Front Porch Blues & News

Music, culture, and stories from the Delta and beyond

Ray Proetto covers Juke Joint Festival 2014

Me and Leslie dancing to The Gift Shop Trio Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival 2014 Ray Proetto is an avid photographer who enjoys documenting blues musicians. Ray has been a featured...
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Music on the Lawn at Cutrer Concert Series

Cutrer Concert Series features Dr. Alphonso Sanders in Clarksdale, Mississippi Clarksdale, Mississippi Wanna stretch out on some green grass and listen to cicadas, crickets and the oh-so-smooth Alphonso Sanders and...
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Mississippi River Great Books Seminar Openings

Quapaw Canoe Company founder John Ruskey ©2011 The Delta Bohemian® By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi Have you been searching for a salubrious, multi-day adventure in the Mississippi Delta that includes Socratic...
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Designing a Logo Ain’t Easy

Magical Madge and graphic designer Khara Woods meet to discuss the Delta Bohemian logo design By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi Designing a logo is not easy. My ex-husband Quimby Vance, native Mississippian...
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Celebrating Unity and Diversity in the Mississippi Delta

Riley, Madge, Dandy, Red, Dingo kickin’ it in front of Red’s Lounge in Clarksdale By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!” ...
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Mississippi Delta Sunsets Nourish The Soul

Greg Birdsong Mississippi Delta Sunset miniature painting titled SKY RIDER By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi If you follow THE Delta Bohemian®–Poor William, Pontificus Minimus, Chilly Billy–also known as Billy Howell on Facebook,...
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Third Coahoma to Sonoma County Blues Festival

Coming to 3rd Annual Coahoma to Sonoma Blues Festival By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO!) What do Coahoma and Sonoma Counties have in common other than alliteration? Well, some awesome...
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Stages of a Cotton Plant

Pigweed Plant in the Mississippi Delta By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) We love cotton in the Mississippi Delta. We grow it, wear it, think about it, talk about it...
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Sunflower River Blues Festival Look Back

Becky Williams, Magical Madge and Shelley Ritter at Sunflower River Blues Festival 2008 By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) Remember when the main stage was only about 12-feet-wide and was on...
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Kingfish plays guitar at Hambone Gallery Pre-Sunflower Fest

Director at U N Me Films Lisa Eismen filming Kingfish, Preston and Stan Street at Hambone Gallery Pre-Sunflower Fest By POOR WILLIAM Clarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) With the annual Sunflower River...
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