BYOB, y'all! Support Downtown Wine & Liquor or either corner store (beer), and c'mon by the spacious new 224 YAZOO event space for Juke Joint Festival night (wristband required).

https://www.yazoopass.com

The Woodcarver's Gallery

Perfect location. Excellent accommodations and incredible rates.

https://www.aubergehostels.com/clarksdale/

Formerly "Club 2000" juke joint, the Bad Apple Blues Club is the brand-new blues venue run by Sean "Bad" Apple! Grand opening during Juke Joint Festival week, y'all!

http://thefrontlinemusic.com/tag/club-2000/

235 Yazoo Avenue

https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/

Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more. Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times

https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/

https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/

Buster Moten's Downhome Blues Club on historic Issaquena Avenue.

FREE sidewalk performances! Please tip your musicians, y'all

http://www.cathead.biz

Visit the new downtown offices of Clarksdale's Chamber of Commerce, y'all!

Parking lot will be full of fun rides for children.

The nonprofit Coahoma Collective is developing the Travelers Hotel, a 20-room, artist-run hotel that will open in early 2019. Come by to learn more about the hotel and our other downtown revitalization projects. And if you're an entrepreneurial artist looking to spend more time in Clarksdale, we'd love to talk to you!

http://www.facebook.com/CoahomaCollective

Collective Seed & Supply Co.--Clarksdale's only independent garden center & general store.

https://www.facebook.com/collectiveseedandsupplyco/

Clarksdale, MS is located in the Mississippi delta and is famously home to many artists. The Crossroads Cultural Arts Center will include an art gallery, creative spaces for learning, performance space, a visiting artists loft, and retail space. The Center would be infused with the works of traditional and contemporary Delta musicians and visual artists, with an emphasis on local African-American artists and their traditions.

https://www.facebook.com/CrossroadsCulturalArtsCenter/

The mansion was built in 1916 by Memphis architect Bayard Cairnes for Clarksdale attorney J.W. Cutrer and his wife Blanche Clark Cutrer, daughter of Clarksdale’s founder, John Clark. The dapper Jack Cutrer was very flamboyant and equally famous for his legendary parties and fiery politics. Not to be outdone, Blanche often threw extravagant yard parties and opulent masked balls, usually to the accompaniment of a full orchestra or swing band. Such events often attracted a young Tom Williams, who later became the celebrated playwright Tennessee Williams, to the Cutrer home as a child. Williams most likely came to the Cutrer Mansion on parish calls with his beloved grandfather, Rev. Walter Dakin. The Cutrers and their home, which they called Belvoir, inspired character names and settings in several of Tennessee Williams’ plays including A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

https://www.cutrermansion.com

13 Third Street. Harmonica students playing.

http://www.deakharp.com

Green space on 200 block Delta Avenue

The newest kid on the block, located on the corner of Delta ave. and Blues Alley, 'now how down home is dat'. Equipped with a street side bar open daily with pool tables, games, flat screen viewing , juke box jams and Ice cold beer and beverages, giving you that local feel only Clarksdale can provide. Then once you go thru the 'big hole in da wall' and fade to black, its an unexpected experience with a dance floor, tables, booths, a separate bar and grill for your enjoyment and newly added mainstage for your entertainment. Local radio station disc jockeys play the grooves nightly and blues icons and other artist perform live @ Delta Blues Alley Caf� blues lounge. Local legends and up incoming stars like Robert Bilbro Walker, David Kimbrough and the Kimbrough Family, Cops by day, blues in the heat of the night, Otis TCB Taylor and main stage band, and Rickey Burton and all soul band, plus many more have graced our stage and are scheduled for upcoming events. Also coming Soon, the Saturday Night Fish Fry with Jaka Sherrie from one of the longest running blues program in the Mississippi Delta with live broadcast on Delta Force 3 radio and Bluesday 2'sday with live bands every Tuesday Night, and couple 2 for 1 admission and specials. Delta Blues Alley Caf� blues lounge welcomes you to the place where hard times and struggle fell in love, and the blues was born.

