23rd Annual Leland Crawfish Festival

Admission:  Bring 2 canned goods for the Leland Food Pantry

Indianola BAND Challenge Winners

“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 30^th Annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis January 22-25, 2014.

30th International Blues Challenge

Mississippi’s blues societies will soon be having their Regional Blues Challenges (Band and Solo/Duo Competitions).  The winners will advance to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis January 22-25, 2014 www.blues.org/ibc.  VICKSBURG:  Sunday, September 29^th Band & Solo/Duo www.VicksburgHeritage.com; JACKSON:  Monday, October 14^th Band and Monday, October 28^th Solo/Duo www.centralmississippibluessociety.com; INDIANOLA:  Sunday, October 20^th Band and Sunday, October 27^th Solo/Duo www.indianolablues.org.   

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, Mississippi Delta Riverside Blues. Posters will be on sale with a numbered, signed poster costing $25 and and unsigned poster costing $15.  As this is the first year for the combined Highway 61 Blues Festival - Mighty Mississippi Music Festival, they will certainly become collector items and sales of the poster directly benefit The Highway 61 Blues Museum.  A reception for the public including wine and hors d'oeuvres will accompany the events of the evening. 

Otha Turner Memorial Picnic

Roger Stolle
Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art
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Clarksdale, Mississippi 38614
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- Moonshine & Mojo Hands web TV series

- We Juke Up In Here blues film
- M For Mississippi blues film
- Hidden History of Mississippi Blues book
- Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale

James "T-Model" Ford Memorial Services

Greenville, MS   Friday, July 26-Visitation at Redmond Funeral Home   Saturday, July 27-Funeral at the Washington County Convention Center   

See link below:

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130725/FEAT/307250005/-T-Model-Ford-leaves-behind-blues-legacy?nclick_check=1