DELTA BLUES MUSEUM

Delta Blues Museum Issues URGENT CALL For Your Help

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...
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Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash – MONDAY at 4!

The Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash is Monday, January 30th from 4-6pm. You will hear special performances from the Coahoma Community College Choir, Greenville High School Voices of Liberation, Madison Palmer...
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European Reflects on the Birthplace of the Blues

Initially, it was the history of Clarksdale, Birthplace of the Blues, that made me want to visit. Nearly all of the great old blues musicians lived in/around Clarksdale, or frequented the...
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Give ’em Hell CeDell – “Last Man Standing”

By POOR WILLIAM Tarzan is no longer playing in black and white on Saturday afternoons, at least not in the Mississippi Delta, so whatcha gonna do this Saturday afternoon, March 7th,...
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Play more tunes for me Daddy Rich

By MAGICAL MADGEClarksdale, Mississippi VIDEOS It's sad, sad to think Daddy Rich may bow out of the music world. I know he took a break this past year to get...
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Sunflower River Blues Festival Look Back

By MAGICAL MADGEClarksdale, Mississippi (VIDEO) Remember when the main stage was only about 12-feet-wide and was on a mobile trailer? I do. That was likely the mid '90's. The Sunflower...
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April is Muddy Waters Month at DBM and Blues at Home in Oxford

By MAGICAL MADGE MARLEY HOWELL(CLARKSDALE and OXFORD, Mississippi) The above poster caught my eye while walking out of the Juke Joint Chapel at the Shack Up Inn on Monday night....
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Delta Blues Museum Blues Trail Marker Unveiling

By PANNY MAYFIELD(Clarkdale, Mississippi) Despite overcast chilly skies, a large crowd attended the prestigious Mississippi Heritage Blues Trail marker unveiling honoring Clarksdale’s Delta Blues Museum Thursday afternoon, April 11. Speaking...
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True Delta: True Dat ….A simple review of a fantastic documentary

By Poor WilliamCLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI - The MISSISSIPPI DELTA is a land and culture brimming with complex contradictions, a veritable mélange of befuddlements, commingling like silt, water, and snowmelt, as they...
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Coahoma to Sonoma County Blues Festival – We like the sounds of that!

While Clarksdale welcomes the American Idol Small Town Audition Bus Tour this Sunday at the Delta Blues Museum, two of our favorite musicians - Watermelon Slim and Lightnin' Malcolm -...
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Blessissippi Blues – Freeman and explore.org Hosting Live Concert in Clarksdale

Blessissippi Blues Delta Bohemians, Blues lovers, folks interested in the Mississippi Delta and Clarksdale and those of you who are philanthropic minded, read further for a major happenin' occuring in...
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