CLARKSDALE: Blues Music Around Town, incl. Red Paden Memorial Blues Jam and more!

Welcome to CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI’s 7-days-a-week music. Lodging info: VisitClarksdale.com.

Please note: Ground Zero Blues Club is on vacation 1/3-10.

Wednesday, 1/3 – Blues at Bad Apple EVERY WED NIGHT in Jan!
– 7pm – Sean “Bad” Apple performs at the Bad Apple Blues Club ( (349 Issaquena Ave.).

Thursday, 1/4
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club (349 Issaquena Ave.).
– 8pm – Hopeless Case Blues Band at Hambone Gallery (111 E 2nd St.).

Friday, 1/5
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club (349 Issaquena Ave.).
– 5pm – “19th Street Red” plays Friday After 5 at Delta Blues Alley Cafe (352 Delta Ave.).
– 8pm – Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & Allstars at Red’s Lounge (395 Sunflower Ave.).

Saturday, 1/6
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Music Breakfast w/Tony Boyd at Bluesberry Cafe (235 Yazoo Ave.).
– 11am – Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen busks for tips at CAT HEAD store (252 Delta Ave.).
– 12 noon – Public funeral services for juke joint legend RED PADEN w/music by Lucious Spiller, Watermelon Slim & others at The Pinnacle (Coahoma Community College, 3240 Friars Point Rd.).
– 1pm-3pm – Stan Street Duo at Hambone Gallery (111 E 2nd St.).
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club).
– 7pm – KSDS “Crossroads Delta Blues Hour” radio tribute to RED PADEN w/host Roger Stolle at Jazz88.org.
– 8pm – RED PADEN Memorial Blues Jam benefiting 2024 Red’s Old-Timers Blues Fest (8/31) w/guests; hosted by Big A at Red’s Lounge (395 Sunflower Ave.).

Sunday, 1/7
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Music Breakfast w/Tony Boyd at Bluesberry Cafe.
– 11am – Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen busks for tips at CAT HEAD store.

– 7pm – Special Sunday night Sean “Bad” Apple show at Bad Apple Blues Club.

Monday, 1/8
– 6pm – Happy hour w/live music TBA at Hopson Commissary (1 Commissary Cir.).
– 7pm – Blues Dinner w/The Mojo Hands at Bluesberry Cafe .

Tuesday, 1/9
– 8pm – Ray Cashman at Hambone Gallery.