12:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lecture - “John Work and Field Recording”
Evan Hatch
Blues Archive
3:00 p.m.
"M for Mississippi"
Film Screening and Panel Discussion w/ the film makers
Overby Center - Farley Hall
6:00 p.m.
Thacker Mountain Radio
Music by: Kenny Brown, Cedric Burnside, and Lightnin' Malcolm
Lyric Theater
Dinner on your own
9:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Highway 61 Radio Blues Party
Music by: David Evans, Jake Fussell, and others.
Powerhouse
10:00 p.m.
Blues on the Oxford Square
Rooster Blues
Friday, February 27
9:30 a.m.
The Mississippi Lomax Recordings
First public showing of commercially unreleased footage
Greg Johnson
Blues Archive
11:00 a.m.
Living Blues/Blues Archive Trail Marker Dedication
Mississippi Blues Commission
Speeches and Music
Barnard Observatory Lawn – University of Mississippi Campus
Lunch on your own
1:30 p.m.
Blues Field Work 1960s and 70s
Early Wright Keynote Lecture
Dr. David Evans
Blues Archive
2:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Field Recording
David Evans, George Mitchell, Art Rosenbaum, Sy Oliver
Moderated by Jim O’Neal
Blues Archive
4:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Blues Record Labels
Jim O’Neal, Roger Stolle, Larry Chambers
Moderated by Scott Barretta
Blues Archive
Dinner on your own
8:00 p.m.
Mavis Staples Concert
Ford Center for the Performing Arts
(Call 662-915-2787 for tickets.)
10:30 p.m.
Blues on the Oxford Square
Duwayne Burnside at Rooster Blues
****Blues Today Symposium Concludes****
Saturday, February 28
Visitors may wish to explore the Mississippi Delta on their own.
Scott Barretta, former Editor of Living Blues,
will provide a special guided tour of the BB King Museum
in Indianola, MS at 2:00 p.m. (No transportation will be provided).
10:00 p.m.
Blues on the Oxford Square
“Big Jack Johnson” at Rooster Blues
**All lectures and panel discussions are free and open to the public.
Sponsors: Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Mississippi Development Authority, University of Mississippi Department of Archives and Special Collections, and Austin’s Music.
All events except the Mavis Staples performance are FREE and open to the public.
For more information call (662) 915-5742 or e-mail: info@livingblues.com
*Tickets to this event may be purchased separately by calling (662) 915-2787.
