CLARKSDALE: Sounds Around Town w/Kingfish Homecoming, part I

Welcome to another Kingfish-edition of CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI’s 7-days-a-week music calendar — most in-person & some live-streamed via LiveFromClarksdale.org. Please mask up & social distance till we all get our shots. Find your vax at https://www.vaccines.gov, and plan a blues visit at VisitClarksdale.com.

Wednesday, 12/8
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple & Friends (349 Issaquena Ave.).
– 7:30pm – Lucious Spiller plays Red’s juke joint (395 Sunflower Ave.).

Thursday, 12/9
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple Bad Apple Blues Club.
– 8pm – 19th Street Red Blues Band at Red’s juke joint.
– 8pm – Blues Jam w/Lala Craig at Ground Zero Blues Club (0 Blues Alley).

Friday, 12/10
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club.
– 4:30pm – Holiday Art Bazaar w/local art & more at Collective Seed & Supply, featuring live music by Horace Willis 4:45-5:30, Black Lung Lucy 5:45-6:30, Bill Abel 6:45-7:30, Rod Smoth 7:45-9.
– 7pm-9pm – Heath Sitton at Hooker Grocer + Eatery (near Delta Blues Museum).
– 8pm – Lucious Spiller Band at Red’s juke joint.
– 8pm – Watermelon Slim at Ground Zero Blues Club plus via LiveFromClarksdale.org.
– 8pm – Black Lung Lucy at Shack Up Inn (001 Commissary Circle).

Saturday, 12/11
– 10am – Blues Breakfast w/Lucious Spiller in Bluesberry Cafe Back Alley Bar (weather permitting, or inside) & FB page; distancing, masks required.
– 11am – Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen busks on CAT HEAD porch (252 Delta Ave.) and 12 noon via LiveFromClarksdale.org.
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple & Friends at Bad Apple Blues Club.

– 7pm – Christone “KINGFISH” Ingram Homecoming Part I at 9pm—with 7pm TBA opener at Red’s juke joint; no pre-sales; doors 6pm; get there early, y’all!

– 8pm – Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & Allstars at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 8pm – Bill Abel at Shack Up Inn.

Sunday, 12/12
– 10am – Blues Breakfast w/Mick Kolassa in Bluesberry Cafe Back Alley Bar (weather permitting, or inside) & FB page; distancing, masks required.
– 11am – weather-permitting “19th Street Red” busks on CAT HEAD porch.
– 1pm – Mississippi Marshall live-streams blues on FB page.
– 5pm-7pm – Jax Nassar at Hooker Grocer.
– 7pm – Mark “Mule Man” Massey at Red’s juke joint.

Monday, 12/13
– 6pm – Happy hour w/music by Tony Boyd at Hopson Commissary (001 Commissary Circle).
– 7pm – Blues Dinner w/Sean “Bad” Apple in Bluesberry Cafe Back Alley Bar (weather permitting, or inside) & FB page; distancing, masks required.

Tuesday, 12/14
– 5:30-7:30pm – “LaLa & Lucious Spiller: An evening of Christmas favorites and more!” at Travelers Hotel lobby (212 Third St.) plus via LiveFromClarksdale.org.
– 8pm – Live blues TBA at Hambone Gallery (111 E. 2nd St.).

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CAT HEAD BLUES STORE: Mask up & shop Mon-Fri 11-4, Sat till 5 and Sun 11-3. WEB STORE at www.cathead.biz.

JUKE JOINT FEST: Shop web store & plan for 2022 at jukejointfestival.com.

COMING SOON: New Year’s Weekend at Ground Zero, Red’s, Hambone & more!

CAT HEAD MUSIC CALENDAR including 2022 festivals at www.cathead.biz.