CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI
“Live blues 365 nights a year plus over a dozen annual festivals!”
Ground Zero Blues Club (co-owned by Morgan Freeman) — in M for Mississippi and Moonshine & Mojo Hands films!
Clarksdale, MS
Live music (mostly blues) weekly, Wed thru Sat — including WEEKLY THURSDAY BLUES JAM NIGHTS!
(8pm showtimes):
8/1 Thurs. BLUIES JAM hosted by Steve Kolbus Clarkdale Blues Revue, 8pm
8/2 Fri. Ike Turner Jr, 8pm
8/3 Sat. Deidra and the Ruff Pro Band, 8pm
SUNFLOWER RIVER BLUES FEST WEEKEND:
FEST MUSIC HOURS: FRIDAY-LIVE MUSIC 2PM-12AM
AND SATURDAY-LIVE MUSIC B12PM-12AM…
Wed., 8/7 – Bill Abel, 8pm
Thurs., 8/8 – Blues Jam w/David Dunavent, 8pm
Fri., 8/9 – DAYTIME MUSIC:
2pm David Dunavent
3pm Lala
4pm Jax Nassar
5pm Heavy Sugar
6pm Kolbus
7pm Charlotte Tayler
Fri., 8/9 – Terry “Big T” Williams & Family Blues Band, 8pm
Sat., 8/10 – DAYTIME – “Live” music all day on Saturday! (See fest schedule above.)
Sat., 8/10 – James “Super Chikan” Johnson & Fighting Cocks, 8pm
8/14 Wed. Lala Element 88, 8pm
8/15 Thur. Stan Street and the Hambone Band, 8pm
8/16 Fri. Phillip Carter Blues Underground, 8pm
8/17 Sat. Kent Burnside, 8pm
8/21 Wed. TBA, 8pm
8/22 Thur. Steve Kolbus Clarksdale Blues Revue, 8pm
8/23 Fri. Keith Johnson and the Big Muddy Band, 8pm
8/24 Sat. Lucious Spiller Band
8/28 Wed. TBA, 8pm
8/29 Thur. Lala Element 88, 8pm
8/30 Fri.Sugar Line Blues Band, 8pm
8/31 Sat. Zach Koch Band, 8pm
Delta Blues Museum
Clarksdale, MS
Open Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm; closed Sunday — EXCEPT special hours 8/11/19.
Celebrating 40 years in 2019!
Nice PBS NewsHour segment on the DBM’s Arts & Ed Program at https://www.facebook.com/groups/newshourarts/
Hooker Grocer + Eatery presents
MONDAY MOVIE NIGHTS AT DELTA BLUES MUSEUM:
– Screening Monday, July 29th at 8PM | OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? – Postponed due to rain!
(Free and open to the public. Special movie night hours at Hooker Grocer + Eatery, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Sponsored by Hooker Grocer + Eatery and Mississippi Arts Commission.)
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, (sometimes Thursday), Friday, Saturday and Sunday night…
Wednesdays – Lucious Spiller, 8pm
Fri., 8/2 – Bill “Howl-N-Madd” & Shy Perry, 9pm
Sat., 8/3 – Terry “Big T” Williams & Family Band, 9pm
Sun., 8/4 – Mark “Mule Man” Massey, 7pm
Wednesdays – Lucious Spiller, 8pm
Wed., 8/7 – Lucious Spiller, 8pm
Thurs., 8/8 – Terry “Harmonica” Bean, 9pm
Fri., 8/9 – Frank “Guitar” Rimmer, 9pm
Sat., 8/10 – Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood, 9pm
Sun., 8/11 – Post-Fest Blues Jam, 7pm
Wednesdays – Lucious Spiller, 8pm
Fri., 8/16 – Lucious Spiller Blues Band, 9pm
Sat., 8/17 – Terry “Big T” Williams & Family Band, 9pm
Sun., 8/18 – Stone Gas Blues Band, 7pm
Wednesdays – Lucious Spiller, 8pm
Hooker Grocer & Eatery
(near Delta Blues Museum)
Sunday Aug 4 Reverend Robert 5-7pm
Sunday Aug 11 Heather Crosse 5-7pm
Sat., 8/17 – DJ 4eva Young
Sun., 8/18 – Alanna Mosley, 5-7pm
Sun., 8/25 – Lucious Spiller, 5-7pm
Sun., 9/1 – Bill Abel, 5-7pm
Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum
Clarksdale, MS (106 Sharkey Ave.)
