CLARKSDALE: 2017 Sunflower River Blues And Gospel Festival!

 

– 8/11-13, 2017 – 30th annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in historic Clarksdale, MS, www.sunflowerfest.org

 
Friday, August 11, 2017 Main Stage
6:00pm – 6:45pm Delta Blues Museum Band
7:00pm – 7:45pm Heather Cross: Heavy Suga & the Sweet Tones
8:00pm – 8:45pm Joshua “Razor Blade” Stewart
9:00pm – 10:00pm James “Super Chikan” Johnson
10:15pm – 11:15pm Natanial Kimble
11:30pm – 12:45am OB Buchana
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Acoustic Stage #1 Under VIP Tent
12:00pm – 12:45pm Pat Thomas
1:00pm – 1:45pm Steve ‘Lightnin’ Malcolm
2:00pm – 2:45pm Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
3:00pm – 3:45pm Lucious Spiller
4:00pm – 4:45pm Sharde Thomas & Rising Star Fife & Drums Band
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Acoustic Stage #2 Levon’s
2:00pm – 2:45pm Deak Harp & Lee Williams
3:00pm – 3:45pm Kenny Brown
4:00pm – 4:45pm Terry “Harmonia” Bean
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Acoustic Stage #3 Cross Roads Culture Center
2:00pm – 2:45pm Bill “Howlin Madd” Perry
3:00pm – 3:45pm Hudson Davis
4:00pm – 4:45pm Robert Eskew
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Acoustic Stage #4 Stone Pony
3:00pm – 3:45pm Bill Abel
4:00pm – 4:45pm Watermelon Slim
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Acoustic Stage #5 Hattie Jean’s
2:00pm – 2:45pm Leo “Bud” Welch
3:00pm – 3:45pm Little Willie Farmer
4:00pm – 4:45pm Louis Gearshift Youngblood
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Acoustic Stage #6 Hamborn Gallery
2:00pm – 2:45pm Stan Street & Guest
3:00pm – 3:45pm Cadallic John & Guest
4:00pm – 4:45pm Mark “Mule Man” Massery
 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Main Stage
5:00pm – 5:45pm David Dunavent
6:00pm – 6:45pm Anthony “Big A” Sherrod Band
7:00 – 7:45pm Terry “Big T” Williams & The Family Band
7:45pm – 8:00pm Awards
8:00pm – 8:45pm Joshua “Razor Blade” Stewart
9:00pm – 10:00pm Big George Brock
10:15pm – 11:30pm Charlie Musselwhite
 
Sunday, August 13, 2017 Gospel Stage
4:30pm – 5:00pm Dianne and The Spiritual Angels
5:15pm – 5:45pm Ned & The Jonestown Crusaders
6:00 – 6:30pm The Sons of Wonder
6:30pm – 6:45pm Award
6:45pm – 7:30pm The Myles Family
7:45pm – 8:45pm The Eternal Light Singers

Expect a ‘living history’ Sunflower Fest finale

with Musselwhite, Jim O’Neal Sunday, Aug. 13

Bicentennial grant supports free ‘Conversations with Charlie Musselwhite’

CLARKSDALE – Although its extraordinary lineup alone earns drum rolls and fanfares, the 30thSunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival celebration will showcaseliving history in a unique Mississippi Bicentennial program titled,“Conversations with Charlie Musselwhite,” says Melvita Tillis Presley,festival chair.

 

At 1 p.m. Sunday, August 13, blues guru Jim O’Neal, co-founder ofLiving Blues magazine, the Sunflower River Blues Festival, and researchdirector of Mississippi’s Blues Heritage Trail, will be interviewingMusselwhite and swapping stories from decades of musicians that havemade the Magnolia state famous.

 

Taking place in the Muddy Waters Wing of the Delta Blues Museum, thefree program is made possible by a bicentennial grant to the SunflowerRiver Blues Association from the Mississippi Humanities Council andState Tourism.

 

Musselwhite’s performance as Saturday night headliner on the mainstage at 10:15 to 11:45 p.m. is being supported in part by a grant fromthe Mississippi Arts Commission.

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