DELTA BLUES MUSEUM

Delta Blues Museum Issues URGENT CALL For Your Help

Delta Blues Museum Issues Urgent Call For Help with matching grant. Deadline 10-31-17. Use it or lose it. Delta Blues Museum issues Urgent Call for your help! They have been approved...
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Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash – MONDAY at 4!

Delta Blues Museum Birthday Party 38 years old! The Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash is Monday, January 30th from 4-6pm. You will hear special performances from the Coahoma Community College Choir,...
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European Reflects on the Birthplace of the Blues

Bill Abel, Andrea Vlonk, Magical Madge, Becky Bobo Williams at Shack Up Inn Initially, it was the history of Clarksdale, Birthplace of the Blues, that made me want to visit. Nearly...
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Give ’em Hell CeDell – “Last Man Standing”

CeDell Davis performing at Juke Joint Festival 2012. Photo by ©Eric Stone By POOR WILLIAM Tarzan is no longer playing in black and white on Saturday afternoons, at least not in...
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Play more tunes for me Daddy Rich

Daddy Rich at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi July 28, 2011 By MAGICAL MADGE Clarksdale, Mississippi VIDEOS It’s sad, sad to think Daddy Rich may bow out of the...
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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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April is Muddy Waters Month at DBM and Blues at Home in Oxford

April is Muddy Waters Month at the Delta Blues Museum By MAGICAL MADGE MARLEY HOWELL (CLARKSDALE and OXFORD, Mississippi) In the Belly of the Blues The above poster caught my...
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Delta Blues Museum Blues Trail Marker Unveiling

Shelley Ritter (right), director of the Delta Blues Museum, and Bill Gresham (left) president of the museum board of trustees official unveil the Mississippi Blues Trail Marker. Allison Washington of...
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True Delta: True Dat ….A simple review of a fantastic documentary

SUPER CHIKAN – from TRUE DELTA – A Documentary about Clarksdale, Mississippi and the Blues By Poor William CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – The MISSISSIPPI DELTA is a land and culture brimming...
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Coahoma to Sonoma County Blues Festival – We like the sounds of that!

  Watermelon Slim – Photo courtesy of PRESS DEMOCRAT While Clarksdale welcomes the American Idol Small Town Audition Bus Tour this Sunday at the Delta Blues Museum, two of our...
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