Open by appointment, 646-465-1578. Info at tennesseewilliamsrectorymuseum.com
ALSO: 10/17-19, 2019 – Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival, https://deltawilliamsfestival.com/
Levon’s Bar & Grill
Clarksdale, MS
(232 Sunflower Ave)
Fri., 8/2 – The Pistol & The Queen, 8pm
Sun., 8/4 – Steve Kolbus and Mark Miller, 3:30pm
Friday, August 9th- Ralph Miller 8pm
Saturday, August 10th- Bill Abel 7pm
Sunday, August 11th- Blackwater Trio 3:30
Friday, August 16th- Tony Boyd 8pm
Sunday, August 18th- John Ford 3:30
Friday, August 23rd- Steve Kolbus and Mark Miller 8pm
Sunday, August 25th- J.H. Sitton and Doug Bales
Friday, August 30th- David Dunavent 8pm
Sunday, September 1st- Alanna Moseley 3:30
Bluesberry Cafe
Clarksdale, MS
(662-627-7008)
Sat/Sun blues breakfasts, 10am; Mon blues every week, 8pm!
Sat., 8/3 – Blues Breakfast w/Mark Miller & Steve Kolbus, 10am
Sun., 8/4 – Blues Breakfast w/Deak Harp, 10am
Mon., 8/5 – Blues Dinner w/Stone Gas Band, 8pm
Sat., 8/10 – Blues Breakfast w/Sean Apple, 10am
Sun., 8/11 – Blues Breakfast w/Lala Craig, 10am
Mon., 8/12 – Blues Dinner w/Sean “Bad” Apple & Iceman, 8pm
Sat., 8/17 – Blues Breakfast w/Lucious Spiller, 10am
Sun., 8/18 – Blues Breakfast w/Lala Craig,10am
Mon., 8/19 – Blues Dinner w/Bill Abel Band & Bongo Art Crivaro, 8pm
COLLECTIVE SEED & SUPPLY CO. (145 Delta Ave.)
Clarksdale, MS
Every Thursday – Downtown Clarksdale Farmers Market w/music, 5pm
Thurs., 8/8 – Downtown Clarksdale Farmers Market w/music by TBA, 5pm
Thurs., 8/15 – Downtown Clarksdale Farmers Market w/music by TBA, 5pm
Hambone Gallery
Clarksdale, MS
EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT live blues music plus occasional musics on other days in gallery/bar, 8pm.
Tuesday August 6 – Stan “Dead-End ” Street, 8pm
Friday August 9 – TBA
Sat., 8/10 – OFFICIAL SUNFLOWER FEST DAY STAGE (lineup above or at sunflowerfest.org)
Sat., 8/10 – The Jericho Road Show w/Rambling Steve, Wes Lee, Bill Steber and Libby Rae Watson, 7pm
Sunday August 11- TBA
Tuesday August 13 – Big T birthday party, 8pm
Tuesday August 20 – Danny Brooks, 8pm
Wed., 8/21 – Lauren Mitchell (soul singer), 8pm
Tuesday August 27 – Stone Gas Band, 8pm
PLAN NOW: Sat., 10/12 – special show starring 87-yr-old BIG GEORGE BROCK & New Houserockers, 9pm!
Stone Pony Pizza
Clarksdale, MS
(226 Delta Ave.)
Fridays at 7pm:
August 2 Sara Levingston
August 9 David Dunavent
August 16 Debra Lane
August 23 Alanna Mosley
August 30 Mississippi Marshall
September 6 Mississippi Marshall
September 13 TBA
September 20 Alanna Mosley
September 27 David Dunavent
Clarksdale Sound Stage
Clarksdale, MS
(313 Issaquena Ave., downtown; enter via alley back door)
tba
Yazoo Pass
Clarksdale, MS
(207 Yazoo Ave.)
