JJF EVENTS
"Deep Inside the Blues" Book Signing
Author/photographer Margo Cooper talks about and signs her amazing new book! (Pay for book at Cat Head counter first; then have her sign it.)
×'TRUCK TALK'...JUKE JOINT EDITION!
'Truck Talk' with Felder Rushing 'live' in-person.
×FREE Juke Joint Festival KICK-OFF!
FREE Juke Joint Festival KICK-OFF! An amazing lineup of real-deal blues talent, including Mississippi blues prodigy Harrell "Young Rell" Davenport!
×Where: New Roxy (main stage)
The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.
Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.
We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.
FREE Juke Joint Festival KICK-OFF!
Official JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL welcome and stage presentations of the Miss Sarah Award (JJF), Red Paden Award (JJF), Tourist of the Year Awards (Visit Clarksdale Tourism), Clarksdale Drummer's & Bassist Awards (Derick Kemp).
×Where: New Roxy (main stage)
The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.
Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.
We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.
FREE Juke Joint Festival KICK-OFF!
FREE Juke Joint Festival KICK-OFF! Starring the fabulous Candice Ivory and her band... Check out her newest album, "When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie."
×Where: New Roxy (main stage)
The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.
Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.
We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.
(Cover may apply.)
11:00 am
1:00 pm
Where: The Den Again
A retro-cool Clarksdale classic! The Den joins Juke Joint Festival's nighttime venue roster for 2022!
1:00 pm
Where: Deak Harp Harmonica Shop
2:00 pm
Where: Deak Harp Harmonica Shop
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
Maldito
Where: The Den Again
A retro-cool Clarksdale classic! The Den joins Juke Joint Festival's nighttime venue roster for 2022!
3:00 pm
Maldito
Where: Ground Zero Blues Club
HEY Y'ALL! "Yes," Ground Zero Blues Club (which was temporarily closed this winter) is reopening in late March—just in time for the best Juke Joint Festival ever!! GROUND ZERO BLUES CLUB: Clarksdale's largest real-deal blues music venue offers "live" Mississippi blues music every Wednesday to Saturday... plus special events during festival time periods. Co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, Howard Stovall and Eric Meier, Ground Zero Blues Club will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May 2006. Besides the plethora of incredible local blues acts who have performed there, musicians from Mavis Staples and Alvin Youngblood Hart to Jerry Lee Lewis and Bobby Rush have been filmed playing there.
http://www.groundzerobluesclub.com
×3:00 pm
Maldito
Where: Bad Apple Blues Club
Formerly "Club 2000" juke joint, the Bad Apple Blues Club is the blues venue run by Sean "Bad" Apple!
http://thefrontlinemusic.com/tag/club-2000/
×4:30 pm
Wilie Tom 5
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×4:30 pm
Wilie Tom 5
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×5:30 pm
Hector Anchondo
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×6:00 pm
Glenn Fortinberry
Where: The Den Again
A retro-cool Clarksdale classic! The Den joins Juke Joint Festival's nighttime venue roster for 2022!
6:30 pm
Glenn Fortinberry
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×7:00 pm
Glenn Fortinberry
Where: Red's Lounge
Red's Lounge? It's the definition of a real-deal Mississippi juke joint. Don't expect to be spoiled with amenities. All you need is a been-there-done-that owner, some beers as big as your head and some "live" blues you'll never forget. (Oh, and MAYBE something out front on the grill.) This is how blues became blues... how the music grew up out of the cotton fields and onto a round piece of vinyl. Speaking of which, the building itself was called "Levine's Music Center" back in the day, and it's where Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm bought the instruments that played the first rock 'n roll song. Yeah, Red's is the real thing for sure...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Reds-Blues-Club/163702543685722
×7:30 pm
Glenn Fortinberry
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×8:00 pm
Glenn Fortinberry
Where: The Den Again
A retro-cool Clarksdale classic! The Den joins Juke Joint Festival's nighttime venue roster for 2022!
8:00 pm
Glenn Fortinberry
Where: Ground Zero Blues Club
HEY Y'ALL! "Yes," Ground Zero Blues Club (which was temporarily closed this winter) is reopening in late March—just in time for the best Juke Joint Festival ever!! GROUND ZERO BLUES CLUB: Clarksdale's largest real-deal blues music venue offers "live" Mississippi blues music every Wednesday to Saturday... plus special events during festival time periods. Co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, Howard Stovall and Eric Meier, Ground Zero Blues Club will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May 2006. Besides the plethora of incredible local blues acts who have performed there, musicians from Mavis Staples and Alvin Youngblood Hart to Jerry Lee Lewis and Bobby Rush have been filmed playing there.
http://www.groundzerobluesclub.com
×8:00 pm
Al Green & the Heavy Hitters
Where: New Roxy (main stage)
The New Roxy is a former movie theater located in the historic New World District of downtown Clarksdale. After deteriorating over a 30-year vacancy, this iconic building is being resurrected as a vibrant music, art, and theater venue for you to discover and enjoy.
