DATE:              Friday, May 6, 2011

TIME:               7:30 P.M. – 11:00 P.M.

ADMISSION:   $10 Donation at the Door or online at southernfolklore.com

Bluff City Backsliders

opened by Bill Sims Jr. & Mark LaVoie

The Center for Southern Folklore welcomes the return of audience favorite The Bluff City Backsliders.  The Folklore Store Stage will be chocked full of talent as these performers illustrate what it is to know their craft so well that the fun and second nature takes over.  The band features several veteran Memphis musicians who share a hankering for great old sounds from the pre- World War II era.  Their hearty repertoire of early jazz, jug band, old-time country, and proto-bluegrass tunes is the foundation for a wholly Southern musical sound, reaching from Memphis to Appalachia and all the way down to New Orleans, often all at once.  Performing with a back-porch soul and the ferocity of the best punk bands, the band adds a new-fangled sensibility and some youthful energy to a deep heritage.  http://www.myspace.com/bluffcitybacksliders. 

The great tradition of the harmonica-and-guitar blues duo lives on with two excellent musicians from the Northeast USA: guitarist & vocalist Bill Sims Jr. from New York City and harmonica player Mark LaVoie from Vermont. The Delta Groove recording artists joined forces in 1993 and have been working together as an acoustic act, performing in club and festivals, nationally and internationally. Their recent Delta Groove album is aptly titled American Roots Duo, as the pair works in direct continuation of the great blues duos of the golden era. Sims and LaVoie play old blues standards and originals in a mellow-down-easy, almost languid style of their own. This lovely album of kind-hearted, beautifully crafted acoustic music may not be ideal for dancing or foot-stomping, but the album is perfect for moments where the music needs to be gentle, like when reading or in conversation.

UPCOMING EVENTS @ THE CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE

Contact: Brian Paris
901.525.3655

press@southernfolklore.org

www.southernfolklore.com

Brian Paris

Center for Southern Folklore

Interim Executive Director

119 S. Main @ Peabody Place Trolley Stop

Memphis, TN 38103

901.525.3655 Phone

901.544.9965 Fax

bparis@southernfolklore.org

www.southernfolklore.com

Important Center Dates:

Memphis Music & Heritage Festival, September 3th & 4th.

Support the Center's Project to Digitize our Multimedia Archives.

Thanks to the following  funders:

We appreciate your interest in and support of the Center for Southern Folklore.

We invite you to Become an annual supporter, Learn about weekly performances, Book our spaces for tours or events,  and Purchase archival images and folk art in our store

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DATE:              Thursday May 5, 2011

TIME:               12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.

ADMISSION:   FREE

Victor Wainwright

with featured guest Eden Brent

Just in time for the Blues Music Awards the Center for Southern Folklore is proud to have Vic Wainwright bust back our doors for an afternoon of Boogie Woogie, Feet Stompin’ Blues.  Blues sensation Eden Brent has promised to stop in and jam during the afternoon set.  Come on in for this wonderful FREE lunchtime event.

Victor Wainwright, the twenty something singer, pianist, “hepcat” from Memphis by way of the Savannah, Georgia; creates powerhouse blues and roots rock by playing his own unique style of boogie piana’. He effortlessly pays frequent homage to past music greats, while simultaneously adding his own youthful excitement. He's a raucous high-octane dynamic performer and crowd pleaser with soul to spare. After earning what he calls a "double major in Boogie, a Ph.D. in Swing and a master's in Rhythm," the "Piana' from Savannah" is undoubtedly making a name for himself in a big way.

Eden Brent is a native of Greenville MS whose distinctive mix of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop was described by one critic as Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin.  She developed her gutsy vocal-and-piano chops via family sing-a-longs before earning a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas.  But it was a 16-year apprenticeship with Greenville's late blues pioneer Boogaloo Ames, who ultimately dubbed his
protégé Little Boogaloo, that cemented her passion for a career in music.

UPCOMING EVENTS @ THE CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE

Contact: Brian Paris
901.525.3655

press@southernfolklore.org

www.southernfolklore.com

Brian Paris

Center for Southern Folklore

Interim Executive Director

119 S. Main @ Peabody Place Trolley Stop

Memphis, TN 38103

901.525.3655 Phone

901.544.9965 Fax

bparis@southernfolklore.org

www.southernfolklore.com

Important Center Dates:

Memphis Music & Heritage Festival, September 3th & 4th.

Support the Center's Project to Digitize our Multimedia Archives.

Thanks to the following  funders:

    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT                   

      FOR THE HUMANITIES                         Save America’s Treasures

We appreciate your interest in and support of the Center for Southern Folklore.

We invite you to Become an annual supporter, Learn about weekly performances, Book our spaces for tours or events,  and Purchase archival images and folk art in our store

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If this email has reached you in error, please delete it and notify Center for Southern Folklore immediately.

DATE:               Saturday Night, March 26, 2011

ADMISSION:    $10.00

Blind Mississippi Morris & Brad Webb

 The Center for Southern Folklore welcomes back one of the most popular and enduring Delta harmonica blues duos ever to come out of Memphis – Blind Mississippi Morris & Brad Webb – Saturday, March 26th in the Folklore Store.  Showtime is 9:00 p.m.  Admission is $10.00.  The Folklore Store is located at 123 S. Main Street @ the Peabody Place Trolley Stop in the heart of downtown Memphis.

