the men who keep the uniquely American music form of the blues alive in the land of its birth. The show will feature a wide range of musicians both celebrated and obscure. Featured artists include James “Super Chikan” Johnson, Leo Bud Welch, Jimbo Mathus, Robert “Bilbo” Walker, Mark “Muleman” Massey, Terry “Harmonica” Bean, Lucious Spiller, Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood and many more.