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Grassroots Blues Festival

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Please Come and Join us for the

8th Annual

Grassroots Blues Festival

Saturday, July 10, 2010

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

in

Duck Hill, Mississippi


Kattawar Brothers

L. J. Echols

John Horton

Vanessia Young & Family

8th Annual (2010) Grassroots Blues Festival Line Up

Master of Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . Sade Turnipseed

12:00 - 12:45           . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Bud Leo Welch

 

12:50 - 1:35             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Big Joe Shelton

1:40 - 2:35               . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood

2:40 - 3:25              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Payton

3:30 - 4:00              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Bobby Whalen

4:05 - 4:50              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eden Brent

4:50 - 5:50              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Horton & Band

6:00 - 7:00              . . . . . . . . . . . Venessia Young & The Pure Blues Express Band

7:00 - 8:00             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike & Jerry Kattawar

8:00 - 9:00              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Little Willie Farmer

9:00 - 10:00            . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. J. Echols

10:00                     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Festival Ends

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

 

DONATION: $20 at the Gate; $15 in advance.

 

The 8th Annual Grassroots Blues Festival is needs your help with funding and support for the promotion and production of the event.

Click for more info in a  MS Word DOC.

 

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.

ACER - www.acerms.org

“Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”

www.grassrootsblues.com


Homemade Jamz at the 4th Annual Grass Roots Blues Festival.

 

Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) will broadcast a piece with Homemade Jamz on

Thursday, November 12th at 7pm.

 

CBS television has featured Homemade Jamz on the

CBS Sunday Morning Show.



Little Willie Farmer

Presented by:

 

"ACER" - 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

 

Kirk Auto - 662.226.3632

www.kirkautoco.com

 

Townes Construction

and Ready Mix, Inc.

Grenada, MS

662.226.4894 or 662.226.4816

 

Local Business Supporters

 

Local Community Based Organizations

 

The City of Duck Hill

 

Montgomery County Board of Supervisors

 

www.mcedp.ms  

 

www.bluesfestivalguide.com


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 Video and Photo Archives:

 

Video Archives:

Grassroots Blues Festival Videos at the:

Grassrootsblues's Channel on YouTube

 

 

Photo Archives:

 

2008 Day Festival Photos

2008 Night Festival 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


For more information call (662) 565-2478 or (662) 809-7002

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