Halloween this year fell on a Saturday, and early in the afternoon, I drove over to Backermann’s Country Market in Whiteville, Tennessee, an Amish bakery …
The Frontline has discussed the legacy of Black fife and drum music at length in the past, but I continue to devote a considerable amount …
After a full day at the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival in downtown Memphis, we headed down into Mississippi for the Hurt Family Picnic in …
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 …
As I have discussed before in this blog, Black fife and drum music is an endangered form of pre-blues that probably played a role in …
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Black fife and drum bands were once ubiquitous in the rural South, but time has not been kind to this style of music, a sort …
Since blues is one of the unique genres of music invented in America, I can think of few better ways to spend the Fourth of …
Friday February 6 was some kind of special day for blues apparently, because there were blues performances everywhere. Ori Naftaly was at Lafayette’s Music Room …
#065 North Panola High School Band @ Whitehaven Christmas Parade (by John Shaw)
The North Panola High School Marching Band from Sardis, MS participates in the Whitehaven Christmas Parade in Memphis, 11/17/12
