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Mississippi scholarship winners announced in more intimate confines

April 29, 2010 – 1:18 pm

The Berklee Mississippi Exchange Band headed to the Delta Blues Museum’s outdoor stage, ready for their first set of the day. It would be during the Juke Joint Festival debut by a Berklee group when the summer scholarship winner would be revealed. Both contenders, with family members and close friends were stage side, waiting, smiling [...]

By Allen Bush | Posted in Berklee on Tour, Mississippi | Also tagged Baptist Town, Bill Banfield, Clarksdale, Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival, Delta Blues Museum, Greenwood, Ground Zero, Honey Boy Edwards, Hoover's Country Store, Luther Brown, Mario Castro, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Paula Gooch, Robert Johnson | Comments (2)

The snare drum rolls in Clarksdale for the summer scholarship applicants

April 22, 2010 – 12:24 pm

I can’t imagine what the two young women have been thinking since their scholarship auditions at the Delta Blues Museum on Thursday. Jacquline Gooch and Paula Thompson, students from the Delta Blues Museum’s Arts & Education Program, were both outstanding. Gooch, 19, accompanied herself on a guitar with a sliver of worn wood below the sound hole that [...]

By Allen Bush | Posted in Berklee on Tour, Mississippi | Also tagged Ashton Riker, berklee, Berklee Mississippi Music Exchange, Berklee Scholarships, Big Jack Johnson, Bill Banfield, Chris Coleman, Clarksdale, Clarksdale Press Register, Clarksdale Sound Stage, Daddy Rich, Delta Blues Museum, Dick Lourie, Eric Finland, festivals, Gary Vincent, Hopson Plantation, Jacquline Gooch, Juke Joint Festival, Kyleen Thomas, Lenny Stallworth, Mario Castro, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Red's Lounge, Taylor Gordon, Travis Calvin | Comments (2)