Open 10am to 5:30pm. T-shirts, hats and other merchandise. New items for 2021, we have taken our old shirts and the ladies at Tutwiler Quilters have done a beautiful job of making then into quilts, bags and pot holders. Then, we have prior year shirts that are hand tie-dyed. Visit our new WEBSTORE to see all our additions!

Sat-night Juke Joint Festival Wristbands are required for entry into all 12+ official participating Saturday, April 17, 2021, Juke Joint Festival nighttime music venues. Non-festival 'Related Events' organized by outside parties may require additional fees. Very limited quantities available. Sales will end immediately in the case of a sellout. More information on "Wristband" page of this website.

Mask up, social distance and enjoy... Robin Lane's "Mr. Tater Birthday" tribute to the late Foster "Mr. Tater / The Music Maker" Wiley.

Show One of Four

Mask up, social distance and celebrate Cadillac's 94TH BIRTHDAY! Big Red Paden introduces performance. (Please no handshakes or hugs. We're trying to keep the old men safe. Thanks.) OR... watch the live-stream online via LiveFromClarksdale.org.

Show two of four.

WHO: Marshall Blevins and Charlotte Jones WHAT: "Plow Hand Blues: Revisiting the Mules of Mississippi" WHERE: Meraki Roasting Co. -- 3rd St. and Sunflower Ave., Clarksdale, MS WHEN: Friday, 4/16 -- 1 pm WHY: Two Delta-hoppers by way of the Mississippi River, Marshall Blevins (regionally-renowned outsider artist AKA Church Goin Mule) and Charlotte Jones (history practitioner and Ph.D. candidate) will be hosting an art exhibition and talk titled "Plow Hand Blues: Revisiting the Mules of Mississippi" on Friday, April 16th, at 1 pm at Griot Youth Program/Meraki Roasting Co. This 45-minute presentation will explore the bygone Mississippi mule, from their cultural inspiration in blues, art, and literature to farming misdeeds and mishaps, the Great War, and beyond! Come learn how "the blues was born behind a mule." This event is sponsored by the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House in LaPlace, LA, Chateau Debris, and Griot Youth Program. HOW (to contact): Marshall Blevins -- churchgoinmule.com IG: @churchgoinmule Charlotte Jones -- charlottejones10.com IG/Twitter: @swamp_cheeks

Mask up, social distance and enjoy... The torchbearer of the Clarksdale sound: BIG A!

Don't miss "Daring to Suck: A Songwriting Workshop on How to Be Prolific Over Perfect" with singer-songwriter Grace Askew. Limited attendance. First come, first served.

Mask up, social distance and enjoy... Sean "Bad" Apple (owner of Bad Apple Blues Club), Peggy "Lady Trucker" Hemphill (cousin to Jesse Mae Hemphill) and King Artemis (Peggy's drumming hubby)!

Show three of four

Final Show of Friday. See Saturday shows.

Oxford, Mississippi's THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO "live" stage show returns to Juke Joint Festival with host Jim Dees, the Yallobushwhackers house band. Special guests include Ted Reed ("Blues Trail Revisited"). Blues performers include Miss Gladys, Terry "Big T" Williams & Lee Williams... Peggy "Lady Trucker" Hemphill, Sean "Bad" Apple & King Artemis... and the fabulous Eden Brent!

Bill Abel from Belzoni Mississippi plays the raw gutbucket blues he learned from Paul Jones, T Model Ford, Cadillac John and many other blues legends.

https://www.facebook.com/Bill-Abel-192999535686/

Carson is the youngest endorsee with Hohner Harmonicas. Featured on the Hohner Red Dragon Harmonica box. skateboarding with a harmonica in his hand.

https://carsondiersing.com/

Ghalia is an emerging Blues, R&R singer/songwriter from the city of Brussels, BE. For the last six years, she's been working as a solo artist as well as bandleader of two home-made acts: "Ghalia & The Naphtalines", a high energy boogie, rhythm’n’blues band and her (all-original) project "Voodoo Casino", with whom she recorded her first album in 2016.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiC0ISOx6jhAhVBY6wKHTj4COAQFjAAegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2