https://www.facebook.com/dbacinfo/

The newest kid on the block, located on the corner of Delta ave. and Blues Alley, 'now how down home is dat'. Equipped with a street side bar open daily with pool tables, games, flat screen viewing , juke box jams and Ice cold beer and beverages, giving you that local feel only Clarksdale can provide. Then once you go thru the 'big hole in da wall' and fade to black, its an unexpected experience with a dance floor, tables, booths, a separate bar and grill for your enjoyment and newly added mainstage for your entertainment. Local radio station disc jockeys play the grooves nightly and blues icons and other artist perform live @ Delta Blues Alley Caf� blues lounge. Local legends and up incoming stars like Robert Bilbro Walker, David Kimbrough and the Kimbrough Family, Cops by day, blues in the heat of the night, Otis TCB Taylor and main stage band, and Rickey Burton and all soul band, plus many more have graced our stage and are scheduled for upcoming events. Also coming Soon, the Saturday Night Fish Fry with Jaka Sherrie from one of the longest running blues program in the Mississippi Delta with live broadcast on Delta Force 3 radio and Bluesday 2'sday with live bands every Tuesday Night, and couple 2 for 1 admission and specials. Delta Blues Alley Caf� blues lounge welcomes you to the place where hard times and struggle fell in love, and the blues was born.

https://www.facebook.com/dbacinfo/

Since its creation, the Delta Blues Museum has preserved, interpreted, and encouraged a deep interest in the story of the blues. Established in 1979 by the Carnegie Public Library Board of Trustees and re-organized as a stand-alone museum in 1999, the Delta Blues Museum is the state’s oldest music museum.

http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org

Stage and classroom for unique blues education programs. Within the Museum.

http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org

Permanent outdoor stage attached to the world-famous Delta Blues Museum — celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019!

Large event space in the heart of downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

GimmeGumbo Art Gallery

http://www.gimmegumbogallery.com

Griot Arts Inc. is a non profit organization committed to fostering compassion and creativity in order to produce a community that pursues beauty, justice and healing in Clarksdale, MS. Griot Arts creatively addresses the problems of the generational poverty cycle in Clarksdale and the Mississippi Delta by giving young people the resources and the empowerment they need to support themselves and their families and become responsible citizens able to contribute to their community

http://www.griotarts.com

PLEASE NOTE: Saturday night (April 23, 2022), IF Juke Joint Festival Sat-night Wristbands are NOT sold-out, then limited quantities will be available for purchase only at the 243 Delta Ave JJF HQ building (only till 8:30pm) AND Ground Zero Blues Club, Hambone Gallery and Hopson Commissary (if/while supplies last). Entry to any/all 20+ JJF Sat-night venues requires a festival wristband. No exceptions. Details on Wristband webpage or in program booklet. GROUND ZERO BLUES CLUB: Clarksdale's largest real-deal blues music venue offers "live" Mississippi blues music every Wednesday to Saturday... plus special events during festival time periods. Co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, Howard Stovall and Eric Meier, Ground Zero Blues Club will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May 2006. Besides the plethora of incredible local blues acts who have performed there, musicians from Mavis Staples and Alvin Youngblood Hart to Jerry Lee Lewis and Bobby Rush have been filmed playing there.

http://www.groundzerobluesclub.com

PLEASE NOTE: Saturday night (April 15, 2023), IF Juke Joint Festival Sat-night Wristbands are NOT sold-out, then limited quantities will be available for purchase only at the 243 Delta Ave JJF HQ building (only till 8:30pm) AND Ground Zero Blues Club, Hambone Gallery and Hopson Commissary (if/while supplies last). Entry to any/all 20+ JJF Sat-night venues requires a festival wristband. No exceptions. Details on Wristband webpage or in program booklet. HAMBONE: "Hambone Art Gallery" and bar, Artwork by Stan Street , is located at 111 East Second St.,between Madidi's and Theo's Rock and Roll Museum . Formerly Conerly shoes [ co- owned by Charlie Conerly, quarterback of the New York Giants and Old Miss.] Before that, the building was the old Delta theatre. Owners Stan and Dixie Street moved to Clarksdale from So. Florida. Both blues musicians, they were drawn here by the city's historical roots. Stan is a poster designer for many roots and blues festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Artwork is mostly musical, but the Gallery also has landscapes from the Delta, Abstracts, and ecclectic Found Object pieces.

http://www.stanstreet.com

Former Delta Cafe under new ownership as Hel'lous (pronounced "hel-lose") Cafe... cozy cool venue across the street and down the block from Ground Zero. Great food and blues for JJF!

