T-shirts, hats and other cool festival merchandise. 11 am until 6:00 pm

Buy Thursday, April 10th: $50 each, while quantities last. Sat-night ONLY wristband valid for 20+ official JJF venues. Details on website. jukejointfestival.com. Price increases $60 on Friday.

'Truck Talk" with Felder Rushing 'live' in-person.

Your 22nd annual Juke Joint Festival welcomes you at 5pm! Plus... Miss Sarah Award and Red Paden Award presentations.

FREE annual JJF KICK-OFF features a very special all-star blues celebration starring 80-year-old Mississippi-born Chicago blues legend JOHN PRIMER & Friends! Album release party for Primer's new "Grown in Mississippi." 5:30pm-8pm concert.

Dutch businessman — and EXTREME music fan — Theo "Boogieman" Dasbach had a lifelong plan. Upon his retirement from a career that moved him from The Netherlands to New York City, he would settle in Memphis, TN, and bring his Holland-based hobby, the Rock 'N Roll Museum, with him. Then, he made a fateful pilgrimage to Clarksdale, MS — not the sleepy ghosttown he'd visited years before but the re- energized blues mecca of modern times. Shifting plans dramatically, he looked at a vintage downtown property and then next day put money down on what would soon become Clarksdale's fabulous Rock & Blues Museum.

https://theodasbach.com/

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Bill Abel learned first hand from Delta blues legends of the likes of Paul “Wine" Jones, Cadillac John Nolden, T Model Ford, and Honey Boy Edwards. Bill plays a hard driving electrified country blues, a gritty unorthodox modern day juke joint sound, unique in its own. He has toured Europe and the United States headlining many festivals.

http://billabel.com

Little Joe McLerran and his family band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Joe_McLerran Joe is known around the world as a master of the Piedmont guitar style. He will be joined by his unbelievably talented family which includes his 11 year old prodigy son, Johnny . Really something to hear and see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Joe_McLerran

Deak Harp and Grammy winning drummer Quicksand Martin.

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

Lou Shields continues the tradition of American music with a solo-performance that pulls in styles of days-gone-by. Using his 1931 National Resonator Guitar accompanied by a unique front porch style of foot percussion and harmonica, he uses his voice as an extension of the past. Lou carries a full sound during live performances while sharing stories, thoughts and experiences with the audience. He has toured throughout the United States and Europe.

http://loushields.com

Preston Rumbaugh is a veteran blues, roots and rockabilly musician who's played with Scotty Moore, Dale Watson, Lucinda Williams, Ronnie Hawkins, Robert "Bilbo" Walker, Big George Brock and many more. Don't miss him at JJF!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094063880947

I was born & raised in the South of France and at an early age I knew that I wanted to be in America fullfilling my dreams of being a professional musician. I made the big leap in the spring of 2001 and moved to Hollywood, CA with nothing but a guitar, a change of clothes and $200 in my pocket. Call it luck or fate but 3 weeks into my stay in the City of Angels I ran into Shooter Jennings and promptly joined his band Stargunn. The first two years in California saw my dreams coming true by meeting and playing with some of my childhood heroes (Waylon Jennings, Slash, Tom Morello and James Hetfield to name a few…) Since my early American beginnings, I’ve played guitar for the likes of Stoney LaRue, Billy Joe Shaver and Jack Ingram as band leader! In the past few years, I’ve expended my craft to singing, writing, recording & performing my own music both as Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers and more recently as Guitar Frenchie. To pursue my career as a solo artist, I’ve moved full time to Clarksdale, MS arguably the home of the Blues to continue pushing my boundaries, recognizing and respecting the tradition of the birthplace of America’s music!

https://www.facebook.com/guitarfrenchie/

Reverend Robert is known for his genuine conviction and honest delivery. His passion for the blues led him to the prewar blues style of Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, and other delta blues giants. Having immersed himself in their recordings, Reverend Robert emerged with an authentic feeling for the blues that is matched by his easy-going and artistic personality. Reverend Robert’s tasteful slide guitar playing garnered the attention of the National Slide Guitar Festival in North Carolina where he took first place in their competition in 2004. He has entertained audiences throughout the United States, Canada, the U.K., Europe, and India. In the past two decades he has developed his one-man blues show to incorporate the influences of jazz, ragtime, and swing, as well as Caribbean, Hawaiian, African and Indian music. The perfect combination of tradition and creative innovation, the Reverend’s music is at home on festival stages or in the street, in clubs or in the backyard. Its dance music played with a stomping beat and irresistible groove.

https://www.revrobert.com/

Laura "Lala" Craig is a female blues artist whose rollicking path to the Delta landed her at the Crossroads of her passions for love and music, fulfilling her dream to become an entertainer and share her harmony with partner, Dino Musso.

https://lalacraig.com

He's been called "The Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound" with good reason. No other blues guitarist alive played with so many of the late-greats of the infamous Clarksdale blues scene. Anthony "Big A" Sherrod played in bands with Big Jack Johnson, Super Chikan, Big George Brock, Bilbo Walker, Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson, Michael "Dr. Mike" James, Josh "Razorblade" Stewart, Mr. Johnnie Billington and others (plus sat in with Buddy Guy's 1990s Clarksdale appearance). Today, he leads his own deeply-juke-joint blues trio: Big A & the Allstars, with Heather Crosse and Lee Williams. (PHOTO BY JEFF KONKEL.)

https://anthonybigasherrod.bandcamp.com/album/right-on-time

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