Step inside to experience the regrowth—original sloping concrete floor, masonry stage, distressed brick walls, space for dancing, drinking, dining—all beneath a gorgeous view of the night sky through the open rooftop.
We are open throughout the year for events such as festivals, theater performances, film screenings and private parties. Two separate areas await your arrival. The front bar features a small, intimate stage (now fully covered and weather-proof) while the open-air main stage provides ample room for larger productions.
8:00 pm
Al Green & the Heavy Hitters
Where: Hambone Art & Music
PLEASE NOTE: Saturday night (April 15, 2023), IF Juke Joint Festival Sat-night Wristbands are NOT sold-out, then limited quantities will be available for purchase only at the 243 Delta Ave JJF HQ building (only till 8:30pm) AND Ground Zero Blues Club, Hambone Gallery and Hopson Commissary (if/while supplies last). Entry to any/all 20+ JJF Sat-night venues requires a festival wristband. No exceptions. Details on Wristband webpage or in program booklet.
HAMBONE: "Hambone Art Gallery" and bar, Artwork by Stan Street , is located at 111 East Second St.,between Madidi's and Theo's Rock and Roll Museum . Formerly Conerly shoes [ co- owned by Charlie Conerly, quarterback of the New York Giants and Old Miss.] Before that, the building was the old Delta theatre. Owners Stan and Dixie Street moved to Clarksdale from So. Florida. Both
blues musicians, they were drawn here by the city's historical roots. Stan is a poster designer for many roots and blues festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Artwork is mostly musical, but the Gallery also has landscapes from the Delta, Abstracts, and ecclectic Found Object
pieces.
8:30 pm
Al Green & the Heavy Hitters
Where: Hopson Commissary (main stage)
PLEASE NOTE: Saturday night (April 15, 2023), IF Juke Joint Festival Sat-night Wristbands are NOT sold-out, then limited quantities will be available for purchase only at the 243 Delta Ave JJF HQ building (only till 8:30pm) AND Ground Zero Blues Club, Hambone Gallery and Hopson Commissary (if/while supplies last). Entry to any/all 23+ JJF Sat-night venues requires a festival wristband. No exceptions. Details on Wristband webpage or in program booklet.
HOPSON: Home of the old Hopson Plantation and the current Shackup Inn, Hopson Commissary is a combination museum and music venue that has to be seen to be believed. Pinetop Perkins drove a tractor out at Hopson in the 40s, and it was also home to the first mechanical cotton picker.
9:00 pm
Al Green & the Heavy Hitters
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×9:00 pm
Al Green & the Heavy Hitters
Where: Delta Blues Alley Cafe (backroom stage)
The newest kid on the block, located on the corner of Delta ave. and
Blues Alley, 'now how down home is dat'. Equipped with a street side
bar open daily with pool tables, games, flat screen viewing , juke box
jams and Ice cold beer and beverages, giving you that local feel only
Clarksdale can provide. Then once you go thru the 'big hole in da
wall' and fade to black, its an unexpected experience with a dance
floor, tables, booths, a separate bar and grill for your enjoyment and
newly added mainstage for your entertainment. Local radio station
disc jockeys play the grooves nightly and blues icons and other artist
perform live @ Delta Blues Alley Caf� blues lounge. Local legends and up incoming stars like Robert Bilbro Walker, David Kimbrough and the Kimbrough Family, Cops by day, blues in the heat of the night, Otis TCB Taylor and main stage band, and Rickey Burton and all soul band, plus many
more have graced our stage and are scheduled for upcoming events.
Also coming Soon, the Saturday Night Fish Fry with Jaka Sherrie from
one of the longest running blues program in the Mississippi Delta with
live broadcast on Delta Force 3 radio and Bluesday 2'sday with live
bands every Tuesday Night, and couple 2 for 1 admission and specials.
Delta Blues Alley Caf� blues lounge welcomes you to the place where hard times and struggle fell in love, and the blues was born.
https://www.facebook.com/dbacinfo/
×10:00 pm
Al Green & the Heavy Hitters
Where: Bluesberry Cafe
Blues Berry Cafe 1st place winners 2007 Jubliee BBQ Cook Off
Past Performers: Malted Milk Band, Lala , Incode, Super Chikan and The Fighting Cocks, Heavy Suga, Razor Blade, Shake it Like A Caveman, The Blind Ducks, Jeff Lewis, and many more.
Good Food, Good Music, Good Drinks, = Good Times
https://www.facebook.com/Bluesberry-CAFE-245591678792724/
×(Cover may apply.)
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