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The Mississippi Blues Project Music Stream at NPR – by Jonny Meister

October 1, 2012
Mississippi Blues Project Music Stream from NPR

Check out The Mississippi Blues Project Music Mix online stream, from NPR Music! I picked out some great tracks from artists from Mississippi as well as some interview segments with the artists, and clips from the 2012 film “We Juke […]

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Watch the Cedric Burnside Project at the Philly Folk Festival

August 28, 2012
Watch the Cedric Burnside Project at the Philly Folk Festival

Big George Brock and Cedric Burnside Project performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th for our first Mississippi Blues Project concert. Watch a video of Burnside and guitarist Trenton Ayers perform “Po Black Mattie” below. Our next […]

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Photo Recap: Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project showcase at the Philadelphia Folk Festival

August 21, 2012
Photo Recap: Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project showcase at the Philadelphia Folk Festival

The Philadelphia Folk Festival hosted the first in a series of four Mississippi Blues Project showcases on Sunday, August 19th with Cedric Burnside Project and Big George Brock. The show was hosted by the host of the WXPN Blues Show, […]

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Required watching: We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads

August 14, 2012
Owner Arnold Lopez at the Do Drop Inn in Shelby, MS. Photo by Lou Bopp

We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi’s Juke Joint Culture at the Crossroads is the new film and music project from the makers of the award-winning blues movie M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through the Birthplace of the Blues. We […]

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Mississippi Blues: Select Discography by Jonny Meister

August 7, 2012
Mississippi Blues: Select Discography by Jonny Meister

Pre-War and Post-War Blues: Blues is often viewed in two time categories, pre-war and post-war. While this distinction, like any other, has its limits in organizing blues music, it does generally make some sense. Some artists did record both before […]

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Big George Brock, Cedric Burnside Project to appear the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th

July 20, 2012
Big George Brock, Cedric Burnside Project to appear the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th

The first concert in our Mississippi Blues Project concert series is happening on Sunday, August 19th at the Philadelphia Folk Festival with Big George Brock and the Cedric Burnside Project.

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July 17, 2012

Featured Events MAY 16, 2013 Homemade Jamz Blues Band / Super Chikan NonCOMMvention @ World Cafe Live Philadelphia. Details on this show. APRIL 13, 2013 The WXPN Music Film Festival Free screening of We Juke Up In Here documentary and […]

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About The Mississippi Blues Project

July 10, 2012

The Mississippi Blues Project (MBP) is a concert series and online interactive initiative that showcases the Mississippi blues as a vibrant folk art form.  Through a series of four concert performances between August 2012 and May 2013, the Mississippi Blues […]

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