B.B.
King Museum Announces Development Team
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Indianola,
Mississippi: Plans for a museum honoring international
Bluesman B.B. King are well underway, guided by a development
team with excellent credentials, according to Museum Foundation
President Bill McPherson.
“We plan for the Museum to be a world-class facility,
and the Museum Foundation has assembled a team with the
track record to make that happen,” said McPherson.
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| B.B.
King, Governor Ronnie Musgrove, and in the background
Carver Randall, of the Museum Foundation who presided
over the June 5, 2003 presentation and unveiling,
and Luther Brown, Delta State University, one of
the June 5 program presenters. |
Photographer
Johnny Jennings
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Memphis
Music & Heritage Festival
Aug 29 - 31, 2003 - Downtown Memphis, Tennessee -
Admission FREE
Here’s this year’s
Schedule!
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It's
going to be three great days of music, dance, crafts and
lots more at the 16th Annual Memphis Music & Heritage
Festival this coming Labor Day Weekend!
Here
are some of the performers: Gospel greats The Spirit of
Memphis and The Vance Ensemble, The Sensational Six, Country
guitar man Roy Harper with dobro great Johnny Bellar.
Rockabilly performers: Smoochy Smith, Paul Burlison, Sonny
Burgess, and Billy Lee Riley. Blues Men Blind Mississippi
Morris and Brad Webb, The Daddy Mack Blues Band, The Fieldstones,
Billy Gibson and David Bowen, Blues lady Brown Sugar,
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David Evans with Jobie Kilzer, Reverend Gatemouth Moore
with the Orange Mound Jazz Messengers, DiAnne Price, Carla
and Vaneese Thomas, Marvell Thomas, Bluff City Backsliders,
Exodus, Kate Campbell, The Johnny Yancey Jazz Orchestra,
Bella Sun, Jackie Johnson, Jason D. Williams, Jerry and
Mike Kattawar, 7 Dollars Socks, Memphix with rappers Al
Capone and Kavious, Reigning Sound, 68 Comeback,The Masqueraders,
Mark Lemhouse, Jim Dickinson, Eddie Bond, Los Cantadores,
Joyce Cobb... and many more! View
the full schedule!
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| Greenville
Balloonfest 2003 |
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The
festival is held on Labor Day weekend. Hot air balloons
numbered 40 in the past years. The 2003 festival is slated
for August 29 through August 31. Private and corporate balloons
participate. Crowd estimates for attendance have averaged
over 10,000 the past years. The event is held in historic
downtown Greenville – home and heart of the Mississippi
Delta and the Delta Blues! The balloons glow atop the levee
that guards the Delta from the mighty Mississippi River.
The weekend event boasts hot air balloons, arts & crafts
vendors, food vendors, a motorcycle event, local talent
performances, headline entertainment, children’s games
and activities, sponsor meals, drawings & giveaways
and a pilot awards ceremony on Sunday to close the weekend.
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Picture
of the Week: |
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on photo to enlarge |
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Ira Garrett works in a field in the Boyle/Skene area. Circa 1930.
Courtesy
of the Bolivar County Library System.
From
Reflections of Bolivar County printed by The Bolivar
Commercial
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| Movies:
Seabiscuit—PG
13
7pm and 9:15pm
Freaky
Friday—PG
7pm & 9:15pm
Jason
vs. Freddy - R
7pm & 9:15pm
Jeepers
Creepers 2 - R
7pm & 9:15pm
S.W.A.T.-PG
13
9:30 pm ONLY - NO MATINEE
Coming
Soon:
Mystic
River
Open Range
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Music
The
Pickled Okra, Cleveland
8/29
DayBreakDown (Pi Kappa Alpha Party, 10pm-1am)
8/30 Brother Sartan Southern Music Revival ($5 cover, 10pm-1am)
Ground
Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale
8/29-30 The Perry’s (9pm-1am, $6 cover)
Crawdad's,
Merigold, MS
8/28 Abruy Holmen
Walnut
Street Blues Club, Greenville
8/28-30 John Horton and Mississippi Slim
Night
Moves, Cleveland
8/28 Electric Mudd(7pm-until)
One
Block, Greenville
8/28 Ricky Talaffero and The Force
DJ Drop in the Bomb-Bomb Room
8/29-30 Relapse DJ Tooloose in the Bomb-Bomb Room
8/31 Crazy Jane Unplugged DJ Eolowhyte in the Bomb-Bomb Room
9/1 Battle of the DJ’s
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Other:
CASINOS
Tunica
Grand Casino - Miss Hawaiian Tropic Swimsuit Model Search - from
8/15/2003 to 8/29/2003
Sam's Town - Kenny Rogers - 8/29/2003
Gold Strike - Flip Orley - from 8/29/2003 to 8/31/2003
Tunica Arena & Exposition Center - U. S. T. R. C. Team Roping
- from 8/29/2003 to 9/1/2003
Midsouth
Flea Market
Agricenter International
August 30-31 - Phone:870-400-0300
DSU
FOOTBALL SEASON TICKET PACKAGES ON SALE
Season ticket packages are on sale now at the DSU Athletic Department
located in Chadwick-Dickson Fieldhouse. Ticket packages costs
are: $100 Reserved Season Tickets; $50 Faculty/Staff reserved;
$55 General Admission; $45 Senior Citizens/Youth.
Click
here for the Cat Head Blues Update
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| Weather: |
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Daytime
High /
Overnight Low (°F) |
Precip.
% |
| Friday
August 29 |
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Isolated
T-storms |
89°/71° |
30%
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Saturday
August 30 |
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Isolated
T-storms |
91°/70° |
30% |
| Sunday
August 31
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Scattered
Thunderstorms |
87°/69° |
30%
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Monday
September 1 |
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Scattered
Thunderstorms |
88°/66° |
30% |
| Tuesday
September 2 |
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Isolated
T-storms |
87°/65° |
30% |
Wednesday
September 3 |
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Partly
Cloudy |
88°/64° |
10%
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| Thursday
September
4 |
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Partly
Cloudy |
89°/61° |
10%
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