Music history and highlights that have happened on February 11th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1911: Blues, folk and gospel musician and civil rights activist Josh White born in Greenville, South Carolina. 1922: Al Jolson’s “April Showes” hits No. 1. 1935: Important early rock singer and guitarist Gene Vincent (“Be […]
The Arts & Culture District sign honoring Rachel Parker Dear went up last week. Mounted by Clarksdale Public Utilities, the sign is on the corner of the street where Rachel lived, which shared an alley with Dr. Aaron Henry’s pharmacy on Martin Luther King Blvd. (it was “4th” St. back then). Rachel Parker was a […]
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 10th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1878: Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony in F opens. 1927: Opera soprano Leontyne Price born in Laurel, Mississippi. 1932: Zydeco singer Rockin Dopsie (Alton Jay Rubin) born in Carencro, Louisiana. 1937: The Ventures’ guitarist Don Wilson born […]
The public is invited to the Lower Mississippi River Foundation 2nd General Annual Membership Meeting and the Friends of the Sunflower River 16th Annual Meeting. The 2018 meeting is 12 noon Saturday, Feb 17th, on the riverbank behind Quapaw Canoe Company, 3rd & Sunflower in downtown Clarksdale. The event will start with a bonfire and […]
From Splinter Creek website. By BRITTAIN STONE (photos from Sweet Magnolia) When Hugh Balthrop, owner of Sweet Magnolia Gelato in Clarksdale, Mississippi, makes his nearly weekly visit to Oxford to deliver his pints from the Delta, he takes great pleasure in visiting with his local growers. “It’s about relationships for us,” Balthrop says. “When I […]
City of Clarksdale Commissioner Willie Turner Jr. visits the 4th grade class of Booker T. Washington school in Clarksdale, Mississippi. On what the school calls “Career Day”, Commissioner Turner talked about the various aspects, insights and experiences of his important law enforcement career, his career at the fire department and also about the beginning of […]
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 8th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1735: First opera to ever appear in the American colonies, “Flora”, opens in Charleston. 1895: Tchaikovsky’s revival of “Swan Lake” opens in St. Petersburg. 1915: “Birth of a Nation”, the first full length motion picture […]
During Black History Month, Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson will recognize African-American women of the Mississippi Delta. The women are featured in the novel, “Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom” by Alysia Burton Steele (see more here). “These women are hidden figures, and their stories will be told,” Thompson says. The first “Delta […]
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 7th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1941: Frank Sinatra and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record “Everything Happens to Me”. 1944: Bing Crosby records “Swinging on a Star” for Decca Records in Los Angeles. 1964: The Beatles land at JFK Airport in […]
From the Clarksdale Press Register By TAYLOR MITCHELL Sunday afternoon, Paul Capo, Tom McClave and Jake Dickes where traveling from Cleveland to Memphis after spending the weekend instructing members of the Cleveland volunteer fire department. The three men were working for When Things Go Bad, Inc. Things went bad Sunday afternoon at the corner of […]