Located in the heart of historic downtown Clarksdale, MS, deep in the Mississippi Delta, we are a stone’s throw from the Delta Blues Museum, Ground Zero Blues Club, The New Roxy, Red’s Juke Joint, Travelers Hotel, and Hambone Gallery. Hooker Grocer + Eatery is a restaurant and bar serving southern classics with an upscaled casual twist.

https://www.hookergrocer.com

Located in the heart of Clarksdale deep in the Mississippi Delta, we are a stone’s throw from the Delta Blues Museum, Ground Zero Blues Club, The New Roxy, Red’s and Hambone’s. Hooker Grocer + Eatery is a restaurant, market, and butcher shop serving southern classics with a tasty and unique Clarksdale twist.

http://hookergrocer.com

PLEASE NOTE: Saturday night (April 15, 2023), IF Juke Joint Festival Sat-night Wristbands are NOT sold-out, then limited quantities will be available for purchase only at the 243 Delta Ave JJF HQ building (only till 8:30pm) AND Ground Zero Blues Club, Hambone Gallery and Hopson Commissary (if/while supplies last). Entry to any/all 23+ JJF Sat-night venues requires a festival wristband. No exceptions. Details on Wristband webpage or in program booklet. HOPSON: Home of the old Hopson Plantation and the current Shackup Inn, Hopson Commissary is a combination museum and music venue that has to be seen to be believed. Pinetop Perkins drove a tractor out at Hopson in the 40s, and it was also home to the first mechanical cotton picker.

http://hopsonplantation.com

Hobson back yard stage

http://hopsonplantation.com

The official Juke Joint Festival Headquarters is conveniently located at 243 Delta Avenue in downtown Clarksdale (basically across the street from Nellie Mays).

Painter, potter, teacher, cat lover, and cole slaw enthusiast; in his own words, Joey Young "makes things!" A native of Charleston, MS, when not teaching art at a local school he maintains an art studio and gallery in downtown Clarksdale. Joey is known locally for his Delta Crucifix series with telephone poles, landscapes with vibrant colors, and—of course —a tornado. Young can often be seen working his pottery wheel in his shop, listening to some blues or other music at one of several music venues in the area, or just chillin’ downtown.

Steak, Catfish, Burgers Pizza, Pasta

https://www.levons.net/

Thursday Open Mic is open to all ages, levels of talent and skill. We want everyone to come and share a piece of themselves and their love for blues. Til 5pm
Sunday breakfast with Jax Nasser 10 am to 12pm
Meraki Roasting Company - Freshly Roasted Artisan Coffee roasted in house supporting our youth entrepreneurship program. Come visit our roastery to try our current coffee profiles. Pastries made by local vendors. www.merakiroasting.com www.griotarts.com
www.merakiroasting.com www.griotarts.com
282 Sunflower Ave Meraki Hours: Monday-Sunday (every day!) 7am to 2 pm

http://www.griotarts.com/meraki

This historic club, pool hall and cafe has been in continuous operation -- and in the same family -- since the 1930s. Alan Lomax even included it on his map of Clarksdale in 1941 (and Fisk University even documented the songs on the jukebox then). Since last year's Juke Joint Festival debut, Messenger's has featured "live" blues shows by Jimbo Mathus, Wesley Jefferson, and Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Bandr. Actor Samuel L. Jackson even showed up one night and caught musician Robert Belfour's performance! Look for the new sign out front and come on in for warm smiles and tall cool ones.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Messengers-Pool-Hall/389813951050381

The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.

Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.

We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.

http://www.newroxy.com

The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.

Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.

We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.

http://www.newroxy.com

The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.

Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.

We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.

http://www.newroxy.com

The new Ooze Bar (in former Rock & Blues Museum location next to Hambone) is the new blues bar/toy museum inspiration of The Mojo Hands leader Chris Mullens!

https://www.instagram.com/themojohands/?hl=en

Vintage cinema marquee

LIVE BLUES TBA. Night time music venue with $10.00 wrist band.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Petes-Cafe-Clarksdale-Ms/885163988186608

All events will meet & take place street level 3rd & Sunflower in downtown Clarksdale all day 9 - 4pm every day Thursday April 13– Saturday April 15. For more information contact Quapaw Canoe Company or info@island63.com, John Ruskey 662-902-7841, Mark “River” Peoples 662-902-6479, Lee Perlow 312-246-3223, or Whit Smith 870-919-6654.

http://www.island63.com

9 am to 4 pm Wednesday - Saturday Partner: Mississippi Arts Commission, Spring Initiative and GRIOT Arts Location: Quapaw Canoe Company, 289 Sunflower (Third Street & Sunflower, opposite GRIOT Arts). Contact: 662-627-4070 or 902-7841. Catfish Dugout Canoe carving from 3-ton cottonwood log. Partnership with Spring Initiative and GRIOT ARTS youth programs. This 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. Contact: Quapaw Canoe Company 662-627-4070 or john@island63.com.

http://www.island63.com

Red's Lounge? It's the definition of a real-deal Mississippi juke joint. Don't expect to be spoiled with amenities. All you need is a been-there-done-that owner, some beers as big as your head and some "live" blues you'll never forget. (Oh, and MAYBE something out front on the grill.) This is how blues became blues... how the music grew up out of the cotton fields and onto a round piece of vinyl. Speaking of which, the building itself was called "Levine's Music Center" back in the day, and it's where Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm bought the instruments that played the first rock 'n roll song. Yeah, Red's is the real thing for sure...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Reds-Blues-Club/163702543685722

