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Please Come and Join us for the 7th Annual Grassroots Blues Festival Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:00 Noon - 10:15 p.m. in Duck Hill, Mississippi |
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Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc. “Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things” THANK YOU for helping make the 6th Annual Grassroots Blues Festival in Duck Hill, Mississippi a success! |
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Kellogg Foundation Mississippi Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts Brown Insurance Edwin Taylor Logging Marguerite Casey Foundation Blues Festival Guide Magazine Duck Hill Male Club Crystal’s Restaurant Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica Montgomery County Board of Supervisors Montgomery County Economic Development Partnership Mattie Stoddard—MS Youth Justice Project Willis Brothers Building & Development Sammie McCaskill—Montgomery Co School District Bubba Nix, Montgomery County Sheriff |
Board of Directors: Janice Magee Doris Johnson Lula Brown Michael Allen Willie Farmer Robert Cathey Anderson Everett
Teens in Action: James Butts, Jr. Miesha Woods Christina Cathey Keondra Dillon Stephanie Johnson Horacio Leal LeeAnn Everett
Honorable Bennie Thompson District 2
Honorable Roger Wicker
Bobby B Howell House Representative D 46
Lydia Chassaniol State Senate D 14
Gary Jackson State Senate D 15 |
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James Burts Ricky Bates James Eskridge Johnnie Booker Leon Butts Billy C Elliott Louis Eskridge Richard Robinson Eddie Glover Bernard Nash Stanley White Kent Smith Keith McGee Bill Waller Vickie Miers Jean Woods Dora Woods Mr/Mrs Irvin Elliott |
Cyreio WGNL Tee Golding Dixie Roofing Tarrah Lockhart Deloris Franklin City of Duck Hill Delta Electric Liston/Lancaster, PLLC Velma “Pam” Young ACLU of Mississippi Entergy Activists with a Purpose Citizens for a Better Greenville Maurice Ferguson White Auto Repair Lanelle G. Martin Larry’s Towing/Auto Repair |
Kenneth W. Ware Sipp’s Trucking Company BSW Consulting/Technology Clark –Williams Funeral Home The Needmor Fund Renasant Bank Bank of Winona NAACP-MS Rockefeller Philanthropy Indianola Parent Student Group L.C. Smith, Jr. Jerry Dale Bridges Southern Echo, Inc. Regions Bank (Duck Hill) AllRight Rental Cars Southern Partners Fund Pete Wilson Record Shop Clay Security |
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Little Willie Farmer |
Presented by Action Communication & Education Reform of Mississippi
This project is supported in part by funding from the a State Agency and in part from the a Federal Agency.
The Mississippi Youth Justice Project
The
Local Business Supporters
Local
Community Based Organizations
The City of Duck Hill
Montgomery County Board of Supervisors
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Homemade Jamz featured in CBS television special. |
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In 2007, the 5th 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 |
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Festival Archives:
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 |
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