Grassroots Blues Festival

Please Come and Join us for the

7^th Annual

Grassroots Blues Festival

Saturday, July 11, 2009

12:00 Noon - 10:00 p.m.

Duck Hill, Mississippi

In Dedication to Willie King and Malcolm Walls Sr.

Master of Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WGNL Cyreio

12:00 - 12:30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Call

M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Maurice / Carlton Turner) and Teens In Action

12:30 - 1:15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Whalem

1:15 - 2:00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Big Joe Shelton

2:00 - 2:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood

2:45 - 3:00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Welcome and Introduction of Sponsors

3:00 - 3:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Payton

3:45 - 4:30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mississippi Blues Boys

4:30 - 5:30 . . . . . . . . . . Venessia Young & the Pure Blues Express Band

5:30 - 6:30 . . . . . . . . . . Jessie Robinson and The 500 Pound Blues Band

6:30 - 7:30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Little Willie Farmer

7:30 - 8:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frankie Keys

8:45 - 10:00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bigg Robb and Da Problem Solvas

10:00 Festival Ends

Directions: I-55 Exit 195 (Duck Hill); Approximately 4.1 miles to Elliott Field

For information regarding setting up a Vendors Booth at the Festival

Please click on the link below to download the

VENDOR BOOTH Registration Form

Willie King

Duck Hills fest brings out some of the best

"I've been playing there since they started the festival"

says King. "I like meeting with the people and the old-time

blues players in the area there on the hillside."

"There's some nice down home people in that area -

my kind of people."

Scott Barretta - Special to The Clarion-Ledger •

July 10, 2008

Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc.

“Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”

www.grassrootsblues.com

Little Willie Farmer

Presented by

Action Communication & Education Reform of Mississippi

This project is supported in

part by funding from the

Mississippi Arts Commission,

a State Agency and in part from the

National Endowment for Arts,

a Federal Agency.

The Mississippi Youth

Justice Project

Southern Partners Fund

Marguerite Casey Foundation

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Local Business Supporters

Local Community Based Organizations

The City of Duck Hill

Montgomery County Board of Supervisors

www.mcedp.ms

www.bluesfestivalguide.com

Homemade Jamz

featured in CBS television special.

CBS Sunday Morning Show

In 2008, the 6th Annual Grassroots Blues Festival was held in Duck Hill, MS with a great turnout of fans from practically every state in the union, according to the Grassroots Blues Director, Al White. White stated, "Some fans were just passing thru the state on Interstate 55 and heard the live broadcast on the local radio (WGNL, FM 104.3 Greenwood) and stopped to check it out. Most of the fans from out of state had planned their vacation or family reunion events around the festival. White also stated, that," the festival is growing and becoming very popular in the community and everyone is looking forward to next year." The Grassroots Blues Festival focus is young artists, traditional blues artists, and up and coming blues artists in an effort to give them a platform to showcase their artistic skills, at the same time preserve the rich heritage of blues music. The festival was sponsored in part by a grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Elmo Williams

Festival Archives:

Grassroots Blues 2008 Day Photos

Grassroots Blues 2008 Night Photos

2008 Festival Line Up

2007 Festival Photos

2007 Festival Line Up

2006 Festival Photos

2006 Festival Line Up

2005 Festival Archive

2005 Festival Photos

This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and, in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Barbara Looney of the Delta Blues Revue