Starting from Regions Bank 211 East Second Street and traveling around downtown Clarksdale.

https://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/riverside-hotel

https://www.shackupinn.com

http://www.stoneponypizza.com

Dedicated to the seminal Mississippi Delta history of one of America's greatest playwrights.

https://tennesseewilliamsrectorymuseum.com

The Bank venue was the original “Bank of Clarksdale” built in 1930. The beautiful marble building is in the Neoclassical/Beaux Arts style. With its towering interior ceiling in the main room, skylights and marble counters, it is the perfect location for hosts who need a large space in which to host their events.

http://www.eventsatthebank.com/about/

A retro-cool Clarksdale classic! The Den joins Juke Joint Festival's nighttime venue roster for 2022!

Open Mon-Friday 10am-3pm. Lunch 11am to 2pm. SPECIAL Festival Hours Saturday 8:30 til.
The Dutch Oven opened in 2003, specializing in quality baked goods in the tradition of its Mennonite proprietors - just another facet of Clarksdale’s diverse community. It is housed in a circa 1927 passenger train depot in the heart of Blues Alley and managed to secure its place in the hearts of locals and out-of-towners alike. Doors open each weekday at 10 a.m. to the decadent scent of freshly baked breads, homemade cakes and pies that puts an extra spring in your step on a hot summer day. During the lunch hour, the small cafe is teeming with a hungry crowd craving an easy lunch of sandwiches, soups and salads. Don’t be fooled by the simple menu. Southern sandwich staples such as pimento cheese (pronounced around here as "pa-minna") or the best-seller chicken salad comes on a choice of butter corn bread (croissant), Panini, wheat or rye and can be paired with a savory soup like Forage (cheese with ham, carrots and potatoes), Cream of Broccoli or a garden salad.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dutch-Oven/116439745047142

The Holy Moly is a recently-revitalised old Masonic Temple building in the centre of the Historic Downtown Blues precinct of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Listed on the National Register of historic buildings, The Holy Moly was purchased by an Australian couple, Carla Maxwell and Adrian Kosky, in 2012, empty, and unused. They converted the building in to an apartment building, diner, and an event venue...and then they made it their American home. The Holy Moly Theatre is located in the couple's home, on the second floor. The revitalisation work on the second floor at The Holy Moly was completed in 2015. The floor plan lends itself to more creative endeavours by Adrian and Carla. It incorporates a theatre space for music, film and storytelling, an event room with a commercial kitchen, an office with living facilities for guests, a meeting room, and a green room/video lounge for their guest-musicians at the back of the theatre. The unusual floor plan of The Holy Moly has been retained and recycled to suit and accommodate Adrian & Carla's goal to host groups of people for workshops, leisure education, and cultural activities in their home. Their home theatre is a perfect setting for respectful, listening, audiences appreciating the value of live performance in an intimate setting. Musicians from around the world love the acoustics, comfort, and original masonic lay-out of the raised perimeter platform with higher stages that allow multiple performance positions. The Holy Moly Theatre first opened for Juke Joint Festival 2015, as a night time concert venue and continues to be an official JJF nighttime venue.

http://www.theholymoly.com

Visit our new exhibitor space for our creative students art and writing exhibit. Located at the corner of Third Street and Sunflower Avenue. (2 Third Street)

C.A.R.E.S. Fish Fry Fundraiser in street out front of Delta Cinema (with curbside pick up on Delta Ave.).

http://www.caresclarksdale.com

Brand-new hotel in an old renovate brick building in the center of historic downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi. Cool lobby bar lounge.

http://www.statyattravelers.com

Brand-new hotel in an old renovate brick building in the center of historic downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi. Cool lobby bar lounge.

https://www.stayattravelers.com

•Specializing in Living Indoor Planted Arrangements + Artisanal Gifts •Free Local Delivery 662.621.6591 211 Third Street Clarksdale ...https://www.instagram.com › willowbotanicalandgoods and facebook.com

A cup of coffee with class. In downtown Clarksdale, MS enjoy a cup of coffee and a fresh baked pastry while relaxing in the cozy atmosphere of Yazoo Pass. The espresso bar and bistro serves up fresh ingredients at this welcoming breakfast and lunch spot. The warm colors and clean aesthetic provide a classy location for a breakfast meeting, lunch group, or coffee chat session in the booths, couch area, or at the community table- or stay a while and enjoy the complimentary wireless internet.

http://yazoopass.com