Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Blues on Walnut Street-Greenville, MS

Walnut Street Blues Bar

 

Wednesday, Nov. 12

Billy Smiley & Band          

8:30-midnight  ($5)

 

Thursday-Friday, Nov. 13-14

Billy Smiley & Band 

9:30pm-2am   ($5)

 

Saturday, Nov.15

Mickey Rogers & the Soul Master Band

9:30pm-2am  ($5) 

                              

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Delta Music Institute hosts second Electroacoustic Juke Joint Music Festival

Delta Music Institute hosts second Electroacoustic Juke Joint Music Festival

 

CLEVELAND―The Delta Music Institute at Delta State University will host the second annual Electroacoustic Juke Joint Music Festival (EAJJ) beginning Thursday Nov. 13, at 8 p.m., in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center on campus.

 

Dr. Mark Snyder, Assistant Professor of Music Production and Technology, in the DMI created the EAJJ festival. He also created and directed the critically acclaimed Imagine II Electronic Music Festival in Memphis.

 

Compositions from over 50 national and international composers of electroacoustic music have been selected for this year’s festival, including pieces by Kyong Mee Choi, a Guggenheim winner, and Asha Srinivasan and Kirtsen Volness, the 2006 and 2007 BMI Women’s Music Commission composers, respectively. “Thanks to a generous donation of an eight channel diffusion system from the Peavey Electronics Corporation, this year’s festival performances will be greatly enhanced,” notes festival director Dr. Snyder.

 

Concerts of original electroacoustic compositions will be held on Friday, Nov 14, at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Bologna Performing Arts Center Recital Hall and in the new DMI Studio A.

 

Also on Friday, an improvisational jam session will be held at 10 p.m. at Po’ Monkey’s Lounge in Merigold, one of the last remaining rural juke joints in Mississippi. Featured improv artists include Jeff Herriott, Eric Sheffield, Trevor Saint, Dave Lisik, Tom Link, and Mark Snyder, among others. There is a $5 charge for this event.

 

The EAJJ festival will conclude with a series of concerts on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., in the Bologna Performing Arts Center Recital Hall and in the new DMI Studio A.

 

Details of composers and compositions to be performed may be found on the festival website at www.eajj.org.
All concerts are free and the public is cordially
invited to attend. 
For more festival information, please call the DMI office at (662) 846-4579 or visit the festival website at www.eajj.org.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Dexter Allen Performing a Horizon Casino - Vicksburg, MS

Dexter Allen
W/ Special Guest Patrice Moncell
Horizon Casino
Saturday, November 8, 2008
8pm-12
Free admission

Dexter Allen is entered in the Band Category of the 5th Annual MS Delta
Regional Blues Challenge. See "Challenge Info" tab for more information.

Bill Abel on "Mississippi Arts Hour" this weekend

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Bill Abel Blues musician and producer
http://www.myspace.com/billabel

Bill Abel will be featured in interview with Larry Morrisey on Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Radio Network.  Airtime is Sunday, November 9 at 3p.m.  Bill is a solo artist in the 5th Annual MS Delta Regional Blues Challenge line-up.  He was the Indianola blues society’s 2006 Blues Artist of the Year.  

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Larry Morrisey

Grants Programs Director

Mississippi Arts Commission

501 North West Street

Suite 1101A, Woolfolk Building

Jackson, MS 39201

(601) 359-6036

(601) 359-6008 (fax)

The Mississippi Arts Commission celebrates 40 years of supporting Mississippi 's Creative Spirit.

1968 - 2008

 

 

Announcing 5th Annual Mississippi Delta Regional Blues Challenge Line-up

Click here for details on each performer.

Solo/ Duo

L.C. Ulmer & Chase Holifield – Laurel, MS

Lane Rodgers – Greenville, MS

Bill AbelDuncan, MS

Terry “Harmonica” Bean – Pontotoc, MS

Bands

Walter Cooper & Ruff Ryder – Sallis, MS

Dexter Allen – Jackson, MS

The Grady Champion Revue – Canton, MS

R.L. Boyce & Como Breakdown – Como, MS

The winner from each category will represent the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola at the 25th Annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN - February 4-7, 2009.