New Orleans’beloved Jazz Fest celebrates the wide diversity of New Orleans music, but the Memphis equivalent, the Beale Street Music Festival generally does not feature …
Although Proud Larry’s is first and foremost a rock club, Oxford, Mississippi is deep in the Mississippi Hill Country, and has been the scene of …
The second day of the annual Otha Turner Picnic was much more crowded than the first, as crowds came out to hear such artists as …
Each year, Sharde Thomas, the granddaughter of legendary fife-and-drum band leader Othar Turner, holds an annual picnic in her grandfathers’ memory at Gravel Springs, a …
Benton County, Mississippi is due east of Marshall County, and was once a part of it, having been carved out of it and Tippah County …
I had driven out to Covington for the inaugural Isaac Hayes Day in Frazier Park, but found it disappointing, as there were no live bands …
I never in a million years could have imagined the Sears Building being redeveloped as anything at all. I was only in it once when …
Later in the evening, my homebody Darren Towns of the TBC Brass Band had a gig with a pick-up band of musicians from various brass …
Funerals in New Orleans are fairly strange. It is common for the family members to hire a brass band for the funeral, and those in …
After getting off work, I changed clothes, packed my car and headed out Interstate 55 into Mississippi. My friend, the trombonist Edward Jackson had asked …
