Black Prairie Blues Festival to be held Friday
Twenty-four years ago, Mookie Wilson stood in the West Point civics center looking out over a crowd of what he remembers to be about 200 people at the first ever Black Prairie Blues Festival.
Ask Rufus: The Heritage of the Blues
The blues is Mississippi’s music and though African-American in origin, it transcends race and culture.
Black Prairie Blues Fest returns to West Point for 23rd year
Jesse “Guitar” Robinson and Friends, Ghost Town Blues Band plus Big Joe Shelton and the Black Prairie Blues Ambassadors will lead the way in celebrating the blues Friday at the 23rd annual Black Prairie Blues Festival in West Point.
Black Prairie Blues Fest returns to West Point Friday
Big George Brock is one of the last musicians living to have played with the legendary Howlin’ Wolf, so it’s appropriate that Brock returns to West Point — where Wolf was born in 1910 — for the 22nd annual Black Prairie Blues Festival Friday.
Black Prairie Blues Festival rocks for 21st year
The blistering, modern blues of Jarekus Singleton will headline the Black Prairie Blues Festival in West Point Friday, Sept. 2. For the 21st year, blues fans will gather in the hometown of Chester Arthur Burnett — legendary bluesman Howlin’ Wolf — to immerse themselves in music.
Cotton to headline 20th annual blues festival in West Point
Live blues return to West Point Friday, Sept. 4 when the Black Prairie Blues Festival begins on the Mary Holmes College campus.