CLARKSDALE: Sounds Around Town blues shows for mid-May 2023

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Wednesday, 5/10
– 2pm-6pm – 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 – Steve Kolbus at Ground Zero Blues Club (0 Blues Alley).

Thursday, 5/11
– 2pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center.
– 7:30pm – 19th Street Red’s Hawgkillers w/Ike Liner at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Blues Jam w/Jax Nassar at Ground Zero Blues Club.

Friday, 5/12
– 2pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center.
– 5pm – Friday After 5 w/Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen at Delta Blues Alley Cafe.
– 7pm-10pm – Delta String Band plays Fridays at Stage on Delta Blues Museum stage (1 Blues Alley).
– 8pm – Howard Paul at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 8pm – Carlos Elliot Jr. at Red’s Lounge).
– 8pm – Blues Jam at Hambone Gallery.
– Midnight – 19th Street Red w/red beans & rice at Redtop’s Club 305 (305 Issaquena Ave.).

Saturday, 5/13
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Blues Breakfast w/Mississippi Marshall at Bluesberry Cafe (235 Yazoo Ave.).
– 11am – Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen busks at CAT HEAD store (252 Delta Ave.).
– 2pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues & Arts Center.
– 5pm till – Pinetop Boogie (Benefit) at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 7pm – KSDS “Crossroads Delta Blues Hour” w/host Roger Stolle at Jazz88.org.
– 8pm – Anthony “Big A” Sherrod at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Johnny Rawls at Hambone Gallery.
– Midnight – 19th Street Red After-Hours w/red beans & rice at Redtop’s Club 305.

Sunday, 5/14
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Blues Breakfast w/Ben Brenner at Bluesberry Cafe .
– 11am – 19th Street Red busks at CAT HEAD store.
– 2pm-4pm – Anthony Gerachi Band at Hambone Gallery.
– 6pm – Alanna Mosley at Hooker Grocer + Eatery (316 John Lee Hooker Ln.).
– 7pm – Watermelon Slim at Red’s Lounge.

Monday, 5/15
– 6pm – Happy hour w/Seth and Walt at Hopson Commissary (1 Commissary Cir.).
– 7pm – Blues Dinner w/Carlos Elliot Jr. at Bluesberry Cafe.

Tuesday, 5/16

– 8pm – Hopeless Case Blues Band at Hambone Gallery.
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CAT HEAD BLUES STORE: Mon-Sat 11am-5pm & Sun 11-3. WEB STORE at www.cathead.biz.
COMING SOON: 5/19-20 – Women In Blues Festival, womeninblues.org. Then, Memorial Day Weekend, Ground Zero Blues Club Anniversary AND Goat Fest X!

DELTA BLUES MUSEUM: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm (except holidays), deltabluesmuseum.org.
CAT HEAD MUSIC CALENDAR at www.cathead.biz.

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