12th Annual Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival
Friday, August 13, 1999 - Main Stage - beginning at 4 PM:
Dr. Mike & the Interns
Big Nasty Mojo
Billy Gibson & the Junkyardmen
Little Jeno & the JT Express
Josh Stewart
Arthneice Jones
Robert "Bilbo" Walker
James "Super Chikan" Johnson & the Fighting Cocks
Otis Clay
Saturday, August 14, 1999 - Acoustic Stage - beginning at 10 AM:
Eddie Cusic
Charlie Musselwhite
Johnny B. Moore
Wade Walton
Bud Spires
Pat Thomas
John Ruskey & Tater
Saturday, August 14, 1999 - Main Stage - beginning around 2 PM:
Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
North Mississippi All Stars
John Mohead
OB Buchana
Sam Carr & Frank Frost w/ Johnny B. Moore
Arthur Lee Williams
Eddie C. Campbell
John Lee Hooker, the Coast to Coast Band, Family & Friends w/ special guest Charlie Musselwhite
Sunday, August 15, 1999 - Gospel Festival Main Stage - beginning at 3 PM:
James Williams & The Messengers
The Victory Travelers
The Myles Family
The Sensational Voices of Hope
The Collins Family
The Sons of Wonder
The Jonestown Crusaders
Otis Clay
This line up is subject to change and the usual vagaries of delta time. Please call the Delta Blues Museum, 601-627-6820 or the Clarksdale Coahoma County Chamber of Commerce 1-800-626-3764 for Festival information and updates.
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12th Annual Sunflower River Blues Festival Education Program
at the Delta Blues Museum, 114 Delta, Clarksdale, Mississippi
Thursday, August 12 & Friday, August 13, 1999
beginning at 10 AM each day
Featuring:
Eminent musical researchers Ed Komara (Ole Miss Blues Archive), Sylvester Oliver (Rust College), and Gayle Dean Wardlow (Chasin' That Devil Music) in a unique oral history project: "Remembering the Past & Connecting the Dots to the Future."
Interviewing:
Wade Walton (Clarksdale's renowned Barber & Musician), Early Wright (The Soul Man), and other interviewees to be announced about the musical history of Clarksdale from the 1940's to the present.
Also Featuring:
"Why do white men like the blues?" a production by Phoenix Savage, artist, in an interprative presentation on the blues; Charles "Wsir" Johnson, musician in a drum demonstration of The African Origins in the Blues; and Jim O'Neal, writer (Founding Editor - Living Blues): A Tribute to John Lee Hooker.
Click here for more information.
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