45th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Saturday, September 17, 2022 Greenville, Mississippi The Board of Directors of Mississippi Action for Community Education, Incorporated, along with the staff and all our volunteers wish to thank everyone who attended the virtual 44th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival. To begin changing that, Buffalo Nichols gets the chance to tell his own story in the right way. The official date is on a Saturday, but events and activities around the festival spread across four days, and much of the week proceeding it. After Hours Party. In the face of a historically brutal social experience, Black folk in America affirmed their humanity by remembering and creating a rich expressive culture of poetry, tales, crafts, ritual, dance and music. KING GEORGE, THE NEW KING OF R & B, SIR CHARLES JONES, Mississippi Gulf Coast Blues Commission 2023 All Rights Reserved. Click the image below to download a copy of the press release. Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences! 216 talking about this. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Mississippi Gulf Coast Blues and Heritage Festival September 2023 (dates not updated) Jackson County Fairgrounds Pascagoula, MS 39567 Status: Updated 9/2/2022 A family oriented blues festival with food vendors, arts and crafts for blues lovers of all ages under a covered pavilion. var linktext = username + "@" + hostname; #visitmississippi #muletrain Among performers are the Ghost Town Blues . LACEE, NATHANIEL KIMBLE, ISAAC LINDSEY, NARVELL ECHOLS, Contact the Blue Front Cafe on Facebook to ask how you can help keep the Bentonia blues alive. Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection. CLARKSDALE: 20th Juke Joint Festival and Related Events, BAY ST. LOUIS: 100 Men Hall w/screening of James Booker doc. Mississippi Show Canceled Events Music Festivals February 11, 2023 Magnolia State Bank Chili Cook-Off Downtown, Laurel, MS Status: Updated 12/28/2022 There will be 1 stage with Regional and Local talent. CLARKSDALE: Juke Joint Festival and Related Events Clarksdales biggest blues week! The Tiger Beats. This year's mammoth event features the best of Soul, The fact that so many people have become aware of this music and want to celebrate it every year with us here in Bentonia really warms my heart. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Continue with Recommended Cookies. In Time Music and the Soul Music Experience! The annual Juke Joint Festival is a combined blues music festival and small-town fair. Rachel Ammons. Bentonia Blues Festival hosted by the historic Blue Front Cafe was created in 1972 by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes. and Junior had so much character., Next came his discovery of artists like the Black Diamond Heavies, Scott H. Biram, and Bob Log younger independents making music under the influence of Kimbrough, Burnside, and their hill country kin, including Jessie Mae Hemphill and Othar Turner., This new, raw strain of hybrid blues offers deep roots to fans of traditional music. It is an epic master work of freak beat from the worlds weirdest garage. Saturday, May 27, 2023, at 4:00 PM, light hors d'oeuvres. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. returning to the beautiful Florewood River State Park Join Festivalnet.com now to unlock additional details,