“A Different Shade of Blue” blues band from Petal won the band competition in Indianola at Club Ebony Sunday night. They will represent the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola at the 30th Annual International Blues Challenge in
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Indianola BAND Challenge Winners
Thursday, September 12, 2013
30th International Blues Challenge
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Poster Signing for 14th Annual Highway 61 Blues Festival - Mighty Mississippi Music Festival
The Leland Blues Project and the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival is announcing the poster signing for the 14th Annual Highway 61 Blues Festival - Mighty Mississippi Music Festival at E. E. Bass on Friday, August 23 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. This event is held in conjunction with the opening of Billy Johnson's blues photography exhibit, Gone But Not Forgotten. Cristen Craven Barnard, the artist for this year's poster, will be on hand signing a limited number of posters from her artwork titled,
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Otha Turner Memorial Picnic
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Friday, July 26, 2013
James "T-Model" Ford Memorial Services
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Delta State Opens Alumnus Photography Exhibit
Selby states, "As photographers, we are trained from our first day to understand the meaning and intent of the final photograph. We are taught that just because we can look doesn't necessarily mean that we can see. Through my work, I am trying to connect my disconnect with something I do not fully understand."
Fellow photographers Armon Means and John Vincent combined their talents with Selby to create the original body of work by drawing inspiration from Dr. John Strait’s research, which emphasized the examination of the space in which we live.
The reception is open to the public, and community members are encouraged to visit the exhibit. Selby’s work of 20 images will be on display in the Capps Archives & Museum’s main gallery until the end of October.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Bluesman James "T-Model" Ford RIP
A blues great and a great man has passed… JAMES "T-MODEL" FORD... R.I.P. The self-proclaimed "Ladies Man" and "Taledragger" passed away after a long illness at home in Greenville, Mississippi, on Tuesday morning, July 16, 2013, surrounded by his loving wife and family. Funeral arrangements are to come. In the meantime, for anyone who is interested in donating towards the funeral… per his wife Miss Stella, please use the bank information below:
SEND DONATIONS DIRECTLY TO BANK:
James Ford
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Account# 4700445890
Planters Bank
PH: 662-335-5258; FX: 662-378-4429
OR MAIL CARDS, CHECKS, ETC. TO HOME:
James Ford (� Miss Stella),
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Delta Center for Culture and Learning Participates in NEH Workshop
Tim Shaw, a top-notch instrument maker and elementary art teacher, was able to reunite with bluesman Bill Abel while attending. Shaw first met Abel when they did a workshop together last summer. Shaw had been making cigar box guitars for a year when he learned of Abel’s cigar box show at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs. Shaw’s wife got her husband and his friends permission to be in Abel’s show through the cultural center. “I spent two days with him down there at the cultural center. We immediately hit it off,” Shaw said. “I called my wife after the first day and I said, ‘I have met my Jesus.’”
The two have been in touch since, but Shaw’s being at Abel’s performance during the NEH workshop was a complete surprise. “I didn’t tell him I was coming,” Shaw said. “Yesterday when he was unloading his stuff I came here early to help, and I said, ‘Remember me?’ And he just couldn’t believe I was here.”
After Abel’s show on Wednesday night, Shaw demonstrated his skills on Abel’s cigar box guitar. Shaw said that while he has always been interested in music, he only became a musician in his early 30’s. “I worked with two guys who were surprised that I didn’t play anything because I knew so much about music,” Shaw said. “They set out on a mission to teach me to play. One of them played the drums, the other one played guitar. They decided they were going to teach me the bass so we could have a band.”
From playing instruments, Shaw became interested in making them. During his quest to make a solid-body electric guitar, he encountered a news clip about a man who made cigar box guitars on the coast. Shaw visited the artist’s gallery in Bay St. Louis with some friends the following Sunday and ended up buying one of the artist’s cigar box guitars. “I took it home and took it apart and looked at it and thought, ‘Huh, this is interesting. I think I can do this,’” Shaw said. “And so my endeavor to make solid body electric guitars took a left turn to cigar box guitars.”
Shaw, whose projects are usually commissioned, says that the six-day workshop has left him inspired. “I’m really excited about this workshop. I’ve already designed three new guitars,” Shaw said. “I can’t wait to go home and make them. They’re going to be blues themed.”
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
SUPER CHIKAN AT CLUB EBONY SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH!
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Delta Center assists Canadian film crew
CLEVELAND, Miss. -- The Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently helped the television company CMT Canada film part of an episode of their popular show Jason McCoy Eats America at Po’ Monkey’s Lounge in Merigold. The cast and crew interviewed Bluesman Terry “Harmonica” Bean, and their star, Jason McCoy, later performed with Terry Bean. Jason McCoy is a Canadian singer/songwriter who is best known for his country music. In 2001 he won Male Vocalist of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards, and he has also had 3 SOCAN Song of the Year awards, 19 CCMA nominations and 5 Juno nominations, all for Best Country Male Vocalist. Other parts of this episode were filmed in