Keyboardist/singer/songwriter LaLa Craig got her start in her hometown of Oceanside, CA, performing with her family's country band at the tender age of 4. Taking a turn at dabbling for decades in every style imaginable, LaLa found her true calling when the blues spoke to her at the age of 33.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7UhlEdO8s

Blues musician and street performer.

https://www.facebook.com/events/brian-dorobas-real-mississippi-blues/166458127562336/

Popular Mississippi bluesman plays traditional music — new and old.

https://www.facebook.com/MississippiMarshall/

One of Clarksdale's finest musicians, Terry "Big T" Williams knows the blues. He came up under "Mr. Johnnie" Billington's watch before graduating to "Big Jack" Johnson's band, The Jelly Roll Kings, The Stone Gas Band and his own Big T & the Family band. A favorite of big clubs and juke joints alike, Big T is a man to watch on guitar. Pick up his CD "Hellhounds on My Trail" ... and watch for a new release on Broke & Hungry Records coming soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhNmLuk-AMU

Deak Harp has been playing harmonica since he was 12 years old. His biggest early inspiration came when his brother introduced him to the music of James Cotton. Deak followed Cotton's band along the east coast for close to five years before Cotton offered Deak a job driving his van. For the next six years, Deak toured with the James Cotton blues band, eventually opening acts and playing along with "Superharp" himself.

http://www.deakharp.com

Ray Cashman is a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, who performs mainly solo or as a duo and occasionaly with a electric band. Armed with a National guitar, stomp box and a Fender amp he performs a blues gumbo repertoire that can conjure up the ghosts of the Mississippi delta.

http://www.raycashman.net/index/

One of Clarksdale's finest musicians, Terry "Big T" Williams knows the blues. He came up under "Mr. Johnnie" Billington's watch before graduating to "Big Jack" Johnson's band, The Jelly Roll Kings, The Stone Gas Band and his own Big T & the Family band. A favorite of big clubs and juke joints alike, Big T is a man to watch on guitar. Pick up his CD "Hellhounds on My Trail" ... and watch for a new release on Broke & Hungry Records coming soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhNmLuk-AMU

Kansas City soul-bluesman, guitarist Pat Moss has been visiting Clarksdale for years.

https://www.facebook.com/Pat-Moss-96399108191/

Colorado-born, American highway-raised, bluesman.

https://www.cottonstonemusic.com

Jacqueline "Jaxx" Nassar is an emerging singer, songwriter, and artist who grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Jaxx is known to mesmerize an audience with her performances whether they are acoustic or with her band. She is a prolific writer and in 2016 collaborated with Grammy Award Musician Timothy Bloom in Los Angeles recording several of her original songs for release in 2017.

http://Jacqueline

Tempered by experience and fueled by passion, Ken Dunn’s music sneaks into your feet, heart, and soul. Distilling disparate life experiences into a proficient set of musical skills, his unique songs and stories take audiences on a healing journey of love and self-discovery. With decades of touring and nine critically acclaimed albums to his credit, Ken writes, performs, and records with the intention of promoting peace, social, and environmental justice. Alternatively light-hearted and pensive, contemporary, yet infused with tradition, this is music focused on positive human values, with diversity and inclusivity at its core.

https://www.kendunnmusic.com

JOHNNY RILEY from Groveton, Texas (Vocals, Lead Guitar, Harp, and various other instruments). Johnny Riley’s music is influenced by both Gospel music and Mississippi blues with a Texas twang and some “Outlaw” influences. Johnny Riley has an unforgettable soulful voice which he can use like a field holler if need be.During his show he plays lead guitar and adds a large dose of Harmonica to the mix. Johnny Riley`s music is strongly influenced by both his Mississippi and Texas roots. Johnny’s mother was from Clarksdale, MS. Johnny’s father was a Holiness preacher from Texas.

https://www.johnyriley.com

In the woods of West Virginia, in an isolated hollow, a young boy thought he was a peacock. When he realized, much to his dismay, that he was not a peacock, he picked up a guitar. From then on the sounds of him loudly playing along to the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix could be heard echoing through the hollow. Somehow placed between roaming peacocks, a family of Russian intellectuals, and parents dedicated to living off the land, Gyasi was brought up in an environment that could only be described as unique. It was an isolated world, where life felt like a time capsule of a different era. With a precociously early interest in music, dance, and performance, Gyasi found himself altogether removed from his peers growing up in typical rural West Virginia culture. From his parents he inherited a love of blues, jazz and world music, and silent movies. Through the mentorship of the Russian immigrants next door, he learned about the heroes of the British Invasion, glam rock, and psychedelia.

