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Kimbrough Cotton Patch Soul Blues Festival
May 17, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - May 19, 2019 @ 11:45 pm
ALL EVENTS
Hosted by Robert Kimbrough Sr.
The 3rd Annual Kimbrough Cotton Patch Soul Blues Festival
MAY 17-19, 2019
HOLLY SPRINGS, MS
FRIDAY, MAY 17
KICK OFF
Leontyne Price Library Gallery, Rust College
100 Rust Ave, Holly Springs, MS
4-6PM
Exhibit runs until June15, 2019
The Women Who Captured Junior Kimbrough
Photos by
Yancey Allison, Lauri Lawson, and Judy Peiser
Never before exhibited photos of Chulahoma by Yancey Allison.
Other images on exhibit are from
The collection of the Center of Southern Culture, Memphis, Tenn.
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS., Blues Archive
FREE!
Friday Night Open Floor Jam
The HUT
475 West Valley Road
Holly Springs
7pm-1am
$10
Burgers, fish sandwiches and beverages available
Come on down. Get on UP, and show your stuff.
SATURDAY, MAY 18
All Day COTTON PATCH SOUL BLUES MUSIC WORKSHOP
The Hut
475 West Valley Rd.
Learn from the legends
Robert Sr., David Jr., and Kent Kimbrough, as well as Mr. Joe Ayers are available for guitar, bass and drum instruction. Lil’ Joe was Junior Kimbrough’s guitarist and then later bass player for 30 years. Joe appears on the High Water Lp Do The ROMP, and seen in the film Deep Blues. This is incredible opportunity for anyone to learn the secrets of Cotton Patch Soul Blues, not just schooled musicians.
Mississippi Country Breakfast With All The Fixin’
Roberts favorite meal of the day. Start your day Robert’s way, FULL.
7am-10am
$5.00
All day Cotton Patch Soul Blues Guitar Workshop
Robert Kimbrough Sr. teaches bass guitar, David Jr. shares his fathers guitar style and his own. Kent will give drum instruction. Mr. Joe Ayers shares his approach to Cotton Patch Blues finger picking, and the “ thumb” technique.
Duwayne Burnside will also be available to teach.
10am – 4 pm
Limited to 25 students
$150
$75 for kids under 16
Other Saturday activities
Cooking with Necy
The Hut
Learn the fine art of Soul Food cooking with Robert’s older sister Stephanie. Stephanie has been the lead cook at The Hut our past two festivals. She offers tradition juke joint fare for a rock bottom price. Nothing wrong wit that… Learn her wayz for a melt in your mouth fish sandwich.
Noon until 2 pm
$20 lunch included
Limited to 10
Juke Joint Dance lessons
The Hut
#1 Juke Joint Dancer Ms. Sherena Boyce, daughter of Mississippi Blues legend RL Boyce, like most players she too was a regular at Junior’s Chulahoma club. Sherena demonstrates subtle suggestive dance moves, and advises students how to develop their own
“ STYLE ”.
1-3 pm
$10
limited to 20 students
GraceLand Too Tours
GraceLand Too
200 E. Ghoulson Ave., Holly Springs
GraceLand Too is an infamous home located near the Square in Holly Springs
fashioned in the style of its namesake Mississippi’s first son, the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presely’s home Graceland. Created and operated for decades by lifelong Holly Springs resident Paul MacLeod, until his untimely sudden death in 2014. Paul was a character who’s love for Elvis showed in his spectacular recreation of his idol’s home. The house was sold at auction, and the present owner committed to a restoration project fit for the KING.
Marie (his latest flame) is available for tours.
11 am – 6 pm
suggested donation of $10
Mt. Zion Memorial Fund Blues Hill Region Gravesite Tour
The Hut
Mt. Zion Memorial Fund maintains historical records, headstones, and grave sites of American Blues Musicians. T. Dwayne Moore leads folks around the region to obscure graves of Guy Monroe, Eli Green, Wilbur Lee Rileford, as well as the big stars like Fred McDowell, Jessie Mae Hemphill, RL Burnside, Otha Turner, and more.
11- 4 pm
$25
Saturday Night Jam with the Legends
The Hut
Students are invited up to jam with the legends. Saturday’s workshop students flex their new skills in an unfiltered juke joint atmosphere with the Kimbroughs. Students jam alongside the Originals, and well as other great players like One Hand Dan, Jessie Cotton Stone, Malcolm Lightnin’, Memphis Gold, Janky and The Juke Joint Boys, Cameron Kimbrough.
7pm -2 am
$10
Burgers, fish sandwiches, and beverages available All Night Long
Sunday May 19….
Country Breakfast with all the fixin’
9-11 am
$5.00
Kimbrough Cotton Patch Soul Blues Guided Memorial Tour
Meet up at The Hut
Catch up with Lil’ Joe, cause who better to escort one to a number of local spots pertinent to Junior Kimbrough’s life. Joe will share with you vivid memories of late night parties and other historical tasty bits about his life as a Mississippi Soul Blues Boy. Visit the location of Junior’s Marianna Rd. home, Sammie’s Chewalla Rib Shack, Chulahoma Club location, Blues Marker on the Square and Junior’s Grave. An astounding opportunity for any history buff or of blues fan.
Noon -2 PM
$25
The Recreation of Juniors Juke Joint
THE HUT
475 West Valley Rd., Holly Springs
The grand finale, the recreation of Sunday Night at Junior’s Place. Junior Kimbrough’s world famous juke joint was located on Rt. 4 in Chulahoma. Packed out every Sunday for over a decade, kicking off late afternoon and continue into late evening hours, peoples from all over the planet trekked out to Junior’s for raw, unfiltered live electric Cotton Patch Soul Blues.
With
Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection, The Kimbrough Brothers, RL BOYCE, Duwanye Burnside, Eric Deaton, Lucious Spiller and Pork Chop Willie
Music starts at 4 pm
$25 CASH ONLY AT DOOR
PACKAGE DEALS
V.I.P. ALL ACCESS PASS (Limited 25) – $175
SUPER BAD SAVER
(Fri.,Sat. Nite, Sun. Memorial Tour, Sunday at Junior’s ) – $65
SUPER SAVER ( Fri, Sat. & Sunday at Junior’s) – $40
Advance online tickets SUN. ONLY $20
ALL SALES FINAL
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