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Alex T. Thomas, Music Development, Program Manager, Mississippi Development Authority/Tourism, P.O. Box 849, Jackson, MS 39205-0849, Office: (601) 359-3297 , Fax: (601) 359-5757 , athomas@mississippi.org.

Photos: Out-of-state blues marker in Rockland, Maine.  Paul Benjamin - at the Maine marker unveiling this summer.   

Champion Jamz!

Club Ebony will host the 7^th Annual Mississippi Delta Regional Blues Challenge on Saturday, October 23 in Indianola.  Two past winners in Indianola and the Memphis International Blues Challenge are pictured.  The young Homemade Jamz Blues Band from Tupelo, MS and Grady Champion from Canton, MS.  It is time for solo/duo and bands to enter the Indianola Challenge.

LiVe HOt JAzZ! in Vicksburg!

 

7th Annual Mississippi Delta Regional Blues Challenge

Grady Champion…Canton, MS – Thank you Indianola Blues Society for the opportunity to compete in Memphis at the IBC.  This year has been wonderful.  The blues fans have been incredible.  Good luck with this year’s Challenge at Club Ebony and with every endeavor your group takes on.  Keep up the good work.  You’re the best!  Grady

Winner of the Indianola Challenge and the 2010 International Blues Challenge

Parchman Farm Blues Marker Ceremony

See map link below:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100688295274335080390.00043ac16963dc41feb11&ll=33.917678,-90.496445&spn=0.008609,0.013304&t=h&z=17

Hope to see you there!

Alex T. Thomas

Music Development, Program Manager

Mississippi Development Authority/Tourism

 athomas@mississippi.org

 

 

Clarksdale's MR. TATER has passed away.....

MUSICAL PASSING   -   Hailed as one of the last Mississippi Delta street musicians and a favorite of visiting tourists from around the world, Foster Wiley a.k.a. "Mr Tater, The Music Maker" passed away early Friday morning, September 10, at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis -- according to his brothers Joshua and Joe Wiley. Foster Wiley had been in the Intensive Care Unit for over a week with kidney and other issues.  Funeral arrangements, procession, reception/musical jam info:  www.cathead.biz/livemusic.html