| (DUCK HILL, MS) – The 21st Annual Grassroots Blues Festival happens July 7-8 2023 at Elliot Field, Highway 404 W., in Duck Hill, Mississippi. Times are Friday 6pm-10pm, and Saturday 3pm-10pm.
The festival is a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of blues music, and the artists who demonstrated mastery of their artistic discipline and quality of work. Their goal is to educate and preserve this traditional art form of music.
Appearing this year are Jerry Fair, John Horton & Band, Little Willie Farmer, Willie L. Hulbert & The Fingerprint Band, Mark “Muleman” Massey and Billy Earhart, Emmons Entertainment Band, Barry Blakely, and many others.
The Grassroots Blues Festival is part of ACER’s Project CAM that began in 2001 in an effort to help support its operation to implement its program of work in the community and at the same time to provide a platform for traditional blues artists, and obscure blues artists, to cultivate and celebrate a musical art form that is unique to our Mississippi Heritage. |
