Tuesday, April 21, 2009

GRADY CHAMPION will perform at Club Ebony

 

 

Charlie Musselwhite - Clarksdale, Oxford, Kosciusko

The Delta Blues Museum-Clarksdale, MS is hosting the Opening Reception of “Charlie Musselwhite:  Son of Mississippi; Citizen of the World.”  See www.deltabluesmuseum.org for details. Tuesday, April 21st; 5-7pm.

Charlie Musselwhite will perform at Roosters Blues House – Oxford, MS on Wednesday, April 22 at 10pm.  Admission:  FREE

The upcoming Charlie Musselwhite Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Ceremony will take place on Friday, April 24, 2009.

At 3:00 p.m., MDA Tourism Heritage Trails Program, the Mississippi Blues Commission, and Kosciusko/Attala Development Corporation, will honor Charlie Musselwhite. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Little Milton Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Ceremony

This upcoming Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Unveiling will take place on
Friday, April 17, 2009. At 4:00 p.m., MDA Tourism Heritage Trails Program,
the Mississippi Blues Commission, and the Inverness Chamber of Commerce will
honor Little Milton.

Jack Owens Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Ceremony

This upcoming Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Ceremony will take place on
Friday, April 17, 2009. At 10:00 a.m., MDA Tourism Heritage Trails Program,
the Mississippi Blues Commission, and the Yazoo County Convention and
Visitors Bureau will honor Jack Owens.

Queen of Hearts Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Ceremony

This upcoming Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Ceremony that will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2009.  At 4:00 p.m., MDA Tourism Heritage Trails Program, the Mississippi Blues Commission, and the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau will honor The Queen of Hearts.

 

Monday, April 13, 2009

Monk Institute of Jazz Poster

Call the BPAC Box Office at 662-846-4626. 

Price $25 and under

DSU students and under 18 – FREE

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz makes its return to Delta State

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will return to the Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) for a public performance on Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. Joining them will be legendary guitarist Keb’ Mo.’

The following week, they will perform for student groups at the BPAC, the Delta Music Institute, and Ruleville High School, to be followed by other visits in the region.  

“The Monk Institute put on an amazing show last year,” says David Dallas, Executive Director of the Bologna Performing Arts Center, “They work with the top performers in the world of Jazz and we are very excited that they are bringing Keb’ Mo’ as one of their guest performers for this year’s event.” 

“The work that they do with schools introducing young people to blues and jazz is incredibly beneficial for our region.

The Monk Institute developed The Blues and Jazz: Two American Classics curriculum for 5th, 8th, and 11th grade public school students. The program traces the blues and its vital importance to American history and culture, showing how the music became perhaps the greatest influence on jazz.

Dallas also was grateful that the Crosstie Arts Council had provided support to bring the Monk Institute back to the Performing Arts Center. “It’s also going to be a fun weekend of Jazz, since the performance  at the BPAC will be the day after Cleveland’s Crosstie Art and Jazz Festival.“

Lucy Janoush, Crosstie Arts Council President, is also excited about the prospect. “We are so excited to be able to combine the Festival weekend with a performance of this magnitude. We hope people will come out and enjoy what is sure to be an exceptional event.”

In addition, 40 years of Crosstie Arts Festival Arts Competition winners will be on display in the BPAC lobby beginning the day of the Monk Institute performance. 

“It’s all part of a continued strengthening of a partnership between the Bologna Performing Arts Center and the Crosstie Arts Festival.  We hope to keep the exhibit up for a few weeks but we hope people will come and enjoy it the day of the show,” Dallas says.

Keb’ Mo’ is a world-class modern blues artist. This three-time Grammy Award winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter is a major presence on today’s world music scene. He portrayed Robert Johnson in the 1998 documentary “Can you Hear the Wind Howl?”

Mo’ performed at the opening of the B.B. King Museum in Indianola last fall, along with Robert Cray, Bobbie Blue Bland and B.B. King himself.

For ticket information, contact the Bologna Performing Arts Center Arts Center Box Office at (662) 846-4626.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Service Learning classes visit the Delta and Delta State

CLEVELAND―Spring brings many visiting classes to the Delta.  Two recent examples are a service learning class from the University of North Carolina and Duke University and a Blues studies class from the Colorado Spring School

Both classes visited Dockery Farms where these pictures were taken.  They also worked with the Delta State University’s Delta Center for Culture and Learning as they explored the Delta’s heritage. 

The service learning class spent a week helping the Sunflower Freedom Project.  The Blues studies class began their trip in New Orleans and ended in Chicago, learning about the Blues as they traveled. 

Photo One:  Learning class from the University of North Carolina and Duke University

Photo Two:  Blues studies class from the Colorado Spring School