Browsing: Clarksdale

(CLARKSDALE, MS) Spring is rapidly springing, and that means that festival season is upon us! This weekend’s Juke Joint Festival, Saturday, April 12th,…

“Half blues festival, half small-town fair and all about the Delta,” fest celebrates Mississippi’s living blues heritage and more!

Charlie Musselwhite’s live “Juke Joint Chapel”, named for the venue where it was recorded in Clarksdale, MS, is live gold!

State’s oldest music museum recognized for “exceptional contributions” to community!

The Juke Joint Festival, Thursday, April 11th through Saturday, April 16th, in Clarksdale, Mississippi is the unofficial blues festival season kickoff, and American Blues Scene will be covering the event in it’s entirety!

Growing up in Colombia some 2200 miles away from Clarksdale, Mississippi, didn’t stop Carlos Elliot, Jr. from feeling a mystic connection the first time he heard Blues music…

I’m just gonna come flat out and say it: If you haven’t paid a visit to the Mississippi Delta yet, plan one now to this starkly beautiful, richly musical place.

“We Juke Up in Here” is latest production from the makers of the award-winning 2008 film “M For Mississippi”

American Blues Scene is LIVE from the Juke Joint Festival. We’re at the Delta Music Experience Headquarters at the Little Pink Guesthouse

The National Blues Museum has announced the first scholarships to be issued from Honeyboy Edwards Fund for the Blues within the National Blues Museum. These scholarships have been awarded to the Pinetop Perkins Foundation, based in Clarksdale, MS and will be formally presented by the fund founders on April 15th during the Delta Music Experience Gospel Brunch at