The Main Stage next door to the Delta Blues Museum is the nerve center of the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival. The stage featured several different kinds of music, and there was plenty of good food available from the many vendors.
Sunflower Avenue has fallen on hard times in recent years, although it used to be the center of Clarksdale blues tourism. There are a few signs of a renaissance though, including the new Lady at the Levee restaurant and the Quapaw Canoe Company, which offers tourists the opportunity to go canoeing on the Sunflower or Mississippi Rivers.
Sunflower Avenue has fallen on hard times in recent years, although it used to be the center of Clarksdale blues tourism. There are a few signs of a renaissance though, including the new Lady at the Levee restaurant and the Quapaw Canoe Company, which offers tourists the opportunity to go canoeing on the Sunflower or Mississippi Rivers.
Enjoying the blues at the Acoustic Stage, Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, Clarksdale, MS August 13, 2011
Enjoying the blues at the Acoustic Stage, Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, Clarksdale, MS August 13, 2011
The Acoustic Stage at the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival, Clarksdale, 2011
The Acoustic Stage was at the Sunflower River on Yazoo Avenue, next door to the Quapaw Canoe Company. This stage featured such artists as Kenny Brown, Lucious Spiller and Robert Belfour, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS
91-year-old T Model Ford spent most of the day performing just outside the Blues Source CD Shop next door to Stone Pony Pizza, before finishing up with a set on the Sunflower River Stage, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS
91-year-old T Model Ford spent most of the day performing just outside the Blues Source CD Shop next door to Stone Pony Pizza, before finishing up with a set on the Sunflower River Stage, August 13, 2011, Clarksdale, MS