https://gyasimusic.com/home

Ghalia is an emerging Blues, R&R singer/songwriter from the city of Brussels, BE. For the last six years, she's been working as a solo artist as well as bandleader of two home-made acts: "Ghalia & The Naphtalines", a high energy boogie, rhythm’n’blues band and her (all-original) project "Voodoo Casino", with whom she recorded her first album in 2016.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiC0ISOx6jhAhVBY6wKHTj4COAQFjAAegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2

Ray Cashman is a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, who performs mainly solo or as a duo and occasionaly with a electric band. Armed with a National guitar, stomp box and a Fender amp he performs a blues gumbo repertoire that can conjure up the ghosts of the Mississippi delta.

http://www.raycashman.net/index/

https://johnfordblues.com/bio

https://johnfordblues.com/home

Frank Rimmer earned the money for his first guitar at age 11 years old by going to the Cotton Fields, and has been performing since age 14. . He still has the Guitar named Stella to this day. He founded his own Band Called "Exception To The Rule another band called Super Soul Sonic. Which consisted of Big Pete, {City Council} - Friends of Glen Harris. Some of their Big Influences were Earth-Wind & Fire; Motown; Isley Brothers. Frank has played with Magic Slim, and his father, Magic slim, Sr.

https://www.facebook.com/guitarrimmer

Bill Abel from Belzoni Mississippi plays the raw gutbucket blues he learned from Paul Jones, T Model Ford, Cadillac John and many other blues legends.

https://www.facebook.com/Bill-Abel-192999535686/

One of Clarksdale's finest musicians, Terry "Big T" Williams knows the blues. He came up under "Mr. Johnnie" Billington's watch before graduating to "Big Jack" Johnson's band, The Jelly Roll Kings, The Stone Gas Band and his own Big T & the Family band. A favorite of big clubs and juke joints alike, Big T is a man to watch on guitar. Pick up his CD "Hellhounds on My Trail" ... and watch for a new release on Broke & Hungry Records coming soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhNmLuk-AMU

Baptized in the fire water of Clarksdale, MS., Sean “Bad” Apple began his spiritual journey of learning the blues by seeking out the old blues musicians that were willing to share their years of knowledge. Sean is working hard to keep Hill Country Blues alive and well. People are always in for a good show and never leave disappointed when the Bad Apple is on the stage

http://seanbadapple.com

Lucious Spiller was born in St.Louis, MO. At an early age, he discovered that God had blessed him with a special gift. His dad gave him a guitar when he was four. Immediately he was a natural, he started out playing in church. Lucious has performed with countless well known musicians to include Bo Diddly, Larry “Totsy” Davis, Albert King, Eddie Clearwater, Robert Cray. He has been opening act for such artists as the legendary Ritchie Havens’ Bobby “Blue” Bland and the infamous Tower of Power, Zach Brown, and many others. His music is an energized mix of new blues and old school injected with a contemporary edge. His songs are brought to vivid life by his unlimited energy.

https://www.facebook.com/BlueSpiller/

The Mississippi based Multi-instrumentalist combines the Tribal Rhythms and raw electrifying power of the Hill Country Blues with melodic songwriting wisdom of heroes Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix. MALCOLM fuses elements of Funk, Soul, Rock, Reggae, Hip Hop, West African World Beat, Gospel and Country to create an Authentic Signature sound in modern day World Roots Music.

https://www.lightninmalcolm.com

Anthony “Big A” Sherrod is a young Mississippi bluesman, schooled by a noted blues teacher in the area, “Mr. Johnnie” Billington, who taught not only the music but the value of hard work and knowledge of the culture and history from which Mississippi blues emerged, a world where the musicians worked at very hard, low-paying agricultural jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnsaLmGmWEw

Heather Crosse leads a high-energy Clarksdale band through blues and soul classics and originals!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&ved=2ahUKEwiIxoqxkKrhAhUGOK0KHcMIAsMQtwIwC3oECAIQAQ&url=https%3

