CLARKSDALE: Blues Around Town for Clarksdale Caravan Music Fest week 2023

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Wednesday, 5/3
– 2pm-6pm – NEW start time & location! Sean “Bad” Apple at NEW Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center (256 Delta Ave. next to Cat Head).
– 7:30pm – Deak Harp at Red’s Lounge (395 Sunflower Ave.).
– 8pm – Heavy Suga & SweeTones at Ground Zero Blues Club (0 Blues Alley).

Thursday, 5/4
– 2pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at NEW Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center.
– 7:30pm – 19th Street Red w/Ike Liner & Jeremy Burnett at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Blues Jam w/Lala & Element 88 at Ground Zero Blues Club.

Friday, 5/5
– 2pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at NEW Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center.
– 5pm – Friday After 5 Blues Jam w/Lucious Spiller at Delta Blues Alley Cafe (352 Delta Ave.).
– 7pm-10pm – Fridays at the Stage w/Big A & Allstars on Delta Blues Museum stage (1 Blues Alley).
– 8pm – Muddy Alexander at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 8pm – Live blues TBA at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Terry “Big T” Williams at Shack Up Inn (1 Commissary Cr.).
– Midnight – 19th Street Red w/red beans & rice at Redtop’s Club 305 (305 Issaquena Ave.).

Saturday, 5/6
10am till – 16th CLARKSDALE CARAVAN MUSIC FESTclarksdalecaravan.com – Cat Head Front Porch Stage (252 Delta Ave.) w/19th Street Red 10am, Lucious Spiller 1pm, Omar Gordon 1:30pm & Sean “Bad” Apple 2:15pm. Bluesberry Cafe (235 Yazoo Ave) w/Lucious Spiller 10am (Blues Breakfast), Terry “Harmonica” Bean 3pm, Preston Rumbaugh 4:30pm & Watermelon Slim 6pm. Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center (next to Cat Head) w/Terry “Big T” Williams 7pm. NOTE: Cat Head music is FREE; cover charges may apply at Bluesberry & Bad Apple.
– 6:30-8:30pm – Steve Kolbus at Stone Pony Pizza (Delta Ave.).
– 7pm – KSDS “Crossroads Delta Blues Hour” radio show w/Roger Stolle at Jazz88.org.
– 8pm – Lucious Spiller Band at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Big A & Allstars at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 8pm – Duwayne Burnside at Shack Up Inn.
– Midnight – 19th Street Red w/red beans & rice at Redtop’s Club 305.

Sunday, 5/7
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Music Breakfast w/Tony Boyd at Bluesberry Cafe.
– 11am – 19th Street Red busks at CAT HEAD store.
– 6pm – Bill Abel at Hooker Grocer + Eatery (316 JL Hooker Ln.).
– 7pm – Live blues TBA at Red’s Lounge (395 Sunflower Ave.).

Monday, 5/8
– 6pm – Happy hour w/Tony Boyd at Hopson Commissary (1 Commissary Cir.).
– 7pm – Blues Dinner w/Mississippi Marshall at Bluesberry Cafe.

Tuesday, 5/9
– 8pm – Live blues TBA at Hambone Gallery (111 E 2nd St.).

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CAT HEAD BLUES STORE: Open 10am this Sat 5/6, then Mon-Sat 11-5 & Sun 11-3. WEB STORE at www.cathead.biz.
COMING SOON: 5/19-20 – Women In Blues Fest, womeninblues.org. Memorial Day Weekend… both Ground Zero Blues Club Anniversary AND Goat Fest X!

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