Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest Needs a Little Help from Some Friends (CHECK OUT SPONTANEOUS VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH RED PADEN SHARING HIS THOUGHTS ON THE FESTIVAL) Red Paden, head straw boss and proprietor at Red’s Lounge—the iconic downtown Clarksdale juke joint and coolest, most intimate music venue in the whole wide world—is putting on his […]
DeSoto Magazine Features Delta Bohemian Tours and Kingfish
August 16, 2018 Leave a Comment
DeSoto Magazine features Delta Bohemian Tours and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram in their current August 2018 issue. Pick up a copy today! A fabulous painting of Johnny Cash is on the cover and was done by British artist, Richard Day.
Clarksdale Entertainment Section in the Press Register
July 3, 2018 3 Comments
By Magical Madge Clarksdale entertainment is a 7 day a week, 365 night a year thing. I know this. Well. And, I thank the Lord for it. Even though I don’t get out to enjoy it as much as I once did. Age. Work. It happens. 😎 Being a focus of the new Clarksdale entertainment […]
Seek the Delta Right Next Door
June 28, 2018 Leave a Comment
Seek the Delta Right Next Door. Europeans, Australians, and internationals from all over the world plan and save, sometimes for years, to travel across the ocean to visit and experience the Mississippi Delta. Americans come from the West Coast, East Coast, Northern states and all the way from Florida to Arizona, often traveling long distances […]
200 Plein Air Paintings in 200 Days Carol Roark Exhibit
June 25, 2018 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge 200 plein air paintings in 200 days. Really? Having taken up the paintbrush within the past year after a very long hiatus, I still can not fathom painting a plein air painting every single day for 200 days. Delta Artist Carol Roark, recently featured in Delta Magazine, did just that. Roark set […]
The Wineskins new “Shut Me Up Sundance” – A Review
June 21, 2018 Leave a Comment
By Magical Madge What’s normal? I know I am not normal. But in this world “we all want something, but something’s never here. We pray. We smoke. We pill. We drink. We dope and we hope. That lights always fading, as we all attempt to cope, beneath the normal sky. Real love goes floating by. […]
Voyage Chicago features Clarksdale’s $Daddy Rich$ (a.k.a. Richard Crisman)
May 25, 2018 Leave a Comment
Voyage Chicago publishes article titled “Meet $Daddy Rich$ (a.k.a. Richard Crisman) in Clarksdale.” Thank you Village Chicago for writing about Richard Crisman, a.k.a. $Daddy Rich$. While managing Morgan Freeman’s Madidi Restaurant, I often hired Richard, aka Daddy Rich, to play in the bar on Wednesday nights. I have loved his sound, lyrics, style and music […]
Jordi Baizan Home Concert with Alice Hasen
May 15, 2018 Leave a Comment
A new Home Concert is coming to the Clarksdale White House on Thursday, May 31st, featuring engaging singer-songwriter Jordi Baizan accompanied by Alice Hasen.
Grammy Winner Eric Tingstad Clarksdale Concert
March 19, 2018 Leave a Comment
THE DELTA BOHEMIANS PRESENT ERIC TINGSTAD in a HOME CONCERT Clarksdale White House Thursday, April 5, 2018 Limited Seating $15 — Purchase Tickets HERE
Hopson Commissary: Monday Evening Comin’ Down
January 30, 2018 Leave a Comment
WATCH VIDEO I am increasingly drawn to Hopson Commissary’s Monday evening, acoustic, “comin’-down-easy” from the weekend, musical experience beginning at 6:00pm accompanied by free food (always a pot of something owners James & Cathy Butler have whipped up) and free music (please tip the musician 😎 ) usually by gifted, self-effacing local musician/writer Marshall Drew, whose father […]
Delta Magazine HOT TOPICS
January 30, 2018 Leave a Comment
Delta Magazine HOT TOPICS is a fun, two-page section spotlighting four subjects trending in Mississippi, especially the Delta. When Delta Magazine arrives in my mailbox, HOT TOPICS is my immediate go-to! I’m curious to see what the latest crazes are in our great state.
Lovin’ OXFORD MAGAZINE Lovin’
January 24, 2018 Leave a Comment
Lovin’ Oxford Magazine and its lovin’. We are so very grateful for the love Oxford Magazine shows fellow Mississippians. Have you read one yet? Two recent articles titled “A Home Built For Three” and “Last-Minute Summer Getaways” featured Clarksdalians. It’s never too late to read about Clarksdale. 😎
8th CLARKSDALE FILM FESTIVAL
January 22, 2018 Leave a Comment
CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI — The 8th annual Clarksdale Film Festival returns to “Bluestown, USA” — Clarksdale, Mississippi — Friday-Saturday, January 26-27. And it’s going to be a real house party. “This is a curated film festival, so it’s not just ‘whatever films came out this year,’” said co-founder Roger Stolle. “We premiere new works, of […]
Legends Magazine Loves the Delta
December 12, 2017 Leave a Comment
Legends Magazine loves the Mississippi Delta and we are so thankful. FIRST, watch this Video of Chilly Billy talking about this post. SECOND, read gifted writer Julian Rankin’s article titled “From the Land of Cotton, Delta Bohemian Tours.” Julian is the Director of Art and Public Exchange for Mississippi Museum of Art. See complete text below […]
“Big J” of Johnson Plumbing in Cleveland, Mississippi
December 7, 2017 Leave a Comment
“Big J” Milton Johnson, a salt of the earth Cleveland, Mississippi native loves old school cars. Madge interviews him about his 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air. Second generation business owner is the backbone of the Delta.
Matt Rock Clarksdale House Party
November 9, 2017 2 Comments
Matt Rock Clarksdale House Party was an epic night of music. VIDEOS Peep at a Clarksdale house party evening for the hard-core-all-night-long-hill-country folks. Prior to two weeks ago the most serendipitous musical encounter I had experienced was in 2012 in Aussie Matt Rock’s backyard in a metal shed in Rosebud, on the coast of Melbourne, […]
Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver Been At It 50+ Years
October 30, 2017 4 Comments
Clarksdale Taxi Cab Driver, Mr. Roosevelt Noah, born in 1946, also known as “Ro” or “Jolly,” knows the streets of Clarksdale like no other. He has been ferrying folks to where they need to go for right at 50 years! “When I first started to driving cabs here in this town, we had about 30-something […]
Deak Harp Performing Impromptu for DB Touristas
October 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Deak Harp knows how to make the ladies smile. Magical Madge had some cool chicks staying at the Clarksdale White House and Delta Bohemian Guest House recently. Several took a Delta Bohemian Tour, which included a visit to Deak Harp’s Mississippi Saxophones and Blues Emporium, where my good friend Deak not only chatted up the […]
Delta Blues Museum Issues URGENT CALL For Your Help
October 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Blues Museum issues Urgent Call for your help! They have been approved for a $30,000 grant that must be matched dollar-for-dollar by Tuesday, October 31, 2017, in order to receive the grant money! Would you or your business please consider giving a tax-deductible donation to help them reach this goal? EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS
Delta Plein Air Artists Unite – Charleston, Mississippi
September 3, 2017 Leave a Comment
Delta Plein Air Artists unite for the First Annual “Paint the Gateway to the Delta” plein air paint out and exhibition September 6-9, 2017 in Charleston, Mississippi, Tallahatchie County! Any artist or budding wannabe artist can participate. The host, Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort (C.A.R.E.), posted an invitation on their facebook page which said “Come paint with us!” Since […]
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