Conrad Olson- Story Teller and Ballad Singer who puts on a very intimate show. He has hosted the Jerry Jeff Walker event in Belize every year.

https://www.reverbnation.com/conradolson9

Ever since I was knee-high to a duck, my dad called me “Willey Woot” and it sticks with me today. That’s what I am calling this CD. This is a mix of songs from my previous self produced CDs in the COTTON PATCH BLUES STYLE that I was raised on. That original SOUL BLUES like my Poppa played. I hope you enjoy.

http://robertkimbroughsr.com/

In partnership with the Clarksdale Police Dept Quapaw Canoe Company is offering bathroom and shower access to persons camping along banks of Sunflower River in the City Park around our facility and in other places downtown. Bathroom and shower access is $25/tent/night for 2 people, $10 each additional person/night. Proceeds generated are split with our partners the Clarksdale Police Dept. Bring your own tent and sleeping bags. Don’t park on asphalt drive which the police use for access. Camping is in grassy areas of City Park to north of ramp, and any flat grassy places down along the river. Please don’t block gravel road access to Canoe Company. No open fires, but camp stoves, hibachis or small personal-sized BBQ okay. No smoking (city ordinance in public places). Face masks and social distancing. For more reservations contact: John Ruskey 662-902-7841, or Mark “River” Peoples 662-902-1885.

Partner: Mississippi Arts Commission, Spring Initiative and GRIOT Arts Location: behind Quapaw Canoe Company along Sunflower River, at Third Street & Sunflower, opposite GRIOT Arts & Merkai Coffee Shop). Contact: John Ruskey 662-902-7841, or Mark “River” Peoples 662-902-1885. Duck-Doggie Dugout Canoe carving from 3-ton cypress log. Project supported by the Mississippi Arts Commission. All ages welcome. We provide instruction, tools and safety equipment. Children under 18 must be accompanied by parents or guardian.

In partnership with 1Mississippi - MRN - Mississippi River Network Ongoing Exhibit and Southern campaign headquarters for the 1Mississippi River Citizen Program. Come on over and learn about how you can help protect and better the waters of America, our drinking water, swimming water & lifeblood of the nation. Become a River Citizen and join us in making the Mississippi River sparkle like the beautiful “Queen of Rivers” that she is. Contact: Mark “River” Peoples 662-902-1885 or email markriver@island63.com.

Opens 10am to 5pm While we can accommodate many visitors in the gallery, the giftshop capacity is limited to 15. We will allow 20 people at a time (per online reservation) to come into the gallery every hour. If there is overlap, the gallery is spacious enough to accommodate. VISITATION POLICY: Friday and Saturday admissions must be made online. We will have someone outside to assist the visitor with making an online reservation. Someone will be positioned outdoors at the top of the stairs to make sure people have a reservation and a mask. If they just want to come inside and shop, they will need to wait until the giftshop can safely accommodate them. Link to online tickets: https://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/tickets.aspx

Free Friday 10:00-10:30 am Livewell Fitness Studio Yoga/ Stretch with Ashley Freeman! Bring your own mat

Open 1pm - 4 pm Admission is a donation of any amount Address: 106 Sharkey Ave, near First Street Website: www.tennesseewilliamsrectorymuseum.com

The Cutrer Mansion, located at 109 Clark Street in Clarksdale's historic district, will be open for tours on Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17. We are offering guided tours at 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM each day. This Italian style villa was completed in 1916. Named Belvoir by the Cutrer family, this home and the family who lived there inspired character names and settings in several works by celebrated playwright Tennessee Williams. For more information, call the Cutrer office at 662-621-9344 or contact Jen Waller at 662-645-3555 or jenwaller05@gmail.com.

The Cutrer Mansion, located at 109 Clark Street in Clarksdale's historic district, will be open for tours on Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17. We are offering guided tours at 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM each day. This Italian style villa was completed in 1916. Named Belvoir by the Cutrer family, this home and the family who lived there inspired character names and settings in several works by celebrated playwright Tennessee Williams. For more information, call the Cutrer office at 662-621-9344 or contact Jen Waller at 662-645-3555 or jenwaller05@gmail.com.