WHAT: As part of its 45th anniversary programming, Delta Blues Museum is hosting a special Watch Party to livestream the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony®–which will include Clarksdale blues phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram‘s nominated category. Also included among this year’s nominees are Mississippi musicians Mr. Sipp and Bobby Rush, both represented in the Museum’s gallery.
The Watch Party is open to the media as well as the public. The event is hosted by the Museum Board of Directors and sponsored by Cathead Vodka.
Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is a Clarksdale native and former student of the Museum’s own award-winning Arts & Education program. At just 25 years-old, Kingfish is considered among the greatest blues players of his generation. And now all three of Kingfish’s albums–2019’s “Kingfish,” 2021’s Grammy-winning “662,” and now “Live In London”–have received Grammy nominations.
As Mississippi’s oldest music museum and the world’s first museum dedicated to the blues, Delta Blues Museum’s Arts & Education program received the 2014 National Arts & Humanities’ Youth Program Award and was recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama in a White House ceremony. Kingfish was part of the youth program at that time and performed live for the First Lady and invited guests.
WHERE: Delta Blues Museum, 1 Blues Alley, Clarksdale, Mississippi
WHEN: Sunday, February 4th from 1:30PM – 5:30PM
