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33rd Annual
Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival
September 18, 2010

Greenville, Mississippi

 


 

 

The Board of Directors of Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc., along with the staff and all our volunteers wish to thank everyone who attended the 32nd Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.  We appreciate your support and we look forward to seeing you on September 19, 2010 for the 33rd Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.


 

2010  Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Artist Line-Up

 

Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. (MACE) is pleased to announce the artists performing at the 33rd Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.  For a complete list of artist, please click on performers.

 

2010  Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Artist Line-Up Press Conference

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

June 9, 2010

 

(Greenville, Mississippi) - Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. (MACE) is pleased to announce that a PRESS CONFERENCE has been scheduled to present the Artists performing at the 33rd Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival. The press conference will be held at the MACE Conference Room, 119 S. Theobald Street, Greenville, MS on Tuesday morning, June 15, 2010 at 10:00 am.

 

Please join us as we share this year’s blues artist with the public.  As we are aware, that the public is anxious to find out who is performing for this year’s event.  For more information, please contact Ms Angela Wright at (662) 335.3523 or mace03@deltamace.org.

 

 

2010  Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Poster Contest

 

The 2010 Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Poster Contest has ended.  Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry for this year.   The winner will be announced in July, 2010.

 

 

2009  Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Poster Contest Winner

Purchase the 2009 Blues Festival Poster
The poster contest winner was announced and the official poster for the 32nd Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival was unveiled on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at a reception held at Harlow's Casino Resort.  The reception was sponsored by MACE & Harlow's Casino Resort. 


Ronald D. Hall of Pensacola, Florida was selected as the winner of the 2009 Poster Contest. 

 

Ron's art work was chosen out of  the 12 submissions received.   Please click on Ron's Bio to read more about Ronald D. Hall.


Delta Blues Festival Updates


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September 18, 2010 is the big day of the Festival


The purpose of the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival is to reach a worldwide audience with a celebration of the contributions the Mississippi Delta Blues culture has made to the American story - and to help preserve that culture.


Mississippi Delta Blues is globally recognized as one of  the most America's important musical forms. A major catalyst for American popular culture, it exists in both a folk context and as a product of the commercial music industry. In the face of a historically brutal social experience, black folk in America affirmed their humanity by remembering and creating a rich expressive culture of poetry, tales, crafts, ritual, dance and music. This system embodied techniques of cultural transmission, transformation, adaptation and survival. Early Blues developed out of this rich fabric and cross-fertilized the work-songs, love-songs, slow drags, rags and spirituals. Delta Blues soon became the emotional and literary voice of black singers across the south.


Ironically, black and poor people from the Mississippi Delta, who gave the world the Blues, had limited access to traditional or contemporary institutional arts and cultural programming. The products of most rural peoples' art are inaccessible to them. They are housed in urban academic institutions and archives. They need to be preserved and showcased to larger general audiences as the legacy of a living culture.

While this art form was being celebrated internationally, the Delta region was still one of the poorest regions in the country. In 1976, Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. (MACE) saw the need to help create financing for educational programs and gave birth to the Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.

The success of the Delta Blues & Heritage Festival spurred the creation of festivals all over the Delta.

Thanks to our sponsors.  Click  on any sponsor to visit sponsor's page.