CLARKSDALE: special Sounds Around Town calendar for film festival week…

Welcome to CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI’s Clarksdale Film & Music Festival week! Lodging info: VisitClarksdale.com.

Thursday, 1/26
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club (349 Issaquena Ave.).
– 7:30pm – 19th Street Red & Friends at Red’s Lounge (395 Sunflower Ave.).
– 8pm – Blues Jam w/Lala & Element 88 at Ground Zero Blues Club (0 Blues Alley).

Friday, 1/27
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club.
– 3pm-8pm – 13th annual CLARKSDALE FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL w/movies and more, including music reception w/Big A in lobby (5pm) and “Deep Blues” film w/director Bob Mugge in pop-up theater (6:15pm) at Shared Experiences HQ (121 Delta Ave., across from library). Tickets at door (2:30pm Fri & 10:30am Sat): $5 per day or $10 for 3-day weekend pass. Schedule: ClarksdaleFilmFestival.com. Questions: 662-624-5992. THANKS to Visit Clarksdale Tourism, Mississippi Film Office, Clarksdale Public Utilities and City of Clarksdale!
– 8pm – Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & Allstars at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Zach Koch at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 8pm – Tyron Benoit at Shack Up Inn (001 Commissary Cir.).
– Midnight – 19th Street Red After-Hours Blues w/red beans & rice at Redtop’s Club 305 (305 Issaquena Ave.).

Saturday, 1/28
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Blues Breakfast w/Ben Brenner at Bluesberry Cafe (235 Yazoo Ave.).
– 11am – 19th Street Red” busks at CAT HEAD (252 Delta Ave.).
– 11am-8pm – CLARKSDALE FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL w/movies and more all day — including LiveFromClarksdale.org live-streamed music reception in lobby w/”Harmonica” Bean (5pm) and new Clarksdale-filmed Morgan Freeman thriller “Paradise Highway” in pop-up theater (6:15pm) at Shared Experiences HQ (121 Delta Ave.). Tickets at door (10:30am Sat): $5 per day or $10 for 3-day weekend pass. Schedule: ClarksdaleFilmFestival.com. Questions: 662-624-5992. THANKS to Visit Clarksdale Tourism, Mississippi Film Office, Clarksdale Public Utilities and City of Clarksdale!
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club.
– 7pm – KSDS “Crossroads Delta Blues Hour” radio show w/Roger Stolle at Jazz88.org.
– 8pm – Terry “Harmonica” Bean at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Lightnin’ Malcolm at Ground Zero Blues Club.
– 8pm – Blues Wizards at Shack Up Inn.
– 10pm show (7pm doors) – Nathaniel Kimble & DJ Stunna1 at Buster’s Down Home Blues Club (347 Issaquena Ave).
– Midnight – 19th Street Red After-Hours Blues w/red beans & rice at Redtop’s Club 305.

Sunday, 1/29
– 10am (open 8:30am) – Blues Breakfast w/Rev Robert at Bluesberry Cafe.
– 11am – Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen busks for tips at CAT HEAD.
– 11am – ‘Women In Blues coffee’ in Shared Experiences HQ.
– 1pm-4pm – CLARKSDALE FILM & MUSIC FEST w/blues music by Libby Rae Watson (1pm), Australia “Honey Bee” Jones (2pm) and Sean “Bad” Apple (3pm) at Shared Experiences HQ. ClarksdaleFilmFestival.com.
– 7pm – Steve Kolbus at Red’s Lounge.

Monday, 1/30
– 6pm – Happy hour w/Rev Robert at Hopson Commissary (001 Commissary Circle).
– 7pm – Blues Dinner w/Earnest “Guitar” Roy & New House Rockers at Bluesberry Cafe.

Tuesday, 1/31
– 8pm – Mississippi Marshall & Frank Sultana at Hambone Gallery (111 E. 2nd St.).

Wednesday, 2/1
– 3pm-6pm – Sean “Bad” Apple at Bad Apple Blues Club.
– 7:30pm – Live blues TBA at Red’s Lounge.
– 8pm – Live blues TBA at Ground Zero Blues Club.