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Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee Unite for Bridging the Blues
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Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee (PRWEB) October 02, 2015 -- Bridging the Blues, a tri-state effort to promote local musical culture, returns for its 4th year with over a hundred events in Memphis and the Delta regions of Mississippi and Arkansas between Friday, September 25 and Sunday, October 11. Signature events are the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival (Oct. 2-4) in Greenville, the 30th anniversary of the King Biscuit Blues Festival (Oct. 7-10) in Helena, Arkansas, and the 2nd annual International Conference on the Blues (Oct. 5-6) in Cleveland, Mississippi. To see the full schedule, visit http://www.bridgingtheblues.com.

New attractions on the BTB calendar this year include the Bona Fide Blues Festival (Oct. 2-3) in Memphis’ Overton Square, the Art & Soul Picnic (Oct. 3) in Greenwood, Mississippi, and a six-night run of open mic nights (Sept. 25-30) at the historic juke joint the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Mississippi, operated by bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes.

Events during BTB’s first weekend include the annual Sam Chatmon Blues Festival (Sept. 26) in Hollandale, Mississippi, a small-town street festival that celebrates the legacy of a blues pioneer, and the Indian Bayou Arts Festival (Sept. 26) in Indianola. The open mic nights in Bentonia will include special appearances by blues veterans L.C. Ulmer (Sept. 26) and Leo “Bud” Welch (Sept. 27). The Vicksburg Blues Society presents Eddie Cotton, Jr. at the Bottleneck Blues Bar at Ameristar Casino (Sept. 25-26); at the same venue they are also featuring Mr. Sipp “The Mississippi Blues Child” (Oct. 2-3) and Grady Champion (Oct. 9-10).

The Mighty Mississippi Music Festival at Warfield Point Park on the river features three days of music on two stages, with headliners including Austin’s Band of Heathens (Oct. 2), Chris Stapleton, Old Crow Medicine Show (Oct.3), and the Cedric Burnside Project (Oct. 4). The festival incorporates the long-running Highway 61 Blues Festival, which is represented through the Highway 61 Blues Stage.

The new Bona Fide Blues Festival (Oct. 2-3), sponsored by the Memphis Blues Society, features over fifty regional artists on multiple stages both outdoors and in local Overton Square venues. The Art & Soul Picnic in Greenwood (Oct. 3) takes place during the day at Tallahatchie Flats just north of Robert Johnson’s grave, with soul food and a dozen artists displaying their works in “pop-up” galleries. That evening the Mississippi Bluesfest at Greenwood’s Leflore County Civic Center will feature artists including Sir Charles Jones.

On Monday and Tuesday October 5-6 Delta State University once again hosts the International Conference on the Blues, whose highlights include a workshop and performance with Dom Flemons, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops (Oct. 5), and a storytelling session with Bobby Rush and James “Super Chikan” Johnson (Oct. 6). Other events include a keynote talk by folklorist Dr. William Ferris and the dedication of a Mississippi Blues Trail (MBT) marker (“Gospel and the Blues”) at the former church of Rev. C.L. Franklin, father of Aretha (Oct. 6). There are over fifty MBT markers in the Delta region, including several in both Memphis and Helena. Be sure to download the free MBT app, which features interactive maps.

On Wednesday October 7 there’ll be a “Blues Tweetup” featuring 16-year-old blues phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram at the newly opened Gateway to the Blues Museum and Visitor Center in Tunica. Be sure to stop by the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, the Highway 61 Blues Museum in Leland, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and the new Blues Hall of Fame Museum at the Blues Foundation’s headquarters in Memphis, and the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola. The latter will host a free outdoor show with the Big Time Rhythm & Blues Band on October 2.

Helena’s King Biscuit Blues Festival is staged alongside the Mississippi River levee, and will celebrate its 30th anniversary with headliners including Bobby Rush (Oct. 8), Jimmie Vaughan and Tilt-a-Whirl with Lou Ann Barton (Oct. 9), and Taj Mahal (Oct. 10). Dozens of artists perform across its multiple stages, including those dedicated to gospel and children’s music, and on Oct. 9 is the associated 5th annual Call and Response Blues Symposium, featuring a panel of veteran juke joint owners. Helena’s Delta Cultural Center, which features music exhibits, is also presenting its own Front Porch Blues Bash (Oct. 9-10), and each weekday hosts live broadcasts of the historic King Biscuit Time radio broadcast, with 89-year-old host Sunshine Sonny Payne.

Nearby Clarksdale is always hopping during “the Biscuit,” and is the site of the Second Street Blues Party (Oct. 10-11), and the Cat Head Mini Blues Festival and the 15th annual Pinetop Perkins Homecoming at Hopson Plantation (both events on Oct. 11). Throughout BTB there’s live music seven nights a week in Clarksdale at venues including Ground Zero Blues Club, Red’s, and the New Roxy. The internationally syndicated and Memphis-based radio program Beale Street Caravan will return to document many BTB performances for later broadcast.

Bridging the Blues has attracted tens of thousands of visitors from across the nation and around the globe and was recently named an event to watch in ABA’s Top 100 Events in North America for 2015. The Mississippi Tourism Association named BTB as the 2013 Tourism Achievement Winner. Mighty Mississippi Music Festival was also named by Acoustic Guitar Magazine as the “Do Not Miss” Festival in Mississippi, a Visitsouth.com Top 8 Festival, #1 New Festival in America by American Blues Scene Magazine, and a “Southern Travel Treasure” by AAA.

For more information and a full schedule of events visit http://www.bridgingtheblues.com. You can also follow BTB on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/BridgingTheBlues), Instagram (@bridgingtheblues) and Twitter (@BridgingBlues).

Bridging the Blues is a non-profit partnership between Mississippi Delta Tourism Association, Arkansas Delta Byways, Arkansas Parks & Tourism, the Mississippi Development Authority Division of Tourism, and the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau. BTB does not book artists, but simply coordinates information from our many partners.

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Megan Slaughter, [email protected], http://www.bridgingtheblues.com/, +1 662-453-7078, [email protected]

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King Biscuit Blues Festival / Helena, Arkansas / Credit: Rob Hammons
King Biscuit Blues Festival / Helena, Arkansas / Credit: Rob Hammons
King Biscuit Blues Festival / Helena, Arkansas / Credit: Rob Hammons

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