10/5 & 10/9-12 – Hill Country Blues events
Gravel Springs & Como, MS areas:
– Saturday, October 5 – Diddley bow making demonstration and Glen Faulkner one string concert, O.B. McClinton Community Center Foundation, Gravel Springs, 1pm
– Thursday, October 10 – Kazoo Music Lesson, Como Community Kazoo Band performance with local musician Steve McGregory, Como library, 4pm
– Friday, October 11 –Fife making demonstration with local blues musician Martin Grant, Como library, 4pm
– Friday, October 11 – Hill Country Reflections talk with noted folklorist George Mitchell with accompanying Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 booksigning, Como library 5pm
– Saturday, October 12- Repatriation of Senatobia, MS recordings and photographs from the Alan Lomax collection, Senatobia Public Library, 11 am
– Saturday, October 12 – Napoleon Strickland Mississippi Blues Trail Marker unveiling downtown Como, 2 pm with reception following at Main Street Gallery