“Original music” occasionally, including:
tba
YAZOO AVENUE JAZZ FESTIVAL – First ever!
Clarksdale, MS
(200 block of Yazoo Ave., downtown)
Sat., 9/28 from 2pm-8pm – FREE – Take Five Clarksdale Jazz Club presents street fest starring The Oxford Jazz Trio, Ole Miss Jazz Combo and John Shaw’s Magnolia Triangle. (Food & beer available. No coolers, please.)
Travelers Hotel (3rd St.)
Clarksdale, MS
Fri., 8/23 – Lucious Spiller, 6pm
New Roxy – “Possibly the coolest venue in the South…”
Clarksdale, MS
(363 Issaquena Ave.)
PLAN NOW for Deep Blues Fest 2019 – www.deepbluesfest.com
Crossroads Cultural Arts Center
Clarksdale, MS (332 Delta Ave.)
TBA
Delta Blues Alley Cafe
Clarksdale, MS (352 Delta Ave.)
COMING SOON: Live music Happy Hour every Friday, 5-7pm!
Fri., 8/9 – Happy Hour w/Frank “Guitar” Rimmer w/guests Billy “Soul” Bonds & Southern Soul Band, 5-8pm
Sat., 8/10 – Live music day party, 2pm
Fri., 8/16 – Happy Hour w/live music by Lucious Spiller & Friends, 5-8pm
Grandma’s Blues House
Clarksdale, MS
(115 3rd St. – Grandma’s Pancake House/Blues House/Sports Bar)
Open many evenings with DJ; live blues during Clarksdale Film Festival and Juke Joint festival.
Clarksdale White House
325 W 2nd St.
www.deltabohemian.com
tba
Tourism Office
Clarksdale, MS (326 Blues Alley)
visitclarksdale.com
Open Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm PLUS Sat 9am-noon – Visit Clarksdale-Coahoma County Tourism inside the historic downtown train depot for maps, info and hospitality! Bubba O’Keefe, tourism director. (662) 627-6149.
Rock & Blues Museum
Clarksdale, MS
Founders are retired, so their building — with its cool, loft living space in back — AND world-famous collection are for sale; serious inquiries only, please, via museum website email.
Meraki
Clarksdale, MS
(Sunflower & Third St.)
tba
The Bad Apple Blues Club – COMING OCT. 2019!
Clarksdale, MS
349 Issaquena Ave, downtown
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Hopson Commissary
Clarksdale, MS
Every Monday night – free appetizers and music by someone playing free live acoustic music every week, 6pm!
MONDAY NIGHT HAPPY HOUR MUSIC – FREE MUSIC & appetizers, 6PM:
– 8/5 – Tony Boyd
Aug. 12th Seth and Walt
19th Alana Mosley
26th Graham Phillips
Sept. 2nd Tony Boyd
PLUS, SATURDAYS 9pm (cover applies):
Sat., 8/3 – Mike Ellis & Hometown Band, 9pm
Sat., 8/10-Blackwater Trio, 9pm
Sat., 8/17 – St Jude Benefit w/DJ Jimmy Harris, 7pm
Sat., 8/24- Party Shot, 9pm
Shack Up Inn (The Gin)
Clarksdale, MS
https://www.shackupinn.com/services3
Sat., 8/3 – JH Sitton, 6pm
Thurs., 8/8 – Tony Boyd, 6pm
CUTRER MANSION (109 Clark St.)
Clarksdale, MS
– Thursday, August 22 – Blackwater Trio on the Cutrer lawn, 6pm. More details to follow.
– October 17 – 19 – Tennessee Williams Festival. For more information, visit DeltaWilliamsFestival.com
Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum
Clarksdale, MS
https://tennesseewilliamsrectorymuseum.com/
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT, plus open for Sunflower Fest, Fri-Sun, 8/9-11, 2019 from 2-4pm!
Plus annual festival, www.DeltaWilliamsFestival.com