Grassroots Blues Festival

Please Come and Join us for the

9^th Annual

Grassroots Blues Festival

Saturday, July 09, 2011

12:00 Noon - 10:20 p.m.

Duck Hill, Mississippi

Terry “Big T” Williams

Pat Brown

Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry

O.B. Buchana

and Total Control Band

9th Annual (2011) Grassroots Blues Festival Line Up

Master of Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sade Turnipseed

12:00 - 12:30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bud "Leo" Welch

12:35 - 1:20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Big Joe Shelton

1:25 - 1:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood

1:50 - 2:35 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leroy Conish & Band featuring Nicole Jackson

2:40 - 3:25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Danny Lancaster & Band

3:30 - 4:30 . . . . . . . . . . . Bill "Howl-n-Madd" Perry and Alphonso Sanders

4:35 - 5:35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Terry "Big T" Williams

5:40 - 6:40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry (Fair) and the Delta Blues Crew

6:45 - 7:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Little Willie Farmer

7:50 - 8:10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbus Toy

8:15 - 9:15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Brown

9:20 - 10:20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O.B. Buchana and Total Control Band

Festival Ends

Directions: I-55 Exit 195 (Duck Hill); Approximately 4.1 miles to Elliott Field

TICKET DONATION:

$15 in Advance.

$ 20 at the Gate.

$ 5 for High School.

$1 for 13 Years and Under.

Sponsorship Request and Corporate Donor Form; Click Here.

Chick Here to Place and Advertisement in the Souvenir Brochure.

Vender Booths at the Festival Available; Click Here for the Form.

NOTE: All Forms are in Adobe PDF format Files.

Willie King

Duck Hills fest brings out some of the best

"I've been playing there since they started the festival"

says King. "I like meeting with the people and the old-time

blues players in the area there on the hillside."

"There's some nice down home people in that area -

my kind of people."

Scott Barretta - Special to The Clarion-Ledger •

July 10, 2008

Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc.

ACER - www.acerms.org

“Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”

www.grassrootsblues.com

Homemade Jamz at the 4th Annual Grass Roots Blues Festival.

Click to see the New Video on YouTube

"The Duck Hill Stomp"

from

Homemade Jamz

Blues Band latest CD

"The Game"

Little Willie Farmer

7 year old drummer Taya Perry, of the Homemade Jamz

Presented by:

"ACER" - Action Communication & Education Reform of Mississippi

This project is supported in

part by funding from the

Mississippi Arts Commission,

a State Agency and in part from the

National Endowment for Arts,

a Federal Agency.

Southern Partners Fund

Marguerite Casey Foundation

One Voice

www.uniteonevoice.org

The Kellogg Foundation

Kirk Auto - 662.226.3632

www.kirkautoco.com

Dixie Roofing - 662.283.4463

Townes Construction

and Ready Mix, Inc.

Grenada, MS

662.226.4894 or 662.226.4816

Local Business Supporters

Local Community Based Organizations

The City of Duck Hill

Montgomery County Board of Supervisors

www.mcedp.ms

www.bluesfestivalguide.com

In 2008, the 6th Annual Grassroots Blues Festival was held in Duck Hill, MS with a great turnout of fans from practically every state in the union, according to the Grassroots Blues Director, Al White. White stated, "Some fans were just passing thru the state on Interstate 55 and heard the live broadcast on the local radio (WGNL, FM 104.3 Greenwood) and stopped to check it out. Most of the fans from out of state had planned their vacation or family reunion events around the festival. White also stated, that," the festival is growing and becoming very popular in the community and everyone is looking forward to next year." The Grassroots Blues Festival focus is young artists, traditional blues artists, and up and coming blues artists in an effort to give them a platform to showcase their artistic skills, at the same time preserve the rich heritage of blues music. The festival was sponsored in part by a grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Elmo Williams

Festival Media, Video and Photo Archives:

Video Archives:

Grassroots Blues Festival Videos at the:

Grassrootsblues's Channel on YouTube

Grassroots Blues on Facebook; Click Here.

For more ACERMS Information and Updates go to:

ACERMS on Facebook

ACERMS on YouTube

ACERMS on Twitter

Photo Archives for the Grassroots Blues Festival:

2008 Day Festival Photos

2008 Night Festival Photos

2008 Festival Line Up

2007 Festival Photos

2007 Festival Line Up

2006 Festival Photos

2006 Festival Line Up

2005 Festival Archive

2005 Festival Photos

This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and, in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Barbara Looney of the Delta Blues Revue