Clarksdale native Blind Mississippi Morris hails from a distinguished family of Mississippi musicians.  He was schooled on the harmonica at an early age by cousins Robert and Mary Diggs of the legendary Mississippi Sheiks and his aunt Mary Tanner of the gospel group, The Harps of Melody.  As a teenager in Memphis in the late 60s, he remembers getting a strong taste of the blues at the first Blues Festival in the Overton Park Shell.  There he absorbed the sounds of many of the great bluesmen including Johnny Winter, Bukka White, Fred McDowell and Lee Baker of Moloch and Mud Boy and the Neutrons fame.  Morris and Brad have taken their music all over the world.  Throughout the years and wherever they’ve travelled, they’ve kept their music raw and alive reflecting their solid grounding in Delta roots music.

Of course, there’s no place better to experience this dynamic blues duo up close and personal than the Center for Southern Folklore Store on a Memphis Saturday night.  For more information, go to: We appreciate your interest in and support of the Center for Southern Folklore. To learn more, go to www.southernfolklore.com.  For tickets to the Center’s weekend shows, click here.

Brian Paris

Center for Southern Folklore

Interim Executive Director

119 S. Main @ Peabody Place Trolley Stop

Memphis, TN 38103

901.525.3655 Phone

901.544.9965 Fax

bparis@southernfolklore.org

www.southernfolklore.com

Important Center Dates:

Memphis Music & Heritage Festival, September 3th & 4th.

Support the Center's Project to Digitize our Multimedia Archives.

Thanks to the following  funders:

    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT                   

      FOR THE HUMANITIES                         Save America’s Treasures

We appreciate your interest in and support of the Center for Southern Folklore.

We invite you to Become an annual supporter, Learn about weekly performances, Book our spaces for tours or events,  and Purchase archival images and folk art in our store

This email and any attachments to it are intended for the named recipient only, and may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you may not use or disseminate this material for any purpose.

If this email has reached you in error, please delete it and notify Center for Southern Folklore immediately.

Daddy Mack Orr is living proof that you’re never too old to learn. He didn’t start seriously playing guitar until the age of 45, but his talent and dedication quickly landed him a spot with Memphis’s blues legends, The Fieldstones. In the mid-90s he formed his own band playing the kind of blues by Albert King and others that inspired him to pick up a guitar in the first place. At a time when others might start kicking back and taking it easy, Mack and his bandmates—Harold Bonner, James Bonner and William Faulkner—are playing harder than ever. Their first three albums, Fix It When I Can, Slow Ride and Bluestones all rocketed to the top of the blues charts, and the latest offering Bluesfinger is proving itself to be their best yet.

Learn more about the Daddy Mack Blues Band

Get tickets now!

Contact: Janine Criswell
901.525.3655
janinec@southernfolklore.org
www.southernfolklore.com

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Born and bred in Memphis, Tennessee, Alex Inman has been around music since he was a kid.  Playing southern gospel, contemporary Christian, blues, rock-n-roll, and now country is just a few of the many styles he has played in his few years of experience.  He describes himself as a Christian; therefore he stays out of the "bar scene" and only wants to play family oriented shows. “Before my thirteenth birthday, music never really clicked with me,” says Inman. “I always loved it but never could understand how it worked, until I picked up the guitar.  Within four weeks, I could fluently play songs such as, “Here Without You” and “Wonderwall.” 

In a year’s time, I got the opportunity to be a worship leader at the biggest church in the Midsouth (Bellevue Baptist Church) and I was involved in that for two years.  Aside from that, I have experience playing in various cover bands playing restaurants, parties, and concert halls.  I have recorded and performed many of my own original songs in church events and parties alike.  Now at age 19, I’m ready to hang out with my fellow Memphians and show the city what I can do.”

"Brown Bag" your own lunch or try one of the Center's authentic Southern dishes - meat or meatless chili, vegetarian greens, hot water cornbread, and peach cobbler. 

Contact:
Janine Criswell
901.525.3655
janinec@southernfolklore.org
www.southernfolklore.org
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With four decades of professional experience under his belt, singer-songwriter David Olney shows no respect for that old advice to “write what you know.” Finding tales ripped from his own life to be less intriguing than the stories he might tell of others – be they people, objects or animals – David has built a solid reputation on a repertoire of gritty, cinematic lyrics that create visuals as memorable as their melodies. After getting his start in the folk scene on the East Coast and in New York, David began calling Nashville home in 1973. There he gained considerable notoriety for his songwriting skills, his work being covered by Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt and Steve Earle, among others. During the 1970s and early 1980s, David gained a following with his band, Dave Olney & The X-Rays, and since then he’s made a name for himself as a solo singer-songwriter performing worldwide. “Dutchman’s Curve”, the prolific musician’s latest CD, was released by Deadbeat Records in April of this year. David is currently touring with the talented Sergio Webb, who has made a name for himself as a guitarist “on call to those singers who possess musical integrity.”

Learn more about David Olney

Get tickets now!

Contact: Janine Criswell
901.525.3655
janinec@southernfolklore.org
www.southernfolklore.com

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