Tag Archives: Robert Johnson

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 [...]

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A musical and educational exchange grows in Mississippi

April 17, 2010 – 8:54 am

Year three.  The principal mission of the trip to the most Southern place on earth remains the same: finding two young musicians qualified for the Five-Week Summer Performance Program and awarding them full scholarships. What is new, is that now I have company down here.  No longer is it just I, Allen Bush/Berklee PR guy/deep [...]

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Faith and gospel leads teen to Boston from Robert Johnson Blues Showcase

April 20, 2009 – 12:06 pm

Crystal Springs is more then 200 miles south of Clarksdale.  It is 10 miles north of Hazlehurst, where Robert Johnson was born.  A grandson of the most legendary Delta blues musician is Steven Johnson.  He and his family make their home here.  Steven’s father, Claude, Robert Johnson’s son, and his mother live close by.  At [...]

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Delta Blues scholarship recipient is serious about Berklee

April 19, 2009 – 7:56 am

Fried steak and pork shops. Field peas. Barbecue chicken tenders. Lima beans. Turnip greens. Baked beans with hamburger and barbecue sauce. Corn bread. Sweet tea and peach cobbler. Filling-up on the Ranchero’s lunch buffet on Rt. 161 at the edge of town, I’m now ready to commune with Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is the day when one teen from the [...]

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Searching hallowed turf in Mississippi for summer scholarship recipients

April 17, 2009 – 8:15 am

I’m Allen Bush, director of Berklee’s public information office, and, at the moment, bridge-builder to Mississippi. I’m here in the Deep South this weekend to find teen musicians or singers and award them scholarships to Berklee’s five-week summer performance program. My partners will be the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, and the Robert Johnson Blues [...]

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