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What comes next for the Home of the Blues
Memphis :: TN :: USA | 1 month ago
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Tenn. (AP) Over the last four years, the next chapter in the development of Beale Street has been a stop-and-go affair. First would come announcements followed by silence from official channels. Along with that silence, though, was quiet activity on
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Arts alliance gives grants to five Henderson organizations
Henderson :: KY :: USA | 11 months ago
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Henderson Area Arts Alliance has awarded $9,000 to five nonprofit local arts organizations for the current fiscal year...The five arts organizations receiving grants are: Bluegrass in the Park and Folklife Festival, $2,400. This 27-year-old free
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Sonny Landreth: Elemental Journey
Clarksdale :: MS :: USA | 12 months ago
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June 23, 2012 Sonny Landreth Elemental Journey Landfall Records 2012 How did we arrive at the phenomenon that is guitarist Sonny Landreth ? In his autobiography, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Press, 1969), African American composer W.
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After 22 years, the beat continues for Henderson's Handy Festival
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 1 year ago
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Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival here for the top-quality music it offers at no charge for an entire weekend...Crews spent Tuesday preparing the stage for the 18 area bands who will perform through the weekend in Audubon Mill Park on the downtown
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Singin' the blues: Handy finale headliner Trout newcomer to Henderson festival
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Stinnett dstinnett@thegleaner.com 270-831-8344 Posted June 2, 2012 at 6:19 p.m. , updated June 2, 2012 at 6:19 p.m...Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival has offered the community a big chunk of free, live music courtesy of well-known artists, emerging
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Blues road warrior Guitar Shorty is among attractions at W.C. Handy festival
Henderson :: NV :: USA | 2 years ago
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Angel Muniz photography Houston-born bluesman David William Kearney, who goes by the stage name Guitar Shorty, will play the W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival on June 17 at Audubon Mill Park in Henderson, Ky...If you're a neophyte looking for a
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Handy festival line-up announced
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 2 years ago
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Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival coming up June 15-18 in downtown Henderson. According to a news release from the Henderson Music Preservation Society, the sponsoring organization of the festival, most of the performers will be "fresh and new to the
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WNIN program to include Handy fest
Owensboro :: KY :: USA | 2 years ago
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FM 88.3 that aims to preserve and promote the Tri-State's cultural traditions of music, entertainment and civil discussion will launch on May 1, and before the month is out it will feature the W.C...The weekly one-hour program called "Regional Voices"
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Handy Fest named top 20 event
Henderson :: KY :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival has been designated as a Top 20 event for June 2011, according to the Southeast Tourism Society. Recently celebrating its 20th year, the Handy Fest has become one of the largest free music festivals in the nation,
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Tracing the blues
Tutwiler :: MS :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Author David Cohn once wrote that the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of The Peabody Hotel. That may have been true in 1935 when he penned that statement, when everybody who is anybody in the Delta probably walked through the hotel's lobby at
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